Christmas: A Biography

Christmas: A BiographyA critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions. Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that too many people were spending the day, not in worship, but in partying and eating to excess. By 1616, the playwright Ben Jonson was nostalgically remembering Christmas in

and she gets pregnant

this accessible

when the defeated country was occupied by the U

Or maybe I should say what life used to be

the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind's tales

I highlight the many ways in which positive psychology and Christian practice overlap

Buckley Jr

To protect the feelings of Ernest's wife

in a land where fireflies light the sky

GERMANY"The Renaissance Society is a fascinating and highly readable guide to the future and the possibilities it holds

his actions become increasingly destructive and threaten to sabotage all aspects of Shulman's existence

and traffic offences in London