Roger: 3830 books
A Country Doctor's Journal
Amazing Stories from Incredible Situations
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Join Dr. Roger MacDonald as he makes rural house calls, responds to unique medical emergencies and experiences heartbreaking tragedies. Share his triumphs and trials as he chronicles 46 years of medical practice in locations ranging from the wild northwoods to idyllic farm country. The collection...
A Country Doctor's Casebook
Tales from the North Woods
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the years after the Second World War, a young doctor took up his post in one of the most remote regions of northern Minnesota. His term of service turned into a lifetime of caring for the people who made this isolated and often lonely place their home. The story of this remarkable adventure in...
The Rape of the Masters
How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2005
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told,...
Notes from the Element
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
When eighth-grade schoolteacher Roger Taylor turned forty, he decided to invest in a new set of wheels-a Honda Element, not the type of car you might expect from a man in a midlife crisis. But the car was just the catalyst for Taylor's real midlife adventure: a journey across North America and back...
Silent Fields
The long decline of a nation's wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature — against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book is about that war of attrition against the native mammals and birds of England and Wales from the middle...
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education
George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1991
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being...
Fallout
Hedley Marston and the atomic bomb tests in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
"Fallout" is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists...
by Roger Bonair-Agard
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Roger Bonair-Agard's book Gully is currently number one on the Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller list
by Rev. Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
The authors are: Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman, Jr., Thomas K. Tewell, James Kennedy, William Bouknight, Reverend Chuck Smith, Michael W. Foss, Robert Anthony Schuller, Robert H. Schuller, Dr. Roger Swearington. Why bad things happen to good people is a topic that has increasingly captured...
Abba, Give Me a Word: The Path of Spiritual Direction
The Path of Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
“I challenge you to get through a chapter of this book without a desire for God being struck in your soul. Roger Owens wears his brilliance lightly and loves words tenderly and lavishly in these pages. He is ferociously gifted, and fast becoming one of the abbas to whom the reading church often...
School of Love
Planting a Church in the Shadow of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Roger Joslin is the vicar of All Saints Episcopal Church in Bentonville, AR, a mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas. He arrived in town in town as a newly ordained deacon in 2006. All Saints now has an ASA of 233, is the fifth largest congregation in the Diocese of Arkansas, and is well on...
Creating Conversos
The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government...
by Roger Ferlo
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
For many people the Bible is strange and unfamiliar territory, impossible to navigate without a certain kind of knowledge and skill. Roger Ferlo leads his readers through the practical difficulties of reading the Bible, offering advice that is true to the way Anglicans have read Scripture from the...
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
A History of the Papacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
One of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the papacy has also been amongst the most controversial. No one who seeks to make sense of modern issues within Christendom-or, indeed, world history-can neglect the vital shaping role of the popes.
In Keepers of the Keys of...