Joseph McCabe's Crises in the History of the Papacy is a sweeping, evidence-driven study of the Roman Church's most decisive turning points. Drawing on major historians and original Latin and Greek sources, McCabe selects twenty popes to trace the rise, corruption, reform, and decline of papal power from the earliest Christian communities to Leo XIII and the modern age. He begins with the fragile Roman Church of hidden gatherings and uncertain traditions about Peter and Paul, then follows ...

This guide opens with a brisk, intelligent survey of the great classics, tracing literature from its ancient sacred origins to the rise of modern Europe. It begins in Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, India, China, and the Hebrew tradition, where writings are prized chiefly for religious and historical value, then turns to Greece, the first civilization whose surviving works are cherished above all for artistic beauty. From Homer's Iliad and Odyssey through lyric poets, the tragedians Aeschylus, S...

Before the Dawn plunges into wartime Richmond, where wounded Confederate officer Robert Prescott returns from hardship to find a city alive with danger, gossip, gambling, and the uneasy energy of a capital under siege. On the train and in the streets, he notices a mysterious woman in brown, whose quiet presence hints at secrets that will shadow both romance and war. At home, Prescott's reunion with his mother reveals a bond shaped by sacrifice, restraint, and private sorrow, while Helen Ha...

This valuable book provides a concise yet thorough analysis of the major legal issues arising in civil actions litigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Well organized and indexed, the sixth edition of Civil RICO: A Definitive Guide guides readers through the complex statute and the thicket of related concepts and case law, enabling them to quickly locate answers to the questions that arise in their cases.The guide includes a copy of th...

**"There is no them, there is only us."“Margulies tells the stories of people who have done monstrous things but are not monsters, are not forever defined by their worst acts. He writes beautifully of pain and loss, but also of redemption and transformation….A wonderfully hopeful book about what it means to be human.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking**In Cast Out, civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the m...

A new, impassioned, ultracontemporary collection from “one of our most acute poetic chroniclers” (The New York Times).Precisely Now unspools against the backdrop of a transmogrified Lower Manhattan, one built back after 9/11, yet where buildings on Wall Street remain pockmarked from anarchist bombings of the 1920s. Out on the very tip of the island, where “moods are painted blue on the blue East River,” on the streets where Federico García Lorca w...

Better Health Outcomes Start with Better Leadership.Across the United States, health outcomes remain highly disproportionate and primarily tied to where people live, work, and seek care; however, the knowledge and tools to fix this are already available to us.In The Remedy, veteran healthcare executive and turnaround strategist Dr. Joseph Webb shares four decades of experience leading hospitals through crisis, recovery, and transformation. Drawing ...

The Underground Script Writers Bible is a raw, practical guide to storytelling built from years of intensive study, observation, and personal notes on writers and filmmakers including Hemingway, Henry Miller, Hitchcock, and others.This book explores the machinery behind powerful storytelling: suspense, dialogue, subtext, character change, exposition, reaction points, abstraction, metaphor, conflict, scene design, and creative flow.Rather than treating writi...

He thought she took a check and vanished.She thought he traded their love to build an empire.Neither of them knew about the five-year-old boy building bridges in the quiet.Six years ago, Claire Drummond loved Julian Vance with every breath she had. They were young, brilliant, and dirt-poor, designing prototypes in drafty workshops with nothing to their names but ambition. But when Julian’s powerful father delivered an ...

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universeThis book, newly up...

Beginning in a hidden valley where a farmer’s son knows only kin, harvest, and a strange annual light, this saga widens into a myth-haunted odyssey. When his beloved brother disappears beyond the mountains, Abram follows, crossing cursed forests, haunted plains, enchanted cities, and war-scarred kingdoms. With unlikely friends, fierce loves, and burdensome powers, he confronts ancient sorcery, monstrous beings, false gods, and the seduction of vengeance. What begins as a search becomes a s...

Sometimes sadness travels through families from grandparent to parent to child like an echo bouncing through nesting dolls. And sometimes, the bravest thing a child can do is not to push the gray cloud away, but to knock on a door and let someone in.Welcome, Cloud from the Past tells the story of little Katya, a Matryoshka doll who touches a strange gray cloud and discovers that the heaviness inside her has been traveling through her family for generations. With the help of her wis...