This story, Run Wild like a Mustang, is fiction, inspired by many of my memories growing up.It is the story of Lone Mountain, a small rural Nevada town, that wakes up every morning to the crowing of Cooper the Rooster. It is a town where everybody knows everybody else's business and is run by a ruthless bully, who owns the largest mine, and the employees were most of the people who live there. It is a town that struggles to survive after being bypassed by the interstate.It ...

10 Tsunamis identifies 10 significant areas which are going to impact ministries over the next few years. While all ministries will not be impacted by all 10 tsunamis, the majority will encounter the overwhelming issues that will negatively impact ministries as we know them today. This book is exciting, challenging and a sterling reminder that we must always be looking at change in our ministries or we may face consequences that ultimately will close or alter our abilities to impact genera...

Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected and recently recovered pieces. This book r...

Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterto...

A fifteen-year-old boy named Jordan, who is lost in the wind, runs away from home to escape the miserable existence he was living.On his journey of riding the rails, he learns how to survive life on the road in a very treacherous world. He discovers a society of free spirits, lost souls, and hostile enemies, who would kill you with the blink of an eye. Bolt is one of those evil beings with his intimidating, purple-tattooed face.And so begins this hallowed adventure for this...

The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and, despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount importance in allowing new insights into the form of the sentimental novel as it actually existed in the 1780s, and not as it is often perceived.

The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyager have persisted over the past 300 years. Exploring sequels, spinoffs, elaborations and adaptations, among other things, Daniel Cook brings together an engaging account of how this literary classic has been reworked across different media throughout the world.Considerate of the major and unjustly n...

Placing Frankenstein in the critical frameworks of book history and secondary authorship, this book explores the increasing array of book-based reworkings of, and sequels to, the novel that up to this point, have been largely ignored. Covering novels, novellas and short stories across a range of genres from romance to YA fiction, Frankenstein Retold examines a broad range of these texts in different purviews and demonstrates their own critical value as we...

The vast homiletic corpus of John Chrysostom has received renewed attention in recent years as a source for the wider cultural and historical context within which his sermons were preached. Scholars have demonstrated the exciting potential his sermons have to shed light on aspects of daily life, popular attitudes, and practices of lay piety. In short, Chrysostom's sermons have been recognised as a valuable source for the study of 'popular Christianity' at the end of the fourth century. Thi...

Part reference manual, part collector’s guide, part critical overview, Wilcopedia is an insightful album-by-album, song-by-song guide to the music of the most important American rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed insights into every album and song the band have released, as well as side projects, collaborations, covers, and more.Since their formation in 1994, Wilco have become one of the mo...

The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2nd Edition by Florence Daniel is a comprehensive guide to wholesome, vegetarian cooking, first published in the early 20th century. This classic cookbook is designed for those seeking to embrace a healthier lifestyle through natural, meatless meals. The book features a wide array of recipes that focus on the use of fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and dairy, offering nutritious alternatives to traditional fare. Each recipe is crafted to be simple, practi...