Many people look at the world through a scientific lens that seems to forbid religious conviction, but then find themselves drawn by curiosity, if not longing, to the religious worldview. Is this tension inevitable...or unnecessary? The famously successful marriage of Charles and Emma Darwin illustrates the problem. Charles and Emma were very close to each other in social background and knowledge of the world, yet they found it difficult to agree...

“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at...

Michael Williams is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism," according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called...

This is a critical history and comprehensive catalogue of the celebrated and controversial works created by activist and artist Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the...

Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma’s adultery scandalized France when Madame Bovary was first published. Today, the heartbreaking story of Emma’s financial ruin remains just...

Macey Kelly has sworn off men. Unless they're going to zip in and out of her apartment quicker than they can give her an orgasm, she's not interested. The last thing Jack Carr needs at the start of the season is for a dark-haired, sexy as sin, beauty to be consuming his thoughts. Football is his life, which leaves no time for girls. Avoiding each other is the perfect solution, but when your best friends are in a serious living together kind of relationship,...

Congdon provide a collection cross stitch patterns with inspirational and motivational quotes. Whether used for gifts or your home, these designs will provide something special for days when you need a boost-- both as you work on them, and when finished. -- Adapted from back cover and Introduction.

Veteran photojournalist Anne Marie Kerr suspects that her brother Alan's death in a remote town is not the accident that it seems to be, and she decides to find out what really happened. Assuming a fake identity, she goes to work for the powerful Hollister family who control the town and may have a hand in Alan's death. At the same time, she falls for the oldest son, Jason.