Discover the wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi alongside the wit of Groucho Marx in a collection of great and memorable quotations from across the centuries: an entertaining compendium of themed quotes from the most notable minds, orators, celebrities, writers and politicians that ever lived. Funny and profo[...]
A major new book from Jean Vanier identifies the seven paths of transformation at the heart of l'Arche philosophy, including paths from humiliation to humility, normalisation to the awakening conscience and exclusion to encounter, that should be heeded by the Church to rediscover a vision of a socie[...]
The utterly absorbing real story of the lives of the Pilgrims, whose desires and foibles may be more recognizable to us than they first appear. Americans have been schooled to believe that their forefathers, the Pilgrims, were somber, dark-clad, pure-of-heart figures who conceived their country on t[...]
Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines,[...]
The Generations series chronicles the music that defined 20th-century America. Each book contains 25 of the most-loved songs from iconic performers and songwriters, providing a soundtrack to the life and times of a generation. Titles: All I Have to Do Is Dream * Blowin' in the Wind * Blue Moon * Blu[...]
The Generations series chronicles the music that defined 20th-century America. Each book contains 25 of the most-loved songs from iconic performers and songwriters, providing a soundtrack to the life and times of a generation. Titles: Annie's Song * Build Me Up Buttercup * Chain of Fools * Could It [...]
Another great addition to The Times Book of IQ Tests series, Book 3 contains 400 never before published tests, complete with a guide to assessing your performance. The questions you'll find here are typical of those you are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests, and provide invaluable practice for [...]
The popular series of IQ testing books continues! This latest addition of The Times Book of IQ Tests: Book 4 contains 400 brand new questions. The questions are typical of those you are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests. The are organised into 10 timed tests, each of 40 questions, and come with[...]
This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural and emotional journey over the best part of two centuries. The anthology starts with the obituary of 9[...]
Your view of God determines your view of the world.You hold in your hands a landmark guide to understanding the ideas and forces shaping our times. Understanding the Timesoffers a fascinating, comprehensive look at the how the tenets of the Christian worldview compares with the five major competing [...]
What is the Word of the Lord for a world of injustice? What does it mean to hear the cries of the oppressed? What does liturgy have to do with justice? These questions have been at the heart of Nicholas Wolterstorffs work for over forty years. In this collection of essays, he brings together persona[...]
33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each alb[...]
Politics in the Times of Indignation provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis, to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times.Indispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies, this book is a lens t[...]
The true experiences that are featured in this book, introduced by bestselling author Louise L. Hay, have been culled from the writings of some of the most renowned writers and teachers in the fields of self-help, transformation, social consciousness and spirituality. These are stories reflecting me[...]
Meet Sherlock Bones and his trusted companion, Dr. Catson--and join them on a fun math multiplication adventure This activity storybook has a cool "reveal feature" with a magnifying device.
Evil Professor Moriratty is up to no good again--but kids can use their multiplication skills to he[...]
One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also illustrates beautifully how - if a rec[...]
A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fictionFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, 'Reading the Times' o[...]