Joshua: 1696 books
Down from the Mountaintop
From Belief to Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Doležal experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents’...
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post).
In the 1980s, a young adventurer...
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by Joshua Cody
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
“The memoir of the year . . . a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes.”—New York Times
Joshua Cody, a brilliant young composer, was about to receive his PhD when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Facing a bone marrow transplant and full...
A Sliver of Light
Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Hikers held captive in Tehran tell their story in “a moving memoir by three individuals who found the strength to survive” (San Jose Mercury News).
During the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly...
Pessimism
Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative...
by Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell, Seth
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
"Dawdler." "Layabout." "Shit-heel." "Loser." For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. Mark Kingwell's introductory...
Island People
The Caribbean and the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce...
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain
A New History in the Words of the Men and Women on Both Sides
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete and compelling picture of this turbulent time.
In June 1940, British citizens prepared for an imminent...
The Complete Ascension Index
An Index of Dr. Joshua Stone's Ascension Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This index for the Encyclopedia of the Spiritual Path is a great resource in your search for ascension, self-realization, and ascended-master teachings. These books collectively explore the deepest levels and understanding of ascension through the personal, planetary and cosmic levels, offering the...
A Writer of Our Time
The Life and Work of John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger
John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way...
Notorious in the Neighborhood
Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under...
Uncertain Justice
The Roberts Court and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
With the Supreme Court more influential than ever, this eye-opening book tells the story of how the Roberts Court is shaking the foundation of our nation's laws
From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts...
The Toughest Beat
Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise...
To End a Presidency
The Power of Impeachment
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The history and future of our democracy's ultimate sanction, presidential impeachment, and a guide to how it should be used now
To End a Presidency addresses one of today's most urgent questions: when and whether to impeach a president. Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz provide an authoritative...