Raymond: 2733 books

In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures...

The book aspires to be the successor to Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. In so doing, it probes more deeply into the totalitarian forces attempting to put a stranglehold on humanity. Advances in technology have made possible the construction of an all-encompassing cyberhive that...

In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of...

"Lead Yourself First makes a compelling argument for the integral relationship between solitude and leadership." --The Wall Street Journal Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Martin Luther King found moral courage while sitting alone at his kitchen table one...

Here's to the first entry in "The Collective" series where Khali composes a lot of exclusive and unseen material, which includes poems, songs, short stories, and small monologues. This book of poems will have a lot of deep detail and strong meaning, which any reader will be able to interpret and enjoy to the fullest.

Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and varied historical and personal information they contain. His is the first thoroughgoing survey of these resources to be published...

Here it is. Of all the hard work and time that it took, the class of 2017 is graduating! Khali is part of that class and he's back with another project. Khali decides to go the extra mile by writing his farewell letter to the school that has taught him the most, East Side High School.

Times were hard for the first readers of the letter to the Hebrews. Many had been exposed to fierce persecution. They had been assaulted, their homes had been plundered, and some had even been cast into prison. To such people this letter came as an encouragement. The writer of the letter turns their...

Throughout history, people have been obsessed with bird imagery, from carvings on the temple walls of ancient Egypt to modern-day murals, posters, and even tattoos. This helpful instructional volume by a renowned artist and teacher offers a wealth of well-illustrated advice on depicting all manner...

Ortiz’s poems expand the idea of pilgrimage to include those experiences which touch some profound dimension within, when connections are made with what might be called “soul” or “spirit,” when the tourist becomes the seeker, and sight-seeing magically turns into soul-making. The sacred...

From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence...

God has blessed my life with so many miracles it is hard to recall them all. It is my hope that as you read this book you can relate to similar situations in your past and begin to see God at work in your life. Who knows maybe you will begin to see and understand the miracles that He has done both large and small every day of your life. Raymond F. Banks Jr

In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant,...

Baggage. Do you have any idea of how much of it that I carry? Do you realize how many items that are in these bags that I carry? Do you ever take note of the fact that my back aches with every step that I carry this shit with? I'm here to tell you the contents that this baggage contains. Imagine bearing...