Resultados de Pesquisa

INGLÊS

Gnostic Gospels

de Elaine Pagels

~~11,26€~~ 9,01€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time. In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today. With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of "Christianities" emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment—and access to God—within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary—or worthy—expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed—and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
INGLÊS

Varieties Of Religious Experience - (A Modern Library E-Book)

de William James

~~5,63€~~ 4,50€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential [one] written on religion in the twentieth century'' said Walter Houston Clark in Psychology Today. The book was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in June 1902. Reflecting the pluralistic views of psychologist-turned-philosopher William James, it posits that individual religious experiences, rather than the tenets of organized religions, form the backbone of religious life. James''s discussion of conversion, repentance, mysticism, and hopes of reward and fears of punishment in the hereafter--as well as his observations on the religious experiences of such diverse thinkers as Voltaire, Whitman, Emerson, Luther, Tolstoy, and others--all support his thesis. ''James'' characteristic humor, his ability to put down the pretentious and to be unpretentious, and his willingness to take some risks in his choices of anecdotal data or provocative theories are all apparent in the book,'' noted Professor Martin E. Marry. ''A reader will come away with more reasons to raise new questions than to feel that old ones have been resolved.''
INGLÊS

Souls Of Black Folk - Centennial Edition

de W.E.B. Du Bois

~~5,63€~~ 4,50€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it. He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching in the hills of Tennessee to the death of his infant son and his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington. Far ahead of its time, The Souls Of Black Folk both anticipated and inspired much of the black conciousness and activism of the 1960''s and is a classic in the literature of civil rights. The elegance of DuBois''s prose and the passion of his message are as crucial today as they were upon the book''s first publication.
INGLÊS

Education Of Henry Adams - (A Modern Library E-Book)

de Henry Adams

~~5,63€~~ 4,50€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time ''I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams,'' said Gore Vidal. ''He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.'' His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors—great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams—Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author&''s death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams is a brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that charts the great transformation in American life during the so-called Gilded Age. With an introduction by renowned historian Edmund Morris.
INGLÊS

Up From Slavery - An Autobiography

de Booker T. Washington

~~5,63€~~ 4,50€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs.
INGLÊS

Eminent Victorians - Cardinal Manning; Dr. Arnold; Florence Nightingale; General Gordon

de Lytton Strachey

~~5,63€~~ 4,50€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.
INGLÊS

Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt

de Edmund Morris

~~16,92€~~ 13,54€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901-1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more than any man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with such authentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impression of TR as those who attended. One visitor remarked afterward, "You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes." The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s irresistible rise to power. (He himself compared his trajectory to that of a rocket.) It is, in effect, the biography of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician—who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in our history. Rarely has any public figure exercised such a charismatic hold on the popular imagination. Edith Wharton likened TR’s vitality to radium. H. G. Wells said that he was "a very symbol of the creative will in man." Walter Lippmann characterized him simply as our only "lovable" chief executive. During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt, the son of a wealthy Yankee father and a plantation-bred southern belle, transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. He had a youthful romance as lyrical—and tragic—as any in Victorian fiction. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. As assistant secretary of the navy under President McKinley, he almost single-handedly brought about the Spanish-American War. After leading "Roosevelt’s Rough Riders" in the famous charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he returned home a military hero, and was rewarded with the governorship of New York. In what he called his "spare hours" he fathered six children and wrote fourteen books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark Hanna called "that damned cowboy" was vice president of the United States. Seven months later, an assassin’s bullet gave TR the national leadership he had always craved. His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so surprising in its turns of fate, that previous biographers have treated it as a series of haphazard episodes. This book, the only full study of TR’s pre-presidential years, shows that he was an inevitable chief executive, and recognized as such in his early teens. His apparently random adventures were precipitated and linked by various aspects of his character, not least an overwhelming will. "It was as if he were subconsciously aware that he was a man of many selves," the author writes, "and set about developing each one in turn, knowing that one day he would be President of all the people."
INGLÊS

In Cold Blood

de Truman Capote

37,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis
INGLÊS

Out Of Africa

de Isak Dinesen

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis
INGLÊS

Exploring Lewis And Clark - Reflections On Men And Wilderness

de Thomas P. Slaughter

28,33€

portes grátis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

More Than A Champion - The Style Of Muhammad Ali

de Jan Philipp Reemtsma

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Race, Crime, And The Law

de Randall Kennedy

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Brotherless Night

de V. V. Ganeshananthan

23,18€

portes grátis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Gross Indecency - The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde (Lambda Literary Award)

de Moises Kaufman

15,44€

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

The Folding Cliffs - A Narrative

de W. S. Merwin

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Breaking Clean

de Judy Blunt

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Remembrances And Celebrations - A Book Of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, And Epitaphs

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

The Little Flowers Of St. Francis Of Assisi

de St. Francis e Ugolino Di Monte Santa Maria

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 St Francis of Assisi's embrace of a life of poverty revolutionized Christianity even as it transformed the ethics of the West. This text preserves the legend of St Francis, combining stories of miracles with portraits of his first disciples who were no less human for having been touched by God.
INGLÊS

The Imitation Of Christ

de Thomas Kempis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul I. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas a Kempis between 1420 and 1427, it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths.
INGLÊS

The Rule Of Saint Benedict

de St. Benedict

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Half And Half - Writers On Growing Up Biracial And Bicultural

de Claudine C. O'Hearn

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

The Usher'S Book - Creating A Welcoming And Safe Environment For Worship

de John P. Gilbert

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Darkness Visible - A Memoir Of Madness

de William Styron

25,75€

portes grátis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL
INGLÊS

Up From Slavery - An Autobiography

de Booker T. Washington

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

NÃO ENCONTROU O QUE PROCURA?

Faça consulta pelos temas do menu.

Consulte os critérios de pesquisa na ajuda .

E por fim, se necessário, utilize a opção procuramos por si .