The first full-length collection in more than a decade from the award-winning poet and author of the bestselling novel Gap Creek. Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that feature taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan's fiction will recognize many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate everything from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday.

Terroir (Penguin Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Morgan, Robert

United States

Penguin??Books

A new collection from the awardwinning poet and author of the bestselling novel Gap Creek In the words of Poetry magazine, Robert Morgan’s poems “shine with beauty that transcends locale.” The work in his newest collection, rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains, explores the mysteries and tensions of family and childhood, the splendors and hidden dramas of the natural world, and the agriculture that supports all culture. Morgan’s voice is vigorous and exact, opening doors for the reader, finding unexpected images and connections. The poems reach beyond surfaces, to the strange forces inside atoms, our genes, our heritage, and outward to the farthest movements of galaxies, the dark energy we cannot explain but recognize in our bones and blood, in our deepest memories and imagination.

Dark Energy: Poems (Penguin Poets)

Self-Help

Death & Grief

This book defines interpretation and examines the special issues that surround biblical interpretation. The authors analyze the development of traditional literary and historical criticism and more recent social, scientific, and literary approaches, focusing on the key figures from Reimarus to Gerd Theissen, and exposing the underlying theological issues. They reveal a pattern in the relationship between religious interests in the texts and the rational methods used to interpret them, providing guidance for a theologically sensitive use of the Bible today. The book includes an annotated index with detailed information on over two hundred fifty biblical scholars and other interpreters.

Biblical Interpretation (Oxford Bible Series)

History

BARTON, JOHN

Europe

Oxford University Press

This book defines interpretation and examines the special issues that surround biblical interpretation. The authors analyze the development of traditional literary and historical criticism and more recent social, scientific, and literary approaches, focusing on the key figures from Reimarus to Gerd Theissen, and exposing the underlying theological issues. They reveal a pattern in the relationship between religious interests in the texts and the rational methods used to interpret them, providing guidance for a theologically sensitive use of the Bible today. The book includes an annotated index with detailed information on over two hundred fifty biblical scholars and other interpreters.

Religion & Spirituality

Morgan provides a comprehensive, consistent, and unified analysis of Madison's political philosophy using Madison's views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the focus. Morgan looks at all that Madison wrote on these topics before, during, and after the adoption of the Constitution. He argues that Madison's constitutional philosophy was shaped by his view that there was an inherent conflict between limited government and accountability on the one hand, and the tendency of all to exercise autonomous, unrestricted power. . . . His second thesis is that Madison was propelled to become a constitutional reformer not by any desire to curb democracy but by the need to preserve both the union and republican government. Morgan emphasizes the impact of the American experience in shaping Madison's thought as well as its eclectic character. Choice
James Madison stands out among the founding fathers of the U.S. government because of his analytical and creative political insight into the framing and explaining of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Madison became a constitutional reformer in order to preserve a republican government strong enough to fulfill what he felt was the destiny of the United States. This volume casts further light on Madison's beliefs through a comprehensive examination of his writing.
This is not a simple task: there are substantial difficulties involved in developing a comprehensive consistent, and unified analysis of Madison's political thought. Madison's writings were extensive, and must be carefully perused in order to separate the rhetoric of his public exposition from the essence of his private thought. Furthermore, Madison never denied his aim of justifying and explaining the Constitution by sacrificing pure theory to the requirements of the prevailing political situation. Nonetheless, author Morgan has used the simplest possible interpretations of Madison's writings to reveal a clear and overriding thesis that gives unity and focus to his thought. This focus relates to the continuing tensions between the democratic idea of accountability and the tendency of all governments to seek autonomy, especially in the conduct of foreign relations.

James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Contributions in Legal Studies)

Rules & Procedures

Praeger

Robert Morgan's classic work on the nature of New Testament Theology, including his translations of William Wrede's 'The Task and Method of "New Testament Theology"' and Adolf Schlatter's 'THe Theology of the New Testament and Dogmatics'

The Nature of New Testament Theology: The Contribution of William Wrede and Adolf Schlatter (Studies in Biblical Theology Second)

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

This book introduces to the Norton imprint a new poet with a strong original voice. Robert Morgan writes out of the central tradition of American poetry. His lyrics, rooted though they are in the specifics of the everyday--in earth and leaves, lakes and stones--reach through and beyond these to transcendence, to mystery; they intertwine animate and inanimate, inner and outer, idea and object. As David Kalstone puts it, Morgan is "faithful to the natural facts and yet so aware of the mysterious instincts which allow us in the first place to see, hear, observe such facts."

Red Owl: Poems

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

As a massive evil force nears Earth, a ghostly Chinese warrior  lures private investigator Teddy London to Shanghai, where he becomes  the unwilling key to an ancient prophecy about the end of the world as  we know it.

The Only Thing to Fear (A Supernatural Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BERKLEY

Only death on the widest scale can give Martin Tabor, ruler of the vampires, the power he desires, and only private investigator Teddy London can stop him, provided London can resist Tabor's offer of immortality. Original.

Some Things Come Back

Berkley Prime Crime

A journey into the heart of war above 20,000 feet is told by the leader of the first bombing crew to survive twenty-five daylight missions over the danger-filled skies of occupied France and Nazi Germany and return to the United States. Reprint.

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot

Powers, Ron

NAL Trade

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Terroir (Penguin Poets)

Dark Energy: Poems (Penguin Poets)

Biblical Interpretation (Oxford Bible Series)

Biblical Interpretation (Oxford Bible Series)

James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Contributions in Legal Studies)

The Nature of New Testament Theology: The Contribution of William Wrede and Adolf Schlatter (Studies in Biblical Theology Second)

Red Owl: Poems

The Only Thing to Fear (A Supernatural Mystery)

Some Things Come Back

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot