Can you imagine using a toilet to escape from a prison camp? Or how about battling snakes and bombs to help patients in the Philippines? These were everyday events for people during World War II. Experience their triumphs and defeats first-hand as you read about a captured British pilot, an American army nurse, a Japanese kamikaze pilot, and more.

In 1981 the suspended walkways—or “skywalks”—in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s Twin Towers on 9/11. In Skywalks R. Eli Paul follows the actions of attorney Robert Gordon, an insider to the bitter litigation that followed. Representing the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against those who designed, built, inspected, owned, and managed the hotel, Gordon was te...

Elie Paul Cohen, a Franco-British civilian emergency doctor, was in his youth an anti-militarist who evaded conscription. But decades later, his military record comes back to haunt him when it turns up in his professional dossier. In a surreal coincidence, the French, British, and Israeli secret services suddenly become interested in recruiting him, and Cohen accepts the deal the French Army offers: he can settle his accounts by serving as a liaison emergency doctor in Afghanistan. After a...

A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year: "A fascinating multiple biography of four of the most influential Catholic literary figures of the 20th century." — BooklistWinner, PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction * Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award * An Atlantic Monthly Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year * A San Jose Mercury News Top Book of the YearThomas Merton was a Trappis...

In Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier. Two centuries later, pioneering musicians began to take advantage of breakthroughs in audio recording to make Bach's ...

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times | Named an Essential Read by The New YorkerThis enthralling group portrait brings to life a moment when popular culture became the site of religious strife—strife that set the stage for some of the most salient political and cultural clashes of our day.Circa 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism (via Pope John Paul II) and ...

Circa 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism and in American civic life. But the public is deeply divided on issues of body and soul, devotion and desire. Enter the figures Paul Elie calls "cryptoreligious"—Leonard Cohen writing "Hallelujah" on his knees in a Times Square hotel room; Andy Warhol adapting Leonardo's The Last Supper in response to the AIDS pandemic; Prince making the cross and altar into "signs o' the times."In Elie's acclaim...

The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was ...

Are you looking to start a podcast, but feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin? Look no further than "Path to Podcast Success" - the ultimate guide to help you create, grow, and make money with your podcast. With a simple seven-step roadmap, this book will help you go from idea to a full season, no matter your level of experience!And the best part? Author Corey Paul knows what he's talking about. As a two-time "Google Podcast Cr...

In May 1904, the residents of Halcyon—a small utopian community on California’s central coast—invited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of the Halcyon Hotel and Sanatorium. As part of the entertainment, guests were encouraged to have their hands X-rayed. For the founders and members of Halcyon, the X-ray was a demonstration of mysterious spiritual forces made practical to human beings.Radiance from Halcyon is the story not only of the community but also of its un...

A graduate of West Point, General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) belonged to the same regiment as George Armstrong Custer. As a member of the Seventh Cavalry, Scott actually began his career at the Little Big Horn when in 1877 he helped rebury Custer’s fallen soldiers. Yet Scott was no Custer. His lifelong aversion to violence in resolving disputes and abiding respect for American Indians earned him the reputation as one of the most adept peacemakers ever to serve in the U.S. Army. Sign ...

Maybe you are already in Cosmic Consciousness ?Or at least you possess a good percentage of it ?It could be you have it inbred at birth or from spiritual practices like meditation and Yoga.Or you are curious to know a little more about that subject.This book is for you.Here is why: « So when we are meditating and growing in CC, growing in these things, we must intellectually understand also what is going on. Otherwise, someth...