True stories from Brendon Burchard, F. Murray Abraham, and other high-profile contributors on the turning points that changed their lives.Can one moment, one brief encounter, change the course of the rest of your life? If so, how will you recognize that moment? Will you let it pass you by? Will you let it defeat you? Or will you allow that moment, that experience, to help shape who you are and who you might become?Moments of Being reveals true stor...

Set against the backdrop of the Syrian civil war and the massive humanitarian crisis it produced, Georgette Bennett tells the largely untold story of how sworn enemies—Syrians and Israelis, Jews and Muslims—came to trust each other with their lives in order to alleviate terrible suffering. The dramatic tale of their unlikely collaboration illustrates what a few determined individuals can do in the face of inertia, inefficiency, and widespread indifference. It also shows how the novel conce...

It is the year 2033: Wars engulf the planet and new mighty world leaders have risen. The old world order has come crashing down and a new, dangerous one is emerging.Religious zealotry is abundant across all three of the Abrahamic faiths, and threatens to destroy the world, as miraculous and shocking events begin to herald the end-times.A chance meeting between an elite British soldier and an American journalist catapults the two of them into the dark and murky world of poli...

Brought to life by Academy Award®-winning actor F. Murray Abraham and an ensemble cast of narrators, and featuring original music by Michael Bacon, this collection contains Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved fairy tales, as well as a selection of lesser-known favorites.Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore and fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his...

Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.A superb repertory company with distinguished guest arti...

Qué es "santificación"? ¿Es una cualidad o posición? ¿Es la santificación algo legal o experimental? Es decir: "¿Es algo que el creyente tiene en Cristo o en él mismo? ¿Es absoluta o relativa?". Con lo que queremos decir: "¿Incluye niveles o no? ¿Es invariable o progresiva?". "¿Somos santificados en el momento que somos justificados o es la santificación una bendición posterior? ¿Cómo se obtiene esta bendición? ¿Por algo hecho para nosotros o por nosotros, o ambos? ¿Cómo podemos saber que ...

¿Qué es “santificación”? ¿Es una cualidad o posición? ¿Es la santificación algo legal o experimental? Es decir: “¿Es algo que el creyente tiene en Cristo o en él mismo? ¿Es absoluta o relativa?”. Con lo que queremos decir: “¿Incluye niveles o no? ¿Es invariable o progresiva?”. “¿Somos santificados en el momento que somos justificados o es la santificación una bendición posterior? ¿Cómo se obtiene esta bendición? ¿Por algo hecho para nosotros o por nosotros, o ambos? ¿Cómo podemos saber que...

Partout, l'heure est à l’intensification de l’exploitation industrielle des «ressources naturelles». Forêts, eau douce, minerais, sable, rivières, faune sauvage, gaz de schiste, pétrole, terres fertiles, paysages grandioses: tout y passe! La justification de ces efforts est partout la même: cette exploitation est un facteur de croissance essentiel dont il serait fou de ne pas profiter alors que les emplois manquent et que les États sont endettés. C’est le choix de l’extractivisme. Si ce ph...

La doctrina evangélica de la adopción -descrita claramente como "un acto de la gracia gratuita de Dios, por el cual somos recibidos en el número, y tenemos derecho a todos los privilegios, de los hijos de Dios"- ha recibido un tratamiento escaso por parte de los teólogos. Ha sido tratada con una mezquindad totalmente desproporcionada con respecto a su importancia intrínseca y con una subordinación que sólo le permite un lugar parentético en el sistema de la verdad evangélica. No conozco ni...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

Fans of Max Brooks’ original abridged recording of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War will be thrilled to add this companion piece to their audio library. Offering listeners five hours of previously unrecorded content, World War Z: The Lost Files features 21 Hollywood A-list actors and sci-fi fan favorites performing stories not included in the original abridged edition.Narrators of World War Z: The Lost Files are Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Spiderm...

What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury?You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out-of-the-way sideshow, where animated illustrations crawl across human skin. Or maybe, suddenly, you're returned to a simpler time in small-town America, where summer perfumes the air and life is almost perfect . . . almost...