Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives—restores our identity.African Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoration of dignity in the black church, others have found it in ethnocentric socioreligious groups and p...

We know that Urban isn't just a place but a culture now. Followers of Jesus face many challenges to their faith, among them the rising influence of contemporary cults, alternative theologies, and ethical issues that challenge traditionally held beliefs and practices. Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies, is a follow-up to the bestselling Urban Apologetics, and it provides a guide to addressing these challenges with grace and wisdom. In addition, throughout the...

Jesus demands your entire life. In Beat God to the Punch: Because Jesus Demands Your Life, Author Eric Mason succinctly articulates God's call of discipleship on every person. In a winsome, persuasive tone, Mason calls people into a posture of submission to the gospel.Eric Mason masterfully roots out the areas of life where we try to tell God, "Do not enter." In light of Jesus' free offer of the good news, Pastor Mason challenges readers to turn our affect...

We know that Urban isn't just a place but a culture now. Followers of Jesus face many challenges to their faith, among them the rising influence of contemporary cults, alternative theologies, and ethical issues that challenge traditionally held beliefs and practices. Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies, is a follow-up to the bestselling Urban Apologetics, and it provides a guide to addressing these challenges with grace and wisdom. In addition, throughout the...

People do not trust Christianity anymore. But rather than trying to make the church look better, respected author and pastor Dr. Eric Mason calls followers of Jesus to be better.“Dr. Eric Mason has never been afraid to tell the truth, even when it hurts. In Rebranding the Church, he doesn’t just diagnose the problem; he calls us back to something deeper, older, and more powerful.”—Lecrae, artist, author, and founder of Reach Recor...

You're a Christian, now what?God not only saved you from something, but for something. Pastor Eric Mason is passionate about helping Christians unleash the transformative power of God in their lives as they learn to be faithful disciples of Jesus. Being conformed to the image of Christ is a lifelong journey for every Christian.Mason understands that spiritual transformation doesn't occur overnight. Unleashed outlines the process of spiritual growth from th...

The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson is a quicksilver chronicle of Regency high life from the demi-monde. With a conversational yet razor-edged style, Wilson names statesmen and grandees, sketches gaming tables and drawing rooms, and anatomizes the economies of sex, money, and patronage. At once confession and social satire, it turns gossip into analysis and exposes the hypocrisies of respectability amid a thriving scandal press. Born to modest means and educated by London's pleasure districts,...

Spanning five volumes, The History of England from the Accession of James II narrates the decades from 1685 through the Glorious Revolution to the Williamite settlement. Macaulay fuses constitutional narrative with social and economic reportage—Parliamentary supremacy, the Bill of Rights, the financial revolution, religious toleration, and the wars in Ireland and Scotland—rendered in high, rhythmic prose. He animates statesmen and crowds, stitching pamphlets, diaries, and state papers into...

A Simple Story (1791) unfolds in two parts: the first follows Miss Milner and her guardian, the Catholic priest Dorriforth, whose inheritance releases him from vows and makes him Lord Elmwood; the second, years later, turns to their daughter Matilda facing paternal estrangement and domestic despotism. Inchbald fuses sentimental and Gothic tones with stage economy, crafting scenes of moral suspense and silence. The narrative probes sensibility, female education, religious authority, and pat...

The Last American Frontier charts the transformation of the trans-Mississippi West from contested borderlands to an integrated national region. In lucid prose, Paxson follows gold rushes, the cattle kingdom, homesteading, railroads, and army posts, interweaving land policy, speculative capital, and aridity to explain settlement's tempo and violence. Written under the sway of the Turner thesis, it fuses social, political, and economic history into an interpretive arc. Frederic L. Paxson, a ...

The Gospel of Ramakrishna distills Mahendra Nath Gupta's meticulous, date-stamped chronicles of Sri Ramakrishna's conversations at Dakshineswar during the Bengal Renaissance. Composed in a spare, diaristic style—part stenographic transcript, part dramatic vignette—the book preserves the living cadence of oral teaching: parable, colloquial banter, scripture-laced aphorism, and sudden bursts of bhava. It situates Ramakrishna's ecstatic Advaita-inflected bhakti within a plural, colonial milie...

An Experiment with Time advances J. W. Dunne's theory of "serial time," proposing that consciousness samples both past and future, most plainly in dreams. Presented as home experiments—keeping dream journals, checking later events, and cautious tabulation—the book marries anecdote to engineer's rigor. The prose is lucid and diagrammatic, moving from case notes to a spare metaphysical model. Set amid early twentieth‑century debates on relativity, Minkowski spacetime, and psychical research,...