Sign & Breath is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines voice? Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diverse traditions. Rather than define poetry as a genre with conventions, traditions, codes, a...

If you are tired of sinning and repenting but finding yourself back in that same sin, there is help for you. There is a place in God where a Christian can live free of sin on a regular basis. It is not easily or casually found. It takes diligence and determination on the part of the Christian who wants to live free of sin. It is therefore necessary to find this place, to experience freedom and be at peace with God.As a Christian who truly loves his God, I was not able to live this ...

Can the answer to a simple science question change your life? For Garson Strangewalker, yes. In this second book in the Legend Keepers series, twelve-year-old Garson doesn't fit in a school. He's in a new community, hasn't made friends, and his father has gone missing. Each day's a struggle until a simple question he asks at the spring science fair sparks an interest in glaciers. He reads about them but can't get enough.For his sixth-grade science project, Garson climbs to...

In todayÂs culture wars and the everyday struggle of individuals to make sense of the world around them, the question of how we can understand the world becomes a vital one. In order to make the best decisions in life, we need the best information. But how can we go about obtaining that?The Path of Reason begins with an examination of the two means that we use to understand the world  faith and reason. The author compares them and shows why they are often mutually exclus...

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, but it also takes the long view of how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart in creative ways beginning in Shakespeare's own time. The book's five chapters consider cuts, cutting, and cutwork from a variety of angles: (1) as bodily experiences, (2...

From time to time, we all pause to examine our beliefs. In this book, by reexamining the ideas of faith and reason, the author demonstrates the value of critical thinking to dissect confusing and misleading ideas and to uncover important, although sometimes difficult, truths. With the power of reason, it is found that false hopes and a faith that we may be afraid to look into, can be replaced by something stronger and more valuable: a newfound sense of realistic possibilities and a greater...

Fun with Stuff is a collection of humor columns, many of which first appeared in a Southern California Mensa publication. But dont be frightened; theyre not all that intellectual. Hardly. Instead, these are true life stories and exaggerated fabrications that everyone can relate to. Laugh along as Bruce Smith relates tales detailing: A comedy of errors as Bruce and his wife make an attempt to travel in an RV. The origins of the saying, your hair looks like a cat sucked on it. How you simply...

The completely revised Third Edition to the bestselling Microlithography: Science and Technology provides a balanced treatment of theoretical and operational considerations, from fundamental principles to advanced topics of nanoscale lithography. The book is divided into chapters covering all important aspects related to the imaging, materials, and processes that have been necessary to drive semiconductor lithography toward nanometer-scale generations. Renowned experts from the wo...

When was the last time you saw a miracle?Scratching your head...or maybe you're already skeptical?These pages are full of documented miracles happening everyday-the power of God moving through ordinary men and woman all around the world.Their stories begin with desperation, and the struggle and the perseverance these national translators show is guaranteed to inspire....these are the least of these. Humble people-largely unknown to anyone else in the world. People h...

Winner of a 2023 IACP Cookbook Award and the Golden Poppy Book Award in the Glenn Goldman Cooking categorySix California Kitchens is the quintessential California cookbook, with farm-to-table recipes and stories from Sally Schmitt, the pioneering female chef and original founder of the French Laundry."Schmitt, the founder of California’s famed French Laundry restaurant, reflects on the food that defined her life, i...

Two eminent political scientists show that America's great conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, were fought not for ideals, or even geopolitical strategy, but for the individual gain of the presidents who waged them.It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate-Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few-oversaw some of the republic's bloodiest years. Perhaps they were driven by ...

The never-before-published last essays of the late Duncan Smith, at once heartbreakingly personal and bracingly intellectual.Following the appearance of his theoretical tour-de-force The Age of Oil and his AIDS diagnosis, Duncan Smith (1954–1991) produced Days in the Clouds, a collection of thirty-eight essays sparkling with his characteristic linguistic brilliance. Now published for the first time, Days in the Clouds chronicles Smith’s r...