Spiritual Lives – serie
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19 produkter
George Eliot
Whole Soul
Inbunden, 2024
479 kr
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The girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so iconoclastic that she could not be buried in in …
Mark Twain
Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher
Inbunden, 2021
562 kr
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Mark Twain's literary works have intrigued and inspired readers from the late 1860s to the present. His varied experiences as a journeyman printer, river boat pilot, prospector, journalist, novelist, humorist, businessman, and world traveller, combined with his incredible imagination and …
Walter Lippmann
American Skeptic, American Pastor
Inbunden, 2023
612 kr
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Walter Lippmann was arguably the most recognized and respected political journalist of the twentieth century. His "Today and Tomorrow" columns attracted a global readership of well over ten million. Lippmann was the author of numerous books, including the best-selling A Preface to Morals (1929) and …
Woodrow Wilson
Ruling Elder, Spiritual President
Inbunden, 2016
796 kr
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When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most religious presidents in American …
Christina Rossetti
Poetry, Ecology, Faith
Av Emma Mason
Inbunden, 2018
829 kr
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Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded as one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English. While Rossetti has firmly secured her place in the canon, her religious poetry was for a long time either overlooked or considered evidence of a melancholic disposition burdened by faith. Recent …
John Stuart Mill
A Secular Life
Inbunden, 2018
693 kr
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John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any. He was a freethinker from beginning to end. What is not often realized, however, is that Mill's life was nevertheless impinged upon by …
Queen Victoria
This Thorny Crown
Inbunden, 2021
562 kr
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This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life--from her accession to her marriage and …
Benjamin Franklin
Cultural Protestant
Av D. G. Hart
Inbunden, 2021
562 kr
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Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most prominent leaders, a world recognized scientist, and the …
Ebenezer Howard
Inventor of the Garden City
Inbunden, 2023
650 kr
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Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and he continues to be frequently cited by planners and theorists. When he was dying, he urged his prospective biographer to remember that 'the spiritual dimension' had always been central to his life and work. …
Leonard Woolf
Bloomsbury Socialist
Av Fred Leventhal, Peter Stansky
Inbunden, 2019
1067 kr
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Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist is an invaluable biography of an important if somewhat neglected figure in British cultural and political life,whose significance has been overshadowed by that of his wife, Virginia Woolf. His vital role in her life and career is a central aspect of this incisive …
Woodrow Wilson
Ruling Elder, Spiritual President
Häftad, 2018
431 kr
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When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most religious presidents in American …
W. T. Stead
Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet
Inbunden, 2019
1028 kr
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W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet provides a compelling religious …
Margaret Mead
A Twentieth-Century Faith
Inbunden, 2021
723 kr
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For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on …
Andrew Jackson
Old Hickory in Christian America
Inbunden, 2025
474 kr
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Few today think of Andrew Jackson, the American military hero and president, as a religious man. Nevertheless, Jackson considered himself a Christian throughout his life. Raised a "rigid presbeterian," Jackson's mother wanted her son to grow up to become a clergyman, and despite suffering tragedies …
Arthur Sullivan
A Life of Divine Emollient
Av Ian Bradley
Inbunden, 2021
562 kr
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This book charts the life of Arthur Sullivan--the best loved and most widely performed British composer in history. While he is best known for his comic opera collaborations with W. S. Gilbert, it was his substantial corpus of sacred music which meant most to him and for which he wanted to be …
Theodore Roosevelt
Preaching from the Bully Pulpit
Inbunden, 2021
562 kr
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Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman. His visage is etched on Mount Rushmore--alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln--as a symbol of his vast and consequential legacy. While Roosevelt's life has …
William Ewart Gladstone
The Heart and Soul of a Statesman
Inbunden, 2025
496 kr
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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book is known as William, his …
Dorothy L. Sayers
Works and Days
Av Alan Jacobs
Inbunden, 2026
299 kr
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Because Dorothy L. Sayers had such a varied career—first she was a detective novelist, then a dramatist, then an expositor of Christian doctrine, then a translator of Dante, and along the way paused to write influential essays on feminism ("Are Women Human?") and the possibility of using medieval …
John D. Rockefeller
The Baptist Baron
Inbunden, 2027
445 kr
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John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), the founder of Standard Oil, was the richest man in early twentieth-century America. As the architect of the most dominant monopoly in history, Rockefeller became for many a symbol of corporate greed and ruthless industrial power. When the Standard was forced to …
