Do you know what you're committing to-legally speaking-when you exchange wedding vows?Saying "I do" means you've essentially agreed to a prenup by default. Most people haven't read their state's marital contract, but here's the gist: it was written in the 1800s by a bunch of old chauvinists whose idea of marriage would be best described today as cringe. Have there been tweaks? Sure. How's the foundation? Legally terrifying. And divorce happens. There's nothing colder and m...

Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre – but eight Tony awards and enormous successes on Broadway and the West End testify to its enduring popularity with audiences. Written by Hugh Wheeler, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the musical premiered in 1979 and has seen numerous revivals, including Tim Burton's 2007 film version.Aaron C. Thomas addresses th...

As globalization proceeds at an ever increasing and more unrelenting pace, relations among the world’s religions are taking on both a new visibility and a new urgency. Christian theologians and others intent on innovative formulations in the theology of religions are making interreligious dialogue with non-Christians a priority. One way to promote creative scholarship in this quest is to tap into interdisciplinary resources, and the author of this volume is uniquely qualified to do so sinc...

A motivational message from "out" (openly gay) Christian singer/songwriter, Shawn Thomas, encouraging us to identify first who and what we are NOT in order to discover who we ARE.

It is only during his journey told in this story that Marlow realizes that perhaps by avoiding suffering, he has become like the zombies he so fears, and that the only way out is to suffer his fate and become one. "Marlow is a zombie tale about suffering and its part in our humanity, and, in that sense, not about zombies at all.

The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States.Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen

The Violate Man is about the discourse of male/male rape in American culture since the mid‑1960s. Author Aaron C. Thomas analyzes film, television, and theater to indict how treatments of male/male rape narratives have encouraged us to interpret sexual violence over the last sixty years. This discourse is productive for our thinking about the real world. The Violate Man finds that these narratives establish—and often maintain or reinforce—longstanding racialized and sexua...

The evil King of Mannoratt has given his most productive dragonologists -Lidon Tenaar and Ilion Engoraar - a gruesome task: to make a poison using the plants from the dragons sanctuary, Hiro, to kill all dragons. But with the help of a fortune teller, they find a way to rebel against the king. Will the plan work? Or will all Gehennamraka break loose?

Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the death penalty, the elimination of the use of torture in criminal interrogations—these ar...

In the sun-drenched plains of La Mancha, a chivalrous knight errant named Don Quixote embarks on a whimsical quest. Driven by his vivid imagination and unwavering idealism, he transforms ordinary encounters into extraordinary adventures. Accompanied by his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, Quixote tilts at windmills, battles giants, and rescues damsels in distress. Along the way, he encounters a cast of eccentric characters, from the beautiful Dulcinea to the cunning barber, who both mock and ad...

Enemies Within explores Adair’s rise from neo-Nazi skinhead to leader of the notorious Ulster Freedom Fighters, a cover-name for the assassination wing of the Ulster Defence Association, a Protestant paramilitary group that killed hundreds of people during the Troubles.With unprecedented access to Adair and his associates, critically acclaimed author and counter-terrorism expert Aaron Edwards paints a vivid picture of how the loyalist godfather built up an extensive terror network ...

This is the story of Thomas Alcock's time in Alberta, Canada. Thomas was my grandfather, and as far as I know this story is completely true. The exact period of history that he was stationed there is not mentioned, but it was likely sometime in the 1950's. He uses the pen name "Signalman Willie Starr" but mentions it only once.He was stationed near the Mackenzie river, and assigned the responsibility of sending and receiving messages in morse code. He dealt a lot with weather repor...