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Tommy "Teach" Morrison--teacher, raconteur, and alleged devil worshiper--can't stop crying over the loss of Cait, the love of his life, a loss caused by a violent nature that he struggles to understand and control. Can Tommy come to grips with his grief about his past deeds, a past that includes more than one horrible secret?

Rapidly increasing global demand for electricity, heightened worries over energy and water security, and climate-change anxieties have brought the potential merits of nuclear energy squarely back into the spotlight.

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Excerpt from A Manual of Christian Doctrine The usefulness of theology is as little open to dispute as its legitimacy. It is necessary, not to ordinary Christians, but to Christian teachers and advocates. It is neither necessary nor possible that every one should be a lawyer, doctor, engineer but every one who aspires to one of these professions must have more than the empirical knowledge which suffices for ordinary life. Times like ours are ...

Excerpt from Scripture and Its Witnesses: Outlines of Christian Evidence In recent years the study has assumed a more systematic form and taken a more independent position, being treated as a distinct branch of theology and baptized with the name of Apolo getics. The name alone is new, the subject is as old as the Church itself. Dr. Bruce has well pointed out that the Epistle to the Hebrews is of the nature of an apology. The writer of that E...

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The Relation of My Imprisonment a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatization of the test of fait all true believers must endure. These "relation, " framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or m...

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Based on experimental observation, this 1803 work computes the workings of important industrial machines, calculating also the strength of materials.

The Foe from the Future The Grange is haunted, so they say. This stately home in the depths of Devon has been the site of many an apparition. And now people are turning up dead. The ghosts are wild in the forest. But the Doctor doesn't believe in ghosts. The Valley of Death Will the Doctor defeat the plans of the malevolent Godrin?

Based on experimental research, this 1815 work shows how to calculate the performance of millstones and waterwheels.

Over fifty thousand Connecticut soldiers served in the Union army during the Civil War, yet their stories are nearly forgotten today. Among the regiments that served, at least forty sets of brothers perished from battlefield wounds or disease. Little know

Excerpt from Christianity and the Science of Religion "Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, " - 1 Cor. i. 30. The science of religion undertakes to do for the religions of the world what the science of language does for its languages. To such an undertaking there can be no preliminary objection. The phenomena of the religious life are just as legitimate objec...

Excerpt from The Development of Doctrine From the Early Middle Ages to the Reformation The present work is a continuation of the "Development of Doctrine in the Early Church, " tracing the growth of doctrine through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The works chiefly consulted are, as before, Seeberg's Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (2 Band) and Loofs' Leitfaden zum Studium der Dogmen geschichte. The former work is especially valuable for i...

The resolution of the 2000 presidential election by the U.S. Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision generated an extraordinary outpouring of literature in a very short period of time. Now that the initial furor over the decision has subsided, The Final Arbiter presents a sober consideration of the consequences of the decision for the law, the presidency, and the legitimacy of the American political system. The contributors include well-establis...

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Excerpt from Our Indian Empire: Its Rise and Growth We premise a few of the more striking physical characteristics of the Indian continent. In extreme length it measures one thousand nine hundred miles, in extreme breadth one thousand five hundred. The area of British India, apart from tributary and independent states, is twelve times that of Great Britain and Ireland, seven times that of France. Northern India, i.e., India north of the Vindh...