"They thought they would wake up one day and I would go away, but I'm not going to go away.""Madonna: Inspirations" captures the singular essence of this star and highlights her determination as an inspiration to all. Using only the star's own words, Madonna offers readers a glance into the hard wor[...]
"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."
For more than sixty years, this insight from "The Little Prince "has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world."" Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of [...]
Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, "The Essential Paul Laffoley"documents the evolution of his unique intellectual, spiritual, and artistic approaches.
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A "Washington Post" Notable Book
An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works--and how it doesn't--that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008. "Act of Congress" focuses on two of the major players behind the[...]
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again." from "The Little Prince" What does it mean to be a grown-up? How do we find happiness, joyful friendships, and love that lasts? Culled from the full works of th[...]
An update and revised guide by the host of National Public Radio's Performance Today recommends the best recordings of the three hundred most important classical works, and provides background information on each composer. Original.[...]
(Updated, full-color edition) "Jewish Antiquities" and "The Jewish War" take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition of the award-winning translation and condensation. Now with color photographs, charts, and maps.[...]
This comprehensive data book offers a wide range of reliable information, useful in both the metalworking workshop and for those designing engineered items, tools, and machines. In one concise volume, it provides data that are otherwise available only by reference to many different sources or more e[...]
Here's strong Bible teaching that's fun to read This 1,400-page paperback volume of the best of Charles Spurgeon provides a wonderful overview to the man called "The Prince of Preachers." The Baptist minister spoke to thousands each week in nineteenth-century London, and his sermons and books still[...]
Want to know how to live the Christian life? Learn from one of the foremost authorities, John Wesley, in this single-volume library of journal selections, sermons, and other addresses, essays, and letters. Two and a half centuries ago, the great Methodist distinguished himself as one of the world's [...]
The first collection of King's essential writings for high school students and young people
"A Time to Break Silence" presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches--carefully selected by teachers across a variety of disciplines--in an accessible and user-friendly volume[...]
David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, t[...]