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This volume contains three major texts of Thomas of Celano: The Life of Saint Francis, The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul, and The Treatise on the Miracles of Saint Francis. Within two years after his mentor's death, Thomas of Celano composed The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi, a portrait of the newly canonized Umbrian. Less than twenty years later, in The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul, Thomas conveyed the wonder and uniqueness of ...

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Suicide, murder, or an understandable decision? For more than a year, Eva McLawton Ellis imposed on herself unbearable and unnecessary pain that she might have avoided. She, who cared so much for the comfort of others, withheld from herself--whether by chance or design--relief that was so readily available. Her cruel, senseless suffering and death brought untold misery for others--misery that she never intended. This aged, forever kind and gen...

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Two women, two lives, two very different fates.

When was the last time you stood in front of the mirror naked? Written for small business owners by small business owners, Naked Business challenges you to take a candid look at your business - to "get naked" if you will. Written in a Q & A format, Naked Business invites introspection and provides encouragement for today's business owner. Whether you are a one-man shop or have a few employees under your belt, Naked Business is sure to be an ey...

About 10 years ago a skeptical friend asked Darwin Sator, "What's so great about Turkey?" to which he replied, "I'll make you a list." A year later, Sator presented his friend a list of what he considered 100 very interesting facts. He kept a copy, and kept adding to it. A couple of years ago, when the list passed 300, he started thinking about writing a little book to share his excitement with others. The Turchophile File contains an improbab...

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On the Parish? is a study of the experience of poor relief in the rural parishes of early modern England. It explores the relationships of paupers not only to the parish officers who administered the Elizabethan poor laws but also to their kinfolk and neighbours who continued to provide extensive networks of informal support.

National self-determination and the formation of nation-states has been the preferred liberal solution to the nationality problem in Central and Eastern Europe. Historians have played a prominent role in constructing nationalist narratives to legitimize the new nation-states arising from thecorpse of the multinational Habsburg empire. The alternative liberal and historiographical tradition which privileges multinational states over nation-stat...

Light is a Messenger, is the first biography of William Lawrence Bragg, who was only 25 when he won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics-the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. It describes how bragg discovered how to use X-rays to determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals and his pivotal role in developing this technique to the point that the structures of the most complex molecules known to man-the proteins and nucelic acids-could be ...

The central concept in this monograph is that of a soluable group - a group which is built up from abelian groups by repeatedly forming group extenstions. It covers all the major areas, including finitely generated soluble groups, soluble groups of finite rank, modules over group rings, algorithmic problems, applications of cohomology, and finitely presented groups, while remaining failry strictly within the boundaries of soluable group theory...

European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 is an authoritative and unique work. Though patronized by a social elite, universities before 1914 were not ivory towers, but reflected the political and social conflicts of their day. Anderson combines chapters on national university systems (including Britain) with a searching and far-ranging discussion of more general themes. The book is an essential contribution both to modern European h...

In the first comprehensive survey of this vast field, Harold Love considers the relationship of the lampoon to gossip, how one might construct a poetics of the genre, and how clandestine satire reached and was received by its readers. Constructing three primary categories of "court, " "Town" and "state" lampooning, Love argues that far from being the product of isolated disaffection, most satire was the work of a circle of recognized poets, fr...

We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people's lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. We have to choose between the convenience to ourselves of road and air travel, and the lives of the future people who will be killed by the global warming we cause. We make choices that affect how many lives there will be in the future: as i...

Filled with beautiful illustrations, specially designed maps, and concise essays written by members of the Society's Geographic Alliance Program, this authoritative guide reveals fascinating details behind each state's unique history, climate, resources, and more. Full color.

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Cannon fire", is a story of a hard working family man who has always loved history, especially the Civil War era. Books and movies were not enough so David joined a Civil War re-enacting group. He chose the Union blue because his ancestors fought with the North. David often brought his wife Victoria, "V", who portrayed a nurse of the period. On the eve of the biggest re-enactment event in Tennessee his friends back out of the trip for mysterio...