Maier: 217 books
Forgiveness and Justice
A Christian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Bringing practicality back to the work of forgiveness for counselors and pastors
Much work in both academic and clinical counseling has focused on forgiveness and what, precisely, it means. We now know forgiveness offers both physical and psychological benefits. Yet despite all this exploration,...
Perspektiven
Phänomene einer erweiterten Realität
Language: German
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Über 70 Prozent der Menschen, so eine repräsentative Untersuchung, haben schon einmal eine außergewöhnliche Erfahrung in ihrem Leben gemacht. Eine Erfahrung, die sich mit unserem gesunden Menschenverstand nicht wirklich erklären lasst. Diese Menschen möchten wissen, haben sie sich das Erlebte...
Ethnicity, Identity, and History
Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In a wide-ranging analysis of the drama of history, the importance of ethnicity, and Jewish identity, these essays explore areas of political and cultural disciplines fused with elegance in the work of the late eminent sociologist Werner J. Cahnman. The prominence of the American and European historians,...
Als Oma bist du ja ganz nett
Wie meine Mutter ein Enkelkind bekam
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Gerade war man mit sich und dem eigenen Leben im Reinen, erfreute sich als Frau im besten Alter am Erreichten und an den schönen Dingen des Lebens, da ruft die eigene Tochter an "Mama, ich bin schwanger." Denkt man da "Jetzt schon?" oder "Endlich!"? Anja und Hanna Maier berichten witzig und warmherzig...
by Gonzalo Maier
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Los primeros cuentos de Gonzalo Maier hacen de la disgresión un arte nuevo
Gonzalo Maier ha construido con apenas tres libros breves una voz muy especial y entrañable dentro de la narrativa chilena contemporánea. Y en este, su primer libro de cuentos, no hace sino confirmar y ampliar el...
by Gonzalo Maier
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Leyendo a Vila-Matas es la novela de un escritor frustrado que prepara un libro sobre Enrique Vila-Matas, biógrafo de escritores jubilados, precisamente para dejar de escribir. El protagonista, Maier, hoy vive en Bélgica y hace más de una década publicó una novela, pero desde ese día no ha vuelto...
Inspire!
Insights and lessons from 100 of the greatest speeches from film and theatre
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Inspire! showcases 100 of the most brilliant speeches ever delivered from the worlds of film and theatre. From the plays of Shakespeare to contemporary cinema hits, people over the years have been inspired and moved by superb actors delivering powerful lines. Yet only a select few can be called truly...
Rome Measured and Imagined
Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by...
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings
A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"An enlightening and original portrait of an almost mythic family and the Irish-Catholic experience, and a portrait of the United Sates at its best and worst." --The Star-Ledger
Acclaimed journalist Thomas Maier draws on groundbreaking research and unprecedented access to family members...
Eusebius
The Church History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This highly affordable paperback edition includes Maier's best-selling translation, historical commentary on each book of The Church History, and numerous maps and illustrations.
This House Has Fallen
Nigeria In Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation.Each year, with depressing...
Masters of Sex
The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Now a New Showtime Original Series
Showtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America relied on Masters and Johnson to teach...
Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse
The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
100% of all proceeds of the sale of this book will be donated to the Human Development Fund in Bangkok, Thailand
The Reverend Joseph H. Maier, C.Ss.R., is a Redemptorist priest from the United States. He came to Thailand in 1967 as a missionary, serving in north Isan and then among the Hmong...
by Pauline Maier
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them...