In their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery strained democracy’s commitment to rule by both consent and principle. What conscience demands and what it can persuade others to agree to are not always the same. Ultimately, this tragic limitation of liberalism led Lincoln to war.

Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individuality amid cultural multiplicity, the book begins with such early Russian novels as Mary, ...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of "World Literature," a term that he himself used in What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy's fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz.Foster provides an interlocking series of cross-cultural read...

The Family of the Long Noses was made up of Bruce the Long Nose, Dorothy the Wife of Bruce the Long Nose and lastly Alan the Son of Bruce the Long Nose. They lived in the City of Pala; which has been lost in the very mists of time and space.

The 'Audacity of Jesus Christ;' is all about the 'I Am' statements made by himself in the very light of the encounter between Moses and the Burning Bush and the Lord God Almighty.You may think that the Lord Jesus Christ was not being audacious? Yet, through the 'I Am' statements He was in real terms saying that He was and is the Lord God Almighty.

This is the Audiobook "The Inverted World of Jesus Christ?" Within the very confines of this audiobook we will seek to think about how the World-at-Large was essentially turned upside down by the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ inverted all the so-called normal way and ways of doing things and even the way and the ways of viewing them. Think about how He changed the social norms of male and female relationships for the better as an example of the very Inverted World of Jesus Christ.

The Battlegrounds in Known Time and Space between the {UPE} the United Planet Earth and various Alien Lifeforms that they have encounteredin their various missions out from the Planet Earth. The Alien Lifeforms are seeking to 'gobble' up the very Planet Earth and the only thing that stands between that taking place is the very Astronauts of the UPE; {United Planet Earth.}

This audiobook is all about Spiritual Darkness in terms of the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ. It seeks to follow after the Apostle John and his emphasis upon both Light and Darkness in his writings in the New Testament of the Word of God. It looks at how Spiritual Darkness can never ever overcome the very Light of the very Son of God and the Son of Man, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The tale of the New Brave World of Tomorrow in terms of the Coming forms of Space Exploration by all nations of the Planet Earth, the so - called Rich and the Poor Nation-States. Each Nation will have their own Super-Maxi Yacht and Yachts with which they will explore the Brand New Worlds of Undiscovered Planets within the Milky Way Galaxy.There will of course be races between the various Nation-States on these strange and diverse New Worlds and Planets.

This book seeks to take a look at both the Temple throughout the narratives of the Old Testament; looking at its importance and value to the People of the Lord God Almighty, Israel? Thinking about how under the New Covenant through the very sacrifice of the very Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, we can become the very Temples of the Living Lord God Almighty, the Father, the very Son of God and the very Holy Spirit!

A family of alligators from Washington DC; are seeking to be in Miami for a Vacation. It's all part of them visiting and staying at the Zoo in Miami. They usually reside at the Zoo in Washington DC. They all thought a change of climate and environment would do them all good. The very walls of the Zoo in Washington DC had begun to close in on the members of this Alligator Family. As they say ' change is as good as a holiday?'

A Circus that was old school and true to it's heritage from it's founders and the very Circuses of the past. This Circus was never, ever, cruel too both it's animals and it's human performer's?