Martin Luther College

To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting. The Philosophy Book changes all that. With the use of powerful and easy to follow images, succinct quotations, and explanations that are easily understandable, this book cuts through any misunderstandings to demystify the subject. How did the universe begin? What is truth? How can we live good lives? Throughout history, humankind has asked these and other big questions about the...

The full story of Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. The unit, 4500 men strong, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945 and raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi after four days of ferocious combat, yet their battle had just begun.

"Fearing his father, a young Amish boy flees his home in Pennsylvania in 1872 in the aftermath of a disastrous fire. Having never experienced the ways of the English, Joshua embarks on an epic journey to reach California"-- 1867. Growing up among the Pennsylvania Amish, Joshua knows that his father is a respected church deacon-- but he also has a weakness for drink, and has violent rages. After a disastrous fire, Joshua runs away from home and embarks...

The expedition to cross the North American continent led by Lewis and Clark was an epic mission that included incredible deprivation. In Calling the Wind, the explorers have spent the long, wet winter on the Pacific Coast and are eager to head home. Their homebound voyage will begin upriver on the mighty Columbia River, and proceed over the mountain ranges that nearly ended their lives. Beaten down by the demands of wilderness travel, the party doesn't...

"Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans--Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic--who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in...

"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...

". . . [This book] puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass, to help us look much, much closer at images we might have thought we knew well. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen help us become detectives of details, solving the mysteries of a masterpiece through its most small and subtle elements. Is the bride pregnant? Why is just one candle burning in the chandelier?...

"Reveals the many ideas and schools of economics that have emerged since trading first began in ancient times."--Front jacket flap.