This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What does it really mean to have faith?Faith is one of the most familiar words in Christianity, yet it is often one of the most misunderstood. Is faith simply believing that God exists? Is it positive thinking? Does having faith mean never experiencing doubt, fear, disappointment, or uncertainty?In FAITH, Caleb Smith offers a thoughtful and practical introduction to biblical faith, exploring what it mean...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Knowing what faith means is important.But another question matters just as much:How does faith actually work?In HOW FAITH WORKS, Caleb Smith moves beyond the basic definition of faith to explore how faith operates in real Christian life. The book examines the connection between belief and action, showing how what we believe about God can influence what we trust, how we respond, t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Knowing about faith is one thing.Living by faith is another.What happens when you have to make a difficult decision? When your plans change? When prayer does not receive the answer you expected? When doubt appears? When you succeed, fail, wait, or face an uncertain future?These are the moments when faith becomes practical.LIVING BY FAITH is the practical concluding volume...

How nineteenth-century “disciplines of attention” anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being “spiritual but not religious”Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem, but, as Caleb Smith shows in this elegantly written, meditative work, distraction was also a serious conce...

Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War.In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to...

A classic work that launched the career of one of the most influential scholars of their generation.Lauren Berlant influenced generations of scholars in gender studies, affect theory, literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, and beyond. Her first book, The Anatomy of National Fantasy, was published in 1991, and it marked the start of an extraordinary career of groundbreaking essays, editorial collaborations, and monographs. This new edition reintroduce...

A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Combining a survey of these influential critical movements and a critique of their methodology,...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesNAMED ...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesNAMED ...

Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and sociallyFrom the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the pu...

The epic space saga, Star Wars: A New Hope, is finally retold in the iconic Little Golden Book format! Luke Skywalker begins a journey that will change the galaxy, as he leaves his home planet, battles the evil Empire, and learns the ways of the Force. Featuring stunning retro illustrations, this book is perfect forStar Wars—and Little Golden Book—fans of all ages!

This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry.Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the...