Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, disgrace
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-08-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143115286
ISBN-13: 9780143115281

Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africa-a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin Books
Keywords: disgrace
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140296409
ISBN-13: 9780140296402

Disgrace--set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love.At fifty--two Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire but lacking passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless and friendless, except for his daughter, Lucy, who works her smallholding with her neighbor, Petrus, an African farmer now on the way to a modest prosperity. David’s attempts to relate to Lucy,

Author: Jonathan Aitken
Publisher: Crossway Books
Keywords: grace, amazing, disgrace, newton, john
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-06-07
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1581348487
ISBN-13: 9781581348484

Most Christians know John Newton as a man who once captained a slave ship, was dramatically converted to Christ on the high seas, and later penned one of the greatest hymns of the faith, Amazing Grace. But he also had a huge impact on his times as an icon of the evangelical movement, as a great preacher and theologian, and as a seminal influence on abolitionist William Wilberforce. Newton’s friendship with Wilberforce is portrayed in the major motion picture Amazing Grace.Jonathan Aitken’s new biography John Newton explores all these facets of Newton s life and character. It is the

Author: Edward S. Cooper
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: disgrace, american, belknap, worth, william
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 2003-06
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0838639909
ISBN-13: 9780838639900

This is the biography of a man willingly corrupted by the demands of Washington society and of two wives who demanded social prominence. By virtue of his excellent Civil War record, Belknap became President Grant’s Secretary of War. The excesses of the Gilded Age were in full flower. Railroad barons, gold speculators, arms dealers, land speculators, and purveyors of goods for the army flocked to Washington seeking contracts and favors. Cabinet members vied with each other to provide the most lavish entertainments on their meager salaries. Some Cabinet Officers were rich, Belknap was poor

Author: Joseph H. Miller M.D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: profession, disgrace, legal, medical, insult, disability, shame, america, faked
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-07-20
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1434304035
ISBN-13: 9781434304032

Faked Disability, A Shame of America! A textbook to recognize the problem. A Warning to America! "You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift; you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; you cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer; you cannot help the poor by destroying the rich; you cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence; and you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln Society becomes strained and inefficient when there

Author: Joseph H. Miller M.D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: profession, disgrace, legal, medical, insult, disability, shame, america, faked
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-07-20
List price: $22.49
ISBN-10: 1434304043
ISBN-13: 9781434304049

Faked Disability, A Shame of America! A textbook to recognize the problem. A Warning to America! "You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift; you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; you cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer; you cannot help the poor by destroying the rich; you cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence; and you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln Society becomes strained and inefficient when there