Thomas O : 212 books
The Land of the Five Flavors
A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, mapping Chinese cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations....
Saint Patrick
The Man and his Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The only true apostle of Ireland who more or less converted the country single-handed? or A Christian bishop from the embattled edge of a crumbling empire? All that can really be known of Patrick comes from his authentic writings - the Confessio and the Epistola (Address to the Soldiers of Coroticus)....
by Thomas O.
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
A short ghost story from the author of The Seer of Possibilities. Mary died young. Now she haunts her family farm, but her presence goes completely unnoticed by those who she used to care about. With her anger rising, she comes up with a plan to ensure that they feel her wrath. Can she remember the love of her family before it's too late?
Washing Feet
Imitating the Example of Jesus in the Liturgy Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
More than half a century after its introduction into the Easter liturgy, the rite of the washing of feet on Holy Thursday goes to the heart of what it means to take part in Christian liturgy—as well as to live a Christian life. In Washing Feet: Imitating the Example of Jesus in the Liturgy Today,...
Know Thyself
An Essay on Social Personalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Know Thyself: An Essay in Social Personalism proposes that social Personalism can best provide for self-knowledge. In the West, self-knowledge has been sought within the framework of two dominant intellectual traditions, order and the emerging self. On the one hand, ancient and medieval philosophers...
Chinese Script
History, Characters, Calligraphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile...
Vast Universe
Extraterrestrials and Christian Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
If we have learned anything from recent advances in cosmology and astronomy, it is that we have only barely begun to comprehend the vastness of our universe and all that it contains. For Christians, this raises some fascinating questions:
If there are intelligent beings out there, what would...
Freedom to Harm
The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
How much economic freedom is a good thing? This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on the federal regulatory system and the state civil justice...
Clarissa on the Continent
Translation and Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
"Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation...
Spurgeon's Color Atlas of Large Animal Anatomy
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Extraordinary accuracy and beautiful original artwork are just two features readers will find in this new resource, providing a basic foundation in domestic large animal anatomy. Its unique organization includes the anatomy of all organ systems in the various species, described in a consistent manner.
The...
Die chinesische Schrift
Geschichte, Zeichen, Kalligraphie
Language: German
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Die chinesische Schrift fasziniert durch ihre Fremdheit, ihr Alter und ihre Schönheit. Thomas Höllmann erklärt, wie sie entstanden ist, wie die Zeichen aufgebaut sind und wie man diese liest. Er erläutert, warum sich Chinesen unter Umständen besser schriftlich als mündlich verständigen können...
by Thomas O'Malley, Douglas Graham Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A serial killer stalks the streets of 1950s Boston--and two friends take it upon themselves to bring him down.
Post-war Boston is down on its luck and looking for change. A year after the Great Brink's Robbery--the largest robbery in the history of the United States--Boston is known more for...
by Thomas O'Malley, Douglas Graham Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1950's Boston, the Irish Republican Army is running guns and killing witnesses. Cal and Dante are committed to stopping them.
When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks--tarred, feathered and shot to death--it appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed....
The Eucharist
Origins and Contemporary Understandings
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Theological reflection upon the Eucharist is dominated by two paradigms: One approach interprets the Eucharist almost exclusively in theological terms, shaped by Scholasticism and the Reformation. Most discussions about the nature of the Eucharist, Eucharistic presence or the role of the priest follow...