"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - April 2021Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast: A quaint suburban couple rob their dying neighbor to settle an old score.Reach: A businessman travels to China to find the factory worker that left a curious poem in his child's Chrimstas present.Take-Em!: A father invites his liberal son to go duck hunting for quality time.The Ange...

In the study of American law, originalism is primarily a theory about the meaning of the Constitution—that its meaning can only change when its words change. Originalism also appears in biblical theology as a theory on the meaning of the Bible—that its meaning is that intended by the original authors. Originalism in Theology and Law: Comparing Perspectives on the Bible and the Constitution offers a study of originalism in both the Bible and the Constitution. While there are significant con...

For decades, the dead ruled the Earth unchallenged, but their reign was finite. In time, they returned to the dust from which they came. When the living survivors emerged from their underground shelters, they would discover hundreds of thousands of tattered decaying messages, the letters left behind by the last to perish in the Zombie Apocalypse. These are those "Letters From The Dead."

Introduction: The unifying Idea of the Borrowing the Master's BicycleI've written a book about one thought and that thought keeps coming back to me, and that is the more you study something, the more you give and sacrifice for your passions, the more you learn about life--the more your passion "transforms" you. Whatever your passion is, whatever you invest time in learning or doing, the more you'll learn about life, and the more you'll realize that that thing is connected in some w...

This book is a comprehensive exploration of Boston's rich and complex history, spanning from its founding in the early 17th century to its role in shaping the modern world in the 21st century. This book delves into the city's evolution across key phases: from its revolutionary beginnings as a cradle of American independence, to its growth as an industrial powerhouse, and its eventual reinvention as a center for technology, education, and innovation. Through examining critical events, inclu...

This book explores the rich and multifaceted history of Newton, Massachusetts, tracing its development from a modest colonial settlement to a vibrant suburban city that has played a significant role in shaping both national and global history. Through 20 detailed chapters, the book delves into Newton's geography, founding, demographic shifts, political and economic history, urban development, cultural life, and much more. It examines the contributions of Newton's residents—ranging from ear...

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the history of Lowell, Massachusetts, examining its transformation from a planned industrial city into a diverse, modern urban center. Spanning two centuries, it covers the city's founding and rapid growth in the 19th century as a hub of textile manufacturing, powered by technological innovations like the Lowell Canal System. It delves into the lives and struggles of immigrant communities, particularly the Irish, French-Canadians, and Cambo...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Brockton, Massachusetts, tracing its transformation from a rural settlement to a thriving industrial city and, more recently, to its efforts in modern revitalization and diversification. The book delves into the city's economic, social, political, and cultural evolution, examining the rise and fall of the shoe industry that once defined its economy and the challenges and opportunities that have shaped its trajectory. The narrative covers sign...

Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage.Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to ...

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Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values.A brief account of Johnson's own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the mos...

Mark Johnson tells a timeless tale of the struggle to find truth in belief, faith in fact, and friendship in times of fear. It is a new survival story, one that takes place post-climate apocalypse where our main character, Elon, thirty-seven, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear just another voice, is determined to discover what is next for a world sunken and on fire. When Elon discovers a hidden retreat deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, he soon finds himself on the verge of regenera...