Samuel: 2879 books

"As passenger train Number Four was rounding a curve at full speed, ten miles out of this city, on the morning of October 4, and at a point where a deep cut shut out the view ahead, the engineer saw some one, man or boy, he could not well make out which, running down the track toward the train,...

The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King tr. by Samuel Beal This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the...

Do you want to be a better leader? Raise the threshold of your pain. Do you want your church to grow or your business to reach higher goals? Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain. Bottom line: if you're...

From a village boy to a street boy to medical school, a jounrehey through life guided by God the almighty. The book is divided into two parts; my testimony about how God has been to me and the other part being my thoughts about life. it seeks to answer various question that sound challenging to Christians;...

Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The work was originally intended as a mere preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry. The work...

This book is a great look at the doctirne of entire sanctification. It is hardly exhaustive, but makes for a wonderful overview.   The Table of Contents are as follows: Part 1: Pentecostal Sanctification: ITS PRE-EMINENCE ITS POWERS ITS ESSENTIALITY Part 2: The...

The rate at which people are praying today and there seems to be no solution to their problem is quiet alarming, especially in the area of marriage. This calls for examination. This book "The seemingly Insignificant Causes of Curses and Spiritual Battles in Human Life" has broaden the scope...

"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship...

“Para todos nosotros, Él es un hermoso recordatorio de que cuando compartimos el mensaje de Jesús, las velas de otros se encienden y cada vez más oscuridad se borra del mundo. Nuestro deseo es que este excelente libro inspire a millones de personas —incluido tú— a Ser Luz ”. —Roma Downey,...

'It is written ...,' says the believer in a sacred text, and proceeds to justify all manner of terrifying things. Or so runs a popular caricature of religious faith today. Religions that center around a revelation—around a 'good book,' like the Torah or Gospels or Quran, which is seen as God's word—are...

Samuel Newlands provides a sweeping new account of Spinoza's metaphysical system and the way it shapes and is shaped by his moral project. Newlands also shows how Spinoza can be read fruitfully alongside recent developments in contemporary analytic philosophy. According to Newlands, conceptual relations...

Moral and Religious Values in Nigerian Education, generally attempts to tackle some of the most salient Issues confronting Nigerian education in the contemporary time. To achieve this, concepts and Issues as education, morality, religion, values and others are discussed as they relate to the contemporary Nigerian education system.

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third...