John Boswell: 10 books
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when...
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Cristianesimo e omosessualità
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Davvero la Chiesa ha sempre condannato l’omosessualità? In questa breve e appassionata conferenza, lo storico John Boswell torna a ribattere alle polemiche suscitate dal suo classico testo Cristianesimo, tolleranza, omosessualità (1980), che aveva inaugurato un modo radicalmente nuovo di guardare...
The Education of an Accidental CEO
My Journey from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
David Novak—one of today’s most engaging, unconventional, and successful business leaders—lived in thirty-two trailer parks in twenty-three states by the time he reached the seventh grade. He sold encyclopedias door to door, worked as a hotel night clerk, and took a job as a $7,200-a-year advertising...
Never Make the First Offer
(Except When You Should) Wisdom from a Master Dealmaker
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
"On a handshake, I've trusted Donald Dell with my life." -Arthur Ashe, U.S. Open champion
Good negotiators know the rules. Great negotiators know when to break those rules. And then there are the true master dealmakers, like the pioneering sports lawyer Donald Dell. Over the last...
What to Say to Get Your Way
The Magic Words That Guarantee Better, More Effective Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
A snappy book of simple conversational swaps that reveals how to talk so everyone will listen
Words matter. They can inform, soothe, sting, reverberate, and leave scars. And the wrong words can turn off—literally— the listener, transforming what should be an exchange of information, feelings,...
by John Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
by John Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Choice is what it's all about: Choosing your favorite flavor, favorite topping or swirl-in, favorite frozen dessert. For no matter what kind of ice cream maker you own -- an inexpensive canister or a top-of-the-line electric freezer -- there's an extra special treat here for you.
Exciting flavors...
Trumped
Think Like a Bazillionaire
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Dear Reader:
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have just picked up the best book ever written, by the greatest person who ever lived, using the finest pen ever made, set down on the world's most luxurious legal pads.
And the advice I have to share with you in Trumped: Think Like a Bizillionaire...
The Real War on Obesity
Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents...
by John P Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
According to Orhan Pamuk there is a saying in Turkey that the child who cannot stop crying needs some toasted snow to soothe their distress. This is one of a number of proverbs across cultures that recognise our need, our desire and our ongoing search for that which is well nigh impossible to achieve....