Subject: Biography
The work of Benedictine priest, theologian, and world-renowned physicist Stanley Jaki is given its first systematic study here inCreation and Scientific Creativity. Haffner also provides a full bibliography of over three decades of Jaki’s scholarship, along with a comprehensive overview of Jaki’s life and career.
[ Read more ]Mustard Seeds is the journal of a remarkable spiritual odyssey, the origin and destination points of which are identified in the volume’s subtitle. By the mid-1960s, Brent Bozell had contributed as much any individual to the conservative movement’s capture of the Republican Party. But long before that movement’s apogee in [...]
[ Read more ]English historian and Christian humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the twentieth-century Catholic Right. Poet and social critic T. S. Eliot considered him the foremost thinker of his [...]
[ Read more ]The tragic conflict between men of faith and men of science has its origins in a false notion of history: a notion that the Middle Ages stultified scientific exploration and scholarship. French scientist Pierre Duhem dedicated his life to examining this problem. For years, however, his works were inaccessible to [...]
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Publication Date: July 2010
This sixth and most important volume of Sir Martin Gilbert’s authorized biography of Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour probes beneath the surface of each of the crucial decisions in which Churchill was involved from the outbreak of war in September 1939 to the Japanese attack on [...]
The fifth volume of the official biography of Winston S. Churchill opens with Churchill’s return to Conservatism and to the Cabinet in 1924, and, as the story unfolds, presents a vivid and intimate picture both of his public life and of his private world and Chartwell between wars.
As Chancellor of [...]
Winston S. Churchill: World In Torment, 1916-1922 is the fourth volume of the definitive biography of Winston S. Churchill. Covering the years 1917 to 1922, Martin Gilbert’s fascinating account carefully traces Churchill’s wide-ranging activities and shows how, by his persuasive oratory, administrative skill, and masterful contributions to Cabinet discussions, Churchill regained, [...]
[ Read more ]Volume II of the magisterial eight-volume biography of Winston S. Churchill takes Churchill’s story from his entry to Parliament in 1901 to the outbreak of war in 1914. When he took his seat in the House of Commons he was twenty-six years old. An independent spirit and rebel, on his maiden [...]
[ Read more ]In the definitive biography of Sir Winston Churchill, of which this is the first of eight volumes, Randolph Churchill – and later Sir Martin Gilbert, who took up the work following Randolph’s death in 1968 – had the full use of Sir Winston’s letters and papers, and also carried out [...]
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