When home is a place, a history, a way of living, a known world, and it all changes, what happens to family, union, relationship, loyalty, and love? Connor, Jennifer, Hank, Kathleen, Trevor...brother, sister, father, mother, friend dig deep and share what they find...sometimes lyric...often searing...frequently funny...always brutally honest.
San Francisco, 1942, the McClintocks have survived the Depression thanks to the grit of Lorraine upon whom her mother and sister depend to keep the family going. The attack on Pearl Harbor ignites fear of a Japanese invasion on the beaches of California. Lorraine helps her neighbor prepare for internment and chooses between a man she loves and the responsibility she feels for her family who are not able to survive in a world at war without her.
The body of a young woman is discovered with the back of her head caved in and one of Ted's business cards in her pocket. The pieces of a troubled life in which the victim was both rejected by his family and its sole means of support propels Ted through the glitter clubs of Houston to the televised arena of the city's fastest growing mega church, where he takes on its charismatic religious leader.
Game-change for the Ingersoll family of Springfield, Illinois, who are visited by violence in all its shapes and sizes on the street, at school, at home, and in their hearts. No longer insulated in middle-America, they are unprepared, ill-equipped, and there is no escape in...SOMETHING HAPPENED: A Screenplay
A successful businessman returns home on the occasion of his mother's death, expecting to reconcile with the father from whom he has been long estranged, and who is a survivor of the Bataan Death March during World War II, only to discover that it is the sister he left behind with whom he must make things right.
Each site in "The Geek Atlas" focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them. Full of interesting photos and illustrations, the book is organized geographically by state or country, complete with latitudes and longitudes for GPS devices.
Lyle Bennett gets another chance at life when he grudgingly agrees to raise his former stepson, when the child's mother shows up at his door and announces her intention to abandon him for the sake of yet another loser boyfriend.
(Second Edition) Houston Private Investigator Ted Mitchell hires a Vietnamese secretary with a face disfigured by Dr. Anh-Dung Nguyen, a wealthy plastic surgeon who has built an international practice on westernizing Asian women. Not everyone benefits under his scalpel. Ted is determined to put an end to the grotesquery when he discovers a connection between the good doctor and the murder of his own father many years before. Finally ready to end the not knowing, Ted pursues the long hidden truth to the end of the line in THE CUTTER.
Even though 10-year-old Clayton Edward Ketchum has a train wreck for a family, he discovers the secret to happiness one hot summer day when it seems like nothing else can go wrong.
SECOND EDITION. Meet Houston P.I. Ted Mitchell who prefers life downtown, inside Highway 610, the Loop that encircles the city. He has not been able to move on from the wife who left him for a stalled career...until he meets Sylvia, the wife of an oil baron who hires him to locate the long lost love of his life. After his client is gunned down, Ted is surrounded by the three women who all have the means, the motive, and the opportunity for murder in INSIDE THE LOOP.
Bruised Light is a collection of short stories about family, friends, and murmurs of the heart. Nothing earth-shattering here except a few small moments that can change entire lifetimes. Some old. Some new. Some connected. Some that stand alone. Delicious good humor and heartwarming pathos. For those who like to read deep and for those looking to be entertained.
Ted is pulled into the villainy of the international black market in human organs. Those in desperate need will do anything and will pay any price for...SPARE PARTS
Excellent for Dramatic Competitions; zero to minimal set requirements; ten characters, 5 female, 5 male; time-limit and stagecraft friendly; vivid action and dialogue; entertaining and appropriate subject material for all; terrific opportunities for acting and scene-work.COURAGE dramatizes the story of Travis who cannot stop thinking about Brianna. His friends think he is aiming too high and will crash and burn, end up a loser, and render himself undeserving of their friendship. His determination pays off when it turns out that Brianna would very much like to be his friend upon discovering that Travis is the real deal and not just another wannabe. Full of delicious good humor and heartfelt pathos, everyone who is or ever was a student will recognize the terrain.
Life on the spectrum might include more of us than the 'literature' would have us believe according to this brother and sister who find a depth of understanding in each other unavailable to them anywhere else. Two actors. Minimal technical requirements.
In Houses of the Interpreter, David Lyle Jeffrey explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. But Jeffrey does not merely rest content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the "art" of Biblical interpretation --how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists, and painters have "read" the Bible. By so doing, Jeffrey clearly demonstrates that such cultural interpretation has deepened the church's understanding of the Bible as Scripture and that, remarkably, this cultural reading has contributed to theology and the practice of faith. Jeffrey's chapters effectively root the theological issues central to any hermeneutical enterprise (e.g., Scriptural authority, narrative, the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, the role of the reader, gender, and postmodernism) in specific authors and artists (e.g., Chaucer, Bosch, Sir Orfeo, C. S. Lewis) --and he does this in constant conversation with literature, both eastern and western.
The story of the Plantagenet dynasty is the story of one of the pivotal ages in English history. Attitudes and outlooks were formed with regard to a vast array of profoundly important issues. Such fundamental issues as the relationship between church and state, the nature of government/governance, the interaction of social and economic classes, and ultimately the idea of what it means to be English were all shaped to a great degree by the events of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-90 played a fundamental role in re-shaping the political, religious and cultural map of the British Isles. Yet, as this book demonstrates, many key elements of the history of the period between the landing of William of Orange and the establishment of the Union between Scotland and England, remain shadowy. In particular, the religious and theological underpinnings of the Revolution in Scotland have received scant attention compared to discussions of events in England, and Ireland. This book sets out to show how the religious dimension of the revolution settlement in Scotland while comprehensively Presbyterian, was not inevitable, revealing instead the degree of political and religious pressure that was brought to bear in order to press for a moderate settlement that took cognizance of the Episcopalian position. However, the outcome demonstrated the ability of Presbyterians to respond to the changing political circumstances and seize the opportunities they offered, enabling them to galvanise their support within parliament and secure a settlement that went beyond what William and Erastian-inclined Presbyterians would have preferred. Traditionally, treatment of the religious outcome in Scotland has been restricted to a bare narration of the significant acts of parliament - this book takes a more thorough and critical approach to explain not only the nature of the final settlement but how it was achieved, and the legacy it left for both Scotland and the newly forged British state.
From the Preface: This book is intended as an investigation of the civilization of western Europe from the third to the fifteenth centuries. It presents not only the results, but some of the important problems, of contemporary scholarship in medieval history. It follows a topical treatment of economic, social, political, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Rather than trying to achieve consistently detailed coverage of every aspect of medieval civilization, I have concentrated upon individual or collective examples of important ideas, attitudes, institutions, or events. Discussions of the sources appear in each chapter, and the sources are quoted frequently in the body of the text in order to permit the reader to feel, as well as intellectually to grasp, the nature of medieval life. Pictures and maps are integrated with the text as illustrations of the topics discussed.
Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region’s historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloreds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.
This book offers a provocative analysis of the neuroscience of morality. Written by three leading scholars of science, medicine, and bioethics, it critiques contemporary neuroscientific claims about individual morality and notions of good and evil. Winner of a 2021 prize from the Expanded Reason Institute, it connects moral philosophy to neoliberal economics and successfully challenges the idea that we can locate morality in the brain. Instead of discovering the source of morality in the brain as they claim to do, the popularizers of contemporary neuroscience are shown to participate in an understanding of human behavior that serves the vested interests of contemporary political economy. Providing evidence that the history of claims about morality and brain function reach back 400 years, the authors locate its genesis in the beginnings of modern philosophy, science, and economics. They further map this trajectory through the economic and moral theories of Francis Bacon, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and the Chicago School of Economics to uncover a pervasive colonial anthropology at play in the neuroscience of morality today. The book concludes with a call for a humbler and more constrained neuroscience, informed by a more robust human anthropology that embraces the nobility, beauty, frailties, and flaws in being human.
Is red wine good for you? And if so, why? How much? And what are the actual benefits? This addition to the SpringerBriefs in Cell Biology series thoroughly but succinctly answers these questions. It covers the biochemistry, health benefits and therapeutic potential of wine grapes. It begins with an overview of phytoalexin production in Vitis vinifera (Common Grape Vine), detailing the relationship of resveratrol to analogues such as pterostilbene, piceid and the viniferins (resveratrol oligomers). The discussion then turns to the hundreds of reports linking resveratrol and related grape vine polyphenols to various beneficial health effects especially cardio- and cerebro- vascular, metabolic, anti-inflammatory and more. Also addressed are the numerous intracellular mechanisms that have been shown to mediate the effects of these compounds in mammalian cells and tissues. Finally, the authors discuss aspects of polyphenol bioavailability and how this will influence choices taken for delivering these compounds as nutritional supplements. A brief chapter containing general conclusions and prospectus rounds out the information.
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