The founder and executive director of Share Our Strength profiles a variety of social entrepreneurs who are drawing on the resources of America's private sector to improve public life, including Nancy Carstedt of the Chicago Children's Choir and Alan Khazei of City Year. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
The verse dramatization of the medieval murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
BC is their enforcer. What happens if the assassin gains a conscience? For a "Cleanser" with emotions, singularity is too much ... "The Cathedral" combines high-concept speculation with fast action and cliffhanger thrills.
Following the real life exploits of Doorkins, Southwark Cathedral's self-proclaimed 'Magnificat', this charming picture book gives a complete tour of the Cathedral, and is sure to raise a smile on the face of any cathedral attendee, or fan ...
Beautifully illustrated and published to coincide with the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artefacts of medieval England.
According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them.
The three of them must unravel the secrets of a steam engine that operates upon a scientific impossibility and the mysteries of a grand cathedral at the center of town, where clockwork automatons perform for rapt audiences.
Finally, this book is for you if you believe that quiet, often solitary acts of conscience have echoes louder than the original sound; that individual acts have the potential to trigger large public consequences and continue to inspire ...
Told by a chorus of narrators—including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer—who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty ...
It is no coincidence that the last words of the novel bequeath the future to the infant Jean, the new generation who will harvest the wheat.125 Originally, Zola had intended for him to be the hero of all four Evangiles — like Jean ...
In the spirit of The Little Prince, The Girl and the Cathedral is a moving story about life, freedom, love, loss, and the glory of new beginnings.