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The Life of St. Catherine of Siena (Paperback): Blessed Raymond of Capua, George The Life of St. Catherine of Siena (Paperback)
Blessed Raymond of Capua, George; Translated by Lamb
R549 R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Save R87 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Her spiritual director tells of St. Catherine's many miracles, conversions, fasting, etc. She never failed to convert sinners who came to her; they could not resist her "heavenly charm." She held familiar conversation with Jesus and Mary, and had them visit her often in her room.

Something Beautiful Happened - A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil (Paperback): Yvette Manessis Corporon Something Beautiful Happened - A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil (Paperback)
Yvette Manessis Corporon
R459 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R74 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this "engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one family's harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history" (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy), a woman sets out to track down the descendants of the Jewish family her grandmother helped hide seventy years earlier. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family--a tailor named Savvas and his daughters--from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn't get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man's descendants--and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn't always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin's child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, remainders of their hateful legacy still linger today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautiful interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt "story of compassion and collective resistance" with "undeniable emotional power" (Kirkus Reviews).

Behind the Laughter - A Comedian's Tale of Tragedy and Hope (Paperback): Anthony Griffith, Brigitte Travis-Griffin Behind the Laughter - A Comedian's Tale of Tragedy and Hope (Paperback)
Anthony Griffith, Brigitte Travis-Griffin; As told to Mark Caro
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do you keep going when your world is falling apart? Discover the powerful story of stand-up comic Anthony Griffith and how to navigate grief through persistence, faith, humor and love. Now available in trade paper. Just as Anthony's career in stand-up comedy launched him onto the stage of The Tonight Show, he and his wife Brigitte faced an unimaginable personal nightmare: their two-year-old daughter, Brittany Nicole, was dying from cancer. While Anthony performed under bright lights, he struggled not to succumb to the darkness of losing a child. In this stirring memoir, Anthony Griffith and his wife of more than thirty years, Brigitte Travis-Griffin, share the powerful story of living between life's funniest moments and its most heartbreaking tragedies. With humor and deep insights into the human spirit, Behind the Laughter explores Anthony's life and career as well as the bonds between parent and child and husband and wife. The surprising twists along Anthony's path highlights experiencing God's sustaining presence in the darkest moments as well as the sweetest dreams. Behind the Laughter explores: Powerful, relatable emotions and lessons that are universal and inspiring New perspectives on difficult topics that everyone can relate to The power of finding humor in spite of adversity Find true inspiration along with laugh-out-loud humor in this remarkable story of resilience and grace in the face of loss.

Diary of God's General (Paperback): John G. Lake Diary of God's General (Paperback)
John G. Lake
R474 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R95 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Features & Benefits- Notable insights into the life of one of the world's greatest healing evangelists as expressed first-hand from his various writings.- Edge-of-the-seat adventures that would seem unreal were they not acts of God - Short accounts for quick reading in a compact, travel-size book.

Saint Thomas Aquinas - The Story of the the Dumb Ox (Paperback): Windeatt Saint Thomas Aquinas - The Story of the the Dumb Ox (Paperback)
Windeatt; Illustrated by Mary Jean Dorcy
R230 R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Save R41 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Shows how St. Thomas was big, quiet and slow to speak, thus being called the \"Dumb Ox\" by fellow students. Shows for children 10 and up how this \"Dumb Ox\" became the greatest teacher in the history of the Church. Impr. 81 pgs 16 Illus, PB

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Paperback): Joshua... The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Paperback)
Joshua Hammer 1
R307 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R100 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve this crucial part of the world's patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door. Joshua Hammer writes about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. His heroic heist is a reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the beauty of their culture. His story is one of a man who, through extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was changed forever by it.

You Carried Me - A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover): Melissa Ohden You Carried Me - A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover)
Melissa Ohden
R541 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R87 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What happens when an abortion survivor finds her birth mother, who never knew her daughter was alive? Winner, 2018 Christianity Today Book Award, CT Women Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Illumination Book Awards, Biography & Memoir Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment. After a decade-long search Melissa finally locates her birth father and writes to extend forgiveness, only to learn that he has died without answering her burning questions. Melissa becomes a mother herself in the very hospital where she was aborted. This experience transforms her attitude toward women who have had abortions, as does the miscarriage of her only son and the birth of a second daughter with complex health issues. But could anything prepare her for the day she finally meets her birth mother and hears her side of their story? This intensely personal story of love and redemption illumines the powerful bond between mother and child that can overcome all odds.

Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Little Flower of Jesus (Paperback): Catholic Book Publishing Corp Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Little Flower of Jesus (Paperback)
Catholic Book Publishing Corp
R148 R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Save R28 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Teilhard's Struggle - Embracing the Work of Evolution (Paperback): Kathleen Duffy Teilhard's Struggle - Embracing the Work of Evolution (Paperback)
Kathleen Duffy
R498 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R92 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mary Slessor - Everybody's Mother - The Era and Impact of a Victorian Missionary (Paperback): Jeanette Hardage Mary Slessor - Everybody's Mother - The Era and Impact of a Victorian Missionary (Paperback)
Jeanette Hardage
R669 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R43 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the story of Mary Slessor, a petite redhead from the slums of Dundee who became one of the most influencing people in the land known to her compatriots as 'the white man's grave'. Despite her eccentricities, this woman truly understood and connected with the Africans among whom she lived, so much so that the British government appointed her their first woman magistrate anywhere in the world and later awarded her the highest honor then bestowed on a woman commoner. Examining both the era and the influence of this extraordinary woman, the book reveals aspects of her public and private life that has previously been unanswered.

Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis - The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip (Paperback): Trevor M. Dobbs Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis - The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip (Paperback)
Trevor M. Dobbs
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Harry S. Guntrip is best known for his affiliation with two other psychoanalysts in the British Independent tradition of psychoanalysis: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald Winnicott. Trevor Dobbs traces the influences on the development of Guntrip's clinical and theological thinking in the context of the tension between religion and psychoanalysis. The central feature was a series of polarities - theoretical and personal - conflicts with which he wrestled theologically, psychologically, and interpersonally both professionally and in his own personality. A critical evaluation of the outcome of Guntrip's own psychoanalyses with Fairbairn and Winnicott shows the autobiographical nature of his theoretical analysis of schizoid phenomena: a psychological state of self-preoccupation and way of being in the world. TREVOR M. DOBBS, PhD, is Core Faculty in the Marriage and Family Therapy Department at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California, and a Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Tustin and Pasadena, California. "Barth wrote that theological existence is the personal existence of the 'little theologian' which is to participate totally in the problematic aspects of the self in community with others. In his exquisite excursion into the influences on Guntrip's life and practice, Trevor Dobbs probes the self's regressive dependence upon the other as an implicit theological existence for which God is the only reality sufficient to sustain the self in its paradoxical quest for relation and autonomy. Reading this reminded me that to be an authentic conversation that includes God, self and others, theology is autobiographical. This is a book that will stimulate and extend that conversation." - Ray S. Anderson, Fuller Theological Seminary "In the century-long dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion, analysts have largely ignored the degree to which religious orientations and concepts might play a role in the development of psychoanalytic thinking and theorizing. Dobbs' careful study brings this perspective into dramatic focus. The pivotal figure is Harry Guntrip - a complex figure, both Congregational minister and psychoanalyst. Dobbs shows the impact of Guntrip's upbringing and beliefs on his psychoanalytic theories. More interesting was his involvement with two psychoanalyic giants - Ronald Fairbairn and Donald Winnicott. Dobbs' detailed analysis reveals how the interactions among the members of this psychoanalytic troika were powerfully shaped and guided by their religious backgrounds and religious commitments. We learn about the reverberations of Guntrip's Wesleyan Congregationalism, Fairbairn's Calvinistic Presbyterianism, and Winnicott's revivalist Methodism on their respective approaches to psychoanalysis and how Guntrip was influenced by Fairburn and Winnicott. The implications speak to the issues of how religion and religious persuasions play a role in how we as analysts think about analysis. This realization opens a broad new territory for exploration and analytic understanding for those interested in the dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion, a dialogue that really is a two-way conversation. Dobbs' reconstruction is an important and valuable contribution - one that enriches our understanding of psychoanalysis itself and that interested readers would be well-advised to ponder." - W.W. Meissner, SJ, MD, Boston College

Unutterable Love - The Passionate Life and Preaching of F.W. Robertson (Paperback): Christina Beardsley Unutterable Love - The Passionate Life and Preaching of F.W. Robertson (Paperback)
Christina Beardsley
R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This biography is an account of the intellectual development of the early Victorian Romantic preacher Frederick William Robertson, a devotee of Dante, Goethe, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Carlyle, and an admirer of German theology. His receptiveness to the School of Schleiermacher, along with his natural ability of popularizing the doctrines of liberal theology, contributed to the success of Robertson's sermons and posthumously published writings. His work helped to validate the reasonableness of Christian belief and the validity of spiritual experience and feelings for his contemporaries. The elopement of Robertson's mother, the odd circumstances surrounding his own marriage, and his own extra-marital affair are some of the key details uncovered here. In this book Christina Beardsley outlines the leading ideas of the priest's theology and preaching as well as of his extraordinary thinking with regard to gender. Gender is in fact one of the recurring themes in this biography. Robertson's way of perceiving femininity and experiencing his own masculinity reflects the Victorian gender debate and the Romantic preoccupation with the reconciliation of opposites. A captivating reconstruction of puzzling episodes of Robertson's life where the author explores the gendered aspects of his thought and places new emphasis on his Romantic sensibility. This book would appeal to students of Victorian religion and culture; XIX century biographies; the faith/reason, doubt/belief and science/religion debates; German influence on English theology; aesthetics and theology; the history of English liberal theology; gender and culture.

Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage - Stories of Our Most Admired President (Paperback): Joe Wheeler Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage - Stories of Our Most Admired President (Paperback)
Joe Wheeler 1
R494 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R86 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leo the Great (Paperback): Bronwen Neil Leo the Great (Paperback)
Bronwen Neil
R1,341 Discovery Miles 13 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pope Leo I's theological and political influence in his own time (440-461) and beyond far outweighs the amount of attention he has received in recent scholarship. That influence extended well beyond Rome to the Christian East through his contribution to preparations for the Council of Chalcedon and its outcome. For this he was alternately praised and vilified by the opposing parties at the Council. Leo made his views known through letters, and a vast number of homilies. While so many of these survive, Leo and his works have not been the subject of a major English-language socio-historical study in over fifty years. In this brief introduction to the life and works of this important leader of the early church, we gain a more accurate picture of the circumstances and pressures which were brought to bear on his pontificate. A brief introduction surveys the scanty sources which document Leo's early life, and sets his pontificate in its historical context, as the Western Roman Empire went into serious decline, and Rome lost its former status as the western capital. Annotated translations of various excerpts of Leo's letters and homilies are organised around four themes dealing with specific aspects of Leo's activity as bishop of Rome: Leo as spiritual adviser on the life of the faithful Leo as opponent of heresy the bishop of Rome as civic and ecclesiastical administrator Leo and the primacy of Rome. Taking each of these key elements of Leo's pontifical activities into account, we gain a more balanced picture of the context and contribution of his best-known writings on Christology. This volume offers an affordable introduction to the subject for both teachers and students of ancient and medieval Christianity.

Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism (Paperback): Marjon Ames Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism (Paperback)
Marjon Ames
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suffering they endured for their faith. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful together to create a new religious community. This study explores the ways in which early Quaker leaders, particularly Margaret Fell, helped shape a stable organization that allowed for the transition from movement to church to occur. Fell's role was essential to this process because she developed and maintained the epistolary exchange that was the basis of the early religious community. Her efforts allowed for others to travel and spread the faith while she served as nucleus of the community's communication network by determining how and where to share news. Memory of the early years of Quakerism were based on the letters Fell preserved. Marjon Ames analyzes not only how Fell's efforts shaped the inchoate faith, but also how subsequent generations memorialized their founding members.

Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927-1965 (Paperback): Peter Seewald Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927-1965 (Paperback)
Peter Seewald
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By any reckoning, the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI was extraordinary, with moments of high drama. Not the least of these was his resignation from office in February 2013, the first papal resignation in 500 years. But who is Joseph Ratzinger? In this definitive biography, based on meticulous historical research and many hours of taped interviews with his subject, Peter Seewald shows the exceptional circumstances in which the exceptionally talented son of a Bavarian policeman became the first German pope for 950 years. In this first volume, covering the years 1927-1965, we witness Joseph Ratzinger's early days, living above his father's police station. Ratzinger came to adulthood through the years of National Socialism. Though hostile to the rise of Hitler, his family knew well about Dachau and Ratzinger himself was conscripted into the Hitler Youth. Joseph Ratzinger proved to be a man of exceptional intellectual gifts and by the time of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) he was already noted as one of the outstanding intellects present and was nominated a 'peritus' or theological expert. This was also the time of the start of his friendship with the Swiss theologian Hans Kung who was to become his nemesis. Of his predecessor, Pope Francis has said: 'Pope Benedict was a great Pope, great for the penetration of his intelligence, great for his important contribution to theology, great for his love of the Church and human beings, great for his virtues and faith'. Even in this first volume, we begin to understand how this came to be true.

Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two - Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966-The Present (Paperback): Peter Seewald Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two - Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966-The Present (Paperback)
Peter Seewald
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emeritus Pope Benedict commands both adulation and unremitting criticism. To millions, he remains a beacon of light in a turbulent modern world. In this second volume of Peter Seewald's authoritative biography, the story continues from the Second Vatican Council (1965-8) right up to the present day. We see how Benedict was influenced by the Council and the ensuing political unrest all over Europe to move from a liberal perspective on the Church and the modern world to one that was profoundly conservative. Appointed in 1981 as prefect of the Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith, and quickly nicknamed 'God's Rottweiler', he proved to be intransigent on the controversial issues of abortion, contraception, gay rights and gay marriage. But elected Pope in 2005, his tenure of office was so riven with shocking revelations of controversy and scandal that it seemed that by the time of his resignation in 2013 he was incapable of handling the complexities of the Church in the modern world.

Bernadette Speaks (Paperback): Ren e Laurentin Bernadette Speaks (Paperback)
Ren e Laurentin
R958 R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Save R152 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Finally available in English, this fascinating biography covers the entire life of the visionary and messenger of the Immaculate Conception. The saint of Lourdes, France, Bernadette spoke the very words of the Virgin Mary, teaching of the merits of prayer, penance and poverty. With over 100 photographs, this factual biography reads like a novel.

Dr. David Yonggi Cho - Ministering Hope for 50 Years (Paperback): David Yonggi Cho Dr. David Yonggi Cho - Ministering Hope for 50 Years (Paperback)
David Yonggi Cho
R525 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R93 (18%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Format 6X9 Maketing Strengths: Dr. Cho is pastor of the worlds' largest church Dr. Cho's book are used worldwide as powerful ministry tools He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including: The Fourth Diminsion Vol 1 and 2, Fourth Dimensional Living in a Three Dimensional World, and Unleashing the Power of Faith among many others.

Thomas Jefferson - A Biography of Spirit and Flesh (Paperback): Thomas S. Kidd Thomas Jefferson - A Biography of Spirit and Flesh (Paperback)
Thomas S. Kidd
R635 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R100 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life "Kidd's biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson's religious and moral life available, and certainly it is among the few to take those two subjects seriously while carefully avoiding hagiography or anachronism. It deserves a wide readership."-Miles Smith, National Review "Set aside everything you think you know about Thomas Jefferson and religion, and read this book. This is the definitive account. It is well written, well researched, judicious, and entirely convincing."-Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history's most studied figures.

Patron Saint of First Communicants - The Story of Blessed Imelda Lambertini (Paperback): Mary Fabyan Windeatt Patron Saint of First Communicants - The Story of Blessed Imelda Lambertini (Paperback)
Mary Fabyan Windeatt; Illustrated by Gedge Harmon
R236 R197 Discovery Miles 1 970 Save R39 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fatal Discord - Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind (Paperback): Michael Massing Fatal Discord - Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind (Paperback)
Michael Massing
R763 R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Save R146 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Come and Eat - A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table (Paperback): Bri McKoy Come and Eat - A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table (Paperback)
Bri McKoy
R335 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R65 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bri McKoy, of the blog Our Savory Life, celebrates the power of the everyday table and shows how, by regularly and intentionally gathering around it, we can follow in the footsteps of Jesus and usher in grace, love, and deep fellowship.

Raised in the world of takeout and microwaveable meals, like so many busy women Bri McKoy found herself utterly lost in the kitchen and nowhere near using her dining room table as an inviting place of community. However, as she learned how to more intentionally invite not just others but also herself to her table every day, she noticed that the kitchen stopped feeling like a prison cell and started feeling like a sanctuary, that gathering with others around the table, as Jesus often did during his time on earth, had the power to usher in deep relationship and a fuller understanding of God's love and grace.

From Judaism to Calvinism - The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c.1510-1580) (Hardcover, New Ed): Kenneth Austin From Judaism to Calvinism - The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c.1510-1580) (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kenneth Austin
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Immanuel Tremellius (c.1510-1580) was one of the most distinguished scholars of the Reformation era. Following his conversion to Christianity from Judaism, he rose to prominence in the mid-sixteenth century as a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament studies, teaching in numerous highly prestigious Reformed academies and universities across northern Europe. Through his activities in the classroom, and his connections with many of the leading religious and political figures of the age, he had a significant impact on the world around him; but through his published writings, some of which were printed through until the eighteenth century, his influence extended long beyond his death. This study of Tremellius' life and works, his first biography since the nineteenth-century, and the first ever full-length study, uses a chronological framework to trace his spiritual journey from Judaism through Catholicism and on to Calvinism, as well as his physical journey across Europe. Into this structure is woven a broader thematic analysis of Tremellius' place within the history of the Reformation, both as a Christian scholar and teacher, and as a converted Jew. The book includes a detailed examination of Tremellius' two most important publications, his Latin translations of the New Testament from Syriac, of 1569, and of the Old Testament from Hebrew, of 1575-1579. By looking at their composition, the figures to whom they were dedicated, their appearance, textual annotations, choice of language and publishing history, much is revealed about biblical scholarship in the sixteenth century as a whole, and about the roles which these works, in particular, would have filled. It is on these works, above all, that Tremellius' long-term international reputation rests. Encompassing issues of theology, education and religious identity, this book not only provides a fascinating biography of one of the most neglected biblical scholars of the sixteenth century, but also sheds much light on th

Simply Rich - Life And Lessons From The Co-Founder Of Amway (Paperback): Rich DeVos Simply Rich - Life And Lessons From The Co-Founder Of Amway (Paperback)
Rich DeVos 1
R498 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this candid autobiography, Amway cofounder Rich DeVos reflects on work, faith, family, and the core values he's held on to, from his humble Christian upbringing through his enormous success running one of the world's largest businesses.

Few people embody the American entrepreneurial spirit as plainly as Rich DeVos. A prominent businessman, self-made billionaire, philanthropist, worldwide speaker, bestselling author, family man, and devout Christian, DeVos not only helped create Amway, one of the world's biggest companies, but he did it from the ground up with his deep faith in God guiding the way and keeping his hopes alive. Now after the success of his bestselling books in business, DeVos reveals his personal story. Born to poor Dutch immigrants in rural Michigan during the Depression, DeVos learned about the importance of leadership and partnership. His grandfather, father, and teachers taught him valuable lessons and key principles about faith, optimism, and perseverance that would guide his entire life. In high school, he befriended Jay Van Andel, who later became his business partner. Together, they created a whole new way to sell products and established one of the largest, most successful companies in the world. DeVos also talks about his marriage and family, his experiences as a motivational speaker, his ownership of the NBA basketball team Orlando Magic, and his philanthropic, religious, and political endeavors.

Inspiring, fascinating, and full of heart, Simply Rich is the astonishing rags-to-riches story that few can tell. Through his amazing accomplishments as both a businessman and generous soul, DeVos reveals the true meaning of success and how his deep faith helped him become a true American icon.

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