In Addiction and Recovery, Martha Postlethwaite--pastor and a person in recovery--reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection. Through her own and others' stories, she explores themes such as surrender, truth telling, shame, powerlessness, grace, forgiveness, and resurrection.
A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and Internat
Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, entered a convent - morph into an atheist, feminist, and Marxist?
Commemorating Cicerone's 50th year, Fifty Years of Adventure is a compilation of tales by Cicerone authors. A story to celebrate each year Cicerone has been publishing outdoor activity guidebooks, the collection is a delicious hotpot of adventures in their every shape and form. Soak up the sun, ice-cream in hand, with Aileen Evans on the Isle of ......
Revealed through rare and unseen photographs and in their own words (with award-winning journalist Alexis Bowater), plus an introduction to their story by Elizabeth Kinder (fRoots), this deluxe, collectable coffee-table book designed by Stylorouge is presented in a beautiful rigid hardboard slipcase. Steve Knightley and Phil Beer are held up as ......
When Ed Entin decided to torch his draft card, everything about his life changed. He had his whole life mapped out. It was 1966 and Eddie had just been accepted into Yale Law School--his ticket out of the Army and Vietnam and into a life of secure prosperity. It took only one day, one decision to change the course of his life. What follows is ......
Samir Amin, born in Cairo in 1931, is a world-renowned Marxist economist, intellectual, and revolutionary. In this candid, autobiography he describes his childhood and his parents, an Egyptian father and French mother, both medical doctors, in illuminating detail.
Samir Amin, born in Cairo in 1931, is a world-renowned Marxist economist, intellectual, and revolutionary. In this candid, autobiography he describes his childhood and his parents, an Egyptian father and French mother, both medical doctors, in illuminating detail.
"Mythologies," writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, "are structures of words and images that portray people, institutions, and events in ways that mask an underlying reality."
A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another little corner of the veil of half-truths and anodyne official releases which hitherto shrouded many of the decisions and evasions under the long Hong Kong governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose. David T. K. Wong who started working life as a dishwasher in a Chinese ......