A small book of trippy short story TALES waiting for your imagination to take them for a ride. Ten Pages: The Volumes are an abstract, yet eclectic group of fictional fables and quippy quick reads.

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of other philosophers whose contributions to the debate is crucial—particularly Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche.

Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley ranks with William Wordsworth and Alfred Wainwright as a prolific and consummate writer about the Lake District. In more than a dozen volumes of prose, and in hundreds of poems, he extolled the unique qualities of this small tract of land that has so fascinated writers over the centuries. As one of the co-founders of the National Trust and a leading light in saving numerous parts of the Lake District for the nation, Rawnsley was acknowledged by his contemporarie...

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats — no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration Main Office of the SS. Their projects included designing and constructing the concentration c...

This book offers a philosophical reconstruction of Gandhi’s political thought as a form of devotional democracy in which the sovereign people speak the voice of truth as God’s voice.Part One addresses Gandhi’s relationship to the history of modern Western political thought, and key thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Hegel.Part Two explores the concept of a Gandhian devotional democracy in relation to contemporary political thought and decidedly illiberal thinkers, such as ...

The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church.Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of thes...

I wrote this novel with the intention of helping others navigate away from the pain narcissistic people inflict on their sources. The stories of my life and personnel experiences are depicted within the chapters as I discuss them with a therapist. Each chapter contains the pain I endured from childhood to present day. Each person I dated used different but similar tactics to achieve their goal. The possessed no empathy for the discomfort inflicted on my soul. The last relationship was so d...

In this updated edition, Michael Allen covers the main doctrines of Reformed theology and explains how those doctrines have helped to sustain the Reformed church throughout the years. He makes a clear distinction between "Reformed" and "Reformational", emphasizing both revisionary and conservative trends within the tradition.This edition features updated chapters and whole new sections, such as an analysis of the challenges to earthy eschatology of many influential...

A thousand years after the Norse gods fell asleep, with no followers remaining to sustain them, a girl finds an altar in a moment of need. Her actions awaken one that some other gods preferred to stay asleep.This look at Norse myth, the nature of gods, social media impact, and a little politics follows the young girl, her unknown god, and a would-be influencer as they each navigate worlds unfamiliar to them, and learn to thrive.

This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. This is the possibility of disobedience justified by appeal to standards of decency that are shared by peoples who do not otherwise share commitments to the same principles of justice, and whose societies are organized according to very different basic social institutions. Justified by appeal to shared decency standards, disobedience by diverse state and non-st...

This volume examines what it means to proceed in the path of wisdom by beginning with fear of God, that is, mindfulness always and everywhere of God's being and presence.Michael Allen describes the praxis of fearing the Lord, how that posture of contemplative pursuit marks the theological task and defines our theological method; in so doing it takes up the significant topics of divine revelation, theological exegesis, intellectual asceticism, and retrieval/ressourcement from a dist...

Passion Vignette is a unique collection of "vignettes" that transport you to experience intense moments of passion... All of your senses will be engaged as you are provoked to feel the sensual pleasures unfolding within each vignette as if you are actually there participating. Described as romantic, sensual and erotic-- prepare yourself to experience an intimate journey.