1912 results for '"Church, Roy A.'

The fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important...

The origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of Jefferson's famous remark—"wall of separation between church and state"No phrase in American letters has had a more profound...

In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, first published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including...

*FINALIST for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction**WINNER of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award**WINNER of the 2020 Story Prize**WINNER of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First...

Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were...

In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against...

From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back00?I try to create...

Le roi se meurt . ¤ Le texte intégral de l'oeuvre accompagné de notes de bas de page. ¤ Huit fiches pour faire le tour de l'oeuvre. Ionesco en 20 dates L'oeuvre dans son contexte La structure de...

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells...

Venice, as well as other northern Italian cities, nurtured the growth of church music, and gave employment to many talented composers. Highlighting Venice's position as a publishing center, this book...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the spirit of George Carlin and Christopher Hitchens, the son of a former Catholic nun and a Franciscan brother delivers a deeply irreverent and biblically correct...

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Genesis 1:1-2 Creation stories try to explain how...

Newly published in paperback, Myths of the English is a fascinating exploration of Englishness: the images, characters, myths and peculiarities that have contributed to the self-image of a nation.

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to...

Sorensen presents a general theory of thought experiments: what they are, how they work, what are their virtues and vices. On Sorensen's view, philosophy differs from science in degree, but not in...

In this "rare feast" of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family's ancestral home-and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). It...