Every Christmas, Charles Dickens returns.His most famous festive story appears on stage, on television, and in film. His characters fill shop windows, Christmas cards and family traditions. Even people who have never read A Christmas Carol know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the warning cry of "Bah! Humbug!"But did Dickens really invent Christmas?The Man Who Saved Christmas explores how one short book helped transform the way the m...

Christmas was not always about cosy fires, cheerful songs and pretending to enjoy a family board game.For generations, it was also a time for gathering after dark, lowering the lamps and telling stories about haunted houses, restless dead, mysterious strangers and scholars who ignored perfectly sensible warnings.In The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Michael White traces the strange and enduring history of the Christmas ghost story, from old winter fireside tales and Vic...

Michael White, one of the founders of narrative therapy, is back with his first major publication since the seminal Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which Norton published in 1990.Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The book c...

Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.Michael White’s untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a collection of the work he left behind—writings on topics dear to the psychotherapeutic world: turning points in therapy, conversations, resistance and therapist responsibility, couples therapy, and narrative responses to trauma.

Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life.Winner of two 2014 Catholic Press Awards: Pastoral Ministry (First Place) and Design and Production (Honorable Mention).Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Re...

Rani Lakshmibai, often referred to as the "Rani of Jhansi," is celebrated for her bravery, leadership, and patriotism. She became a symbol of resistance and a national icon due to her role in leading her troops against the British East India Company during the uprising. The comparison to Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) in the title underscores her status as a female warrior and leader who fought valiantly for her country's freedom.Michael White's biography delves into Rani Lakshmibai's early li...

Wagner's operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner's musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer's underlying ideas to be indefensible. A self-styled social revolutionary, Wagner thought the world could be redeemed through vegetarianism and Aryan philosophy.Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide separates the composer's art from the ideas and the arrogant destructive personal behaviour of the man...

London, summer 1889.Nine months have passed since Inspector Flint killed Jack the Ripper.Now the murders have begun again.Across the capital, bodies are being discovered in scenes of escalating savagery, each killing more depraved than the last. To a terrified public, there can be only one explanation: the Ripper has returned, and his death toll now stands at nine.But Flint and Locke know the truth.Jack the Ripper is dead.And yet the new murd...

The Haunted History of BritainGhosts, Legends and the Places That Refuse to ForgetAcross ancient roads, ruined abbeys, battlefields, castles, mines, railway stations and ordinary homes, generations have reported footsteps without bodies, phantom processions, spectral animals, warning apparitions and the restless dead. Some ghosts return to reveal murder or injustice. Others guard graves, repeat the moment of their death or linger because the living have never allow...

Step into the London of Sherlock Holmes.The streets of Victorian London were the perfect hunting ground for the world's greatest detective. Behind respectable front doors lay dark secrets. Fog drifted through gas-lit streets. Hansom cabs rattled across the cobbles while criminals, policemen, politicians and ordinary Londoners crossed paths in the busiest city on Earth.This book explores the real London that inspired the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.From Ba...

Dave arrives in the middle of the night.No collar. No owner. No chip. No explanation.Jack takes him in because that is what you do with a dog who appears on your doorstep looking as though he has always belonged there. Jack is not looking for company. He has only just moved to the isolated village of Thistledene Parva to be alone, to be quiet, and to recover from something he does not yet have the words for.Dave has other ideas.Slowly, and ...

The story of the trial of visionary philosopher Giordano Bruno. "A nice overview of the conflict between religion and philosophy in the Renaissance." — Publishers WeeklyGiordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprison...