Desmond: 370 books
A Short History of Canada
Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians,...
The Edge of the City
A Scapbook 1976–91
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Desmond Hogan is one of Ireland's leading writers. In addition to his novels and stories, he has travelled widely (for various newspapers) to some of the strangest and most fascinating parts of the world. In the past fifteen years, he has visited Soviet Russia, Central America, Europe, Africa and...
by Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2016
«La sorgente definitiva della felicità è già dentro ciascuno di noi.»
Dalai Lama
«La nostra bontà aumenta quando viene messa alla prova.»
Desmod Tutu
DUE GIGANTI DELLA SPIRITUALITÀ. CINQUE GIORNI. UNA DOMANDA SENZA TEMPO. Il Dalai Lama e l’arcivescovo sudafricano Desmond Tutu,...
Fed Power
How Finance Wins
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The Federal Reserve, created nearly a century ago, is the most powerful central bank in the world. The Fed's power, which derives from its ability to alter the money supply and move interest rates, weighs heavily not only on the US economy, but on the world economy as well. Not surprisingly, most...
Sterilized by the State
Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive...
The Final Rollercoaster
When Elijah and Jezebel Ride Again
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
We are all interested in the future, because that's where we are hoping to live. In the Bible, the special book about the future is the last onethe book of Revelation. It is often thought to be a mysterious book, but in fact it's a mosaic of over 500 Old Testament references.
These references...
Spirit Rising
My Life, My Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Grammy Award-winning singer Angélique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advocacy work. In this intimate memoir, she reveals how she escaped Communist Africa to make her dreams a reality, and how she's prompting others all around the world to reach for theirs as well.
Born...
The Time Is at Hand!
An Introduction to the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
For nearly 2,000 years, the book of Revelation has been viewed as the most difficult book in the Bible. The hundreds of commentaries in the Library of Congress testify that there is no unanimity about the meaning of the symbols of Revelation. And yet this is the only book in the Bible where a special...
My Heart Will Always Cry
A Mother’S Journey of Hope and Healing for Her Hurting Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In the early morning hours of January 14, 2000, Janell Haworth Desmond slept soundly. On several occasions in the past, she had been awakened from sleep with an urgency to pray for her children. This didnt happen that Friday morning. Instead, she was awakened at 6 a.m. by a phone call that would change...
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
What is stuttering?
Stuttering affects the fluency of speech. It begins during childhood and, in some cases, lasts throughout life. The disorder is characterized by disruptions in the production of speech sounds, also called "disfluencies." Most people produce brief disfluencies...
by Pip Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises important...
Made for Goodness
And Why This Makes All the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
We know all too well the cruelties, hurts, and hatreds that poison life on our planet. But my daughter and I have come together to write this book because we know that the catalogue of injuries that we can and do inflict on one another is not the whole story of humanity, not by a long measure. We...
God Has a Dream
A Vision of Hope for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2003
Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those...
The Hundred Years War
The English in France 1337-1453
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years...