Author Casey Paul Griffiths “I love you.” No phrase is filled with more anxiety, vulnerability, or longing as those three words. Yet, we are so in love with the idea of love that we don’t often think carefully about what it really means. In some languages, there are different words to denote familial, friendly, charitable, and romantic forms of love. But in English there is only one phrase, “I love you.” It is used with our relatives, friends, lovers, and sometimes even strangers. Love is ...

Though the restored Church is comparatively young, it has a rich and vivid history, with more artifacts being uncovered constantly. This second volume highlights the history of the Church through 50 more sacred objects gathered throughout the Church’s history. From its beginning with Joseph Smith and the First Vision, the Restoration has spread across the globe, and every piece of historic evidence tells the stories of the Latter-day Saints.In this volume, you will find photos and ...

Educating for Eternity tells the sweeping story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its nearly two-century commitment to K12 education, from log cabins in Kirtland to academies across the American West and schools spanning Mexico, the Pacific, and South America. Rooted in a theology that declares “the glory of God is intelligence,” this volume explores how faith, persecution, migration, financial constraint, and global expansion shaped a distinctive system of ed...

Two novels from the perspective of Hamlet’s Ophelia—the first set before the events of the play, the second after—written entirely by remixing and repurposing the character’s dialogue from Shakespeare’s original text.“So: now I come to speak.” With this line, Shakespeare’s Ophelia starts telling her story. In let me tell you, this newly revealed woman uses exactly the same words Shakespeare gave her in Hamlet, shifted as in a kaleidoscope to creat...

A brief, potent, and audaciously written novel about a husband caring for his dying wife, and the shifting nature of their relationship as the end approaches.Anna, an Englishwoman, has married, quite late in life, a merchant marine officer, an Italian. Beginning—and ending—at a point shortly before her death, the story told in The Limit focuses attention on her past and his future along lines of narrowing perspective. In the ten years of this odd couple’s ...

This book contains reflections from two groups of scholars who trace their beginnings to the early Saints who built the Kirtland Temple. These scholars come from the two largest branches of the Restoration movement, Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who have often found themselves on the opposite sides of many issues. This book is filled with honest, frank conversations between people of the two faiths but also collegiality and friendship. Centered on...

The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated information and intelligence systems were developed; magistrates came to rely more heavily on surveillance to inform 'good government'; and England's first nationwide system of incarceration was established within bridewells. But while these sizeable and lasting shifts have been well studied, less attention has been paid to the important characteristic that they shared: the 't...

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage's development of zen music; in Milton Babbit...

Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith’s central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular ...

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural diversification, the ...

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz show how the concept of the gene has evolved and diversified across the many fields that make up modern biology. By examining the molecular biology of the 'environment', they situate genetics in the developmental biology of whole org...

Did you know...Brigham Young made significant changes to the structure of the Church, most of which are still in place today?Communist leaders of East Germany invited the Church to build a temple in their country.Serious consideration was given to building a temple ship that would visit seaports to make ordinances more readily available to Saints around the world?These facts are just a few of those you'll fine in What You Don't Know abou...