The Pleasantness of a Religious Life: Life as Good as It Can Be (Henry Matthew)(Paperback)

The Pleasantness of a Religious Life: Life as Good as It Can Be (Henry Matthew)(Paperback)

Matthew Henry, the great Puritan commentator, here looks at what gives people real joy. He looks at 12 different types of Christian pleasure, reviews what God has done to bring sinners joy, demonstrates that Christian experience proves this and challenges the reader to join in This was Matthew

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays (Williams Tennessee)(Paperback)

They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to

Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (Sharpe Matthew)(Paperback)

The idea of philosophy as a 'way of life' is not a new one. From the first recorded philosophy by Plato, there has been a tradition of thinking about philosophy as pointing us towards the good life, happiness and an ethical existence. But where does this notion that philosophy has anything to offer

Secrets of the Henna Girl (Ahmed Sufiya)(Paperback)

Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . . Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love. Except her parents have other plans. In Pakistan for the summer, Zeba's world is shattered

Training - How Do I Grow as a Christian? (Adams Isaac)(Paperback)

The Christian life is many things, so it can be hard to know how exactly we should live it. Training is a guide to show new Christians just that--how you should live and grow. Walking through the basic spiritual disciplines, Training uses short stories to show how you can love God and your

As Good As It Gets - Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult (Ranganathan Romesh)(Paperback / softback)

Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it. Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waist thicken with every meal and his finances dwindle to fund his family's middle class aspirations, Romesh

The Racer: Life on the Road as a Pro Cyclist (Millar David)(Paperback)

What is it really like to be a racer? What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? How does it feel to be reeled in from a solo breakaway metres from the line? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the

Professor (Bronte Charlotte)(Paperback / softback)

'The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write. It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre.' - Charlotte Bront The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bront completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the

Fuck It: Be at Peace with Life, Just as It Is (Parkin John)(Paperback / softback)

Play It as It Lays (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las

The Ancestry of Objects (Ryckman Tatiana)(Paperback)

A young woman contemplates the end of her life as she's known it as tragedy after tragedy accumulates around her, threaded with her relationship to desire, consent, and control

A History of London in 50 Lives (Long David)(Pevná vazba)

'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel Johnson It is the people who make London what it is. The men and women living within its walls, with all their successes and failures, their loves and lies, their dramas and indulgences. Taking us from the sixteenth

The Push : Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster? - Audrain Ashley

The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. But as soon as I held her in my arms I knew something wasn't right. I had always known that the women in my family aren't meant to be mothers. My husband Fox says I'm imagining it. He tells me I'm nothing like my own mother,

Post Office (Bukowski Charles)(Paperback)

'It began as a mistake.' By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags

Goodfellas (Pileggi Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection

Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times (Guinness Os)(Pevná vazba)

You only live once--if then. Life is short, and it can be as easily wasted as lived to the full. In our harried modern world, how do we make the most of the time we have?In these fast and superficial times, Os Guinness calls us to consequential living. As a contrast to both Eastern and secularist

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Safranski Rdiger)(Paperback)

A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and--as Rdiger

The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday (Blackie Sharon)(Paperback)

Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Atkinson Niall)(Paperback)

Analyzes how the premodern city, through the example of Renaissance Florence, can be understood as an acoustic phenomenon. Explores how city sounds, such as the ringing of church bells, can be foundational elements in the creation and maintenance of urban communities and the spaces they

The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (Bennett Jane)(Paperback)

It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder,

Peter Pan (Barrie James Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn Davies boys, who were virtually adopted by Barrie after being orphaned. This edition has F.D. Bedford's illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own

The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity (Nasr Seyyed Hossein)(Paperback)

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in the Western world centered on distorted portrayals

Shady Bizzness' Life as Eminem's Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters: Life as Eminem's Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters (Williams Byron Bernard)(Paperback)

People Magazine'Shady Bizzness was disturbing and intense It was like a good scary movie ' MSNBC'It was brilliantly written ' The Queen Latifah Show'It's definitely a good read.' Book DescriptionThis story is based on the factual ills of 'white rapper' and Hip-Hop phenomenon, 'Eminem.' 'Shady

Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books (Rentzenbrink Cathy)(Paperback)

A memoir of a life spent immersed in the comfort and joy of books For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up, she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kept her