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Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy.

The figure of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) has become a clay puppet in modern American politics. Secular, radical, liberal, and evangelical interpreters variously shape and mold the martyr’s legacy to suit their own pet agendas. Stephen Haynes offers an incisive and clarifying perspective. A recognized Bonhoeffer expert, Haynes examines “populist” readings of Bonhoeffer, including the acclaimed biography by Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.

Cohen and Cogan portray U.S. involvement in Congo in the 1960s as necessary and relatively benign. Weissman replies.

It is easy to conclude that the U.S. Congress, deeply partisan and paralyzed by gridlock, is simply incapable of playing a constructive role in matters of war and peace. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and indeed, it wasn’t always. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s, Congress weighed in responsibly on conflicts in Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East, and southern Africa. Now is the perfect time for congressional leaders to breathe new life into an essential component of American democracy.

From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path toward productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen MR Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust - and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and constituents - is the essential ingredient for any high-performance, successful organization.

This audio program from Steven R. Covey includes the following: you'll learn the importance of becoming a solution, not a problem to an organization. Discover how to start making the contribution you'd like to make by focusing on your talents, passion, and conscience. This audio also provides tips on how to network in a way that leads to success in both becoming more employable, and in advancing your career.

Lead Big: Discovering the Upside of Unconventional Leadership defines and describes the paradigm shift needed to move away from the command and control style of managing people toward a more proactive unleashing of talent. Ward Clapham's own inspiring stories and results, coupled with scientific research, anecdotes, quotes, and historical accounts, lead to powerful break-with insights in each chapter, applicable for leaders in all areas of the public and private sectors.

Le séminaire "Mission" de l'auteur au best-seller mondiale "Les 7 habitudes des gens efficaces" et "La 8 habitude" Stephen Covey présente une méthode d'apprentissage stimulante et inspirante qui changera votre vie d'une manière que vous n'auriez jamais crue possible ! Avec ce livre audio vous commencerez un voyage vers une nouvelle manière de penser et de vous concentrer sur vos réussites personnelles et professionnelles.

The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes listeners to the absolute limits of the ocean world - the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal vents - and exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches - to show how marine life thrives against the odds. This thrilling book brings to life the sea's most extreme species, and tells their stories as characters in the drama of the oceans.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers. In The Last Segregated Hour, Stephen Haynes tells the story of this dramatic yet little studied tactic which was the strategy of choice for bringing attention to segregationist policies in Southern churches.

Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial devastation in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and is now one of the most celebrated shorelines in the world. It is a remarkable story of life, death, and revival - told here for the first time in all its stunning color and bleak grays.

Aided by the powerful magic of Vagel, the evil Arch-Imager, the merciless armies are marching against the kingdom of Mordant. In its hour of greatest need, two unlikely champions emerge. One is Geraden, whose inability to master the simplest skills of Imagery has made him a laughingstock. The other is Terisa Morgan, transferred to Mordant from a Manhattan apartment by Geraden’s faulty magic. Together, Geraden and Terisa discover undreamed-of talents within themselves—talents that make them more than a match for any Imager... including Vagel himself. Unfortunately, those talents also mark them for death.

This book is a collection of quotations and aphorisms from Stephen Covey, whom Time magazine named one of the 25 most influential people in the world. They are taken not only from his books but also from his speeches, articles, and interviews. The author formulated the rules of life you will need for self-improvement and professional success. Stories and quotations, grouped in accordance with Stephen Covey's principles of life, teach you how not to waste life in vain and how to truly succeed.

Every Christmas, we celebrate the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ, the savior of the world. But few have ever captured the profound implications of Christ’s birth like the ancient church father, Athanasius. In this audiobook, The Face of Infinite Love, you’ll explore the profound miracle of the Incarnation through the lens of one of the greatest treasures in Christian literature, Athanasius’ On the Incarnation.

Charlotte Mew's poems explore a wide range of themes, including passionate discussions of faith and the possibility of belief in God and proto-modernism. Many of her poems are in the form of dramatic monologues, and she often wrote from the point of view of a male persona, allowing her to gain the patronage of several literary figures, notably Thomas Hardy, who called her the best woman poet of her day; Virginia Woolf, who said she was 'very good and quite unlike anyone else', and Siegfried Sassoon.

This is a biography of Helene Hanff, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road by a leading authority on her life and works. Pastore was a long-time friend and neighbor of Hanff and had access to her books, letters and relatives and friends.

A proposal for making black lives matter in addition to the lives of other Americans.

This is the story of a man battling cancer, in which cancer itself is a man. What if cancer were a man and it was up to you to track him down and kill him? This book travels through all of the darkness and the light that make up that very journey. It is sad, but funny, and heartwarmingly [sic], tragically, hopeful. It goes there, and then comes back, but you will not forget that you have been. Unless, of course, you do forget.

Deseaba hacer una contribución distinta - ser un maestro, dedicar su vida a liberar el potencial humano. "Todo ser humano es precioso," escribió, "dotado de unas capacidades y un potencial enorme, casi infinito."Con la publicación de Los 7 Hábitos de la Gente Altamente Efectiva, considerado por muchos como el libro más influyente de nuestro tiempo, el Dr. Covey tuvo-y sigue teniendo-un impacto mundial.

An Edenesque garden, a haunted tower, a forest shrouded in twilight wherein dwell Centaurs, Elves and a myriad of creatures fantastic and mysterious; this is the setting in which Babb’s "Lirazel" comes to life and where the tragedy of her life must unfold. Her doom is fixed, deadly, unavoidable and all the more tragic because of the choices Lirazel makes as she spurns wisdom for folly in a desperate gamble for love.