Christopher W Herbert

Homeownership Built to Last: Balancing Access, Affordability, and Risk after the Housing Crisis

The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs―financial, psychological, and social―have been enormous. Yet Americans overwhelmingly still aspire to homeownership, and many still view access to homeownership as an important ingredient for building...

Mass Spectrometry Basics

Mass Spectrometry Basics provides authoritative yet plain-spoken explanations of the basic concepts of this powerful analytical method without elaborate mathematical derivations. The authors describe processes, applications, and the underlying science in a concise manner supported by figures and gr...

Pocket Prayers for Children (Pocket Prayers Series)

Pocket Prayers for Children is an ideal present for anyone who prays with children, to give to children who are starting to pray by themselves or as a baptism or confirmation gift. Using the Lord's Prayer as a base, the book brings together traditional and modern prayers to help inspire children in...

Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian...

War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in Ind...

Pocket Prayers: The Classic Collection (Pocket Prayers Series)

With over 20,000 copies sold, "Pocket Prayers" has proven itself a classic which deserves a place in the pocket of every Christian. Now with a fresh new look to accompany the relaunch of the popular "Pocket Prayers" series, this original collection brings together Christian prayers that have stood t...

Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Few ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historic...

Prayers for Children

More than 500 prayers by and for children on such themes as creation, friends, our senses and our feelings.

Alive to God: 36 Sessions for Youth Groups and Confirmation Groups

A Little Prayer Diary

The New Creation: A Dramatic Project for Integrated Studies

Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the 19th Century

Trollope and Comic Pleasure