“Robert Newton Peck’s most touching and famous book is a story so filled with light that once you hear it, you’ll never forget it. It is the true story of a young boy growing up on a Vermont farm with the warmth of his Shaker faith and father’s love. He must learn from his father, […]
Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation and the general manager of IDEO, the world-famous design firm, illuminates the strategies IDEO used to beat the devil’s advocate and drive creativity throughout the organization.Nothing is more stifling for innovation than the role of devil’s advocate. The devil’s advocate can swoop into a situation from outside, […]
Joseph Jaworski, the son of famed Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, uses his own experiences and the latest studies to create a new concept of leadership. Instead of focusing on numbers, reports, and other inanimate objects, Jaworski encourages leaders and managers to look at the world primarily through relationships. Allowing life to flow through us, […]
“It is hardly an exaggeration to call Mark Twain one of the true giants of American literature, a master humorist, and a brilliant novelist. But while he is rightfully famed for such masterpieces as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, the range and depth of his lesser known works […]
“Julius Caesar wrote his exciting Commentaries during some of the most grueling campaigns ever undertaken by a Roman army. The Gallic Wars and The Civil Wars constitute the greatest series of military dispatches ever written. As literature, they are representative of the finest expressions of Latin prose in its “”golden”” age, a benchmark of elegant […]
Experience the transcendence of God through this ancient wisdom. For centuries, the Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mystical tradition, has confounded readers with its symbols, allusions, and multiple layers of meaning. In his translation, Daniel C. Matt returns to the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts to reveal the primary aspects of Jewish mysticism, including the radical […]
“This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome. When conflict between Rome and Carthage resumed in 219 B.C., after a brief hiatus from the first Punic War, the Romans decided to invade Spain. Eluding several Roman legions sent out to intercept him in Spain and France, Hannibal […]
The world of ancient Egypt springs magnificently to life in this astonishing historical novel of love, war, political intrigue, and religious revolution. Told from the first person point of view, it is the story of Sinuhe, physician to the royal court of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his successors in the middle of the tumultuous 14th […]
In 1789 a group of sober-minded, concerned citizens set in motion a series of events which were to end up leading to the deaths of thousands of perfectly innocent persons. How did this reasonable movement of level-headed civic leaders spin out of control? At a glance, the French Revolution appears a bewildering series of political […]
“A father’s bedside storytelling celebrated and remembered in stories that’ll have children laughing and adults laughing right along with them! Family storytelling as its most hilarious, the Maynard Moose tales of Willy Claflin entertain all ages. An excellent choice for family car trips, these whimsical retellings excite young imaginations and delight young and old. The […]