Alan: 6649 books
The Biographies of Rechungpa
The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries.
Peter Alan...
Selling the Great War
The Making of American Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
The riveting, untold story of George Creel and the Committee on Public Information -- the first and only propaganda initiative sanctioned by the U.S. government.
When the people of the United States were reluctant to enter World War I, maverick journalist George Creel created a committee at...
by Alan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Never before has there been a book with the power to dispel the archaic superstitions of the Bible and replace them with truth, logic and natural law from the Master himself. Received through the mediumship of the Washington, DC lawyer, James E. Padgett by automatic writing this engaging story is...
Making God Possible
The task of ordained ministry present and future
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
What are clergy for? In this lively and provocative volume, Alan Billings argues that they serve the mission and ministry of the Church, which is to make God possible. In each new era, how to carry out this mission effectively will vary, as the Church seeks to respond to changes in society and culture,...
by Alan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In this important and timely book Alan Wilson argues that allowing gay people to marry is a moral purpose. Wilson says: ‘I asked myself “what does God want for gay people?”. After re-revisiting the Bible, and more importantly getting to know gay people of all types and varying backgrounds, he...
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to...
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church
The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in...
The Wreck of Catalonia
Civil War in the Fifteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
This fascinating account examines the fate which overtook the principality of Catalonia in the fifteenth century, reducing it from dominance within the state of Aragon to a marginal role in the Iberian power created by the union of Aragon and Castile. It begins by studying the tensions destabilising...
by Christian Alan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Written as a series of eight letters to the author's own daughter, Dear Rachel examines the rise in violent crime against women through the national news headlines. It's only goal is to help girls and young women stack the odds on their side by recognizing potential risks to their personal safety.
The Making of a Man of God
Lessons from the Life of David
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
David was a shepherd and a king, a soldier and a poet, a sinner and a saint. He was also a man after God's own heart. In this Christian classic, Alan Redpath blends insights from 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, and Psalms to demonstrate how God shapes those who are responsive to his love.
Despite his...
Living Well
Finding a 'Rule of Life' to revitalise and sustain us
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
What does it mean to 'live well' when you're exhausted from juggling the demands of work and a young family? When you've been around long enough to be scarred by loss, disappointment or frustration? When your memory is beginning to fade and you feel a burden to others? Whatever the situation we find...
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.
The...
A Childlike Heart
How to Become Great in God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
To all of us too-serious, on-the-edge, busy-and-preoccupied adults, Alan Wright offers a reminder of Jesus' words regarding the heart of the child: "Of such is the kingdom of God." In this new trade-paper edition of A Chance at Childhood Again, Wright reveals how we can recapture the unbridled...
Successful Marriages and Families
Proclamation Principles and Research Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Issued by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in 1995, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" has instructed and inspired Latter-day Saints throughout the world, including many LDS scholars who seek to strengthen and defend marriages and families. This new volume, edited by...