This titles tells of the fascinating story of actor Dirk Benedict's journey from the big sky country of Montana to the hustle and hype of Hollywood. It also vividly describes his personal odyssey of self-exploration, discovery, and growth from struggling actor to celebrity, from meat eater to vegeta[...]

This book shows us how humility brings a basic happiness that is able to cope with difficulties and sorrows. Casey translates the ancient wisdom of Saint Benedict into the modern arena of capitalistic competition. He also demonstrates how people must stop regarding others as rivals and be content wi[...]

A delightful gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and finding your wayMoonstone for empathy. Azurite for memories. Lapis lazuli for truth...Benedict Stone has settled into a complacent and predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is i[...]

As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought-and far beyond the academy. Their work helped to popularize anthropology while introducing such terms as culture and racism into common parlance. At [...]

"New York Times" Bestseller The momentous third and final volume in the Pope's international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus' infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago.
In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first b[...]

"The Lonely Soldier"--the inspiration for the documentary "The Invisible War"--vividly tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006--and of the challenges they faced while fighting a war painfully alone. More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war sin[...]

In this book, distinguished professor and author Bernard Viviano, OP, presents a valuable survey of scholarly research on Q, from the German Logien-Quelle, "the sayings source."[...]

In the tradition of "The Power of Habit "and" Thinking, Fast and Slow" comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today--and how we can apply it to our own lives.
From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, dis[...]

Bestseller For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of ordinary, b[...]