In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.But his was not a simple story of assimilation, scientific success and world fame. A complicated and fragile personality, the implications of the di...

Robert Oppenheimer è tra le figure più geniali e controverse del XX secolo. Come direttore del Laboratorio di Los Alamos, supervisionò l'operazione, riuscita, per battere i nazisti nella corsa allo sviluppo della prima bomba atomica, una svolta destinata ad avere eterne conseguenze sul genere umano e a rendere lo scienziato il padre delle armi nucleari. Ma con il suo operato Oppenheimer si mise anche in rotta di collisione con il senatore Joseph McCarthy e i suoi cacciatori di streghe. In ...

The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them togetherIn 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place—the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it,...

The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them togetherIn 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place—the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it...

In 1095, Pope Urban II delivered a powerful call-to-arms to begin the First Crusade. Robert the Monk, likely an eyewitness, recorded this speech years later, after the crusade had ended. In his account, Urban described horrific crimes committed against Christians living in the east, and Robert noted the emotional response of the gathered crowd. His account diverges widely from another eyewitness documentation of the same speech, written by Fulcher of Chartres, so most historians treat Robe...

Un livre illustré de photos et de dessins originaux qui propose une approche collective, multiple, texte et image, pour percer le fameux mystère Monk.Il y a quarante ans, le 17 février 1982, disparaissait l'une des figures essentielles du jazz : Thelonious Sphere Monk. Poète de l'essentiel, il a écrit quelques unes de plus belles pages du jazz moderne avec Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins et John Coltrane. Le pianiste est singulier, le compositeur, auteur...

️ The Inner CathedralAncient Wisdom on Silence ♂️, Solitude , Inner Stillness , and the Apophatic Path to God ✨️ Enter the Cathedral Within...Step beyond words into the sacred hush of divine presence. The Inner Cathedral is a contemplative journey into the mystical heart of Christianity, where silence speaks louder than sermons, and solitude becomes the gateway to the Infinite.Rooted in the spiritual practices of Benedictine monks ♂️, Christian my...

This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and unique information on the Crusade (Robert claims to have been an eyewitness of the Council of Clermont in 1095), its particular interest lies in the great popularity it enjoyed in the Middle Ages. The text has close links with the vernacular literary tradition and is written in a racy style which would not disgrace a mod...

A Borgo Panigale, sui gradini di un negozio di giocattoli, di fronte al centro commerciale, fu rinvenuto il primo piede. Così ha inizio l'odissea di Annibale Dori, originale tassista notturno appassionato di jazz. In una Bologna fredda, buia, piovosa e desolata. Terrorizzata da un maniaco che rapisce e tortura a morte le sue vittime. Fanno da cornice un'affascinante misteriosa donna e un locale infilato nello stomaco di Bologna, dove suona Al il pazzo, amico fraterno di Annibale e leggenda...

The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century, which came be known after the papal name of their founder, Celestine V (St Peter of Murrone) - arrived in France in 1300. After a period of marginal growth, they flourished in the region from the mid-fourteenth century, founding thirteen new h...

In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders.In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include:analysis of the financial crisis;the reasons for the global...