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The Road to Mayerling: Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria by Richard Barkley is a thought-provoking non-fiction historical book that explores the life and the tragic murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Marie von...
A paradox resides at the heart of the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel. That paradox, writes Kenneth T. Gallagher, is this: “Elusiveness is an essential constituent of his thought, and any exposition which sought to eliminate it would be self-defeating.” Any competent and...
Wedemeyer Reports! is a book written by Albert C. Wedemeyer, a retired U.S. Army general who played a significant role in World War II. As the chief planner for General Marshall, and co-author of the Victory Plan, GeneralWedemeyer had a truly significant hand in shaping...
The mystery centers on room 18, at St Ann's hospital, where over the course of around a week 3 people die in there. However the story begins with a very awkward dinner party.
Murderer's Trail by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a humorous 1930s crime novel featuring the resourceful tramp, Ben, who accidentally stows away on a ship with a real murderer, leading to a chaotic sea voyage filled with disappearances, comical mishaps, and thrilling...
Enemy Coast Ahead is an autobiography recounting the dramatic World War II flying career of Wing-Commander Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC. It covers his time in RAF Bomber Command from the very earliest days of war in 1939 through to 1943. The notable 1955 film, The Dam...
This classic work is considered "a course in spiritual strategy" and one of the great works in ascetical theology. The identity of its author still remains a mystery but many attribute it to the Italian Theatine, Lawrence Scupoli. It was first published in Venice in...
The Magic Path of Intuition by Florence Scovel Shinn was typewritten in 1936 but never published during the author's lifetime who died in 1940, and it is now in the public domain. This is a collection of her metaphysical teachings on trusting inner guidance, featuring...
''My Life in the Maine Woods'' recounts Annette Jackson's North Woods experiences during the 1930s when she, her husband and their children lived in a small cabin on the shore of Umsaskis Lake. Jackson, an avid sportswoman and nature lover, writes of hunting, fishing,...
This is a book about excellence, more particularly about the conditions under which excellence is possible in our kind of society; but it is also—inevitably—a book about equality, about the kinds of equality that can and must be honored, and the kinds that cannot be...
Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." With "Word and Object" Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual...
Pillai (1900-1970) was a Bishop-at-large of the Indian Orthodox Church in Madras India. He spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States of America on a special mission to acquaint Christians with the orientalisms and customs of the Bible. He wrote books...
The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travelers and guests flow into and past the inn?warriors on the march, lovers fleeing to a new life, pilgrims on their merry...
Another of the popular historical novels by the distinguished de Wohl, telling the dramatic story of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, who played such a major role in the Christianization and civilization of post-Roman Europe in the sixth century. De Wohl...
The famous novelist de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. He tells the intriguing story of St. Thomas who defied his illustrious, prominent family's ambition...
Many consider Bullinger's handbook to be the best one on the subject. According to Walter Kaiser, "this book should be on every exegete's shelf alongside the Greek and Hebrew lexicons and grammars." Bullinger sets out 217 distinct figures of speech present in Scripture....
In "The Reed of God," Caryll Houselander masterfully intertwines theology, spirituality, and poetic prose, offering readers a profound exploration of the Virgin Mary's significance in the Christian tradition. Houselander employs vivid imagery and lyrical language to...
Agnes Mary White Sanford (1897-1982) is considered to be one of the principal founders of the Inner Healing Movement. She was the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary in China and the wife of the Episcopal priest Edgar L. Sanford. Her first book, "The Healing Light,"...
First published in the US in 1959, a public domain work. Buckley's third book is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and...
In this pioneering work, David Bakan challenges the popular view of Freud as an entirely secular intellectual, schooled in modern culture rather than Jewish traditions. Bakan contends that the father of psychology was profoundly influenced by mystic lore about which he...
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