Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range ...

In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational discourse of the law reveals at its core the processes of emotion, and a study of literature that engages wi...

Phillip E. Johnson pries the lid off public debate about questions of ultimate concern—questions often suppressed by our society’s intellectual elite. Moving far beyond matters of creation and evolution, Johnson outlines the questions we all ought to be asking about the meaning of human history, the limits of scientific inquiry, religion and education in a pluralistic society, truth, liberty and moral choices, and God and His Word, Jesus Christ.Johnson deftly demonstrates how the r...

In Radical Brown, renowned developmental scholar Margaret Beale Spencer and critical legal analyst Nancy E. Dowd offer a fresh perspective on the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Noting that decades of flawed implementation have subverted Brown's great promise of educational equality for K–12 public school students, Spencer and Dowd propose a bold framework for a new interpretation of the Supreme Court decision, one that is inclusive, identity affirming, and cultural...

We all love Italian food. Cook books like this one, with over 25 easy recipes taken from the pages of Quench Magazine, help bring the best of Italy to your kitchen. It allows you to create the atmosphere coveted by some — minus the yelling Italian grandmother. So please take it all in as you are preparing these meals. Pour yourself a glass of your favorite wine and cook with all your heart. Then invite everyone who owns a phone to come and try what you’ve made. That’s what it mean...

Whether it's chicken, turkey, quail or any other fowl, we love to cook them up. With more than 35 recipes, Quench Cooks Things With Wings is an ideal book for those looking to develop their taste buds.

Exploring the firsts of Dr Nancy's journey to who she was meant to be is full of twists and turns, joys and disasters, successes and failures. A happy and healthy fun retirement caps the journey. Join the trip and share the ride.About the AuthorFriends, family, neighbors and colleagues are daily reminders of past experiences. Now at half pace watching the sunset over Lake Erie with her companion MIDNIGHT, she says "THANK YOU GOD."

The Story of the Spirit Pin is a tale about seeking perpetual peace on Earth to protect the most vulnerable population - the individual.

This book is also done with a child's vision, and she continues her views as she becomes an adult. She became an adult, and she hates any type of conflict and wants peace and respect for everyone. Maybe when everyone reads this, they will also not want conflict and have respect.

In an emotional ode to the color blue—and the blues—from writer Nancy Johnson James and illustrator Constance Moore, the creators of Brown: The Many Shades of Love and Black: The Many Wonders of My World, The Many Ways I Feel features a colorful collage of watercolor and textile eye-catching art.Full of feeling and wonder, a child describes all the beautiful shades of blue they feel—from a pale winter sky to a bright ocean wave, from deep...

A poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of Brown: The Many Shades of LoveWhat dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity.She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and to write, and became a dressmaker. She hand-stitched gorgeous gowns. She worked so hard she lost her eyesight, and her world went dark. But those well-loved stitches turned into words, and...

HIGH ON HOPE tells the gripping story of a young girl trying to find herself in the destructive world of teenage rebellion, drug addiction, and alcohol abuse. To make matters worse --or better --she is a preacher's kid! Will she completely reject the faith of her parents or will she somehow find her way back home? And what will be the price of her rebellion? At what cost, will the prodigal return? Nanci Johnson's highly personal and deeply honest testimony will make you laugh and cry at th...