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Jimmy Stewart

by Starr Smith & Walter Cronkite

Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war,...

The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

by Thomas Armstrong

Armstrong describes the best practices in education based on what we currently know about human development.

The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness

by Sylvia Barack, PhD Fishman

Takes readers era by era through Jewish history to reveal who the Jewish community included and excluded, and discusses the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally. It...

Regional Economic Outlook, November 2006: Western Hemisphere

by Internation International Monetary Fund

This Western Hemisphere Regional Economic Outlook covers the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The report reviews recent economic developments, discusses the economic outlook, and outlines...

On Becoming a Consumer

by James McNeal

The book demonstrates how consumer development is intertwined with cognitive and motor development; each of the three dependent on the other two. Showing consumer behavior being responsible for body and mind...

Wyoming Hoofbeats

by Susan Page Davis

A Truly Yours Digital Edition. . .Sioux Indians captured Rachel Haynes two years ago, then traded her to the peaceful Arapaho tribe. Rachel hasn't seen another white person for ages, so when the Barkleys show...

By His Hand

by Jennifer Johnson

A Truly Yours Digital Edition. . .Victoria's Life has taken an unexpected turn, and the crash into the rugged mechanic's Corvette doesn't help matters. Forced into making her own way, the riches-to-rags Victoria...

A Place Of Her Own

by Lynn A. Coleman

A Truly Yours Digital Edition. . .After a life of indentured sevitude and abuse, Katherine O'Leary longs for a place of her own. And especially when Shelton Greene invades her heart. Her history is fully of...

Promising Angela

by Kim Vogel Sawyer

A Truly Yours Digital Edition. . .Following her drug-related arrest, Angela finds herself out of rehab and in God's family. She's working at New Beginnings to fulfill her community service hours, but beyond...

The Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology

by Mitchell Silver

A Plausible God evaluates the new God by analyzing the theology of three recent Jewish thinkers -Mordechai Kaplan, Michael Lerner, and Arthur Green-and compares faith in the new God to disbelief in any gods....

Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

by James Heft

From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has...

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture: On Destructive Spectatorship

by Teodolinda Barolini

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its "three crowns": Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian...

Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline

by Virginia Burrus

What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal...

Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self

by Violet Oaklander

Hidden Treasure is a follow up to Oaklander's first book, Windows To Our Children. Most of the books available in working with this population are written from a traditional 'play therapy' point of view. The...

Bleeding Hearts: A Novel

Jack Harvey Novel #2

by Ian Rankin

A master of modern mystery and the award-winning author of "Resurrection Man"pens a page-turning novel of assassins and double-crossing.

Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels

by Hella Winston

Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was excited to be meeting members of the...

The Writing on the Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy

by Will Hutton

The prevailing view of China is that the country is an economic juggernaut sure to become the dominant power of the twenty-first century. In this provocative and stimulating book critically acclaimed author...

Officespeak: The Win-Win Guide to Touching Base, Getting the Ball Rolling, and Thinking Inside the Box

by David Martin

Do you feel like putting a bullet through your head every time your boss tells you to "quarterback this one for me, champ"? Do you find yourself resisting the urge to put a chokehold on colleagues who use the...

Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

by Jack McCallum

In Seven Seconds or Less, Sports Illustrated's chief NBA writer, Jack McCallum, gets in the paint with the Phoenix Suns and takes a season-long look at the NBA's most exciting and controversial team.

A few...

The Secrets of Happiness

by Richard Schoch

Unhappy is the story of happiness. More than two thousand years ago, when the ancient Greeks first pondered what constitutes "the good life," happiness was considered a civic virtue that demanded a lifetime's...