Trombley: 13 books

The development of modern thought is traced through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavor since 1789 No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention in this history: the German idealists...

A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking. Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought...

Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, reveals the never-before-read letters and daily journals of Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain’s last personal secretary.   For six years, Isabel Lyon was responsible for running the aging Man in White’s chaotic household, nursing him...

Myra goes to Haiti with one goal: take the photograph that will win a scholarship and prove to her uber-traditional family that she has what it takes to be a photographer instead of a doctor. Her camera has always been her shield against getting too close to anyone, but she didn’t expect the hot...

This book gives the biblical answers to some of the most complexcontroversial questions in women's ministry. Does God choose only men to lead, teach,preach? What is God's vision for women in ministry? What do the Bible, the Jewish Talmud,early Christian writings really mean about women in ministry? Did...

A masterly distillation of two-and-a-half millennia of intellectual history, and a readable and entertaining crash course in Western philosophy Short, sharp, and entertaining, this survey covers the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks...

Navigating The Criminal Justice System – A Guide For Anyone Going Through The System and The People Who Love Them!   This book provides a valuable tool for anyone currently going through the criminal justice system, as well as people who have family, friends, and loved ones going...

Who is terrorizing the Security Councils P5 ambassadors with contentious demands and agonizing consequences? The UNs credibility, innocent lives, a quarter of the earths oil reserves, and the Far East balance of power are at stake. Could a controversial private investigator make a difference? Or, will...

The best place to hide is in a lie... I could never fit in to the life my parents demanded. By the time I was thirteen, it was too much. I ran away to New York City...and found a nightmare that lasted three years. A nightmare that began and ended with a pimp named Luis. Now I am Dirty Anna....

Evil, in the form of a delusional doctor, lurks behind a smile while he covertly plans to steal the renowned Dr. Lees medical miracle to extend life. Using an innocent woman, Martha, for experimental purposes, a sinister plot unfolds as a foreign dictator vies for the formula. Martha, who has no memory...

Fifty-five years have passed since the disappearance of the famed pirate Captain Flynn Freeborn, and the golden age of piracy has become an age of peace. Airships soar the skies, and friendship flourishes between nations. In these days when all wars have been fought, Captain Acheron Zeal of the Royal...

Old houses always have a history, either good or bad. Faint traces are left behind of events that occurred while people lived and died in these houses. A sound, smell or a feeling reminds us that we are in the same space they once occupied, just a different time period. Usually nothing of concern but,...

Historiker, Journalisten und Politologen analysieren in diesem Buch politische Morde an 28 historischen Persönlichkeiten, z.B. Gaius Iulius Cäsar, Thomas Becket, Wallenstein, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand von Österreich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Aldo Moro, Yitzhak Rabin oder Zoran Djindjic,...