Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), one of the great innovators in the study of the New Testament, argued that each of its books reflects the interests and tendencies of its author in a particular religio-historical milieu. A critique of the writings must precede any judgments about the historical validity of individual stories about Jesus in the Gospels. Thus Baur could move beyond the impasse created by Strauss's Life of Jesus. Baur demonstrated that the Gospel of John is not ...

The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the fiftieth anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous bo...

The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communitie...

Vintage Sci-Fi 15 - 21 Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sNever on Mars by John WyndhamMembership Drive by Murray F. YacoThe Perfect Woman by Robert SheckleySpawning Ground by Lester Del ReyArena by Fredric BrownThe Stuff by Henry SlesarSuperiority by Arthur C. ClarkeCome Home From Earth by Edmond HamiltonDouble-Cross by Frederik PohlWhen t...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: Rattenfänger von Hameln also known as the Pan Piper, the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the subject of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by using his instrument's magical power on th...

The ninth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and with it arrives the Autumn equinox and the first glimpses of the new season. There is much for out Poets including Browning, Kingsley, Yeats, Lanier and Lindsay to say and write about. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; September - An Introduction; September 1st 1802 By William Wordsworth; In September By Amy Levy; Sonnet XXL, Sacred To The Memory Of Edward Spedding Who Died September 3rd 1832 B...

"Several pages of plan drawings are provided and there is also a very nice section on the varied camouflage schemes carried by these ships." — ModelingMadness.Com The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of popular warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes an...

Robert Browning was fascinated by people—not only people of his own day, but also people who had lived in the remote past. Five of his famous dramatic monologues are spoken by characters from the ancient Classical world: a Greek goddess (Artemis), a Roman senator (in “Imperante Augusto Natus Est—”), an Arab physician (Karshish), a Greek poet (Cleon), and the last surviving eyewitness of Jesus Christ (in “A Death in the Desert”). They probe many different questions, especially regarding the...

Robert Browning's dramatic poems come alive here as psychological miniatures: voices under pressure, motives half-hidden, and moral truths revealed through speech, gesture, and sudden reversal. From Renaissance courts and medieval honor to religious devotion, failed love, ambition, and the dangerous reach of desire, these poems probe the inner costs of pride, jealousy, conscience, and power. "Incident of the French Camp," "The Patriot," "My Last Duchess," and "Count Gismond" dramatize cour...

Robert Browning's classic tale about a magical rat catcher. When Hamelin is overrun by rats, only the magical music of the Pied Piper can solve the problem. The town council tries to trick the piper out of his agreed reward, and he wreaks terrible revenge.

In "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning masterfully employs dramatic monologue to explore themes of power, jealousy, and the objectification of women. Set within a Renaissance context, the poem presents a Duke who reveals his emotions and past transgressions as he converses with a visitor about a portrait of his deceased wife. Browning's use of enjambment and iambic pentameter creates a flowing rhythm that mirrors the Duke's self-involved narrative, while the juxtaposition of beauty and dark...

Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning.