Preface: 7 books

Book cover of Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916
by Olga Metchnikoff, Ray Lankester, Preface
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

This edition features • potrait • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I 1845. Panassovka — Metchnikoff’s parents — Country life in Little Russia CHAPTER II Metchnikoff’s brothers and sister — Childish characteristics CHAPTER III 1850....
Book cover of Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings
by translated and introduced by David J. Halperin; preface by Elliot R. Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Here is the story, mainly told in his own words, of a seventeenth-century (1627-1706) Jew, raised as a Catholic, who combined his rabbinic learning, his Catholic training and a budding awareness of Eastern religions into a remarkable theory of comparative religion.
Book cover of Elisabeth Leseur: Selected Writings
by edited, translated, and introduced by Janet K. Ruffing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.
Book cover of Transatlantic Sensations
by John Cyril Barton, Kristin N. Huston, a Preface by David S. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated...
Book cover of Dominican Penitent Women
by edited, translated and Introduced by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner with contributions by Daniel E. Bornstein and E. Ann Matter; preface by Gabriella Zarri
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Examines the Italian Dominican laywomen's ways of life through religious rules, hagiographical texts, and women's own writings spanning the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Book cover of John Baptist de La Salle: The Spirituality of Christian Education
by edited and introduced by Carl Koch, Jeffrey Calligan, FSC
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The spirituality of the first major spiritual writer (1651-1719) to integrate the Christian vocation of education of the poor by lay men and women into a coherent spirituality. La Salle is considered to be the founder of modern education.
Book cover of Fifteen Steps to the Best Childbirth Experience of Your Life
by Monét Wheatley Phillip, Preface by Dr. Lareesa M. Ferdinand
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014

Fifteen Steps to the Best Childbirth Experience of Your Life describes a program that pregnant women may use to have a wonderful, stress free labor and delivery. It gives pragmatic information on being prepared for the little things that can mean so much to an expectant mother during childbirth. PAPERBACK also available. Click to order!
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