Bloomsbury Continuum imprint: 108 books
by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation. His views are consistent and orthodox and yet he has been consistently misunderstood - especially in relation to his views on contemporary society, public morality and the common good.
In this, the final published...
The Psychology of Conflict
Mediating in a Diverse World
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This practical guide, with a foreword by Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will assist those interested in conflict resolution to better understand the psychological processes of parties in conflict and mediation. As Randolph argues, psychology is increasingly perceived by lawyers as a vital...
The Real Global Warming Disaster
Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history?
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to...
The Edge of Words
God and the Habits of Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Edge of Words is Rowan Williams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury. Invited to give the prestigious 2014 Gifford Lectures, Dr Williams has produced a scholarly but eminently accessible account of the possibilities of speaking about God – taking as his point of departure...
Glimpses of Glory
The Mowbray Lent Book 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, David Bryant looks back on his life and writes powerfully about the moments when he unexpectedly encountered God in the most unlikely places: a high security prison; at the bedside of a dying child; in the gift of imagination; or in Bible passages that have been...
Holy Living
The Christian Tradition for Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Apart from being a scholar and theologian, Rowan Williams has also demonstrated a rare gift for speaking and writing plainly and clearly about essentials of the Christian faith. In the chapters of this book he writes with profound perception about the life of holiness to which we are called. The range...
by Mark Dooley, Sir Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in...
A Place for God
The Mowbray Lent Book 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In The Lent Factor, Graham James wrote about 40 people (one for each day of Lent) who had inspired him and helped to shape his spiritual journey. In this new book he turns his attention to places, from the Flinders Ranges in Australia to Devil's Island (French Guiana) via the Holy Land, Center Parcs...
by Christopher Howse
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain. The bestselling author Christopher Howse makes ten great railway journeys that explore the interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets,...
In God's Hands
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In God`s Hands is the 2015 Archbishop of Canterbury`s Lent Book. In this little gem of a book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distils the wisdom forged through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, an adulthood lived in the glare of the world's media, and the long and agonising struggle for truth and reconciliation...
Building Jerusalem
Elegies on Parish Churches
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Nostalgia and love of parish churches is deeply embedded in the British psyche. Following the success of Poems in the Porch, a collection of hitherto unpublished poems on parish churches by Sir John Betjeman, Kevin Gardner has now assembled a new anthology of poems on the same theme yet with a greater...
Parish Church Treasures
The Nation's Greatest Art Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the...
Two Planks and a Passion
The Dramatic History of Skiing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival.
That it has developed into the leisure and sporting pursuit of choice by so much of...
The Rape of Europa
The Intriguing History of Titian's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of the...