Alexander: 7118 books
Sense and Nonsensibility
Lampoons of Learning and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture.
At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility...
Salafism in Nigeria
Islam, Preaching, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The spectre of Boko Haram and its activities in Nigeria dominates both media and academic analysis of Islam in the region. But, as Alexander Thurston argues here, beyond the sensational headlines this group generates, the dynamics of Muslim life in northern Nigeria remain poorly understood. Drawing...
Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died
Coping with Loss Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This #1 Amazon Best Seller from one of today’s top bloggers is a compassionate guide through the process of grieving for a lost loved one.
Ty Alexander has touched many lives with her popular lifestyle blog, Gorgeous in Gray. But in her early 20s, her own life was upended when her mother was...
Warped Mourning
Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their...
by Alexander Hay Japp
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
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The Book of Job
How to Believe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Book of Job is the first document in history to take seriously the question of why really bad things happen to really good people. Alexander Goldbergs eight-part ebook explores who Job was, why he matters, and what his story has to teach us about the nature of belief and of life.The How to Believe...
The Republic of Arabic Letters
Islam and the European Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
**A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATION
An authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philosophy. **
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers explain the complexities of a constitutional government—its...
Choosing Slovakia
Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens...
Heidegger and Politics
The Ontology of Radical Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In this fresh interpretation of Heidegger, Alexander S. Duff explains Heidegger's perplexing and highly varied political influence. Heidegger and Politics argues that Heidegger's political import is forecast by fundamental ambiguities about the status of politics in his thought. Duff explores how,...
Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us
Faith Versus Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Reform Judaism has been tested by the spiritual torments and ideological upheavals of the last two centuries. Now, Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us brings into discussion key tenets and opinions that shape current thinking within the faith and introduces ideas for its future development. Author Alexander...
by Alexander MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF 2012
IRISH TIMES BOOK-TO-READ FOR 2012
ATLANTIC BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE AND THE FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD
A GLOBE & MAIL, QUILL & QUIRE, AND AMAZON.CA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying:...
Able Muse - a review of poetry, prose and art - Summer 2013 (No. 15 - print edition)
A review of poetry, prose and art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Summer, 2013 issue. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse—online and in print. After more than a decade...
by Alexander Pushkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1998
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece,...