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by Gilles Brougère
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Il faut avoir la passion des jouets, aimer leur histoire, leur diversité et leur frivolité, pour les prendre au sérieux comme le fait Gilles Brougère.
Pour cet universitaire aussi rigoureux que facétieux, le monde des jouets, qui occupe une place grandissante dans la culture d'aujourd'hui, n'a...
by Jean Dutourd, Jacques Paugam
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1978
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1978
Tout homme public est une caricature, parce qu'on le réduit à quelques traits démesurément grossis et élémentaires. Jean Dutourd n'échappe pas à cet inconvénient. Depuis trente ans qu'il occupe l'opinion par ses livres et par ses idées, les petits journaux et les gens qui ne l'aiment pas...
by Emmanuel Davidenkoff
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2014
« Un tsunami s’apprête à déferler sur nos écoles, nos universités, nos grandes écoles. Du nord au sud de la Silicon Valley californienne, l’écosystème qui a converti en quelques décennies des milliards d’êtres humains au smartphone et à Internet a mis toute sa puissance de travail...
by Jean-Pierre Mignard
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2014
« Je suis né chrétien. Mais c’est plus tard que je le deviens. Dès lors, ce fil spirituel accompagnera mes engagements politiques. »
C’est le chemin d’une passion reliant christianisme premier et socialisme originel que nous raconte ici avec verve Jean-Pierre Mignard. Il évoque son enfance...
by Jean-Pierre Mignard, Hugo Roussel
Language: French
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Robert F. Kennedy est une grande fi gure de la vie politique américaine, éclipsée à l’étranger par l’aura de son frère John, président charismatique assassiné le 22 novembre 1963.Directeur de campagne de ce dernier, ministre de la Justice (Attorney General) dans son gouvernement, puis...
Since John Got Sick
A Quest for Survival and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
John was always healthy. Then at age twenty-six a rare autoimmune disease struck out of nowhere. "Idiopathic," doctors said of the phenomenon that tried to take his life violently several times and to destroy his spirit more quietly over the next several years. Since John Got Sick: A Quest...
Doors In
The Fairy Tale World of George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
George MacDonald wrote fairy tales for both children and adults to demonstrate the essential role of the imagination in apprehending spiritual truths. He explained: ". . . undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence...
A Prophetic Voice—David Smith Cairns (1862–1946)
An Intellectual Biography of One of Scotland’s Leading Theologians and Ecclesiastical Figures in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This biography provides an exploration of the formative influences, development, and impact of the theology of David Smith Cairns, Scottish minister, academic, and writer, during the high point of British imperial expansion, and at a time of social tension caused by industrialization. It describes...
A Riff of Love
Notes on Community and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Surprising teachers. Tragic losses. Unexpected gifts. Every neighborhood has stories, and ways of singing the stories of their place. Start digging in, and you find all sorts of music. In a neighborhood skilled in improvisation, like Enderly Park, you also discover new ways to sing those songs, and...
John Stott’s Right Hand
The Untold Story of Frances Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The story John Stott hoped would one day be told. Frances Whitehead was working for the BBC when Stott asked her to become his secretary. For 55 years she was his right hand: gatekeeper, administrator, typist, encourager and enabler. In his Will, Stott named her as his 'friend and Executor'. Their...
by James Leo Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
James Leo Garrett, Jr. has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett, Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous...
Rover
A Boy’s Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Walk again in your childhood with a favorite animal friend as Pastor Blackstone remembers his boyhood and best friend: a dog named Rover and their adventures together. This series of remembrances and reminisces of a canine companion after over a half a century of time was invoked by an adulthood best...
Patriot Dreams
Through Ten Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Jacob Klund, curious about what's in his deceased grandma's attic, snoops around. He finds a trunk full of old papers. Jacob's father, a history teacher, identifies this as a great treasure because of the dates on the papers, diaries, letters, and documents. The family decides to read through them...
C. S. Lewis and Friends
Faith and the Power of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
C. S. Lewis is one of the best-loved and most engaging Christian writers of recent times, and he continues to be a powerful defender of the faith. It is in his imaginative fiction that his genius finds its fullest expression and makes its most lasting theological contribution. Famously, Lewis had...