Moltmann, "the foremost Protestant theologian in the world" (Church Times), brings his characteristic audacity to this traditional topic and cuts to the heart of the matter with a simple identification: What we experience every day as the spirit of life is the spirit of God. Such considerations give Moltmann's treatment of the different aspects of life in Spirit a verve and vitality that are concrete and existential.Veteran readers will find h...
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic com...
The plays, written between 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. They shatter myths and create a broader, freer space for women's cultural development.
Eight titles from this classic film score are: Bless Yore Beautiful Hide * When You're in Love * June Bride * Lonesome Polecat * Spring, Spring, Spring * Sobbin' Women * Goin' Co'tin' * Wonderful, Wonderful Day.
The Boxcar Children are exploring Grandfather's attic when they find a painting of their grandmother wearing a beautiful one-of-a-kind necklace. Grandfather tells them that the necklace was stolen on their first anniversary years before. Imagine the children's surprise when they see a newspaper photo of a woman wearing a similar necklace. Could it have resurfaced after all this time?
Helicopter aerodynamics, common flight techniques, normal field operations, and precautionary measures and critical conditions are discussed. This is U.S. Army handbook FM 1-51.
Folger's Shakespeare Library presents these definitive editions of Shakespeare's classic tragedies, featuring scene-by-scene plot summaries, full explanatory notes, and much more. Original. (Plays/Drama)
For use in schools and libraries only. Offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and the theater.
The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.
Jerome Nadal's influence on the development and growth of the early Society of Jesus is second only to that of its founder, Ignatius Loyola. As Loyola's vicar, Nadal visited Jesuit houses throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, and the Low Countries. At each community, he explained the ways of the Society of Jesus, shared his understanding of Ignatius and his teachings, and promulgated the Society's Constitutions. Although...
Questions and answers that people ask today about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their contents, their significance, and recent developments about them -- written by an expert who has worked on the scrolls from the beginning.
In this collection of essays, 24 leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English and American literary studies during recent decades. The volume reviews the significant scholarship for major historical periods (from medieval studies to postmodernism) and surveys new directions in literary criticism and composition studies. Each essay is accompanied by a list of suggestions for further reading. Name in...
At forty, Adam, an intellectual and writer "who comes from the other side of the ocean, " and who is steeped in the belief that he is the last of his line, finds himself--dreams himself--in America. The promised land's gift to him is Aerea, youthful, radiant, an enchantress, essentially unattainable: their adventure is short-lived. Words, she tells Adam, are the obstacle that stands in the way. And scarcely has Aerea appeared in his life than ...
You Dont Get to Be a Saint is a sharp-edged collage full of the echoes of human movement and voicePatrick Friesen is one of the poets we cant do without.Dennis Lee
Short stories depicting individuals trying to live with and without their dysfunctional families, clinging to whatever stability they can find. "Panning's style is experimental--changing points of view within a single story . . . The voices of Panning's characters are invariably riveting."--Newsday
