In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist. Silva examine...
The wisdom of Ancient Egypt has rarely been presented from so many perspectives. Here through over 500 pages and 200 photographs, comes the view needed to help unlock the wisdom secrets of the p...
The Practice and Science of Drawing is a work by English painter Harold Speed, which teaches different drawing techniques, including portrait drawing, rhythm lessons, chalk, charcoal, pencil drawin...
Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with “Discovering New Material,” “Finding the Best Words,&rdquo...
The Presence of Noise contains the words, feelings, thoughts and especially children that God has placed on this teacher's heart as she walked down memory lane. God reached deep into this teacher's...
Frederick Winslow Taylor was an early advocate for applying 'scientific' principles to the management of men, machines, and factories. Few realize, though, the the 'Efficiency Movement' that he hel...
This paperback edition gathers together studies by Charlotte Hempel that focus on Qumran Rule texts, including the Community Rule (S), the Rule of the Congregation (1QSa), the Damascus Document ...
Being born into my mother's side of the family I was expected to live one way, that was Holy. I was surrounded by Pastors, Elders, Ministers and the saints of God that were my village. A real li...
It is the first expression of the concept of a Utopia, a perfect society. It is the first thoughtful examination of the concept of an “inner life.” It is the classic discussion of concepts of justi...
Plato's most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, "The Republic" is a fictional dialogue between Socrates and other variou...
The church in Africa is thriving, both numerically and in its boldness and fervour. Yet the challenge of African folk Christianity - a Christianity shaped more by traditional beliefs than the Bi...
The Road: A Journey Into the Mind of a Believer is a collection of thoughts inspired by the Holy Spirit along with the author’s experiences connecting each chapter with the inspir...
This book argues that American Exceptionalism and Eurasianism engendered the ideological principles that propelled the geostrategic interests of the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-W...
Every flower its beauty bestows,
Your lips the dearest gems dispose,
May your lips nurture our souls,
With the wine that every spirit knows.
From the Rubaiyat of Hafiz
Better known by ...
This 1903 collection of the wisdom of the great sage logically arranges Ramakrishna's aphorisms to create a broad, practical, nonsectarian set of instructions about living a spiritual life. It insp...
The old axiom is true: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. We find ourselves in a cultural moment where people simply want to feel seen, heard, and loved. The ...