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Who was Saint Francis? Today he is most often a sweet ceramic statue in a garden, a sentimentalized romantic figure. But A Gathering of Larks, containing forty personal letters from Abigail Carroll to Francis, reveals him to be a complex man who lived a fascinating life of radical faith. These letters--part devotion, part historical biography, part contemporary engagement, and part inspiration--reveal Carroll's curiosity and wonder about Franc...

Safia Elhillo¿is a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. She is the author of The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles. ¿

Tsitsi Ella Jaji is an associate professor of¿African and African American studies at Duke University.¿She is the author of¿Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.¿

Fleda Brown¿is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and is a faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She served as Delaware’s poet laureate from 2001 to 2007 and¿is the author of nine poetry books, including The Devil’s Child and Fishing With Blood, and two memoirs, ¿including¿Driving with Dvorák (Nebraska, 2010). Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and...

Chris Dubbs is a military historian living in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher. He is the author of America’s U-Boats: Terror Trophies of World War I (Nebraska, 2014) and the coauthor of Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight (Nebraska, 2011). ¿ ¿

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Waiting On The Word" poses a series of questions that go to the heart of the preacher's own vocation: - What do people expect from a sermon? - What are their pastoral and intellectual needs?

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Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film by George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and film narratives use particular techniques to create and represent the experience of community. Butte turns to the concept of suture from Lacanian film theory and to the work of Merleau-Ponty to contribute a deeper and broader approach to intersubjectivity for the field of narrative theory. Butte's appr...

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Sarah Imhoff is Assistant Professor in the Department ofReligious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program atIndiana University. Her research focuses on religion and the body, including work on gender and American Judaism both historically and in the present, the role of DNA and genetic discourse in constructions of Jewishness, and the history of the field of religious studies.

Simple explanations to hundreds of financial questions, from how financial markets work to how to maximise your income. Breaks down the jargon of the financial world and provides clear definitions. Fully up-to-date with the latest financial developments.

A biography of Dame Shirley Bassey, written by one of her most devoted fans. The book is published in celebration of Bassey's 80th birthday, and looks back at her extraordinary life and career.

A revealing account of the life of Hitler's spy master, Wilhelm Canaris, from his role in the rise of Hitler to his execution in 1945 for his role in the July Plot.

The first comparative, cross-cultural study of medieval illustrated histories that engages in a direct, confrontational dialogue with Byzantine historical memory.

American Spies is an accessible discussion of the incredibly complicated issue of modern surveillance in the United States. Written for a general audience by a legal expert, the book educates readers about how the reality of modern surveillance differs from popular understanding.

Godric End, Symbolfigur des Bürgerkriegs in Dustrien, ist in Gefangenschaft geraten. Für eine Zigarette pro Tag erzählt er den Insassen von Zellenblock 13 seine Geschichte: Ich war elf, als ich zum ersten Mal tötete. Meine Jugend verbrachte ich im Rumpf der Swimming Island, fern vom Sonnenlicht. Erbarmungslose Piraten waren meine Familie. Hunger war mein einziger Freund. Worte wie Vertrauen oder Hoffnung bedeuten mir nichts. Das Leben eines M...