Sweet: 285 books
Alex Sweet's Texas
The Lighter Side of Lone Star History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841-1901) is Texas's own "Sifter," whose humorous columns appeared in the Galveston Daily News in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In his wickedly funny, tongue-in-cheek sketches, readers learned of an astonishing variety of frontier phenomena, some familiar, others downright odd....
Sweet Sales
Successful Sales with Synergy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Do you want to take your sales success to the next level?
Some sales programs drape a shroud around sales success as if it's a guarded secret; others set out strict rules and steps without regard to context and expertise. But in reality, making the sale is much simpler.
In his new book, Sweet...
Inventing the Victorians
What We Think We Know About Them and Why We're Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
"Suppose that everything we think we know about the Victorians is wrong." So begins Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet, a compact and mind-bending whirlwind tour through the soul of the nineteenth century, and a round debunking of our assumptions about it. The Victorians have been...
The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship : A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power: A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power
A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions
The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before....
Recreating Africa
Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the...
So Beautiful
Divine Design for Life and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
More than 50 years ago scientists made a remarkable discovery, proclaiming, "We have found the secret of life ... and it's so pretty!" The secret was the discovery that life is helixical, two strands wound around a single axis—what most of us know today as the model for DNA.
Over...
I Am a Follower
The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“FOLLOW ME.”
These two words echo the heart-defining call of our Lord Jesus Christ to his disciples.
Sadly, this life-changing invitation has lost much of its original meaning. Immersed in a society that worships success, we have succumbed to a trendy
fixation with leadership....
by Leonard Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Leadership Re-VisionedCast a vision, set a strategy, rally the troops, and take the hill—you don’t need another book to rehash the well-worn principles of modern leadership. But if you’re looking for something different, something that . . . approaches leadership as an art as well as a scienceinspires...
by Oney Foster Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
“What the Private Saw” is definitely one of the very best of the many published collections of Civil War letters and diaries. Pvt. O. F. Sweet of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery wrote prolifically to members of his family and kept a diary from 1863 until just after the close of the war. ....
Kicking the Carbon Habit
Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming. Further warming threatens entire regional economies and the well being of whole populations, and in this century...
by Rose Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Calling all Catholic women! Does your religious reading and pious practice not always translate into how you interact with and love each other? Are you not always aware or convinced of God's love for you? Does happiness seem to elude you in certain circumstances of your life? Fear not! Noted author...
A Journey into Prayer
Pioneers of Prayer in the Laboratory: Agents of Science or Satan?
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Prayer is a constant mental input into our world. Do we pray for what we need or what we want? Do we pray to heal or to hurt? Terrorists pray. Healers pray. Millions pray. Motivations for prayer are investigated by the Spindrift researchers. One discovery was that non goal-directed prayer--"Thy...
Honestly
My Life and Stryper Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
“Honestly” coincides with the release of Michael’s log awaited solo album “I’m Not Your Suicide”. Michael Sweet, in this – his first autobiography – chronicles his life as the founding member, songwriter, singer, and guitarist of the pioneering Christian rock band Stryper. The first Christian...
God's Hotel
A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
**Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!
For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s *When Breath Becomes Air, *a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). **
San Francisco’s Laguna...