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Can we all just get along? E Pluribus Unum: “Out of many, one.” This motto is emblazoned on the Great Seal of the United States, but it could be the church’s model, too. Unfortunately, the daily experience of many Christians and churches feels like the opposite: out of one, many. We are...

Though we often focus more on the male heroes and villains in the Bible, the pages of Scripture are brimming with women who are edgy, strong willed, and controversial. Far from the stereotype of sweet and submissive, many women of the Bible steal the show despite being cast in the supporting roles....

Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and...

Lacrosse is one of the nation's fastest-growing youth sports, and the girls' game is overtaking the boys'. Played with different rules and tactics, girls' lacrosse requires its own specialized guidebook. Friendly and encouraging, Coaching Girls' Lacrosse is the first book to provide the fundamentals every unprepared parent needs to teach and motivate a team of 6- to 12-year-olds.

For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses...

Written by expats for everyone! The Living in Singapore Fourteenth Edition Reference Guide will help newcomers settle in and long-timers get more out of their Singapore experience. The guide gives essential information for a seamless move to the Lion City and is the perfect tool for making...

Catherine Wright habite en Pennsylvanie, dans une petite ville où la population atteint tout juste deux mille habitants en dehors de la saison touristique. Elle est serveuse et s'occupe de sa fille de cinq ans. Une nuit, alors qu'elle rentre dans le brouillard d'un énième " blind date "...

"A Saga of Australian heritage... almost lost in history."A friend, given the opportunity to read the author's finished manuscript, innocently commented: ‘The veracity of your story seems to fit between possible and probable. But, by its very nature, will always be highly controversial.’It’s...

On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name—“Gale Storm.” One of the United States’ most beloved...

Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy. These smart and sassy women successfully negotiated the hazards of the male-dominated workplace with class...

Years after a near-miraculous birth imposes impossible life expectations on him, a lonely and unaccomplished man tries to radically reinvent himself. A prominent female author is stricken with a writing block just a few hours before she is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech of her life. On a train,...

Through a act of love, a couple decides to adopt three more kids into there already large family of six. This act of love brings about a very long tenure of funny actions for stories that have been told throughout many a family reunion. None of these stories are made up, they are all true. This is what...

East Carolina University was founded by the State of North Carolina in 1907 as a teacher training school meant to provide professionally trained faculty for schools in the eastern part of the state. Within two decades, the school matured into a teacher�s college. Although coeducational from the start,...

The reception accorded to my Life in Ancient Athens has led me to write the present companion work with an eye to the same class of readers. In the preface to the former volume it was said: “I have sought to leave an impression true and sound, so far as it goes, and also vivid and distinct. The style...