Ambition: The Secret Passion

Who among us is not interested in success? Yet ambition, the chief means to success, is in bad repute these days, especially in America, and above all among educated Americans. Such is the reluctance even to approach the subject with candor, Joseph Epstein suggest, that many people live "with confusion and contradictions running up the center of their lives, in a state of perturbation, distract…

Fascinating Womanhood

Fascinating Womanhood shows simply but clearly the way to married happiness - how a woman can win and maintain a man’s complete love and devotion, and obtain from marriage the things every woman needs, while placing her husband’s happiness as a primary goal. Starting from the concept of the ideal woman as seen through a man’s eyes the book shows in specific terms how this goal may readily…

A Christian Philosophy of Education

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The Premarital Counseling Handbook

In any endeavor, dreams and goals not backed by concrete plans and preparations can result in failure. And marriage is no exception, claims H. Norman Wright. In fact, without solid planning and forethought by engaged couples, we will surely see a continuation of the startling divorce rate among Christians and non-Christians alike. On the other hand, thorough premarital counseling and preparatio…

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

From time to time a book appears which analyzes a great historical movement or event with an insight so sure and comprehensive that it becomes a classic. A classic is, of course, among other things, a work which retains some of its initial freshness upon being reread and which continues to have an illuminating relevance to the themes it treats. Eric Hoffer's The True Believer is a classic study…

The Lonely Crowd

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The Disadvantaged Learner

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Education At The Crossroads

Jacques Maritain, one of the most eminent Catholic philosophers of our time, explores in this book the American system of education. Dissenting from the view that has been widely held in various disguised forms that education is in some way like animal training. Maritain believes that it must be based on the Christian idea of man as being "more a whole than a part, and more independent than se…

Rosa Parks: My Story

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and sparked the montgomery, alamaba, bus boycott. A year later when the boycott was over, there was a federal injuction againts segregation on buses; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a national figure; the civil rights movement was a national cause; and Rosa Parks was out of a job. Yet there is much m…

Erasmus Ahandbook On Good Manners For Children

A HANDBOOK ON GOOD MANNERS FOR CHILDREN is considered to be the first treatise in Western Europe on the moral and practical education of children. It was written by Erasmus of Rotterdam who determined that manners are best instilled at an early age. It was a massive bestseller - indeed the biggest-selling book of the 16th century - going into nineteen editions and being translated into eight la…