Heart of Palm

Heart of Palm

Intelligence, heart, wit . . . Laura Lee Smith has all the tools and Heart of Palm is a very impressive first novel.Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

Heart of Palm

Finding Faith

Finding Faith

Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the Post-Boomer generationthose ranging in age from twenty to fortyis having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller argue that we are on the verge of another potential revolution in how Christians worship and associate with one another.

Finding Faith

Illusions

Illusions

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders…until he meets Donald Shimoda–former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard’s imagination soar….

Illusions

Hitlers Shadow

Hitlers Shadow

The report is based on findings from newly-declassified decades-old Army and CIA records released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 (the Act), these records were processed and reviewed by the National Archives-led Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), and written by IWG historians Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda. The report highlights materials opened under the Act, in addition to records that were previously opened but had not been mined by historians and researchers, including records from the Office of Strategic Services (a CIA predecessor), dossiers of the Army Staff’s Intelligence Records of the Investigative Records Repository (IRR), State Department records, and files of the Navy Judge Advocate General.

Hitlers Shadow

Want Not

Want Not

A compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With his critically acclaimed first novel, Jonathan Miles was widely praised as a comic genius after something bigger (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) whose fiction was not just philosophically but emotionally rewarding (Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review, front cover).

Want Not

Comma Sense

Comma Sense

Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.

Comma Sense

Theres Something Happening Here

Theres Something Happening Here

‘Cunningham’s landmark study of the FBI’s response to Sixties protest couldn’t be more timely. We gain fresh and disturbing insight into the culture and dynamics of the agency at a time when once again it has been empowered to monitor political dissidence. We need this history so as to avoid repeating it.’–Richard Flacks, author ‘Making History: The American Left and the American Mind’

Theres Something Happening Here

A Return to the Common Reader

A Return to the Common Reader

In 1957, Richard Altick’s groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Inspired by Altick’s research, but digging deep into the neglected records of prison libraries, army barracks or convict ships the authors of A Return to the Common Reader dramatically reconfigure our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.

A Return to the Common Reader

Rethinking Liberalism

Rethinking Liberalism

This is a collection of Richard Bellamy’s most important essays of the past decade on the changing character of liberalism. He describes how liberalism emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the distinguishing character of a modern industrial society, and he goes on to show how many of its central concepts have been undermined by subsequent social developments.

Rethinking Liberalism

Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters

Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters

Beattie undertakes a comparative survey of the treatment of women and marriage in three different kinds of text: an authentic Pauline letter (namely 1 Corinthians); the deutero-Pauline literature (Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles); and some tractates from the Nag Hammadi library (giving particular attention to the Gospel of Philip, the Exegesis on the Soul, the Hypostasis of the Archons and the Gospel of Thomas). The theoretical position she takes is based upon the neo-pragmatist thought of Richard Rorty and Stanley Fish, the former’s notions of ‘contingency’ and ‘redescription’ being of particular importance.

Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters

A Kings Ransom

A Kings Ransom

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lionheart comes the dramatic sequel, telling of the last dangerous years of Richard, Couer de Lions life.

A Kings Ransom