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by Frank C. Senn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Designed as a general introduction to Christian liturgy, this book explores the meaning, history, and practice of worship in Eastern and Western, Catholic and Protestant traditions. Its chapters cover the theology of worship, the historical development of Eucharist and the Prayer Offices, the lectionary...
Living In Amida's Universal Vow
Essays on Shin Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2004
Though it has been in the West for over one hundred years, Pure Land and Shin Buddhism has been little known or understood among Western peoples. This book brings together a sampling of the resources available for the study of Shin Pure Land Buddhism through a variety of essays from important and...
Churchill's Trial
Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching...
by Lou Darvas
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
His fun, user-friendly guide by a successful professional cartoonist and comic-strip artist presents an abundance of valuable pointers that both beginning and experienced cartoonists will appreciate. Generously illustrated, its tips on techniques cover pen and brush handling, patterns, coloring, and...
by Dover Publications, Inc., Butterick Publishing Co.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Comprehensive in scope and elegant in presentation, this classic Victorian-era volume was the first complete how-to guide to knitting. Originally published by Butterick, the company that later produced Vogue Knitting, it constitutes a fantastic historical document as well as an easy-to-follow guide...
by Jacques-Louis David, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The principal exponent of the Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style, Jacques-Louis David won wide acclaim with his huge canvases on classical themes. The appointed painter to Napoleon, David developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours, confirming his status as...
by Kingston, W.H.G.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
A very short book, and a fairly early one of the author's. The subject matter is the early days of the Reformation, and the time at which the Roman Church was trying to prevent ordinary people from reading the Bible in general, and the Gospels in particular. The Woodcutter with his son and his donkey...
Crisis Among the Great Powers
The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and the other Great Powers. The crisis was given the name of the natural frontier which divided France from the rest of Europe: the Rhine. Although the Rhine Crisis...
Humor - A Friend in the Library - Volume VI
A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes - In Twelve Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In volume six,...
by Gardiner, Juliet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Published for the first time in digital format, André Deutsch’s ‘A World at War’ series presents a collection of authoritative and concise military histories written by some of the world’s most respected military and social historians. We launch with a series of 12 titles on the First and Second...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales....
by Dr Javier Gimeno-Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design.
Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive...
by Joan H. Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Ten humorous essays, most of which were previously published as newspaper columns under the general heading "Get Off the Couch." Themes have to do with various outdoor recreation activities and are illustrated with photos by the author. (txt version not recommended, as the photos are a big part of the experience)
Honestly
Joseph Thomas Rossettie
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Honestly is a humorous glimpse at the memories of growing up in a family of two parents and ten children. The names have been changed, so as to not impugn the character of any of my siblings. What could be taken from this effort is that the very young are not necessarily as responsible for their antics...