What if reading poetry could change you—not just what you think, but how you move through the world?For forty years, Thomas Gardner led students through this transformative act—not analyzing poems from a distance but reperforming them from the inside. Walking together through Elizabeth Bishop's broken beaches, Robert Frost's snowy woods, and Emily Dickinson's rooms of possibility, they discovered that getting lost is how we are found. That acknowledging fragility o...

"The achievement of 'Poverty Creek Journal' is precisely that it does retrace that kind of wandering--and, in so doing, makes something lovely and meaningful of a difficult year. Gardner does not go in for pat analogies; he does not claim, as Camus once did about soccer, that running taught him everything about death. Nor does he go in for pat consolation. His journal does not so much end as stop, as if he has simply not yet risen for the next morning's run." -- Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker

This volume, the seventh in a nine-volume series about the Civil War, provides a view of the ugly side of a war, where more people were victims of disease than of direct combat wounds.Included are complete works by Leander Stillwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George Alfred Townsend, Matthew Brady, and Alexander Gardner showing the perspectives of generals, as well as those of ordinary combatants. The narratives are especially compelling when read along with the photographs of Mat...

In the heart of a bustling metropolis, Agent Alex Mercer receives a mysterious assignment that will thrust him into the treacherous world of international espionage. The only clue: a cryptic message left by a vanished colleague. As he delves into the shadows, he uncovers a web of deception that leads him from the neon-lit streets of the city to the remote corners of the globe."Shadows of Deception" is a gripping tale of espionage, betrayal, and the thin line between right and wrong...

Art is an outworking of God’s creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that creation with new meaning. Four artists in particular--the poet Czeslaw Milosz, filmmaker Terrence Malick, novelist Marilynne Robinson, and lyric essayist Annie Dillard--actively wrestle with a world that reflects God’s glory while remaining at times deeply and troublingly obscure.In Ly...

Agents Emily and Alex navigate a world of shadows and secrets as they uncover a global conspiracy orchestrated by the elusive Puppetmaster. As they chase leads across cities and battle shadowy organizations, the covert agency becomes a battleground of trust and betrayal. Unmasking the Puppetmaster reveals a high-stakes game within their ranks, and the dance with shadows takes unexpected turns.

With the help of a wide variety of source material, particularly legal documents and inscriptions, some of it made available for the first time in English, this book illustrates the activities associated with the household, demonstrating the different and frequently conflicting roles and moral values expected from its various members: male and female, old and young, freedman and slave.

In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salomé Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled "Music - Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures", at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This colloquium dealt with the current fervent debate concerning the relationship between sound art and music. This book proposes the opening of the colloquium to a wider readership through the publication of a decisive range of the material that defined the event.

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter)Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.In line with the 45th AIB-UKI conference, this edited collection brings together fresh perspectives on international business strategy, with a focus on the challenges faced by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in today’s changing commercial and political landscape. With a diverse range of contributors from varying inte...

An exciting contribution to the field, Visual Dysfunction in Diabetes: The Science of Patient Impairment and Improvementis designed with two overriding objectives: to help readers understand the impact of vision impairment in people living daily with diabetes rather than considering diabetic retinopathy solely as a medical problem, and to explore what we know and don't know about the ways diabetes affect the eye. With the plethora of new information being generated, there are stil...

Studies on Retinal and Choroidal Disorders examines the role that oxidative and nitrosative stress plays in the complex physiology and pathophysiology of the retina and choroid. Both the basic science researcher and the clinical practitioner can use this book as a guide to the current understanding of retinal and choroidal cellular mechanisms involved in aging and disease. Beginning with a review of oxidative stress and inflammation in the pathoetiology of AMD and a review of the ...

From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature.