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Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer. He offers an introduction to Chaucer's writings as evidence that might be held against him, interwoven with a portrait of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, its politics and its personalities.

Strong and sober, George Jones looks back on his life with searing candor. From his roots in an impoverished East Texas family to his years of womanizing, boozing, brawling, and singing with the voice that made him a star, his story is a nonstop rollercoaster ride of the price of fame. It is also the story of how the love of a good woman, his wife Nancy, helped him clean up his act.

This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research examines what institutions and institutional researchers might do to keep themselves out of court, although contributors also suggest how institutional research pertains when institutions do end up in court. Preventive law&mdash, the efforts of attorneys and clients to minimize legal risks&mdash, may be the most appropriate construct for meeting the needs of institutions. By linking inst...

Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse help us face these issues squarely and honestly. In four central chapters they examine how scientific research has been used within church debates -- in particular within Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal contexts. They then survey the most recent and best scientific research and sort out what it actually shows. Next they help us to interpret the research's relevance to the moral debate within the church. In...

Here are 300 jokes and stories heard on porch swings, in barber shops, corner cafes, and beauty parlors, told by famous and common alike, with chapters on marriage, aging, work, education, politics, and sports. Celebrities, everyday folks, and students of the Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky serve up a feast of jokes and stories from oral traditions.

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Hettie Jones presents an intimate memoir of her life--from her middle-class Jewish family in Queens to her marriage to the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones and her search for her own artistic voice. Infused with the passion of the late 1950s and early 1960s, this memoir is a deeply moving look at the spirit of the artist and the birth of an era.

Doubt is as natural an experience as faith and what theologian Paul Tillich called an indispensable component of authentic faith. In this book an extraordinary range of writers talks about the moment-often devastating-when they turned to God only to find neither God's presence nor consolation. Where once silence was filled with peace, now that silence signals only emptiness. In a Dark Wood features a diverse group of voices describing unlikely...

During the Six-Day War in 1967, Bethlehem and east Jerusalem were captured by the Israelis, and sovereign dominion of the holy city returned to the Jews for the first time in over two thousand years. At that time, a Dead Sea artifact, the Temple Scroll, was confiscated by the Israeli government. None of the Dead Sea Scrolls have surfaced in any official quarter since.Andrei Vartanyan is a ruthless, special intelligence operative for the former...

Poetic thoughts are beautifully expressed in this gift book. Within the pages of "The Healing Drum, " we will find inspiration in powerful, healing words expressed in simple, Native American tradition--words that will return us to the wisdom of the "Old Age" that gives us messages of self-help one beat at a time.

Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New RepublicGayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and critics from all over the nation: John Updike, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman, and James Baldwin, to name a few. The publication of The Healing, her...

This manual will help you avoid the common estimating mistakes that have sunk so many construction companies. The book shows how to compile accurate unit costs for all residential and light commercial construction.

Harpers Ferry is a tenacioustown, battered and muddied by water and war, it refuses to quit. The site ofJohn Brown's infamous raid, which brought what the author considers the firstshots of the Civil War, Harpers Ferry also has stood floods, plague, invasion, assault, cannon fire, the Depression, Prohibition, and just plain bad luck.Despite having had far more than its share of disasters, this small WestVirginia hamlet survives.Harpers Ferry d...

The persona and character of the World War II Marine vividly comes alive in this book, which interprets and analyzes the Marines's personal and cultural history, the pleasant and unpleasant, serious and not so, the ordinary and exceptional. It is about men doing their duty and nothing else.

In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now.Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris's inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through...

From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally impressive range of defensive technology. Native Americans constructed very effective armor and shields using wood, bone, and leather. Their fortifi...

Giants in the Cornfield adds a fresh dimension to Civil War literature with this extensive social study of the young, uneducated farmers of the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The work focuses on the interactions of a single, homogeneous unit of common soldiers: neighbors and chums from the same county, village, and family, who endure three years of hardships to save the Union.

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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their he...

G. Campbell Brown's eagerness to report all he saw--from the quotidian to the bloodcurdling -- makes his writings among the finest to come out of the Civil War. Brown's fascinating memoir details his service under General Richard S. Ewell during the campaigns of first Manassas, the Shenandoah Valley, the Seven Days, Second Manassas, and Gettysburg, and under Joseph E. Johnston at Vicksburg. His correspondence and memoranda form a suspenseful r...