Gordon: 4430 books
The Path of Initiation
Spiritual Evolution and the Restoration of the Western Mystery Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Details the process of spiritual initiation from aspirant to the highest Adept
• Explains the characteristics of each stage of initiation, including the associated psychological issues that need to be faced to move to the next stage
• Explores the long history of the Mystery traditions...
Ethics
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter...
by Gordon Downie
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for the popular Canadian rock band, The Tragically Hip, released his first solo record, Coke Machine Glow in Spring 2001. Vintage Canada is proud to have to published Downie's first book of poetry, under the same title. It also contains the lyrics to the sixteen...
Life Support
Three Nurses on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging,...
The Heroics of Falling Apart
One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves.
Conventional wisdom says one must "fight" breast cancer, but fighting is not for everyone. For some, falling apart proves to be the better response....
by D M Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Weaving the "Fourth World" of snails, ravens, and sloths with imagined worlds of our human fragility, our power to destroy and to love, D M Gordon's poems bring us face to face with the divine. Nightly, at the Institute of the Possible is often allegorical, language-rich, and always illuminating....
by Gordon Honeycombe
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
'EXCELLENT WRITING AND RESEARCH' - RUTH RENDELLThe Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard - invariably known as 'the Black Museum' - houses a remarkable collection of exhibits, photographs and documents connected with some of the most notorious crimes in this country's history. Although the museum is closed...
A Resilient Life
You Can Move Ahead No Matter What
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
“It makes little difference how fast you can run the 100 meters when the race is 400 meters long. Life is not a sprint; it is a distance run, and it demands the kind of conditioning that enables people to go the distance.”
—Gordon MacDonald
Running Strong
Whose heart doesn’t...
by Gordon Clouser
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Who was Jesus? An apocalyptic prophet? An aphoristic sage? The messiah of Jewish expectations? In Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua of Nazareth, Gordon Clouser analyzes the question of the historical Jesus and argues that the realities of Jesus ministry place him squarely in the forefront of Jewish messianic...
Thanksgiving Story Book
Classic Holiday Tales for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully edited collection of the greatest tales of Thanksgiving is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot) An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)...
Joan of Arc
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
"A master of the story form" (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint
Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed...
Who Is My Neighbor?
Lessons Learned From a Man Left for Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
An "expert in the law" once asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life--and his question initiated a very interesting conversation. The Law says to "love your neighbor as yourself," Jesus pointed out, so the next logical question is, "Who is my neighbor?" Rather...
Seeing Through Places
Reflections on Geography and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
Mary Gordon, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections between how we experience place and how we become ourselves. From her grandmother's house, which stood at the center of her childhood life, to a rented...
Cut to the Chase
100 Matrix Pearls for Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Matrix pearls are the glue that holds medicine together. They are the valuable kernels of wisdom and experience that guide physicians through the complexities of modern medical practice. Cut to the Chase - 100 Matrix Pearls for Doctors takes the grand oral traditions of medicine and records them as valuable...