Hailed by James Joyce as the greatest prose stylist of the Victorian age, John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker of the past two hundred years. Fifty years ago a pr
In a sometimes troubling memoir, the best-selling author of Hitler's Pope describes his own teenage sojourn at Cotton College, a Catholic seminary for boys in the remote West Midlands countryside, des
The book recounts the story of an elite Yorkshire day school - and its 'Old Boys' who joined the forces - in the First World War. The school was founded by Sheffield City Council in 1905, who finessed
In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich.
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Discusses the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII. This book shows how in 1933 Hitler became his negotiating partner, an agreement was arr
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the wor
Covering the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compellin
John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age.A problemat
In 1905, Pope Pius X issued a groundbreaking decree, requiring children to begin confessing at seven rather than fourteen and urging Catholics to confess weekly or monthly instead of annually. This ra
The ?explosive? (The New York Times) bestseller?now with a new introduction by the authorWhen Hitler ?s Pope , the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that ?redefined the history of the twentieth century?
An investigation into the sudden death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978 probes rumors of conspiracy and murder surrounding the death and reveals intense rivalries within the Vatican, financia
Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself. A small industry has
With scholars and corporate executives in mind, Amis (health and sport sciences and management, U. of Memphis) and Cornwell (UQ Business School, U. of Queensland, Australia) bring together 16 essays t
In Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice author David J. Cornwell draws on bedrock issues in contemporary criminology and penology in order to contrast punitive and restorative responses to crim
