Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly, the world in which we live. Monsterdom is real, Stark observes, but often hidden beneath the concealment spell of modern secular thought. This guidebook aims to break that spell, and, if so, to confirm once more a world that brims with high strangeness, or what Christian philosophers have always called "reality." The book appeals to those who study the paranormal dimen...

Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson's roguish reputation. The book's aim, however, is not to dispel roguishness but rather to discern the theological motives behind Sterne's comic rhetoric, from Tristram Shandy and the sermons to A Sentimental Journey. To this end, Stark reveals a veritable avalanche of biblical themes and allusions to be found in Sterne, often and seemingly aw...

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies. To argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that resi...

Liste des meilleures ventes du New York Times et de USA TodayJamie Archer, qui se destine au métier d’actrice, est en fuite ; d’elle-même, de ses manières d’enfant rebelle, du gâchis de la vie qu’elle a laissée derrière elle à Los Angeles. Mais surtout, elle fuit Ryan Hunter – le premier homme ayant réussi à percer le mur de ses défenses et à découvrir les peurs et les secrets obscurs qui l’habitent.Ryan Hunter, ch...

De l’auteure de best-sellers aux classements du New York Times et USA Today, découvrez une nouvelle histoire de la série Le Monde de Stark (Jamie et Ryan)Jamie Archer, journaliste spécialisée dans le divertissement, savait que ce ne serait pas facile quand son mari Ryan Hunter, chef de Stark Sécurité, a été envoyé à Londres pour une mission à long terme. La distance est difficile à supporter, mais Jamie fait confiance à l’amour intense et passionné qui a t...

La passion a parfois un prix …Ryan Hunter, le chef de la sécurité de la Stark, sexy en diable, emmène sa petite-amie Jamie Archer pour un week-end romantique et passionné dans l’intention de la demander en mariage. Il est sûr que la réponse sera un oui enthousiaste. Mais, voyant que Jamie essaie d’éviter la discussion, dissimulant ses peurs d’engagement et de changement sous une sensualité sauvage et des jeux coquins sous la couette, Ryan est encore plus d...

The hit creator-owned comic series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, showrunners of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K on HULU and superstar artist Scott Hepburn (Tom Morello’s Orchid), comes this new deluxe hardcover edition collecting the first two Minor Threats tie-in miniseries.The multiversal misfits and the punk rock super-bug finally get their due in this oversized, deluxe hardcover collection from the world of Minor Threats!A s...

Spinning out of the world of the hit Minor Threats superhero series by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn comes a new tale of costumed underdogs—featuring a low-level henchman without a leader to serve.The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags... but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly, is a loser, a lifelong minion who lives to serve his cr...

How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and practices of austerity gardening in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone cultural te...

Want to Start a REVOLUTION?Revolution is an anthology that unites fourteen Rockford Area writers. This collection spans poetry, essays, and short stories, each echoing the call for change and introspection. This anthology is more than words on a page; it's a reflection of a transforming community. Each piece is a catalyst, igniting conversations and inspiring personal revolutions.Be part of the Revolution.Grab your copy and join th...

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”—carries multiple meanings. On a ...

An average walk could easily turn into a lot of fun! See what's around, ask yourself why, there could be more reasons than one!With your imagination and of course an open mind, anything is possible, who knows what you will find!