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Date Your Wife is an intensely practical guide for husbands looking to strengthen, save, or spice up their marriage and pursue their wives from a place of security in the gospel.

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This remarkable first novel centers around Serene, a young girl whose father has vanished from their small Hungarian village just before World War I, leaving his beleaguered Jewish family to fend for themselves in a time of danger and disruption. For six years she seeks, through dreams and visions, to recover her father and to deal with the conflicting values and beliefs of her tightly knit family and the society which is unravelling around her.

In the last column of a job application, there's that tricky question: Reason for Leaving. John Manderino has apparently had to puzzle over that one often and long. His answers are collected here in this hilarious novel-in-stories tracing the history of a guy trying to grow up job by job.

Under the popular modern view, the Bill of Rights focuses primarily on protecting individual autonomy interests, making it all about the individual. But in Garry's novel approach, one that tries to address the criticisms of judicial activism that have resulted from the Supreme Court's contemporary individual rights jurisprudence, the Bill of Rights is all about government. In this respect, the Bill of Rights is consistent with the overall sche...

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This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels. Beidler examines the work of well-known writers such as humorist Johnson J. Hooper, and takes on other classic pieces like Albert J. Pickett's History of Alabama. Beidler also considers lesser-known works like Lewis B. Sewall's verse satire The Adventures of S...

The evocative story of three Iraqi characters who have all come from Basra to Amman to escape the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's oppression and wars.

A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe.

Most writing on Mount Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. This uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. Each chapter considers a different narrative channel through which Athos has entered Orthodox and western European imagination: the mythical, the utopian, the sacred, the scholarly, the geopolitical, and t...

Traces the unique interplay between fiction and theatre in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel.

A documentation of over 100 major architectural projects in the Middle East from 2000 through 2009"--

Sherwood Pictures is the filmmaking ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, and the leading producer of church-based, independent Christian films. This book situates their work in the history of religion and film in America and explores how they bring to fruition early 20th century Protestant expectations for the use of film in the life of the church and their hopes for a vibrant Christian film industry.

From Within the Borderland' continues the pattern of investigating and examining the neurosexism and invisible structures situated in and around masculinity studies. From birth, the children of polarized areas have their brains hardwired on how to act, perform, and even dream, a process which renders notions, thoughts, expectations and other immaterial things into physical borders and boundaries. 'From Within the Borderland' reports on the man...

A collection of nineteen essays on race relations at mid-century, written in honour of the late Robert E. Park. Park left important sociological concepts that still stand the test of time - folk or sacred versus modern or secular society, racial frontiers, the marginal man, racial conflict, and racial movement. The contributors came directly under Park's influence either as students or colleagues.

For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and incomplete, that Hoover hoped to promote racial progress.

Drawing on 35 years of experience as a teacher and principal, Alan Jones describes the challenges administrators face and then lays out a plan for moving beyond keeping up appearances and daily routines to having a meaningful impact on student learning and achievement. His plan shows administrators how to respect the abilities of teachers and students while building staff investment in a shared instructional worldview.

The Properties of Matter series helps beginning readers understand some of the most important concepts in science. Each book guides readers through the basics of solids, liquids, and gases, as well as how matter can change from one state to another. This series will inspire a new understanding of science and how it relates to everyday life.

Australia has snowcapped mountains, sunny communities, and ancient cultures. Its coastal waters teem with colorful coral and vibrant fish.

A brief look at the life and career of the author of the Diary of a wimpy kid series.