It appeared that Helen McAllister – for whatever reason – had simply got out of the car sometime the previous morning, taking her keys and bag and phone with her, and walked away…Ten years later there has been no trace found of the teacher who went missing from a small village on the last day of the school year. Her lover Alice Hauser’s accusations of impropriety on the part of the senior investigating officer, DI Thomas Maitland, led to his early retirement, his life in disrepair....

A handbook for teaching Washington’s legacy, the American founding era, and responsible engagement in contemporary civic lifeCrafted by a diverse group of expert historians, museum professionals, and K–12 teachers, Learning Through George Washington is an engaging, multifaceted exploration of how to teach and learn about the American Revolutionary era. For more than twenty-five years, these educators have gathered at Mount Vernon to participate in dynamic ...

The Essential Dylan Thomas gathers the central achievements of a writer whose work transformed twentieth-century lyricism through sound, image, and incantatory force. Bringing together major poems such as "Fern Hill" and "Do not go gentle into that good night," alongside prose and dramatic selections associated with Under Milk Wood, the volume reveals Thomas's fascination with birth, death, childhood, desire, and the sacred energies of language. His style fuses modernist experimentation wi...

Over sixty years ago, Thomas Merton--monk, mystic, and writer--proclaimed that we are living in a post-Christian world. That is, the influence of the institutional church is in decline and the popular version of Christianity presented to society has in many ways become a caricature of itself. Since that time, the religious landscape has continued to change. Today the number of people who identify as "None," someone with no particular religious affiliation, outnumbers the combined total of ...

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay syst...

The Greatest Works of Thomas More gathers the writings of one of Renaissance humanism's most searching and paradoxical minds, placing political fantasy, devotional argument, polemic, and biographical remembrance in illuminating proximity. From the enduring imaginative experiment of Utopia to works of conscience, controversy, and spiritual reflection, the volume reveals a writer equally attentive to civic order, moral ambiguity, and the claims of faith. Its range of styles—dialogue, satire,...

“I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.”Far From The Madding Crowd is the new talked-about movie from Fox Searchlight starring Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene. This is the original 1874 romance novel by Thomas Hardy, newly revised and optimized for digital reading.In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very...

Thomas Reid's An Inquiry into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense is a foundational work of the Scottish Enlightenment and a direct challenge to the skeptical implications of Locke, Berkeley, and especially Hume. Written in a lucid, analytic prose, the book examines perception, sensation, memory, and judgment, arguing that human knowledge rests upon natural principles implanted in ordinary understanding. Its style combines philosophical rigor with an appeal to lived experienc...

Tom Mallon joins John Freeman to discuss their books, Mallon's Yours Ever and Freeman's Tyranny of E-Mail.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.THE HOUSEBOAT | An Indian Horror Story | Scariest Boat IncidentWhen a group of college students sets out on a fun trip to Kerala, India, they expect peace, beauty, and unforgettable memories. But what starts as a dream vacation soon turns into a nightmare on a drifting houseboat. Something ancient and unseen lurks beneath the calm waters of the backwaters... and it’s waiting.Based on a true story, this spine-chilling tal...

The first part of "The Sacred Theory of the Earth", written by the English theologian and writer on cosmogony Thomas Burnet, was published in 1681 in Latin, and in 1684 in English translation; the second part appeared in 1689 (1690 in English)."The Sacred Theory of the Earth" is a speculative cosmogony, in which Burnet suggests a hollow earth with most of the water inside until Noah's Flood, at which time mountains and oceans appeared. He calculated the amount of water on Earth's su...

Serialized in 1892 and published as a book in 1897, "The Well-Beloved" (full title "The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament") was Thomas Hardy’s last published novel. Following the furore that surrounded the publication of "Jude the obscure" in 1895, Hardy turned his back on novel writing, and devoted himself to his poetry for the remaining thirty years of his life. "The Well-Beloved" is a work that Hardy himself revised several times.The main setting of the novel, the...