Leonard: 2410 books
Sylvia
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence.
Reproducing...
Every Mother Has a Story
A Shebooks/Good Housekeeping Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
The winners of the Shebooks/Good Housekeeping memoir contest offer three slices of life as a mother. In “People Don’t Get Me, Mom,” Jackie Mercurio carries a troubling secret that will change the life of her brilliant, misunderstood boy. Then a family trip to the Butterfly Garden takes them...
Transcendent Love
Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
In Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic, Leonard G. Friesen ranges widely across Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues in his times and how those same issues continue to be relevant...
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality
The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered...
by Mark Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China. We...
by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Voor Peachez, een romance heeft Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer zich gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal: dat van een professor in Amerika die verliefd wordt op een fotomodel dat hij surfend op het internet leert kennen en voor wie hij een alles overstijgende liefde gaat koesteren die zijn leven overhoophaalt....
Socrates and the Jews
Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking...
by Miriam Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Parmenides have shaped the way we see the world, and it is their original conception of philosophy which has placed topics such as logic, metaphysics, ethics and ontology at the heart of philosophical debates for centuries.
Miriam Leonard not only explores...
Searching for You
A Collection of Tetractys & Fibonacci Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In this book, Searching for You: A Collection of Tetractys and Fibonacci poems, author Leonard Dabydeen explodes with full intuition in exploring the complex constraints of short form poetry, sensitized with mathematical gestures.
The Dawn Mistaken for Dusk
If God So Loved the World, Why Can't We?
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
In his first book conceived and acquired specifically to be delivered electronically, Leonard Sweet contends that the church is blind to the changes that are dragging us into the future. Therefore, it is losing its influence as an agent of change and grace in the world. "There are now some companies...
What Matters Most
How We Got the Point but Missed the Person
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
**Belief can exist in isolation, but faith requires a relationship **
Why wade in the shallows of belief when you can plunge into the depths of faith? Belief involves a different way of thinking, but faith brings about a new way of living. It grows through direct experience and a close relationship,...
Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There
Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Evangelism is about reaching out to others**. Really? You think?**
Brace yourself. In *Nudge, *author Leonard Sweet sets out to revolutionize our understanding of evangelism. He defines evangelism as “nudge” – awakening each other to the God who is already there. Sweet’s...
Real Church in a Social Network World
From Facebook to Face-to-Face Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
**We need more than status updates—we need relationships.
Learning about God’s Heart from the TGIF (Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook) Generation**
The explosion in social networking is perhaps the most visible expression of the human longing to know others and to be known. Is there...
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Indispensable Relationships You Can't Be Without
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
As believers, our journey is just as important as the destination. And because relationships are essential to our walk through life, it is vital that we partner with people who positively impact our world. Dr. Leonard Sweet believes these essential people are found in the pages of God's Word. Using...