Leonard: 2410 books
Giving Blood
A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A Groundbreaking Resource for Preaching
If the church wishes to converse effectively with a culture, it must learn the culture’s language. Today, shifts in technology mean that language is increasingly one of symbols and metaphors, stories and images—not words.
So what does this...
by Leonard Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The gospel presents a life-changing NUTS wisdom that conflicts with normal ways of making sense of the world. There is the World According to Normal. There is the World According to NUTS . . . where NUTS is an acronym for Never Underestimate the Spirit. The wisdom of Jesus is a NUTS wisdom.—From...
The Well-Played Life
Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Do you secretly think that the harder you work, the more God is pleased with you? You can live like that—for a while. But imagine what it might mean instead to unclench your teeth, loosen your grip, and actually experience God’s pleasure in you—not just in everything you are doing for Him? The...
AquaChurch 2.0
Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
We live in a fast-paced, fluid world. A postmodern place where people are drifting, making mid-course corrections in every aspect of life, from careers, to relationships, to beliefs. As church leaders, we must continually reshape our ministries to reach a society adrift. We must move from being adaptive...
So Beautiful
Divine Design for Life and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
More than 50 years ago scientists made a remarkable discovery, proclaiming, "We have found the secret of life ... and it's so pretty!" The secret was the discovery that life is helixical, two strands wound around a single axis—what most of us know today as the model for DNA.
Over...
Objectivism
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—The definitive statement of Ayn Rand’s philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir.
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This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s classic text on the abstract principles and practical applications of Objectivism,...
Work of Love
A Theological Reconstruction of the Communion of Saints
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The saints are good company. They are the heroes of the faith who blazed new and creative paths to holiness; they are the witnesses whose testimonies echo throughout the ages in the memory of the Church. Most Christians, and particularly Catholics, are likely to have their own favorite saints, those...
by Dr Rosemary Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
'I'm in the wrong job,' I said to our practice nurse, 'I should definitely have been a detective.'
For BBC Breakfast's Dr Rosemary Leonard, a day in her GP's surgery is full of unexplained ailments and mysteries to be solved.
From questions of paternity to apparently drug-resistant symptoms,...
Thinking through French Philosophy
The Being of the Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
... no other book undertakes to relate all these French philosophers to each other the way that [Lawlor] does, brilliantly." —François Raffoul
For many, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze represent one of the greatest movements in French philosophy. But these philosophers...
Forward From this Moment
Selected Columns, 1994-2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is arranged chronologically under three broad subject...
The Anthrax Letters
A Bioterrorism Expert Investigates the Attack That Shocked America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
At 2:00am on October 2, 2001, Robert Stevens entered a hospital emergency room. Feverish, nauseated, and barely conscious, no one knew what was making him sick. Three days later he was dead. Stevens was the first fatal victim of bioterrorism in America.
Bioterrorism expert Leonard Cole has...
by Leonard L. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the...
Blood and Politics
The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history to date of the white supremacist movement as it has evolved over the past three-plus decades. Leonard Zeskind draws heavily upon court documents, racist publications, and first-person reports, along with his...
by Mark Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe. Those who believe Europe...