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The Catholic Invasion of China
Remaking Chinese Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes...
by John E. Wills Jr., Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
"A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence
John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice...
by Joshua Palmatier, Troy Carrol Bucher, Blake Jessop
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter…
From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression,...
Festival of Crime
Nineteen Tales of Murder and Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Throughout Minnesota, from Austin to International Falls, people flock every year to more festivals--county fairs, arts and craft shows, ice-fishing contests, and music festivals--than you can shake a stick at. Most come for the food and fun, but a few festival-goers have more devious intentions in...
Shadows and Light
5 Speculative Fiction Novels
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Shadows surround us, but the light is always there, keeping them at bay.
In these five speculative fiction novels, explore the darkness that thrives not only in the world around us, but also in our very souls. But that darkness will always be challenged. Using their brains, guts, and claws,...
by D. E. Park
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Need a few tale tales to kill time while you're stuck at the airport or in a queue? Flash Fiction is the answer! Tiny tales suitable for a quick read on the bus, the laundromat, whenever the boss isn’t looking. Pocket fiction for your phone, any time. Enjoy quick shots of my favorite genres. All tales...
by Philip K. Dick, Milton Lesser, Edmond Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, 'Imagination' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages....
The Complete Popular Children Fantasy Magic Books Anthologies (27 in 1)
Kidnapped Black Beauty Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pinocchio Little Lord Fauntleroy Legends of King Arthur and His Knights A Little Princess Pollyanna Voyages Story of Dr. Doctor Dolittle Moonfleet Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels Andersen's
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. These classics include books of adventure, animals, family life, fantasy...
by D. E. White
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Lights blinded her in an eerie white flash. She yanked the wheel as she felt the impact from the car behind her. There was a sharp pain, and then a bang in front of her, and after that nothing but darkness. Holly Kendal is trying to put her painful past and broken marriage behind her and focus on...
by Calvin D. Jim, Ace Jordyn, Renée Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Shanghai Steam
Tackling the issues of classism, racism, and imperialism.
Recommended Steampunk Reading.
"Shanghai Steam is one of those anthologies you think will be one thing, but is surprisingly more…" — Bram Stoker Award-winner, Michael Knost.
"Just when we thought...
by D E Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Doesn't your life mean anything to you, John? You've died once already, so why do you continue to live the same life? What is it that you're looking for, salvation? Born into a world where death is the only guarantee, do you believe that anyone can really be saved?We're...
Mr. Monk and Philosophy
The Curious Case of the Defective Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Mr. Monk and Philosophy is a carefully and neatly organized collection of eighteen chapters divided into exactly six groups of precisely three chapters each. Drawing on a wide range of philosophers-from Aristotle and Diogenes, to Siddhartha Gautama and St. Thomas Aquinas, to David Hume and Karl Popper-the...
by Désirée Zamorano
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Southern California is ground zero for upwardly mobile middle-class Latinas. Matriarchs like Mercy Amado-despite her drunken, philandering (now ex-) husband-could raise three daughters and become a teacher. Now she watches helplessly as her daughters drift apart as adults. The Latino bonds of familia...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...