There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by an array of international scholars from various fields, and represent a diversity of interpretive approac...

After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors—representing philosophy, sociology, political science, history, psychology, leadership studies, and military science—examine honor past to present, from...

September 11, 1777, Lieutenant Thomas Blakley and his eight-man squad are defending the critical north end of a line of Continental Army troops under General George Washington. These men are defending the multiple river crossings or Fords on the Brandywine River. However, Generals Howe and Cornwallis take a surprise route across Trimble's Ford to come in behind Washington's troops. Six of his men were killed immediately by this massive British force. He and two of his men were wounded but ...

Thomas Ford (1598–1674) was a Calvinistic, Reformed nonconformist divine, who sat on the Westminster Assembly as an active member. The reformers and puritans wrote extensively on being reformed by God’s word. In the first part of this work, Thomas Ford introduces being prepared and settled for reformation. He will direct Christians to consider that before true Reformation can take place, there must not only be a willingness for it to ensue, but the heart of the recipient must be settled. R...

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