Christian: 6522 books

Mit großer Eleganz erzählt Christian Berkel den spannungsreichen Roman seiner Familie. Er führt über drei Generationen von Ascona, Berlin, Paris, Gurs und Moskau bis nach Buenos Aires. Am Ende steht die Geschichte zweier Liebender, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten und doch ihr Leben lang...

Wie viele Touristen jährlich Nordkorea besuchen, lässt sich exakt sagen: wenige. Dabei hält so ein Urlaub im Reich von Kim Jong-un viele Überraschungen bereit: Autobahnen ohne Autos, Hotels, in denen der fünfte Stock fehlt, und ein Tänzchen an der gefährlichsten Grenze der Welt – zu den Klängen...

This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967–1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific...

Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and...

Une rencontre saisissante de l'historien et du croyant autour de la personne de Jésus. Etre " amoureux " de Jésus de Nazareth engage l'être entier. Pour le chrétien qu'est Jean-Christian Petitfils, Jésus est une personne vivante, venue apporter le Salut au monde et à chacun de nous....

Louise de La Vallière, maîtresse de Louis XIV, ou l'incarnation d'un amour fidèle, sincère et désintéressé, par la plume enlevée de Jean-Christian Petitfils. Est-il un destin plus émouvant que celui de Louise de La Vallière (1644-1710), la première des grandes favorites de Louis...

Friends have been telling me that I should write a book about my life with Wayne, so I decided to do so. My life with Wayne is a comedy of short stories which will leave you laughing. There is never a dull moment which leads to unexpected events. One thing for sure, I never know what to expect with him.

Do you suffer from any of the following? Procrastination Wide swings of mood and self-esteem Ambivalence in making decisions Dreaming big, but never following through If you or someone you love isn't living up to his or her potential -- and suffers from even one or two of the above feelings...

 A single christian woman and the struggles she and her friends encountered. The bench-warmers in her life who professed to be Christians, but were really hypocrites. The choices she made and the paths God took her down. How God let her know that He was with her from the...

Christian Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion and displacement of a diminishing band of men facing the daily spectre of an unforgiving land, men enslaved to the grind of the sawmill, hunkered on bar stools, high in the saddle of a John Deere, or wild behind the wheel speeding down dirt roads...

A pioneering study of the Shaker west’s opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the...

Christian Lestavel a 18 ans quand il est arrêté et condamné à 20 ans de réclusion pour tentative de meurtre. Enfant abandonné, il a très tôt versé dans la délinquance puis les braquages. En prison, il est « retourné » par un haut responsable des RG et se voit proposé un « marché »...

A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver...

In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent “planetary” imaginary—a “planetarism”—binding in unprecedented ways the world’s peoples, traditions, and...