In these secular times, confessing to a belief in the apocalypse consigns a person to Christian fundamentalism or to cult status. But for centuries the Judaeo-Christian version of apocalypse - its Revelations-driven belief in the destruction of evil and the Second Coming of Christ - was accepted as the literal truth and ultimate destination of human existence.The distinguished historian Eugen Weber redresses the historical and religious amnesia that has consigned the study of apoca...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad of success stories are being forged among educational institutions, supporting industries, and educational consortia that are embracing innovative approaches to all aspects of the higher edu...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America and around the world that have appeared on the program since its beginnings in 1965, Ideas: Bri...

Apocalypse, parousie, eschatologie, Jugement dernier... Voilà deux millénaires et plus que la fin d'un monde corrompu et l'instauration d'un futur radieux sont pour demain. L'humanité ne se console pas de voir les prédictions systématiquement démenties puisque surgissent à chaque génération de nouveaux prophètes pour exhorter au repentir et à la conversion. Et les avancées scientifiques et le progrès technique de notre temps n'y font rien : l'énergie nucléaire, les désastres écologiques ou...

Ripped from the pages of his New York Times bestselling Family Business series, Carl Weber brings you No More Mr. Nice Guy, the origin of Niles Monroe, the super-bad hitman who will one day become Paris Duncan's one true love. Niles has just returned from eight years of serving his country as a Special Forces sniper. He's looking forward to a consulting job with Dynamic Defense and spending time with his family, including his bi-polar mother, Lorna, and his hard-drinking uncle, Willie. Wha...

Un clásico indispensable para entender la historia de Europa y la formación de las identidades nacionales.«Un libro magistral sobre un tema esencial: la formación de los sentimientos y las preocupaciones nacionales en la historia».Juan Pablo Fusi¿Cómo se construye una nación? Este revolucionario estudio de Eugen Weber, publicado originalmente en 1976 pero nunca traducido al español hasta ahora, ofrece una iluminadora...

National bestselling authors Carl Weber and Treasure Hernandez are back with their latest installment in the wildly popular Family Business series. LC Duncan, patriarch and leader of the Duncan clan is alive and well after being shot by a mysterious gunman. His near death experience has caused him and his wife Chippy to reflect on both the past and present, and together they decide that it's time to return to Waycross, Georgia for a long overdue family reunion. But wherever the Duncans go,...