New York City has a reputation for glamor and excitement, but for the overwhelming majority of its eight million inhabitants everyday life is a very different matter. For them life in "America's greatest city" is a life of exhausting bustle, disgusting filth, and constant, befouling exposure to the most degraded, ubiquitous, and therefore inescapable vulgarity. In these seventeen short stories the lives of average New Yorkers, from the hopeless office clerk to the struggling artist, from the retired senior citizen to the newly arrived immigrant, from the worriedly unemployed to the unconsciously wealthy, are depicted with a fresh, rare honesty. The much-vaunted "culture" of the city is shown to be what it often is: a veneer beneath which a snapping, feral barbarousness is ever on the verge of breaking out, and sometimes doing so.

New York Stories

Literature & Fiction

Iacovelli, Renald

Contemporary

Stone Tower Press

The volume looks at 10 biblical texts and provides archaeological information and background on the biblical text with a view to broadening understanding of the passages.

Archaeology and the Bible

Patrick Hunt

Religion & Spirituality

In Ancient Voices, Louis Markos helps readers hearthe unique voices of Hesiod and Herodotus, Solon and Socrates, Periclesand Parmenides, and a host of other ancient Greeks who lived their livesand dreamed their dreams in a world that may seem foreign to us but whichhelped to shape the world in which we live.

Ancient Voices: An Insider's Look at Classical Greece

Louis Markos

Each entry, listed in chronological order, provides a 2-3 overview and summary of the person or philosophical concept.

Philosophy 101

Politics & Social Sciences

Vlach J Michael

Philosophy

This is a novel about the biblical characters the prophet Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch. It tells of the captivity of the Israelites in Babylon, their return to Jerusalem, and the rebuilding of the temple.

Baruch's Tale: The Story of the Prophet Jeremiah Told by His Scribe

John Gibbon

Christian Books & Bibles

Civil Religion and American Christianity

Liam J. Atchison

Keith Bates

Darin D. Lenz

Ideas, like people, have genealogies. And so it is with the just war tradition - a moral and ethical framework that seeks to inform political, military, and other leaders and individuals who are responsible for maintaining a just and peaceful social and political order in a turbulent and tumultuous world. The history of moral discussions of war, peace, and proper use of military force is long and complex. For centuries, philosophers, theologians, political theorists, jurists, and others in the West have upheld the viability and vitality of the just war tradition. In so doing, they have argued that war in the pursuit of justice may at times be necessary, but must be conducted with responsibility and restraint. The essays in this volume analyze and honor the thought of James Turner Johnson, the preeminent historian of the just war tradition in the twenty-first century. Whether on considers the theological, cross-cultural, or secular stands of the centuries-old tradition, the scholarship and ideas of Johnson, spanning more than half a century, are prominent in academic literature, the academy, and the profession of arms. The ethics of war, justice, law of armed conflict, human rights, terrorism and the international order, international humanitarian law, and issues of faith and force are among the many topics addressed by Johnson that contributors discuss in these pages.

Responsibility and Restraint

History

Eric D. Patterson

Marc LiVecche

Military

Olympian Visions: Mythology in Art

Arts & Photography

The ancient world was not ancient to its inhabitants - it was a vibrant world full of ideas. Studying people from the outside affords knowledge and insight, but to transform that knowledge and insight into wisdom and discernment, we must open ourselves to seeing the world through the eyes of the people of the past. In Ancient Voices, Louis Markos helps readers hear the unique voices of Polybius and Cicero, Horace and Ovid, Seneca and Suetonius, and a host of other ancient Romans who lived their lives and dreamed their dreams in a world that may seem foreign to us but which helped to shape the world in which we live.

Ancient Voices: An Insider's Look at Ancient Rome

During the War for American Independence, military and naval operations had been in progress for more than two years when the 1778 Rhode Island Campaign occurred. This volume presents an introduction and annotated transcript of the official British reports of battle as they appeared in the British government’s official publication, The London Gazette. The naval aspects of the confrontation are reported in great detail giving readers on\-the\-scene information as well as perspectives of larger operational concerns. Included in the work is a facsimile of reports from the Gazette.\nAbout the Editor 
Professor John B. Hattendorf, D.Phil., D.Litt., University of Oxford, is senior advisor at the U.S. Naval War College’s eponymous John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research and Ernest J. King Professor Emeritus of Maritime History. Additionally, he is the Historian of the Rhode Island Society Sons of the Revolution serves as Historian of the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars and Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati. He is the author, co\-author, editor, or co\-editor of more than fifty volumes, including the four\-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (2007).

The Battle of Rhode Island in 1778

John B. Hattendorf

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