Catholic education is a highly successful and effective ministry of the Church. Catholic schools als... more

writer John McPhee. Unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered...... more

Members of Eileen s tight-knit circle of friends have made a suicide pact. When her best friend s bo... more

John McPhee’s twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending...... more

Allows users to tap on a topic or organ system to choose either Dx for diagnosis-related tables, or ... more

thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean. John McPhee is a shad...... more

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee s...... more

Kyle never expected to see Calgary’s hard side--its seedy neighborhoods marked with trash-filled lot... more

Coins, for reasons that do not always make sense, are often treated by field excavators as more reli... more

inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history....... more

John McPhee’s The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like...... more

In this collection John McPhee once agains proves himself as a master observer of all arenas of life as well a powerful...... more

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including...... more

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including...... more

lucid biography, Peter McPhee reveals the many contradictions in this complex and brilliant man....... more

McPhee investigates Dodge s clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the...... more

companion of the American observer John McPhee during various exercices of a "refresher" course among the high Alps of the Canto...... more

with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours...... more

the title piece in this collection of John McPhee’s classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de...... more

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge...... more

sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring...... more

- huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the...... more

which all American merchant mariners have been suffering. With John McPhee along, Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard...... more

The Control of Nature is John McPhee s bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature...... more

Rising from the Plains is John McPhee s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect...... more

"). In "North of the C.P. Line" the author introduces his friend John McPhee, a bush-pilot fish-and-game warden in northern...... more

provided, McPhee s masterful approach to a trend significant to all of us is replete with affecting, and often amusing, stories...... more

First published in book form 1985, Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between...... more

companion of the American observer John McPhee during various exercices of a "refresher" course among the high Alps of the Canto...... more