Philip: 4665 books

De een van de ander werd door de Volkskrant en NRC Handelsblad uitgeroepen tot beste thriller van het jaar Liefhebbers van John Le Carré en Robert Harris houden ook van Philip Kerr München, 1949: een stad waar schimmige handel, hebzucht en vluchtende oorlogsmisdadigers samen komen....

In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation programme, starting with worker co-operatives before shifting to wider enterprise development strategies....

Philip Sherwood's fully revised and updated history of Heathrow tells the extraordinary story of the district from the distant past to the present day. He describes how, in the 60 or so years since World War II, the isolated hamlet of Heathrow, which was surrounded by fields and market gardens, was...

"At once beautiful and heartbreaking, Aaron Philip found a way to make me laugh even as I choked up, found a way to bring on my empathy without ever allowing me to feel sorry for him. An eye-opening debut." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner and Newbery Honor author of Brown Girl Dreaming In...

After Jesus's ascension into heaven, his apostles remained nine days in Jerusalem, praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit. This has inspired the Christian novena or nine days of fervent prayer, to prepare for major feasts or for special intentions. With St Philip Neri as our guide, we follow nine...

To the perennial question "which comes first, the music or the words?" Ira Gershwin always responded, "the contract." The jest reveals both Ira's consummate professionalism and the self-effacing wit with which he ducked the spotlight whenever possible. Yet the ingeniously inventive melodies George...

" Deux sexagénaires, chacun à leur façon bien particulière, continuent de faire frissonner les plus jeunes fans de rock ; d'incarner l'anarchie et la mauvaise conduite mieux qu'aucun de ceux qui les ont suivis. À la simple mention du nom de l'un ou l'autre, les plus belles jeunes femmes...

"With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness."...

Account of the awakening of the kundalini process by Philip St. Romain, with reflection on the meaning of this process from the perspective of Christian spirituality. Foreword by Thomas Keating. Appendices by James Arraj. 2nd edition. Original work by Crossroads, NY, 1991.

(This is a preview of the complete book, Suburban Luchador: Memoirs From Suburbia) His minivan is his chariot and his mower is his weapon. Enter the whimsical world of the Suburban Luchador, suburbia's favorite underdog, father, husband... hero. He's the man who's making minivans, mowing,...

Calificada por la crítica norteamericana como «obra maestra», Pastoral americana es la crónica lúcida y despiadada de la caída del entusiasmo, del derrumbamiento de la fe de toda una generación. La novela en la que se basa la película de Ewan McGregor, American Pastoral. Seymour...

Using a framework that highlights how societal and international factors have shaped state capacities, Philip Mauceri examines Perus volatile politics in the countrys move from a developmentalist state to neoliberalism. He explores the challenges to state authority during the military regimes reformist...

What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today? The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must...