The Peruvian mystic St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and remains the object of widespread devotion today. In this engrossing new study, Frank Graziano uses the example of St. Rose to explore the meaning of female mysticism and the way in which saints are products of their cultures. Virginity, austerity, eucharistic devotion, incessant mortification, and mystical marriage to Christ characterized the devotional regimen that structured St. Rose's entire life...

John Nichols was raised by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. He enjoyed a top-notch private school education and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. At that point, he considered himself “a child blessed by the culture and fated for delirious success.” However, a trip to Guatemala derailed his golden-child existence and set him on a very different path toward social and environmental activism. This book charts Nichols’s rich and often tormented journey out of his sheltered middle-class life toward a belief in what he calls “liberation ecology.”

This is a wonderful new series of well-told, beautifully illustrated biographies, for children aged 6-9 years, featuring great leaders, heroes, pioneers, inventors and scientists from the past. Each biography tells an exciting story about a real person, that can be read either alone or by a parent or teacher...

William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed Republican...

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - August 29, 2007) - In "Get The Girl!" a Pick-Up artist's guide to reclaiming your love life (Nightlife Edition), Pick-Up Maestro Mehow, the most celebrated and successful Pick-Up artist at it today, reveals his seduction secrets with stunning efficiency, economy and...

In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southwestern Portugal and Spain. About the size of a palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or...

Ford changed the face of the modern world. The incredible success of his "motor car for the multitude" transformed industry and society, and made him the richest man on earth. His amazing story ranges from exhilarating success to personal tragedy and disappointment.

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam is an extremely controversial but effectively argued and extensively documented work. The author presents a radical challenge to a number of standard assertions about the socio-economic milieu in which Islam arose." -R. Stephen Humphreys, University of Wisconsin, Madison Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam, the supposition that Mecca was a trading center thriving on the export of aromatic spices to the Mediterranean...

The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package—a book and CD in a reusable blister. This charming collection of songs and activities is an absolute must for new parents and grandparents. There are suggestions for interactive play between adult and baby which encourages bonding and stimulation as well as growth and development. The engaging voices of the children’s choir captivate babies and adults alike. Included are clapping and knee-bouncing songs, fingerplays, action songs, tunes for dancing, and even songs for taking a bath. The book and audio end with soothing and truly lovely lullabies.

Stuart Wilde shows you how to develop your intuition and sixth sense and use it to: get in touch with your inner knowing and spiritual power, better understand the relationships in your life, seek out profitable financial opportunities, discover what you need for personal healing, keep you safe and aligned with your highest good...

Silent Power is filled with the underlying philosophy that there is a silent power within you, an inner knowing, that grows because you understand its infinity. It teaches you hour by hour, it is with you this very minute! As you begin to trust your power, it can lead you step by step to the next person and place in your life. It is silent...but it is so powerful.

Getting to Yes is a straightorward, universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting taken -- and without getting angry. It offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict -- whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deal continually with all levels of negotiations and conflict resolutions from domestic to business to international.

First published in 1927 this monumental book has long been out of print. Brilliantly written, it stands on its own merits and has not been outdated by new discoveries or research. Rostovtzeff's narrative begins in the fourth...

This volume on avant-garde film has emerged as part of a wider reassessment of 20th century avant-garde art, literature and film carried out in the framework of a research project at the University of Edinburgh.

Conquered England argues that Duke William of Normandy's claim to succeed Edward the Confessor on the throne of England profoundly influenced not only the practice of royal succession, but also played a large part in creating...