The rope was already around Bill Peace's neck. He looked at Judge White, hardly able to believe that this man would lend himself to a lynching. But that was before the outlaw Al Sisson interfered. Bill realized that he would be trading certain death for the life of a fugitive, but the prize seemed worth the gamble.

The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted communities. Ecocriticism of the Global South seeks to allow scholars from (or intimately familiar with) underrepresented regions to “write back” to the world’s centers of political and military and e...

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition) presents an enchanting tapestry of yuletide literature that spans centuries and literary styles, gathering works that have shaped holiday storytelling. From tales of benevolence and redemption to merry rhymes and poignant legends, this anthology encapsulates the warmth and magic associated with Christmas. Each piece contributes to a rich literary mosaic, offering highlights such as time...

In this new edition of his classic work, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to the grand synthesis of Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, Dawson brilliantly sh...

In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson's historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson's work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations.Religion, Dawson believed, is the great creative force in any culture, and the loss of a society's historic religion therefore portends a process of social dissolution. For this reason,...

This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.

The January/February 2026 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by A. T. Greenblatt, Christopher Caldwell, J. R. Dawson, Kylie Lee Baker, A. W. Prihandita, Jules Arbeaux, and Claire Humphrey; essays by Dawn Xiana Moon, Betsy Aoki and Marie Brennan, Jana Bianchi, and Riley Silverman; poetry by A. M. Tuomala, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Theodora Goss, and Joemario Umana; interviews with Christopher Caldwell and A. W. Prihandita by Caroline M. Yoachim; Katy...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

In the enchanting anthology "Santa's Christmas Library," readers will discover an extraordinary assemblage of narratives and poems spanning diverse literary styles and epochs. This collection elegantly weaves tales of yuletide cheer, warmth, and wonder, capturing timeless themes from the comfort of familiar traditions to the joy of unexpected surprises. With its eclectic selection, from the nostalgic to the whimsical, the anthology not only traverses a vast array of genres but also reflect...

In a broad survey of a thousand years of religious history, Christopher Dawson stresses the non-European roots of medieval Christendom, but also its flourishing in lands beyond the frontiers of classical civilisation. This marriage of Mediterranean and near-Eastern culture with the barbarian peoples of the North was fruitful in myriad ways: classical culture was preserved, the rule of law established (in theory at least) and the expression of Christianity in theology, philosophy, literatur...

A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional bounds of the interests of competitive nation states.The interdisciplinary background of t...

One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaineestablished blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissancedrama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as oneof the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of aScythian peasant-warrior who conquers the Middle East and is struckdown by illness after burning the books of the Koran is presented intwo parts crammed with theatrical splendour and e...