A revealing portrait of the dramatic life of writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy. Christian Science Monitor A compelling life story: richly detailed, vibrant and revealing....

Sullivan, a motivational speaker and consultant who has been blind since birth, often speaks on the importance of turning disadvantages into advantages. He shows general readers how to recognize defining moments in one's life and how to use them to...

"Stopping" and "seeing" are sometimes referred to as the yin and yang of Buddhist meditation—complementary twin halves of a unified whole. In essence, "stopping and seeing" refers to stopping delusion and seeing truth, processes back to basic Buddhist practice. One...

Kessler (art history, Johns Hopkins U.) has written an engaging text introducing the reader to the issues and experiences central to medieval art. The eight chapters are thematic; their topics are matter, making, spirit, book, church, life and death, performance,...

Jerry Saltz, current senior art critic for "New York Magazine" and former senior art editor at "The Village Voice" for almost ten years, as well as a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, popular teacher, and coast-to-coast lecturer...

The first book analyzing the artistic production and critical reception of Kara Walker, a young African-American artist whose controversial work deals with unsettling themes of racism.Library JournalShaw (history of art & architecture, Harvard Univ.) showcases the silhouetted works of one...

Using a short, practical format, this study provides thirteen lessons to unlock the meaning and heart of Paul's letter to the Romans. 13 SESSIONS....

Finding God in the diversity of races, cultures, and creeds that make up our neighborhoods and cities, our country and our world, is one of the most important tasks for people of faith today. Seeing God in Diversity: Exodus and...

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