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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson is a 1997 memoir by American author Mitch Albom. The book is about a series of visits Albom made to his former Brandeis University sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz , as Schwartz was dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) .
Morris S. Schwartz (December 20, 1916 – November 4, 1995) [1] was an American professor of sociology at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, a former student of Schwartz.
Have a Little Faith is a 2009 non-fiction book by Mitch Albom, author of previous works that include Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven.It is based on two separate sets of conversations that took place between the author and members of the clergy: a rabbi in a relatively affluent section of New Jersey, and a Protestant minister in a very poor section of Detroit, Michigan.
Book event. David Von Drehle will speak about “The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man” at 7 p.m. May 23 at Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th ...
In the 1980s he established Schwartz Publishing, mainly publishing American self-help books. Its all-time bestseller was Life's Little Instruction Book, with 300,000 copies sold. [1] In the 1990s Schwartz Publishing set up the Black Inc imprint, publishing since 2001 the Quarterly Essay and, since 2005, The Monthly. [1]
That Their Words May Be Used Against Them, Master Books, Green Forest, 1997. (ISBN 0-89051-228-0) The Remarkable Record of Job, Master Books, Green Forest, 2000. (ISBN 0890512922) The Remarkable Wisdom of Solomon: Ancient Insights from the Song of Solomon, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Master Books, Green forest, 2001.
Wisdom of Children" (Russian: "Девчонки умнее стариков", also translated as Little Girls Wiser than Men) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885. It takes the form of a parable about forgiveness.
The Lost Words is a book of "spells" by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Morris. The book has clues to words like acorn, blackberry and conker.The book was said [by whom?] to be inspired by 21st-century editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary in which some words like kingfisher associated with nature were omitted in order to include technical terms like attachment, broadband and chatroom.