Hugh: 1441 books

As Abbot of Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland and now as Bishop of Aberdeen, Bishop Hugh Gilbert’s homilies have gained him a reputation as a clear and profound teacher of the faith. This collection of homilies for the Advent and Christmas season are an ideal companion to these wonderful seasons of hope....

What will you gain from this work?Discover a social vision and a sense of purpose in your life—a purpose that will lead to spiritual transformation and fulfillment.Appreciate your uniqueness and infinite potential for harmony and perfection.See yourself as a spiritual being on an ever-advancing...

Many people know, as if by spiritual instinct, that their own religion, the one they were born into, is not the only way to God. They recognize that they have “adopted” their beliefs mostly from their parents. They acknowledge that, had they been raised in a Buddhist family in China, they would...

Hugh Latimer, a farmer’s son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. He was a boy of fourteen when sent to Clare College, Cambridge. When about twenty-four years old, he had obtained a college fellowship,...

Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts. This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...

This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Unbearable Bassington' is a novel detailing the story of Comus Bassington, the only son of Francesca Bassington, and his attempt to marry a wealthy woman so...

When Hugh Seymour was nine years of age he was sent from Ceylon, where his parents lived, to be educated in England. His relations having, for the most part, settled in foreign countries, he spent his holidays as a very minute and pale-faced paying guest in various houses where other children were of...

This is the second in a six-volume series about the fulfillment of prophecies concerning the coming of the twin Redeemers of our time: Bahá’u’lláh and His Herald, the Báb. The first volume dealt mainly with prophecies about the time of the advent of the twin Redeemers; this one deals mainly...

The evidence presented in The Spiritual Design of Creation points to the existence of an invisible universe parallel to the visible. It demonstrates that these two dimensions of creation are complementary to each other, and unless we learn to harmonize them in our life and set them to motion, like...

Alfred Nobel, inventor of nitroglycerin and inspiration for the Nobel Peace Prize, visited the United States twice. Koppargruva, from Hugh Coyle’s forthcoming book Peace at Last, is a fictionalized account of one of those excursions. Dubbed a killer by American journalists because of recent accidental...

Describes British relations with the Pashtun tribes of Waziristan in the years after the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, offering the most detailed historical account that has so far been written of relations between the British Government of India and the tribes along this (or any) part of the north-west Frontier in this period.

In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest, and concludes...

The Life and Sins of a Crofter’s Son is a down to earth, entertaining, poignant and humorous account of a life well lived and a journey that begins and continues in the Highlands. Whether it was life serving in the RAF, the London Metropolitan police or his return to his roots, this story...

Robert Hugh Benson (18 novembre 1871 - 19 octobre 1914) est un ecclésiastique et homme de lettres britannique. Il est le plus jeune fils d'Edward White Benson, archevêque de Cantorbéry. Lors d'un séjour au Proche-Orient, il commença à s'interroger sur les liens entre l'Église anglicane et le...