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Robert Hughes
What do you do when your usually happy son with low-functioning autism is deemed difficult and unruly? From the author of Running with Walker, this gripping memoir reveals the highs…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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Gives us an account of the author’s early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, the author…
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This is a handbook designed for people involved in community development. It provides thoughts on working with communities and individuals in those communities. It aims to reinforce or challenge present…
Walker’s father, Robert Hughes, tells a touching and inspiring story of discovering that their ‘perfect little boy had a problem’. With disarming honesty and humour, the book tells how a…
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Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.
In "In Defense of Our Planet: The Evolution of Climate Activism," Robert Hughes takes us on an immersive journey through the compelling history of climate activism. From the earliest scientific…
Language technology is the study of the manner in which electronic devices or computer programs can analyze, create, alter or react to human speech and text. It is an interdisciplinary…
The opening lengthy chapter is a brutal and brilliant description of the terrible WA car accident several years ago that nearly took Hughes’ life and left him physically and mentally…
The most controversial art critic in America–author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New–looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists…
A modern homage to a proud, cosmopolitan city, where geniuses like Picasso and Miro learned how to break the rules. Robert Hughes takes us down the Ramblas through the intestinal…
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A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement…
This nationwide bestselling account of the founding of Australia is a brilliant and enduring achievement … history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful assessment…
The art critic Robert Hughes presents his view of the decline of 20th century American culture.
Hughes opens this authoritative, searingly smart history with his own arrival in Rome in 1958, as a wide-eyed 20-year-old from Australia. Readers see him blissfully plunging into the life of…
From the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore comes a monumentally informed and irresistibly readable work of history, art criticism, and urban anthropology devoted to the most un-Spanish city in…
The book has been compiled from articles by 26 colleagues, former students and friends of Bob Pritchard, and of his surviving daughter, each from his/her personal viewpoint. They include 17…
Roberts Hugh Roberts
This ESV Bible includes study notes, articles, and daily devotionals written especially for men by more than 100 of the world's leading Bible scholars and teachers, helping readers understand God's…
Anthony Borgia
A series of spirit scripts from Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, who saw in the Spirit World the dreadful impact of his Church’s teachings on death, judgement and Hell. He discusses…
This expanded edition of the ESV Systematic Theology Study Bible features study notes from the ESV Student Study Bible, over 400 in-text summaries, 25 articles, book introductions, sidebars, and more.
A reprint of another classic spiritualist book from Anthony Borgia. The third collection of spirit communications from Mons. Benson giving us more insights on spirit-world life, beauty, service, religious unity…
An amazing report from the Spirit World by Mons. R. H. Benson, on the inaccuracy of the Church’s statements in their ‘creeds’ and of the ‘miracles’. Here he condemns the…
Robert Hugh Benson
A Mystery Play: In Honor Of The Nativity Of Our Lord is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson in 1908. The book is a play that revolves around the…
By What Authority? is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1904. It is a theological work that explores the question of authority in the Christian church…
""By What Authority?"" is a religious and philosophical book written by Robert Hugh Benson in 1904. The book explores the question of authority in the Catholic Church and the role…
Christ In The Church: A Volume Of Religious Essays is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1911. The book is a collection of essays that explore…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
The Friendship of Christ is a spiritual book written by Robert Hugh Benson and first published in 1912. The book is centered on the idea of developing a personal relationship…
Paradoxes of Catholicism is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1913. The book explores the paradoxical nature of Catholicism, examining various aspects of the religion that…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
A MIRROR OF SHALOTT is Robert Hugh Benson’s collection of supernatural norror stories, originally published in various periodicals and later collected in book form. In this volume Benson contrives to…
Once he slipped to a sitting position, drew back the little curtain over the porthole, and stared out. There was little to be seen; but by the sight of a…
Lord Of The World. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic…
