Shannon Aitken has all the insight on what it’s like to live in Beijing?she’s made the move there herself. In Moon Living Abroad in Beijing, she offers firsthand advice on navigating the language and
A year in the life of fourteen-year-old Jared McCaverty of Terre Haute, Indiana. Jared, comes from a wealthy family, is a bright and attractive young boy, but is overweight, socially awkward, and gay.
He was Nixon’s hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our
Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes c
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rati
Writing a Novel offers both a practical guide for budding writers and a source of alternative approaches for the more experienced novelist. Rosemary Aitken introduces the concept of the reader contrac
Lukacsian Film Theory and Cinema explores Georg Lukacs' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukacs is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the cine
This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British o
(Applause Books). This book isn't a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it's a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright an
