Murray: 2512 books
A Corkscrew is Most Useful
The Travellers of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared. In 1841 Thomas Cook, the world's first travel...
The Cult of the Modern
Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining...
Minding the Self
Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Many people have an aptitude for religious experience and spirituality but don't know how to develop this or take it further. Modern societies offer little assistance, and traditional religions are overly preoccupied with their own organizational survival. Minding the Self: Jungian meditations on...
by Albert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information,...
Our Living Manhood
Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their...
Quick
Aphorisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse
Quick is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as “poetic essences” — sometimes even as “poems, without...
By the People
Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.
American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of...
by Al Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In Let's re-Great Britain, Al Murray's Pub Landlord sets out his party's vision for the country, and explains how politics actually works.
Citizens of Hope & Glory! It's time to bring common sense to the House of Commons.
Parliament is a nest of slippery, poisonous vipers and only...
Staying Strong
An Immensely Human Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Staying Strong is an immensely human story of how a working-class boy from Tyneside in the north of England became a world champion BMX dirt rider in America – then went downhill through partying and drugs and alcohol, until he hit rock bottom. But, with determination and hard work, Stephen Murray...
What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn't Know
The Alternative Treatments That May Change Your Life--and the Prescriptions That Could Harm You
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Adverse reactions to over-the-counter and prescription drugs are currently estimated to kill more than 100,000 Americans a year (making this the fourth leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer, heart disease, and stroke).
Drawing on more than twenty years of scientific research, Dr....
by Murray Poke
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This book is the life story of the author, Murray Poke and includes the account of how he and his wife Grace handled a number of valley experiences. You will read how they have come through these traumas together. Read how they found inner spiritual peace to handle these difficult situations. Read...
by Murray, Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Andrew Murray (May 9, 1828 January 18, 1917) was a South African writer, teacher, and Christian pastor. Murray considered missions to be "the chief end of the church."- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
by Andrew Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The School of Obedience reveals what the Bible teaches about obeying God. Discover the living connection between Christ's obedience and our obedience. Learn the secret of obedience to God. Pastor Andrew Murray gives practical instructions on how to use the morning watch to strengthen your connection...
A Mended and Broken Heart
The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Francis of Assisi is Catholicism’s most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis-both his complicated personality and his complex theology-have been misunderstood for centuries.
In 1228, Pope Gregory IX rushed to canonize St. Francis...