What if you discovered you have been entrusted with an invisible, invincible, and incorruptible weapon? Would you use it? If there ever was a time for women to be armed, it's now. Yet the Word of God is a sword we often are more comfortable studying than wielding. It's time for women to take up thei[...]

Christian faith is centred in the cross. And the Christian life is likewise rooted in the cross. These 13 studies are designed to bring us to the heart of the cross with an understanding of what was accomplished there on our behalf. After three introductory studies, we come to the heart of the cros[...]

A guidebook to walking in the Languedoc, north of Beziers, France. Much of the area forms Frances Parc Naturel du Haut-Languedoc. The climate is warm, the vineyards stretch out below you, and above is the towering Espinouse Massif.[...]

"In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every inch of ground, every earthwork and fortificat[...]

During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for enter[...]

This new edition of the Image classic, with more than 100,000 copies sold, brings E. Allison Peers's magnificent translation of St. John of the Cross's masterpiece "Dark Night of the Soul" to a new generation of readers and will renew the interest of those already familiar with its soaring poetry an[...]

This book develops dynamic economic models using the perspective and analytic framework provided by psychological learning theory. This framework is used to resolve apparent contradictions between optimization theory, which lies at the heart of all modern economic theory, and day-to-day evidence tha[...]

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Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591) is one of only 33 "Doctors of the Church" - and one of only three Carmelites. A contemporary of fellow-Spaniard and Carmelite, Saint Teresa of Avila, he is considered one of the great mystics in the Western Church, one of the glories of Spain and the Carmelite ord[...]