Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal, it quickly established his fame throughout Germany and wider Europe. Wallenstein, produced nineteen years later, is regarded as Schiller's masterpiece: a deeply moving exploration of a flawed ge...

Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind -- seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career -- and although they include some of his most resonant in his own time, they are largely overlooked today. Several of the pieces -- which include The Ghost-Seer, A Magnanimous Act from Most Recent History, TheCriminal of Lost Honor: A True St...

Peter Lewis has his future firmly in hand: a steady bartending job, a girlfriend who believes in him, and college in the fall. During the quiet hours after work, he slips into an online gaming world, a harmless escape from the weight of everyday life.But the escape begins to take control and what starts as simple entertainment becomes an obsession Peter can't explain or control. As the boundary between the virtual world and the physical world dissolves, his health declines, his job...

This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to offer a historical overview of how worship developed. The book first orients readers to the common core elements the global church shares in the history and development of worship theology and historical practice. It then introduces the major streams of worship practice: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, including Reformation traditions, evangelicalism, and Pentecostalism. The book includes introductions by John Witvliet and N...

After being furloughed from his flying position at a major airline, all Jake Harris wants is a night of consoling mattress aerobics with Sofia Gianolo before taking the only job he can find, flying tiny bush planes in the north.His plans take an abrupt left turn when he finds himself in a Chicago wrecking yard waiting for Sofia and wondering, why is she a no-show? Why is the wrecking yard so deserted in the middle of the week? Why can he hear a phone ringing in the trunk of an aband...

Mitch Reilly is a drifter. He works for cash, skirts the edges of the law and when something inside tells him the time has come, he moves on. But now, after a decade without roots, he's found the love of a lady, a crowd of friends and a good job. He's ready to abandon his nomadic lifestyle and settle down.When a police officer is brutally murdered after issuing a random traffic ticket, Mitch finds himself on the run, chased by a vengeful cop and hunted by a mysterious individual na...

It's 2028, and the Earth is dying.Poisoned by pollution, suffocating with overpopulation, drowning in a sea of corruption and disease, the planet is a shell of what it once was. Most people exist, knowing the future has slipped through their fingers.Steve Quinn isn't immune to the collapse. After a tragic accident steals his girlfriend, and nearly his own life, he's a man with a fractured spirit, living a sepia-toned existence …… until he meets Paige Patel. Paige te...

Peter Lewis has his future firmly in hand: a steady bartending job, a girlfriend who believes in him, and college in the fall. During the quiet hours after work, he slips into an online gaming world, a harmless escape from the weight of everyday life.But the escape begins to take control and what starts as simple entertainment becomes an obsession Peter can't explain or control. As the boundary between the virtual world and the physical world dissolves, his health declines, his job...

When the conference he's attending ends, all Jordon Cutler wants to do is climb on a plane and return home to his fiancée, Melissa Bremmer. But, with a hurricane twisting up the eastern seaboard and an old friend demanding a favor, Jordon is about to experience the seedy underside of Atlantic City tourists don't often see.Fueled by booze and desperation, Bernard Hewitt has decided Atlantic City is going to pay him back for every lousy thing that has happened to him in his life. Unf...

Johnny Mathew is a simple auto mechanic with an unassuming dream. He wants to see the United Sates the way it was meant to be seen: through the windshield of a car. To finance his road trip, he takes a second job collecting debts for "the Boss" and quickly discovers the job is not something to which he's well suited, especially after he meets the seductive Madison Bennett.Madison wants out of a loveless marriage with as much money as possible. With an eye on the cash her wealthy hu...

…An anthology of Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty, including poems from the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, that explore the experience of spiritual awakening.

The Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States is a one-volume examination of Christianity in its role, contributions, and embattled engagements with the contemporary culture of the postmodern United States. While Christianity has been a sustaining force and dominant storyline of the historical foundations of America, obvious social, political, and scientific inroads have lessened its influence and altered the issues considered. The handbook explores the strengths and weakn...