"A poignant, funny book about the life of a modern-day dad." —Los Angeles TimesFatherhood caught David McGlynn by surprise. His sons arrived in quick succession—the first when the author was a dirt-po
There has been a huge growth in artisan cheese making in recent years, following hot on the heels of smoking, preserving and brewing, all traditional techniques that are drawing a new audience from pe
The Albigensian crusade (1209–29) by the Catholic Church against the Cathar heretics of southern France is commonly ascribed to religious fanaticism. This book is the first to offer a dedicated
Based on popular pieces that have appeared in The New York Times, Parents, Men's Health, Real Simple and O: the Oprah Magazine, McGlynn captures the joys, terrors, moral ambiguities, and absurdities o
Karyna MyGlynn takes readers on tour through the half-haunted house of the contemporary American psyche with wit, whimsy, and candid confession. Disappointing lovers surface in the bedroom; in the bat
A detailed history of some of history’s greatest military leaders.William the Conqueror, Frederick Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart, John Hawkwood, Tamerlane, Henry Vwhat did these world-famous medie
Details an invasion that could have changed Britain as we know it, prompted by events at Runnymede where the barons brought an errant king to heel and in doing so provided an opportunity for conquestT
According to a tradition reaching back to Plato, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by offering an analysis in terms of truth, belief, justification, and other factors presumed
According to a long tradition, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by analyzing it as a species of true belief. In light of the apparent failure of this approach, knowledge firs
The author discusses his turn to radical, evangelical Christianity after a friend's unsolved murder sends him searching for meaning behind the senseless loss and describes his deep involvement in the
This award-winning short story collection describes the lives of people whose religious fervor guides their every decision, including a born-again father who fights to save his run-down home from a fi
The first book on the important but overlooked French invasion of England in 1216, which was almost a second Norman Conquest History came within a hair's breadth of repeating itself, 150 years after t
