The inspiring words of Henri J. M. Nouwen guide the faithful on a spiritual journey through the Advent and Christmas season in this book of waiting, hope, anticipation, and celebration. Each day of the Advent season (28 in all, to accommodate the varying number of days in the season) and each day of[...]

"Photography is nothing, it's life that interests me".--Henri Cartier-Bresson. A PROPOS DE PARIS presents the renowned photographer's personal selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris taken over 50 years. This is a unique gallery of urban landscapes rendered by a great sensibility[...]

What's the secret to living a spiritual life? Living a disciplined life, according to Henri Nouwen. In the spiritual life, discipline requires conscious effort to keep every area of life from being filled - it means creating space for God. Nouwen identifies 3 essential disciplines for maintaining a [...]

Previously unpublished interviews with the giant of modern art. In 1941, aged 72, Matisse recounted his many memories, particularly his youthful experiments, hopes, and ideas with Pierre Courthion in the then occupied France, only to then suddenly refuse their publication.[...]

More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius who throughout his life solved complex mathematical calculations in his head, and a writer gifted with an inimitable [...]

A survey of the major developments in social psychology which took place in Europe during the very active 1970s and 1980s, Volume 1 is concerned with the social development of the child, interpersonal communication and relationships, and the social reality, group processes, and intergration.[...]

In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the man who had conquered Napoleon, as the liberator of Europe, and as a benevolent, enlightened monarch. At home he came to be feared as a reactionary, oppressive autocrat in a country where millions of serfs were still treated as little more than perso[...]