Leo: 1933 books
by Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books.
JANE EYRE
As an orphan, Jane's childhood is not an...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The full text of three related classic novels, all in English.
by Leo Tolstoy Et Al
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Celebrating Christmas
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
"What we call Christmas is one of the oldest and most enduring of the human celebrations." So begins the Preface of this perennially popular volume which includes hundreds of seasonal selections from Unitarian Universalists over the years, plus a bibliography of resources beyond denominational...
Reading the Ruins
Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering...
Roots of the Republic
American Founding Documents Interpreted
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays...
The Stem Cell Dilemma
The Scientific Breakthroughs, Ethical Concerns, Political Tensions, and Hope Surrounding Stem Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today’s scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body. Unlocking these secrets has become the new Holy Grail of biomedical research. But behind that search lies a sharp divide, one that has continued for years. Stem cells offer the hope of creating or repairing tissues...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dealing With PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
There was a time not so long ago when someone suffered a great trauma or a tragic event the sufferer was expected to get over it. The idea that real and lasting damage had been done was dismissed. Soldiers who suffered from what was called battle fatigue were called cowards and those who did not quickly...
by Joseph H. Di Leo
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sparkfire
The Star Whose Shine Was Lost
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In the Milky Way galaxy, all the stars look to the Sun as their great and wise leader. He tends to them as a Shepherd to his beloved herd. Just as a good Shepherd would, the Sun notices that one of his many stars, Sparkfire, has lost his luster and is growing gravely dim. Though the other stars offer...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
An examination of the conflicts within and among nations, this treatise proposes a remedy based on true Christian doctrine: recognition of love as the supreme law of life. Written just before World War I, it articulates Tolstoy's famous dictum that it is morally superior to suffer violence than to...
Southern Baptist Identity
An Evangelical Denomination Faces the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
What was once a small, southern, predominantly white denomination has become America's largest evangelical denomination. Yet with the Southern Baptist Convention's growth have come the challenges of increasing fragmentation, theological controversy, and sweeping cultural change. These challenges have...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A Bishop was sailing from Archangel to the Solovetsk Monastery; and on the same vessel were a number of pilgrims on their way to visit the shrines at that place. The voyage was a smooth one. The wind favourable, and the weather fair. The pilgrims lay on deck, eating, or sat in groups talking to one another....
What Happened at Fatima?
The First Objective and Comprehensive Retelling of the Story in 50 years
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Adhering faithfully to the memoirs of Sister Lucia, the longest surviving seer, this book follows the events of Fatima: from the first stirrings of the wings in the appearances of the angels before the six apparitions of the Blessed Virgin herself, the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, the subsequent...