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When a wagon train accident separates a traveling family and strands five helpless children and Grammie in the Texas wilderness of 1848, it is up to twelve-year-old Robbie to find them food and shelter and help them all survive.

On Time and Method is a systematic, detailed treatment of how temporal factors enter research methodology, how they can affect the outcomes and interpretations of those studies, and how attention to them can strengthen research practice. The authors discuss temporal factors inherent in causal inference and the assumptions researchers make about them, temporal factors involved in choosing and constructing research strategies and research design...

Sound reinforcement is the use of audio amplification systems. This book is the first and only book of its kind to cover all aspects of designing and using such systems for public address and musical performance. The book features information on both the audio theory involved and the practical applications of that theory, explaining everything from microphones to loudspeakers. This revised edition features almost 40 new pages and is even easie...

From Joseph Papp, American's foremost theater producer, and writer Elizabeth Kirkland: a captivating tour through the world of William Shakespeare. Discover the London of Shakespeare's time, a fascinating place to be-full of mayhem and magic, exploration and exploitation, courtiers and foreigners. Stroll through narrow, winding streets crowded with merchants and minstrels, hoist a pint in a rowdy alehouse, and hurry across the river to the ope...

In this thoroughly researched study, G.A. Wells has squarely faced the question of whether a man named Jesus lived, preached, healed, and died in Palestine during the early years of the first century of the Christian era - or indeed, at any time.Building on the biblical studies of Christian theologians, Dr. Wells soberly demonstrates that we have no reliable eyewitnesses to the events depicted in the New Testament. He publicizes a fact known t...

Composed in 413, this work refutes certain writings that taught that good works were not necessary to obtain eternal life, that faith alone was sufficient for salvation. +

With the passion and wisdom that have made him one of our leading educators, Herbert Kohl has written a wonderful book about how he has done theater with young people and how you can too. He tells how to explore improve, develop significant themes out of improve, use dialogue and monologue as starting points for students to write their own plays, develop full performance, and how to adapt plays and stories for performance. He also includes gen...

The texts are first-rate, and the introductions are informative and reliable. The books will be a welcome...addition to the bookshelf of every literate religious person." The Christian Century Robert Bellarmine: Spiritual Writings translated and edited by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., and Roland J. Teske, S.J. introduction by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. preface by John O'Malley, S.J. "Look up in wonder, my soul, at the infinite goodness of your...

Examines how each of the major religions looks at death by including stories, teachings and rituals that present a comparative religious meaning of death and afterlife. Written in textbook style with journal exercises at the end of each chapter.

The Church at Prayer traces the development of Catholic worship from the days of the apostolic Church to the present. Scholarly yet easily readable, the series is a welcome resource for liturgical scholars and informed lay readers.

The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of " star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families-- the Capulets and Montagues-- as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them toward tragedy. A masterwork that has long captured the hearts of audiences, this romantic tragedy has become part of the l...

Creating a strong link between up-to-date research findings and classroom practice, this book analyzes, compares, and critiques prevalent classroom strategies in light of expertise available in other countries. The theme of the volume, that form and meaning can be united from an early point in the reading curriculum, is clearly developed and reinforced from different perspectives. The book is a distinctive blend of assimilated research results...

Conventionally the book of Micah has been seen as a collection of otherwise unconnected pericopes. This study is a challenge to that conventional wisdom. Utilizing the methods of literary criticism, it demonstrates the coherence of Micah and provides a precise description of the specific literary features by which that coherence is expressed. Because the book of Micah is demonstrably a unified work, a proper interpretation requires disce...

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This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstr...

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First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Gives children a taste of one of the most beloved Books, of the Bible. Illustrated in full color.

This highly popular account of the chief events and doctrines of the Presbyterian Church continues to have great appeal to laypersons, ministers, students--in fact, anyone who is interested in the development of this major body of Christians. Clearly written, "Presbyterians: Their History and Beliefs" gives new understanding and appreciation of the Presbyterian Church and its place in the family of God.