Rufus: 120 books
by Rufus Franklin Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In his fourth book, Rufus, Rufus Franklin Stephenson looks back on the people and places that shaped his life. Surviving an impoverished childhood in Mississippi, by the grace of God, Rufus makes a life for himself as a railroader. In a career spanning more than four decades, his life on the railroad...
by Rufus
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1979
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1979
Il commence une phrase et s'arrête. Étonné par ce qu'il vient d'entendre. Ou parce que l'intéressant d'une phrase, c'est de la commencer. Il la laisse planer dans l'espace. Mille personnes regardent planer un début de phrase dans l'espace. Et le temps s'arrête. Pas pour longtemps. Il suffit...
by Musonius Rufus
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
"To relax the mind is to lose it."
Gaius Musonius Rufus (c. AD 30–100) was one of the four great Roman Stoic philosophers, the other three being Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Musonius’s pupil Epictetus. Rufus taught philosophy in Rome during the reign of Nero, as a consequence of which...
Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat
The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Born a slave in 1857, Rufus Estes worked his way up from a Pullman Private Car attendant to a job preparing meals for the top brass at one of the country's largest steel corporations. This cookbook, the first to be written and published by a black chef, includes a number of dishes from Estes’ vast...
Stoic Six Pack 2
Consolations From A Stoic, Musonius Rufus and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
"To relax the mind is to lose it."
Stoic Six Pack 2 brings together six more essential texts for students of Stoicism:
Consolations From A Stoic by Seneca
On The Shortness of Life by Seneca
Lectures and Fragments of Musonius Rufus
Ethical Fragments by Hierocles
Meditations In...
Stoic Six Pack 2 (Illustrated)
Consolations from a Stoic, On the Shortness of Life, Musonius Rufus, Hierocles, Meditations in Verse and The Stoics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
"To relax the mind is to lose it."
Stoic Six Pack 2 brings together six more essential texts for students of Stoicism:
Consolations from a Stoic by Seneca
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Lectures and Fragments of Musonius Rufus
Ethical Fragments by Hierocles
Meditations...
Stuck
Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
"The brilliant mind behind Party of One examines the striking social trend: people are stuck and they want to change, but..." (San Francisco Chronicle)
In this book, Anneli Rufus identifies an intriguing aspect of our culture: Many of us are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship,...
by Quintus Curtius Rufus, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Quintus Curtius was a rhetorician that lived in the first century of the Roman Empire, who wrote a history of Alexander the Great, one of the five extant works on the legendry Macedonian king. Composed in a concise yet picturesque style, this short historical work tells the fascinating story of a...
Unworthy
How to Stop Hating Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
“Self-loathing is a dark land studded with booby traps. Fumbling through its dark underbrush, we cannot see what our trouble actually is: that we are mistaken about ourselves. That we were told lies long ago that we, in love and loyalty and fear, believed. Will we believe ourselves to death?”...
by Rufus Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
After its founding in 1821, Columbus endured the hardships of early settlement and the tumult of the Civil War to enjoy years of prosperity while also weathering some hard times. Through it all, the city developed into the beloved homeplace residents are proud of today. Rufus Ward has been a diligent...
Diagnosis: Murder
Adventures in Crime with Colin Starr, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
In five short stories and one long novelette, Rufus King introduces Colin Starr, a young physician whose medical knowledge enables him to detect murder where a less able doctor would have signed a certificate of death from natural causes. Because of his shrewd understanding of human psychology as...
by Rufus Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
The Shorecliff Horror and Other Stories.Three new weird tales by Rufus Woodward. Three tales of loneliness and lost love, of impossible people and the weird creatures that live in forgotten places.The Shorecliff HorrorI first moved into Shorecliff House on a bright, warm morning...
by Rufus King, Fletcher Flora, Bryce Walton
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Welcome to our second volume of Detective stories! This is a grab-bag volume with contributions by many top mystery authors from the mid 20th Century pulp and digest magazines. There’s something to appeal to every taste, from noir to crime to even holiday capers and a Christmas tale by Johnson McCulley...
At Ease in Zion
Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First published in 1967, Rufus Spain’s thorough investigation into Southern Baptist attitudes set the stage for research on religion in the American South. In At Ease in Zion, Spain questions the titular “ease” with society that Southern Baptists seemed to maintain following the Civil War. His...