Philip: 4665 books
Cannibal Encounters
Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2009
Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and...
Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists
Lessons from the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values.
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its “global war on terrorism,” the Bush administration...
Distorted Landscape
A Critique of Leftist Narratives in Media and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
It is an incontrovertible fact: The establishment media are biased toward the political Left. Americas newsrooms are packed with Democratic Party operatives who manufacture false narratives to push a progressive agenda. Journalists, editors, and producers live and work inside echo chambers of Leftism....
Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Why are some African countries trapped in vicious cycles of ethnic exclusion and civil war, while others experience relative peace? In this groundbreaking book, Philip Roessler addresses this question. Roessler models Africa's weak, ethnically-divided states as confronting rulers with a coup-civil...
by Matyszak, Philip
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give Athens the extra money and resources to crush...
Celtic Mythology
Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Most people have heard of the Celts--the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxically characterized as both barbaric and innocent, the Celts appeal to the modern world as a symbol of a bygone era, a world destroyed by the ambition of...
by Philip G. Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
From church establishment figure to revolutionary, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte to promoter of the Bourbon Restoration, the twists and turns of Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand’s remarkable career through one of the most turbulent periods of French and European history continue to fascinate....
The Partnership
Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Offering a clear analysis of the danger of nuclear terrorism and how it can be prevented, The Partnership sheds light on one of the most divisive security issues facing Washington today. Award-winning New York Times journalist Philip Taubman illuminates our vulnerability in the face of this pressing...
Chrysalis Effect
The Metamorphosis of Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The Chrysalis Effect shows that the chaos and conflict experienced worldwide today are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis, one which has accelerated so rapidly in recent decades as to provoke fierce resistance. Many of the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years – the feminist...
by Philip Yancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Finding Meaning in the Midst of Suffering
In his classic book Where Is God When It Hurts, Philip Yancey gave us permission to doubt, reasons not to abandon faith, and practical ways to reach out to hurting people.
And now, thirty years after writing his first book, Yancey revisits our...
Church: Why Bother?
My Personal Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Why are there so many more professing Christians than churchgoing Christians? Is it because something is wrong with the church? Perhaps that's part of the picture. But Philip Yancey insists there is another part. In this candid, thought-provoking account, he reveals the reasons behind his own journey...
by Philip Yancey
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished — but misguided — notions about the Christian life. In his newest book, Yancey challenges the perception that the New Testament is more important than the Old, that the Hebrew Scriptures aren’t worth the time they take to read and understand...
What Good Is God?
In Search of a Faith That Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in WHAT GOOD IS GOD? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the...
Vanishing Grace Study Guide
Whatever Happened to the Good News?
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
“Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?” Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial question is more relevant now than ever: research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity have plummeted drastically—and opinions of Evangelicals have taken...