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Portraits of Power is not just an autobiography of a man who for several decades has played an active role in India’s march towards becoming a formidable economy; it is indeed, on multiple levels, a book that profiles myriad institutions that work in harmony to make things happen. And in everything that N. K. Singh has done, so in this book, too, there is both incisive clarity and insightful anecdotal heft.

Discover the true essence of Japan through authentic portraits of life where cultural immersion meets heartfelt storytelling to explore the complexity of Japanese society.

An unforgettable tale of a woman at her most vulnerable by Agatha Christie, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie, famous for her ingenious crime novels, also wrote about crimes of the heart. Written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Christie’s tales of romantic...

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Avid antiques collector Pierre-Francois Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an 18th-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life.

Poet Paul Michael Cosgrove and his cohost Paige Riley (the infamous APR) introduce the A Portrait of Modern Love and Life Companion Podcast. An intimate deep dive into the stories behind, influences on and background of Paul Michael Cosgrove's poetry collection

From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures comes an extraordinary story of love, family and the joy of freedom. 'Clare Chambers is a genius' INDIA KNIGHT 'Just as good - if not better - than Small Pleasures' INDEPENDENT 'As compelling as you want fiction to be' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of...

Carol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the request of Henri Nouwen's literary estate, she has written this book, which includes unpublished material recorded from Nouwen's lectures. As an art educator, Berry is uniquely situated to develop Nouwen's work on Vincent van Gogh and to add her own research. She fills in background on the much misunderstood spiritual context of van Gogh's work, and reinterprets van Gogh's art in light of Nouwen's lectures.

In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.

Isabel Archer is a young American orphan who receives an inheritance from an uncle. Taken under her aunt's wings, she meets Madame Merle, her aunt's worldly friend, who instills in Isabel a sense of European sophistication, a trait that comes to overpower her own common sense. Isabel marries widower Gilbert Osmond, who projects refined tastes and intellectual detachment. Isabel is utterly captivated by Osmond's languid charm, and he is thrilled to have his superior prize.

Only one man is recognized by three world religions as liberator, lawgiver, prophet, and pastor. That man is Moses, and his story leaves a profound imprint on Western civilization. In this audio program, you will address the various struggles and triumphs throughout the life of Moses and come to better understand his legacy for the future generations of God's chosen people, the Israelites, as well as us as Christians today.

Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the air electric with the heady anticipation of a coming storm: the year's Royal Salon. Men and women of every estate are united under art: to love it, to despise it, to gossip endlessly about it. Exhibiting at the Royal Salon was not for the faint of heart, and it was never intended for women. Enter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard . . . Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper's daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court—only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler. In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their...

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave...

We often use the word faith without thinking much about its meaning. We know that without faith, it is impossible to please God and that faith is the core and foundation of daily Christian living. But what is faith? Author Joel R. Beeke believes we can best understand faith by seeing how it operates by the Spirit in the lives of fallen sinners like us.

Comment pouvons-nous découvrir la vérité cachée dans le Tabernacle ? Ce n’est qu’en connaissant l’évangile de l’eau et de l’Esprit, qui est la véritable substance du Tabernacle, que nous pouvons comprendre correctement et connaître la réponse à cette question. En réalité, le fil bleu, pourpre et écarlate ainsi que le fin lin retors manifestés à la porte du parvis du Tabernacle nous montrent les œuvres de Jésus-Christ à l’époque du Nouveau Testament, œuvres qui ont sauvé l’humanité. De cette manière, la Parole de l’Ancien Testament concernant le Tabernacle ...

Comme Dieu commande à Moïse de bâtir le Tabernacle dans l’Ancien Testament, dans le Nouveau Testament, Dieu veut que nous bâtissions aussi un Sanctuaire dans nos cœurs pour qu’Il demeure en nous. Le matériel de la foi avec lequel nous pouvons bâtir ce Sanctuaire dans notre cœur est la Parole de l’évangile de l’eau et de l’Esprit. Par cet évangile de l’eau et de l’Esprit, nous devons effacer tous nos péchés et être purifiés. En nous disant de Lui bâtir un Sanctuaire, Dieu nous dit de vider nos cœurs et croire en l’évangile de l’eau et de l’Esprit. Nous ...