Venerable Philippine Duchesne, a remarkable figure in the history of education and missionary work, dedicated her life to serving others. Born in France, she became a nun and later traveled to the United States, where she established schools and convents. Her commitment to education, particularly for Native American children, showcased her deep compassion and understanding of the importance of nurturing young minds. Duchesne's legacy continues to inspire educators and missionaries alike, a...

The Marvelous Macki Brown has superpowers. But she is also super creative. She loves bright colors, music, and learning big words.Macki wants you to know that if you are fortunate enough to have special powers, make sure you use them to do something good for others.Join Macki as she navigates the life of a superhero!

Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

Elizabeth Anscombe’s forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005.

Portraits of Piety: The Lives, Legacies and Writings of Saints gathers forty books into a capacious archive of Christian sanctity, tracing devotion through biography, theology, meditation, apologetic, historical study, and literary portraiture. Patristic argument, medieval mysticism, Reformation controversy, hagiographic narrative, and modern reflection coexist here, revealing sainthood as both an inherited ideal and a contested cultural language. Particularly compelling is the volume's mo...

Voices of Sanctity: A 40-Volume Collection gathers an exceptionally broad Christian archive in which theology, hagiography, spiritual autobiography, devotional meditation, historical inquiry, apologetic polemic, and literary reimagining meet. Ranging from patristic defenses of doctrine and medieval contemplative classics to Reformation controversy and modern reflections on belief, the collection traces sanctity as an intellectual, ecclesial, and imaginative ideal. Its standout materials in...

In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the collection provides further testimony to Anscombe's insight and intellectual imagination.

Join the epic adventures of a resourceful girl and her courageous little brother as they struggle, by wit and grit, to overcome the perils and extreme disadvantages of their lives.In this multi-part saga, G.E.M. Munro explores the realities of childhood in a violent world, with all the insight, compassion, and humour his readers have come to expect.The social ills afflicting the duo are all real. So is the love and goodness that pulls them forward. To join them on their ast...

The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities deals with a small number of topics which, in one way or another, have long attracted the attention of students of early Christianity. Above all, it is an attempt to investigate the social origins and the social positions of the early Christians. Recent studies are arriving at the conclusion, contrary to long-held views, that the primitive Christian communities, those which emerge after the first chapters of Acts, did not con...

This collection starts off in a natural world discovering that we may not be alone in the universe. Imagine your world before you became a being on this planet. "Shipwrecked" is a science fiction tale of and undersea journey of discovery.As you continue to read, you'll find yourself immersed in a war of love, pain, and much more. A couple on the brink of a crossroad must make a decision. "Love is War" asks the question, what do you do when love is an all out war?Speaking of...

Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent from mid-level French baron to semi-independent count before his violent death before the walls of Toulouse in 1218. Through the vehicle of the crusade, Simon cultivated autonomous power in the liminal space between competing royal lordships in southern France in order to build his own principality. This first Engl...