Author: Joyce Carol Oates Contents:Stigmata The Survival of childhood --The Death of Mrs. Sheer --First views of the enemy --At the seminary --Norman and the killer --The man that turned...

Kenneth Clark These A.W. Mellon Lectures delivered at the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1953 and here presented with 298 illustrations explore the tradition of the nude in...

Kooshyar Karimi Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women...

Asne Seierstad From the award-winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul comes a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramati c events leading up...

G Ernest Wright January 1, 1960 by Westminster Press

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been called a "cosmic optimist" and the first of American Romantics. Enormously influential and controversial in...

Caroline Myss, PhD Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to energy healing reveals the hidden stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that cause illness. Anatomy of the...

Yigal Allon The Israeli foreign minister reviews his farmer father's life and ambitions and recounts his own interests and activities as farmer's son, kibbutz pioneer, World War II underground fighter,...

Aurora Cuito It’s impossible to walk the streets of New York and not wonder what’s behind the windows and doors of the city’s panoply of residential buildings. Whether it’s a...

Douglas Hofstadter What do we mean when we say “I”? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an “I” arise out of mere matter?...

Jennifer Miller Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir in Inheriting the Holy Land. Her groundbreaking perspective on the conflict...

Cynthia ReschkeRome Houses. The streets of Rome may be filled with monuments to its imperial past but among the Renaissance palaces and Baroque basilicas, tombs and medieval bell towers, are...