The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and a spirit of adventure.Places Lost and Found is a treasury of distinc...

The Hellenistic age is the link between classical Greece and Rome. Originally published in 1964, this book traces the history of Hellenistic poetry and art as parallel phenomena. It starts in mainland Greece with New Comedy, Anyte, and Aratos and discusses the art of the Tanagra figurines and the Pella mosaics. Successive chapters deal with the major figures of Alexandrian art down to the end of the second century B.C. In Asia Minor (except for Kos and Rhodes, already treated with Alexandr...

Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos “bad place,” is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. This book addresses approaches to the study of dystopia from the academic fields of theology and religious studies. Following a co-written chapter where Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson argue that dystopia can be understood as demythologized apocalyptic, ten unique contributions each engage a work of pop...

The Women of Horror gathers thirty enduring tales that map women's long, inventive engagement with the Gothic, supernatural, and psychologically uncanny. Across ghost stories, haunted houses, ancestral secrets, cursed objects, spectral doubles, and domestic terrors, the volume ranges from Romantic and Victorian Gothic to fin-de-siècle sensation, regional realism, and early twentieth-century psychological horror. Its standout episodes of imprisonment, revenance, and unsettling inheritance r...

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural future. However, the built and social environments of many communities, neighbourhoods and cities have not been designed to help Canadians age well.Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this cutting-edge text provides a r...

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An ext...

This book explores the life, theology, and lasting influence of Joachim of Fiore (1135–1202), a visionary medieval theologian whose eschatological ideas revolutionized Christian thought. Known for his doctrine of the three ages—the Age of the Father, the Age of the Son, and the Age of the Holy Spirit—Joachim's progressive vision of history profoundly shaped theological interpretations of divine providence, apocalypticism, and spiritual renewal in both medieval and modern contexts.T...

This book deals with what Christ defined as the biggest challenge of the last days - deception. Crisis is hitting the earth with increasing intensity and the urgent battle is for sight of God in the midst of it all. This book reveals how God is Sovereign over these events and how they are marshaling the nations towards the fulfillment of His ultimate plan. The Arc of Empires provides a compelling description of the macro-design of God's End-time movements and identifies how we need to posi...

During a time of crisis and God’s intensified dealings with the nations of the earth, our insight into the meaning of events must increase. We must see beyond earthly reality and turn our eyes more towards God in order to gain true understanding. We cannot rely upon insight that comes from man’s intelligence and his rational thinking systems, nor can we depend on the narrow function of a prophetic order that is primarily gift based. The prophetic has to become a more broad and holistic sys...

Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. He was the only member of Easy Company to write down his experiences as soon as he came home from war.Webster records with visceral and sometimes brutal detail what it is like to take a bullet in the leg, to fight pitched battles capturing enemy towns, and to endure long periods of boredom punctuated by sudden moments of t...

***This is the seventh and final book in the series. First six books must be read in order to fully understand this story line. THIS STORY IS A NOVELLA AND SHORTER THAN THE REST.***They say the king is the most powerful piece on the board.However, they haven’t met me.This queen knows all the rules. She plays the game better than him.In my game, the queen can knock the king right off the board.Game over.The END.But, I love him.The dar...

From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster, comes a dark, fantasy romance standalone novel!In a cold, empty castle, a young queen is dying.Weak. Fragile. Disgraced.But Queen Whitestone is not alone in her final days.She has her beloved sister.Until a wicked king rides onto her land.Arrogant. Insufferable. Demanding.King Bloodsun has come with an offer…peace in trade for a bride.He wants the princess....