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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310212539Author Doug FieldsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 535g

Every church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But Rick Warren believers that in order for a church to be healthy if must become a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307450340Author Garth SundemFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204g

This valuable book surveys the best birding sites in Britain, covering almost four hundred sites in seven geographic regions, from southwest England to Scotland. The book is a rewritten, considerably expanded, and new edition of the authors’ highly...

These poems explore the Rwandan holocaust through the culture, myths and customs that Derick Burleson absorbed whilst living there.Book InformationISBN 9780299170240Author Derick BurlesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University of Wisconsin...

This text celebrates the renaissance of botanical art, presenting work collected during the early 1990s from over 100 painters living in 16 different countries around the world. Each painting is fully augmented with anecdotal information about the artist...

A book of dates.Book InformationISBN 9780285634664Author William R. HartstonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

The SPCK Lectionary provides a completely redesigned and clearly laid-out presentation of the Common Worship calendar and lectionary, with BCP readings on the same page. Sundays and major festivals are covered, as well as weekdayBook InformationISBN...

This beautifully narrated collection of real-life stories shows us glimpses of his glory where we would least expect it: in the seemingly commonplace events of an ordinary Cambridge housing estate; on the freezing altiplano of Bolivia; in the blistering...

Bringing together the authors's experience of working in Europe, the United States, and Australia, this book includes the latest rites for welcoming adults into church membership, together with a detailed account of the Adult Catechumenate and the way in...

Adopting a non-dogmatic, experimental approach, Monica Furlong wrestles with some traditional symbols of the Christian faith and asks how they can still be relevant in a culture in which the Church seems increasingly marginalized. She rediscovers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909217201Author Morgan CharlieFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Demand Media LimitedPublisher Demand Media Limited

Sheila Cassidy’s honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK’s best-loved and most popular writers on pastoral care and personal growth. She is widely known for her work in the hospice movement, and as a young doctor who...

One of our best-loved spiritual writers offers a fragment of the living Word for every day of the year. Daily Readings with Margaret Silf offers a fragment of the living Word for every day of the year, together with a short reflection that will help you...

The Rough Guide to Southwest USA is the ultimate travel guide to the fabled American West. Explore ancient Native American cliff dwellings and pueblos in Canyon de Chelly and Mesa Verde, delve into the region's Hispanic past in the adobe-lined streets of...

Make the most of your time on Earth™ with The Rough Guide to Naples & the Amalfi Coast. The Rough Guide to Naples & the Amalfi Coast is the third edition of this best-selling guide. Full colour throughout, the book covers both the city of Naples and the...

These beautiful and moving reflections on the Transfiguration narratives reveal one of the most enigmatic episodes in the gospels as a rich and subtle guide to the life of faith.Book InformationISBN 9780232526929Author Kenneth StevensonFormat...

Concern for the environment has developed and intensified over the last few decades to the point where it now dominates much of our contemporary political landscape and culture. The rise of religious environmentalism in particular adds its own...

The author, a Dutch Roman Catholic priest, l eft a highly acclaimed academic career to work with people w ith mental disabilities in Canada. This is his diary that re flects his thoughts and daily life during the last year befo re he died. 'Book...

James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions. At once personal and political,...

This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially compiled by the late broadcaster and raconteur Ned Sherrin, with a foreword by leading British satirist, Alistair...

Ranging from such classics as bridge, poker, whist, and rummy to the more unfamiliar cucumber, pishti, go fish, and spinado, this book provides clear advice on the rules and playing strategies of virtually any card game popular in the Western world...

This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially chosen by Ned Sherrin. Now with even more quotes on more subjects: from Gambling to Hollywood, from Diets to Shopping...

Dazzlingly entertaining, this new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations contains over 5,000 quotations hand-picked by the writer and broadcaster Ned Sherrin. Containing a wide coverage of themes, including forty brand new ones such as...

This re-named edition of "A Dictionary of Euphemisms" is full of old favourites, such as "early bath" or "push up the daisies", as well as euphemisms from modern times, like "human sacrifice" and "coffee-housing". Definitions include examples from real...

Oxford Word Challenge is an enjoyable and stimulative mixture of entertainment and educative material, consisting of quizzes and puzzles for the reader to solve. The author, Tony Augarde, has created a wide variety of different word challenges for...

Ah, the past. A time when children could play in the snow without a helmet, crampons and a risk assessment report. When footballs were made from rhino hide and cricket was played with one pad, if you were lucky. "When I Were a Lad"...looks at the...

Presenting one of the most humorous stories of "The Canterbury Tales" in an accessible format, this text includes "The Miller's Prologue", "The Reeve's Prologue" and "Portrait of the Miller". It includes supportive notes which provide details on the...

In this book, Charles Bellinger draws on the thought of Soren Kierkegaard and Rene Girard in search of a Christian understanding of the roots of violence. Utilizing Kierkegaard's idea of sin as the evasion of the call to become oneself before God, he...

Eight Christmas Carols Set 1 is suitable for SATB and piano.Book InformationISBN 9780193533714Author John RutterPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 47g

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This major work by one of Britain's leading choral composers was commissioned by St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures often unusually...

Should there be greater access to Britain's countryside? For 1000 years British people have been battling against the "Trespassers will be Prosecuted" mentality of landowners. Now, however, the law of trespass is under challenge. After mass trespasses...

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory...

From Geoffrey Chaucer to G. K. Chesterton, Augustan satire to advertising jingles, John Updike to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood, comic verse, has in its many forms, kept us amused for centuries. This superb anthology, notable above all for its breadth,...

This collection of Coleridge's finest poetry reveals the diversity and versatility that are characteristic of his work, from early politically-inspired sonnets to an epitaph he composed for himself in the penultimate year of his life. At the centre of...

The author aims to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design, he says, combines both need and desire in...

From the famous to the obscure, this book provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1300 saints. Revised and updated for this new edition, it includes new entries on a number of recently canonized saints and a new...

This dictionary is a new single-volume reference work providing a guide to the art of the Western world up to the present day. It draws on the Oxford Companions to "Art", "Twentieth Century Art" and the "Decorative Arts"and also includes a large number...

Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Music, this is the most authoritative dictionary of music available in paperback. Up-to-date and clearly written, it is a rich mine of information for lovers of music of all periods and styles. The dictionary...

This revised and updated edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet remains the most comprehensive one-volume reference book in the English language devoted to ballet. Over five thousand entries cover every aspect of ballet over the past four...