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Excerpt from What a Child Ought to Know About the Bible5. Do you know all about Peter the Great and Queen Catherine? No. Then it is not Russian His tory that you know better than American History. Do you know all about Confucius and Buddha. N 0. Then it is not Chinese History. All about Antony and Brutus? No. It is not Roman History. All about Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David? Ah, yes. Why, you say, of course, I know those things as well as Amer ...

(26 words) Zap, grackle, pop! East meets west in these contemporary urban micro poems. Whether exploring haikai forms or improvising jazz renku pops, these poems swing and bop! (152 words) Zap, grackle, bop! These English language haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai, solo renku-like jazz pop sequences both honour the Japanese haikai tradition and play respectfully with it. Bringing a Beat/jazz sensibility and jazz chops to the page, St...

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Excerpt from Missions Versus Militarism Ten years ago the title "Missionary Interpretation of History" proved sufficiently fascinating to warrant a booklet for its development. The fact that it was welcomed by many approved the venture. None then dreamed that in less than a decade the European world would be reeling under the intoxication of such a war as staggers the most riotous imagination. Many have been led to suspect that the only fitt...

Excerpt from Men of the Kingdom: John Calvin, The Statesman AS A system of theology Calvinism has no place in this volume. As a mighty force in the organ ization of ecclesiastical and political disciplines it will demand fair if not full treatment. Contrasted with Lutheranism Calvinism was the real strength of the Reformation. Extinguished in France only after a brutal war, glorious in the Netherlands, the power behind the throne of Elizabeth...

Kenneth Dewar is an accountant, so successful over the years that he has become a "venture capitalist" or a "financier" with only one client, a secret one at that, the patrician banker, Ellsworth Dodge. Dewar specializes in "reorganizing" high technology firms, to the immense benefit of Dodge and himself. During the course of his life Dewar had forgotten his wife and daughter. They are there, and they speak to each other and life goes forward ...

The Mafia, rock and roll, high finance. In a story of the conflict between ages, attitudes and culture, Ellsworth Dodge acquires the contract of Millie Armor, an up and coming young singer. Hiding a part, Millie (who yearns for a simple, quiet life) falls in love with both Dodge and a fellow musician who means her no good. Not that Dodge does either--he is merely the biggest shark in the tank. Dodge, the fleur de mal of The Desk, emerges unsca...

Helen Anderson is young, beautiful, wealthy, highly accomplished but with some emotional wounds from childhood which keep her isolated and lonely. One evening she sees a young man being mugged. She rescues him, helps him deal with his subsequent amnesia, loves him and marries him. Then during a trip to England she loses him. The love of her life disappears without a trace. Much later, by sheer chance, she finds him, but he has become someone d...

India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls. Understanding Modern India is not all that difficult as it is much like the United States. However, even in modern India, people retain many of the religious beliefs and superstitions which they have absorbed from timeless India. "Village Life in Bengal" by Tara Krishna Basu and "Hindu Customs in Bengal" by Besanta Koomar Bos...

This history of the Bengal Famine of 1943 describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack of cash, not a lack of food. The Famine, whose story is almost unknown due to wartime censorship by the British, occurred because of a hyperinflation in the price of rice caused by the provisioning for the major offensive against the Japanese on India's eastern borders. Relief efforts were...

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BDThis book argues that George Meredith as a writer of Victorian fiction is most critical for us today because of the ways in which he wrote against convention. The focus is on 'An Essay on Comedy' and six novels - 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, ' 'The Adventures of Harry Richmond, ' 'The Egoist, ' 'One of Our Conquerors, ' 'Lord Ormont and His Aminta, ' and 'The Amazing Marriage' - all of which illuminate the experimental and transgressive i...

Set in London, Calcutta, and Ann Arbor, this story is about a group of friends and their intertwined paths through life. Caroline Grant-beautiful, well off and completely self-assured, Parker Henry, the man who loves her, the football star, Amy Gralowicz-sweet, patient, willing to accept life as it presents itself to her, and Larry Franklin, more inclined to intellectual and spiritual pursuits.

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Gary Griswold, cheerily dim gadfly scion of Albany old money, late of the Key West artists colony, goes missing, and his ex-wife wants to know what's happened to him - not to mention his 38 million dollars in cash. Turns out that religious dilettante Gary and his money have disappeared into Thailand, where corruption has its own etiquette. Soon, Albany's only gay PI, Don Strachey, is out of his element, and his lover Timmy is way out of his co...