Francis: 3998 books
The Great American Health Hoax
The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick—How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Described as "one of the few scientists who has achieved a breakthrough understanding of health and disease," Raymond Francis draws deeply from his years of personal experience and professional training. A chemist and a graduate of MIT, Raymond exposes the truth about why the conventional approaches...
Happiness in This Life
A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A collection of homilies, speeches, and “messages of the day” that brings together Pope Francis’s wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now
For Pope Francis, the appreciation of our everyday lives is a spiritual undertaking. Joy is a divine attribute, and creating joy around us...
The Joy of Discipleship
Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
“Dear friends, be glad! Do not be afraid of being joyful!”
—Pope Francis, from The Joy of Discipleship
Near the end of Luke’s Gospel, two disciples slowly make their way home from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. At the outset, they are deeply saddened by Jesus’ tragic death. By...
by St. Francis de Sales
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
During his life, Francis de Sales had a gift for giving spiritual direction to lay people living ordinary lives in the world. He firmly believed that everyone could grow in holiness, even while engaged in very active occupations, and his books and volumes of letters addressing this need remain beloved...
by St. Francis de Sales
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
In Consoling Thoughts on Trials of an Interior Life St. Francis de Sales, beloved Doctor of the Church, gives us treasured insight from the master of spiritual direction. How can the soul persevere in piety in the midst of affliction? How should we conduct ourselves when suffering interior trials?...
by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1876 - 1960) was born Francis William Wheeler in Forest Hills, England. He lived with his family, in England, until some time before 1901. He crossed the Atlantic where he became a naturalised US citizen in 1903, working as a journalist. Starting around 1906, Wheeler made a name...
Subversive Virtue
Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1995
Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not introduce asceticism to the ancient world. An underlying theme of this fascinating study of pagan asceticism is that much of the work on Christian "holy men" has ignored earlier...
by Francis Parkman
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in...
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2019
The Novum Organum, fully Novum Organum, sive indicia vera de Interpretationes Naturae, is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism.
Francis Bacon, in full...
by Francis Bacon, Timeless Books: Editor
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each volume and section.
Francis Bacon was a great English philosopher and one of the founders of the modern system of political philosophy. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers as Isaac Newton, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Thomas...
by Francis Bacon, Timeless Books: Editor
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles:
1. Of Unity in Religions
2. Of Empire
3. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
Francis Bacon was a great English philosopher and one of the founders of the modern...
by Francis Parkman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements...
Smokescreen
A classic racing mystery from the king of crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Edward Lincoln may be a worldwide superstar who plays daring detectives on the big screen, but in reality he’s just an ordinary man.
Unfortunately, his ailing friend doesn’t...
JACK THE RIPPER - First Publications (Published 1888. Illustrated)
THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. A. D. 1530 - 1888 & THE HISTORY OF THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. A. D. 1530 - 1888 By JOHN FRANCIS BREWER. (Original Illustrated, Unabridged 1888 Version)
THE HISTORY OF THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS - A Full And Authentic Narrative Of The Above Murders, With Sketches. (Original Illustrated, Unabridged 1888 and 1889 Versions)
During the era...