Another Kyoto is an insider's meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan's most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on lore gleaned from artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Al...
The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black ...
To many modern people, apatheia (being ""without suffering""/""without passion"") sounds like cold-heartedness and indifference to others, a condition to be avoided. However, in the classical world...
The Book of Revelation has always been a mysterious and intriguing book, describing in symbolic terms the confrontation between the Disciples of Christ and the powers - political and supernatural -...
Remarkable studies in the New Testament have recovered the fact that the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, was apocalyptic good news--God's redemptive action within history.
Today, for more a...
Stunningly sensual and visceral NEW YORK TIMES'Smart, beautiful . . . paints a lyrical picture' STYLIST'Groff is a sensuous writer' GUARDIANIn the fields of western New York...
Are there really mansions in heaven? In John 14:2-3 Jesus said, ""In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and ...
At a New York City Wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to get their lives started.Yun has everything he's ever wanted, but somehow it's never enough.Emor...
Porter Taylor never doubted God but doubted whether the church was the only vehicle for the holy. Growing up Episcopalian, he lived with an awareness of the tag ""Frozen Chosen"" for the church. Th...
Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound editionOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eigh...
This book explores old and new hopes that have emerged in the human quest to defeat death. On the one hand, it answers questions such as: Are we just physical machines of great complexity, with the...
You can have everything you've ever wanted-a fulfilling life, a job you're passionate about, true love, unlimited wealth, and a healthy body. Seriously, you can have it all. You just need to do one...
The verse, Joshua 24:15, ""as for me and my house we will serve the Lord,"" has been the desire and declaration of ministry couples for centuries. Yet the heartache of many ministers and their spou...
‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’Banished from her ambitious uncle’s court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia. Disguise...
Aspects of the Old Testament, the Bampton lectures for 1897, were presented as eight talks before the University of Oxford. In these lectures, Ottley's aim was to show that it is possible to regard...
ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, level-headed assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem, terror, and other Dark Things in General. Di...
This volume does not claim to march in the front ranks of Assyrian scholars. The writer has not excavated mounds hitherto unknown, and interpreted the tablets he found there... His has been the hum...