Meditations on life and death from the shores of Lake Superior to the North Sea.The Desk on the Sea begins four years after American poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in her beloved Lake Superior and moved with his wife and young daughter into a seventeenth-century cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and in the wild Highlands, Johnson began his search for a way to live through ongoing grief and to take in the wonder...

In the study of American law, originalism is primarily a theory about the meaning of the Constitution—that its meaning can only change when its words change. Originalism also appears in biblical theology as a theory on the meaning of the Bible—that its meaning is that intended by the original authors. Originalism in Theology and Law: Comparing Perspectives on the Bible and the Constitution offers a study of originalism in both the Bible and the Constitution. While there are significant con...

Crack open the true legends of the Golden Age of Piracy with this vibrant new edition of A General History of the Pyrates, the book that launched Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, and their infamous brethren into global consciousness. Dive into this epic history with digitally restored engravings, an expanded sea-term glossary, and the untamed language of the eighteenth century, then set sail on a journey across the oceans with the world's most notorious outlaws.This pri...

Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented synergy, this book examines how television and film culture interact in the 21st century.Both media appear side by side in many platforms or venues, stories and storytellers cross between them, they regularly have common owners, and they discuss each other constantly. Jonathan Gray and De...

We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past fifty years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our democracy, and our values.Brian C. Johnson combines accessible scholarship on wealth and income inequality in ...

Have you ever seen a dancer performing, and asked yourself how they could be so good at what they do? Aren’t they afraid that they’re going to fall or miss a step? What if the music stops without them noticing, turning that triumphal act into something ridiculous?We all have issues with who we are, and wish we could be better and more focused on our goals. Sometimes we have all the tools at hand to fulfill what we want, but blow it up because we have overestimated our ...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades earlier, at the end of World War One, Germany had been an utterly and abjectly defeated military power. Foreign troops occupied its industrial heartland and the Treaty of Versailles reduced the vaunted German army of World War One to a frac...

Macrofinancial linkages have long been at the core of the IMF's mandate to oversee the stability of the global financial system. With the advent of the economic crisis, the Fund has drawn on this research in order to contribute to critical debates on the nature of appropriate policy responses at both the national and multilateral levels. The current juncture offers a good opportunity to take stock of this body of research by IMF staff and to share it with a wider audience, particularly sin...

U.S. Treasury futures and options are the world’s largest fixed income markets. They enable investors and traders to trade, risk manage and invest in U.S. government notes or bonds for future delivery. The U.S. government bond market is the most liquid, secure and diverse among international government bond markets. The U.S. government uses the U.S. bond market to finance its maturing debt and expenditures, and with the expansion of U.S. borrowing, these markets have never been so large no...

You're going to need a bigger sofa...Doctor Who's biggest and most comprehensive monster guide yet, The Monster Vault takes you on the ultimate tour of the Whoniverse, discovering and cataloguing every wonderful and terrifying creature the Doctor has ever encountered.From the notorious Daleks, to evil Stenza warrior Tzim-Sha and the ancient Thijarians, The Monster Vault features in-depth profiles on each monster, showing the Docto...

“The book offers an interesting and accessible entry point into the use of digital tools and processes for analyzing historical performance data, offering a key resource for those tracing the contours of digital cultures.” – William W. Lewis, Purdue University, USA.Highlighting how artists embody data in live performance, this book explores the ways theatre is engaging with data, improving data literacy and driving social critique. It explains how sharing ...

"Despite having their secret revealed, the residents of Melbrook Hall return to Lander University for another year in the Hero Certification Program. Good thing the focus of this year is teamwork, because with their origins known they’ll have to lean on each other more than ever.Now finally sophomores, their curriculum expands, allowing them to train in the majors that Heroes specialize in. The new classes will test their minds, bodies, and determination in ways never anticipated. ...