Keith: 3326 books

A third generation Rhodesian tells the story of his upbringing on a farm and his days learning to track and survive in the brush. Later he would use the knowledge operational conditions during the Rhodesian Civil War In classic Special Branch style you will not find an account of a unit called...

In this important new study, Charles Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. By demonstrating how French colonial rule allowed for the transformation of Catholic missions in Vietnam into broad and powerful economic and institutional structures, Keith...

The machine's job was to defend its place against enemies - but it had forgotten it had friends! Keith Laumer weaves a futuristic science fiction masterpiece the way only Keith Laumer can weave a futuristic science fiction masterpiece!

In this consideration of religious and scientific beliefs, Keith Simpson offers a provocative challenge to Darwinian thinking through conversations with a close friend. An important tool for parenting and college preparation. Having taught on all levels of academia, I am convinced that it takes...

Walk With Me: Bits of My Life Journey, written by Keith Laidler, is the story of Keith growing up on a farm in Michigan, going through college, Seminary and bits of 51 years as a Pastor.

A novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition-"a wincingly funny debut" (Vogue) Keith Gessen is a Brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker...

There Must Be More is a must read for anyone whose hunger for authentic Christianity is greater than their comfort. Keith writes with an honesty and frankness that is both refreshing and challenging. This book is real, because the author is. As you read through Keith’s journey you will be drawn into...

An NYC messenger reencounters the girl of his Italian childhood, a woman's bike errands include tending a garden in a cemetery, a mechanic takes a game of bike polo very seriously, an eternal cyclist is chased by an evil peloton, a bike missionary has a strange encounter, somebody races the Devil,...

Boyish Leslie, a retired competitive swimmer turned children’s librarian, and girlish Alan, a fashionable hairstylist, are living parallel lives of thwarted desire, but soon they will be utterly transformed as the middle-aged shaman, Mildred McKenzie, opens the crack between the worlds and hurls...

The darkest of Keith Maillard’s novels, Motet is “sung” in three radically different voices. Paul, a professor of musicology, is researching a sixteenth century motet and finding a nightmarish story of heresy, persecution, torture and death. Steve, a rock drummer, longs for the transformative...

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear, is a dead man. – Albert Einstein For millennia, mystics’ explorations...

When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized moment of partisan fervor, the Supreme Court’s routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through...

Keith Lawton is a victory. A victory over neglect. A victory over torment. A victory over a harrowing and painful past. Born to an alcoholic father and a schizophrenic mother, Keith Lawton did not have a childhood - he had a ticking bomb. His father's death and his mother's illness lit the...

Can we access the minds of people of other times? Can we know their psychology: how they understood one another and interpreted human behavior? The author describes examples of how human beings at different times understood their own psychology through the examples of phrenology, how body-types predict...