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Athanasius - someone from nothing introduces readers to Athanasius (296-373), of Alexandria, Egypt. Athanasius was instrumental in shaping the important early Nicene Creed of 325, still cited in varying forms in churches today. This thoughtful narrative brings to life the man whose resolute insistence...

Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the 'holy fool', such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote. This is a book in two parts. The first, “The Enigma of Innocent Smith,” concerns the...

In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed...

A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades.

"On the road to Cairo one may see twenty groups exactly like that of the Holy Family in the pictures of the Flight into Egypt; with only one difference. The man is riding on the ass." "The real mistake of the Muslims is something much more modern in its application than any particular...

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit, his masterful use of paradox, and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy...

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.

The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The main body of the work states at the beginning that it assumes prior knowledge of Immanuel Kant's theories, and Schopenhauer is regarded by...

The central character, Melmoth (a Wandering Jew type), is a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life; he spends that time searching for someone who will take over the pact for him. The novel takes place in the present but the backstory is revealed through several nested stories-within-a-story that work backwards through time.

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. In the book, Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by a sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war - situations...

You experience over 456 emotions on a daily basis and managing all those emotions can be challenging. Some people have more difficulty in understanding and handling their emotions more than others. In a workable market where permanent employment is rapidly being replaced with portable skills, having...

**Are you good at reading the intentions of others? Do you know how to manage your knee-jerk reactions when someone insults you? Do you wish you could empathize more with the way others feel? ** You may know your IQ, and if it is a very high number then you should be very proud of your intellectual...

   

This book is a great guide for beginners looking to learn about the process from the initial research stages up until launching and marketing your own fully developed products. So how can you sell items on Amazon? Well, Amazon has created an easy to use platform that allows sellers from all...