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"The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read." - Jacques Ellul
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was born in Bordeaux, France, and educated at the universities of Bordeaux and Paris. A leader in the French resistance during World War II he was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem (Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust) for his efforts to save Jews. Remembered as a philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian and self-identified "Christian anarchist", the dominant theme of his more than fifty book and over one thousand articles is the threat to human freedom and Christian faith created by modern technology.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing(May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth...
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