Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience. Fans of C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Karr, Diana Butler Bass, Rob Bell, and James Martin will appreciate Spufford's crisp, lively, and abashedly defiant thesis. Unapologetic is a book for believers who are fed up with being patronized, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made.

Kim Johnson is a young, wounded cynic whose only experience with love comes from watching it in the movies. Enter Darrel Jackson, a confident man, with smooth looks and sweet talk, who literally knocks her off her feet. Their intense attraction leads to a one-night stand, and a yearning for something more. Wanting to protect her heart, Kim does her best to resist falling for Darrel.Convinced he's found the one, Darrel remains persistent. As soon as fate draws them together, problems occur, and dark, shocking secrets come to light. Sparks fly, tears fall, fists hurl, and even death enters this love story of two people struggling to hold on to each other through it all. Will Darrel and Kim make it...Despite Everythin

Collected here are selections from the first twenty years of Cometbus, including the ultra-rare and embarrassing early issues, plus new intros, notes and a scrapbook. The ultimate zine in a world of millions. It's irregular, it's handmade, it's personal, it's portable, it's inspiring, it's challenging, it's unique, it's put out by a really cute boy (that's sorta important)' - Ben is Dead 'Cometbus is considered a classic in the subterranean world' - Time 'Could well be the best loved zine ever' - Bay Guardian'

"Father Tillard's conversation in I Believe, Despite Everything, with all of his warmth, is that of the great subjects of theology, especially the Church, ecumenism, as well as some major pastoral preoccupations. He was well read and erudite as well as a passionate person. His competence allows in a free conversation for the discovery of what is essentially a profession of faith and hope. Thus, the witness of this exceptional theologian is also a marvelous lesson in theology. It is an open theology because the stakes are high: the human person, the Church, conversion, culture. It is a calm theology because it is deeply lived in faith, contemplative, grappling with God, the God whom theology does not tire to invoke - especially in the worst times - a God in whom theology does not cease to trust."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today—as the world faces a coronavirus pandemic, social isolation, and great economic uncertainty—as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time,” and he unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis contains opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors of the camps, Frankl learned from the strength of his fellow inmates that it is always possible to “say yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embraced their paradoxes, and his language games and wordplay resonate today as so many injunctions to replace rampant individualism with a heightened social consciousness. Widely recognized as the leading authority on Lacan, Élisabeth Roudinesco revisits his life and work: what it was – and what it remains.

Describes how the author, who vowed her children would never suffer the pain she endured during her parents' divorce, was confronted by the realities of her own failed marriage, which compelled her to reevaluate her views about family.

Nonya Charlie has found love, or so she thinks. Rebel that she is, Charlie Neo has chosen love over her family when she decides to leave Singapore and move to Penang to be with her ex-spy boyfriend. Charlie struggles to build a new life, working various jobs, including the role as assistant for a TV news anchor, and reuniting with a grandaunt who is her own brand of hot-blooded bibik. She becomes embroiled in a kidnapping of two genius hackers and gets into trouble involving money laundering, sending her running back to her Peranakan roots.

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman’s relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman’s eloquent reflections constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival photographs in an image-saturated world.

"Succeeding in spite of everything is the go-to book for anyone with a dream that will not die, and the passion to achieve it! These rich insights, lessons learned and savvy moves shared here will inspire you and shake up old paradigms of success. Life is full of ups and downs. The entrepreneurs in this book openly share the challenges they have faced and how they used them as springboards to success. Without a doubt, their stories will help you create a happy, successful life, no matter what you are up against. Succeeding in spire of everything celebrates the brilliance and fortitude of a dynamic and diverse group of entrepreneurs including best selling authors Lisa Nicols, Marcia Wieder, Lisa Sasevich and 35 more inspiring authors"--Back cover.