Many Christians experience times of doubt and uncertainty. At various times we can ask: Does God love me? Am I really a Christian? - and even Is there a God at all?! This short, readable book unpacks the difference between good and bad doubt, shows us where it comes from and how to deal with it in ourselves and others. It explains clearly and simply the liberating reality of what the Bible tells us about doubt, assurance and the Christian life.

The subjects of medieval romance are the great and permanent concerns of the human mind. A literature is best approached by newcomers, through its major achievements, the author of this book, originally published in 1973, maintains. The book’s discussion centres on the romances of Chaucer and Chrétien de Troyes, and on such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Roman de la Rose, and Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. The book’s introductory chapters stress the cont...

Many Christians experience times of doubt and uncertainty. At various times we can ask: Does God love me? Am I really a Christian? - and even: Is there a God at all?!This short, readable book unpacks the difference between good and bad doubt, shows us where it comes from and how to deal with it in ourselves and others.It explains clearly and simply the liberating reality of what the Bible tells us about doubt, assurance and the Christian life.

GJ's family is an anomaly. Samuel, his uneducated strongman father, respected for his brawn and violent aggression, acts as a conscientious, nurturing single parent, rearing his infant son in the 1950s when men were not their children's primary caregivers. Despite his father's typical Black masculinity, he intuitively understands his son's emerging gay nature as innate. GJ's mother, a child of Black middle-class privilege from the neighboring suburbs, is an absent parent, primarily engaged...

When Viking raiders storm her convent, Senna's quiet life shatters in an instant.Alone. Orphaned. With nowhere to run.The brutal Northmen are everything she's been taught to fear—savage warriors who live for battle and bloodshed. But when the fierce Viking commander Dagr claims her as his prize, Senna discovers the enemy isn't what she expected.Dagr has seen too much death. Loved and lost. Sworn never to car...

The book engages the reader with simple, evocative free form verse in natural rhythms. But, the heart of this collection is a sonnet cycle in traditional English form, with contemporary diction, soaring and whimsical. An underground sleeper.

The History of the French Revolution presents the upheaval of 1789 and its aftermath as a vast moral, political, and social drama, tracing the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the rise of revolutionary assemblies, popular violence, republican experiment, and the emergence of Napoleon. Abbott writes in a vivid nineteenth-century narrative style, combining documentary ambition with dramatic characterization. Situated within the popular historical literature of Victorian-era America, the wor...

Characters developed by the French Revolution. – Madame Roland. – Gratien Phlippon. – His repinings at his lot. – Views of Phlippon. – His hostility to the Church. – Origin of the French Revolution. – Character of Madame Phlippon. – Birth of Jane Maria. – Adored by her parents. – Discontent of Phlippon. – His complainings to his child. – Early traits of character. – Love of books. – Jane's thirst for reading. – Her love of flowers. – Jane's personal appearance. – Thirst for knowledge. – Intel...

Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant faith, barely escaped death in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, and led the Protestant forces against the Catholic armies in the French Wars of Religion. Declaring that "Paris was well worth a mass," he abjured the Calvinist faith, which brought an end to the pitiless strife that was destroying France. "Good King Henry" is remembered for his courage...

Few, even of our most intelligent men, if we except those who are devoted to literary pursuits, are acquainted with the adventures which our forefathers encountered in the settlement of New England. The claims of business are now so exacting, that those whose time is engrossed by its cares have but little leisure for extensive reading, and yet there is no American who does not desire to be familiar with the early history of his own country. The writer, with great labor, has collected from wid...

The retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change.By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book like none other.Six Amendments is an unprecedented call...

A history of the Welsh Battalion and its service during World War I in France.The Carmarthenshire Battalion was one of the early units raised in 1914 as a result of Lord Kitchener's expansion of the regular army by 500,000 men for the duration of the Great War. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a vision of a Welsh Army Group and massive efforts were made to recruit and form Welsh fighting units.The first 200 recruits for the Carmarthen Pals ...