Collects significant letters from the Trappist monk, civil rights activist, and writer, offering insight into his spirituality and his quest combine to Eastern philosophy with Western spirituality.

A Welsh poet recalls the celebration of Christmas in Wales and the feelings it evoked in him as a child. This nostalgic recollection of Christmas past by celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas evokes the beauty of the season at every turn. Cover comes with gold foil, glossy front picture; and sparkling snowflakes. Inside comes with blue endpapers sprinkled with more snowflakes.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson put aside their differences in the name of friendship.

"At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest's most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. [This work] presents the intriguing story of how this most unlikely site in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the most classified portions of the Manhattan Project. Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse was transformed into a polonium...

"Blue-blooded Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and acerbic sidekick Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers tackle high-class crimes and seedy underworlds with their signature blend of humor and intellect. Together they take on a series of often brutal, often bewildering cases that send them across all strata of British society. Darkness meets the pair at every turn, but Lynley and Havers are up to the task as they use their unique perspectives to solve...

James gets too rough with the coaches, Thomas gets a chance to go fishing and finds it's not what he imagined, and Thomas & Bertie stage a race around the island.

Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious. In a remarkable...