Albert Rhys Williams used his cover as a journalist to, as one observer put it, go “through the Bolshevik Revolution in a dress suit.” Inspired by brief friendships with Lenin and John Reed, Williams spent the next forty-five years defending socialism and the Soviet Union.William Benton Whisenhunt draws on the largely untapped archive of Williams’s papers to provide a first-ever biography of the dedicated radical writer. Williams spent nearly ten years living and traveling in the U...

Featuring beautiful hand-painted cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this deluxe edition of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and Other Verse celebrates the beauty and the agony of love.William Shakespeare, one of history's most influential English writers, crafted works that endure because of their profound insight into human emotions. Throughout his canon, he masterfully explores every facet of love, capturing both its bliss and its potential for jealo...

At long last, the Puritan most often reached for is finally gathered in full.For generations, Thomas Watson’s works have been beloved, quoted, and reprinted in fragments, yet never collected in a definitive edition. This seven-volume set rectifies that omission, bringing together Watson’s published writings in a uniform, carefully edited, and eminently usable form for the church today.Watson is that rare combination: simple enough for the newest reader, wei...

Explore how the pillars of the rule of law—from the courts of ancient Athens to the Constitution of the United States—were builtIn The Just and the Good, William Magnuson takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of the law in Western civilization. He explains how foundational institutions like courts, codes, and constitutions magically transform the worlds they govern. And he argues that if we want to understand the foundations of freedom, justice, ...

Shakespeare's popular pastoral romance, As You Like It, features disguised lovers, exiled brothers, multiple marriage plots, a wrestling bout and the famous Forest of Arden.Friendships are formed and lovers are reunited in a play that explores the intersection of love, 'play' and deception. Rosalind's unique performance of gender, both as herself and in disguise as Ganymede, provides the pivot on which the play turns, leading us into the magic of the fores...

International, interdisciplinary and urgent, this edited collection of 15 essays explores performances of resistance to Russian authoritarianism since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, with a particular focus on the 21st century under Putin's leadership.Against the backdrop of Russia's Post-Soviet history of rising nationalism and war in Ukraine, this volume challenges what we consider expressions of resistance. How can we evaluate their potential to contest autocra...

Some murders become headlines. Others become history. Most become nothing at all.In the summer of 1997, the world watched transfixed as police hunted the man who shot Gianni Versace on the steps of his Miami mansion. Seven years earlier, a severed head in a West Hollywood dumpster didn't even make the local news.Both stories ask the same uncomfortable question. What does it take for a gay man's death to matter?From sun-bleached California freeways to the forums of t...

The iconic Star Trek actor, known for playing Captain Kirk, and New York Times –bestselling author delivers a unique, moving memoir in poems and lyrics.You know him from his voyages on the Starship Enterprise, as veteran cop T. J. Hooker, and Boston Legal lawyer Denny Crane. He's starred in his own one-man show on Broadway and has collaborate...

Citizenship in Shakespeare's England was not attached to nationality but rather to one's city and employment. In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic relationships which existed through a range of dramatic texts.Revealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citi...

This book examines the language of the varied types of graffiti and street art while uncovering the contemporary uses and purpose behind our need to tag out our existence through letters and images on buildings and city blocks.Graffiti is as much about our need for art as expression-providing voice for the voiceless-as it is our need for beauty, social criticism, or civil disruption in our environments. This book takes an approach to understanding the ways in which...

This Festschrift in honour of Jean Porter, whose research over her career has focused on the most important topics in moral theology, including action theory, virtue, natural law and justice.Crossing disciplinary boundaries, from theology to philosophy to law, a group of leading Catholic and Protestant scholars celebrate the life work of Jean Porter. The contributors engage a wide range of topics in moral thought – from the very foundations of morality, to the tech...

The Self-Care Workbook for Helping Professionals is a how-to workbook of tools to help the helpers.Emphasizing that the problem of stress is not a reflection of the depth or quality of a helper's resilience, the book provides readers with assessment tools to identify problematic reactions and develop personalized self-care practices that enhance resilience. Readers will come away from the book with a variety of activities and techniques for identifying pain points and deve...