Neither a salacious tell-all book nor a venomous bashing of the participants, Delicious Rejection shares the depths of emotions that James Robert Russell experienced in his relationships with the women in his life, both past and present. This autobiographical collection of stories and poems follows his amazing emotional ride on loves roller coaster. He recounts the details of those relationshipssome happy and some that still occasionally haunt him. He dreamed enough to suffer through the p...

Updated Earlier Writing (6 book awards)"First there was Tozer with the 'Knowledge of the Holy,' and then Packer gave us 'Knowing God,' and now Russell has taken us further with 'God's Nature'." —Dr. Earl D. Radmacher, President Western Seminary and General Editor NKJV Study Bible"The content is terrific... there is so much content that many other books and articles could be written from small parts of it." —Dr. Freeman Schmitt, Se...

While his name is familiar to many people, his many deeds and exploits are not. Throughout his life, Daniel Boone switched from one adventure to another. He explored new places despite the presence of danger and death, and he went on long wilderness hunting trips that were daily battles of survival. Through it all Boone moved steadily onward, consumed with a burning desire to see what was over the next ridge or where the next trail would lead. His courage and determination were extraordina...

Reaching all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party has been in existence almost as long as there has been a United States of America. It was born as a party of the people, according to Jefferson, a political party designed to appeal to the average American citizen. Throughout the years the party has risen and fallen with the political fortunes of the United States. Yet, as the twenty-first century enters its second decade, the party remains a viable political force. The pa...

Thomas Jefferson is one of the most famous men in American history. The list of his political accomplishments, such as writing the Declaration of Independence, serving as Minister to France, becoming America's third President, and spearheading the Louisiana Purchase, is long indeed. But that describes Jefferson the public servant. What about Jefferson the private man? How was he affected by the untimely death of his wife? Where did he long to be above all other places in the world? What wa...

During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Archibald and Angelina Grimké, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida Gibbs Hunt, and Richard Wright, Brian Roberts shows how the intersection of black aesthetic trends and U...

There are worlds upon worlds upon worlds, all superimposed on top of one another, existing at one and the same time. The pixikins travel between them by means of a protective bubble. Tala slips on a banana skin, and into the realm of the pixikins. Everything is exactly the same and yet completely different to what she knew before, for Tala can see things as the pixikins see them.Join Tala as she travels through the different layers of the universe – accompanied by a pixikin – on a ...

Thomas, on the surface, had a pretty traditional upbringing… But there was something about him – from the very beginning – that was different. You could see it in his eyes. He knew things that others did not know. And so when Thomas started receiving messages in his dreams and visions that he was from an altogether different place, Thomas knew that it was not make-believe. He let the messages unfold until he had assembled all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. And from there, he was free to ...

While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters, as well as a newly recovered lecture by Wright, previously published only in Indonesian. Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher introduce and contextualize these documents wi...

In this classic work by the renowned wit and pundit whom the New York Times has lauded as "one of America's foremost arbiters of taste and mores . . . an acclaimed expert on what was highbrow, what was lowbrow, and what was no brow at all," the inimitable Russell Lynes flaunts (rather snobbishly, perhaps) his unparalleled expertise on all things snobbish. Since the Social Snob—with his raised nostrils and air of intolerable intolerance—has long since gone underground, it falls to ...

"All we wanted to do was make art accessible, non-academic, non-elitist, gossipy and fun" - Russell Tovey, quoted in the New York TimesEngaging, informative and open to everyone, Talk Art established itself as the must-listen cultural podcast in both the UK and the US, and it has now garnered 1.5 million downloads. With infectious enthusiasm, Russell and Robert have opened the doors to the art world and have welcomed people of all ages and backgrounds into...

Argentina is still reeling from the worst economic and political crisis to afflict the nation in its modern history. Since December 2001, the country has been through economic depression and bankruptcy, the impoverishment of half the population, a presidency that changed four times in the span of two weeks, and social protests met by state repression that left dozens dead and hundreds injured.What brought on this state of affairs? What are the primary features of this crisis? Who a...