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The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic.

Russell argues that the essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in this period...

Committing your life to Christ isn't the finish line. It's really the starting point to a lifelong adventure with Jesus. But all too often, many begin the race heading in the wrong direction.

In Starting Point, David Russell offers secrets to starting and finishing well, answering questions like:

• How does Christianity differ from all the other religions?

• How can you know that God is actively involved in your life?

• Why is the recognition of Jesus as King (not merely the Messiah) the gateway to a full...

Winston Patrick, a successful lawyer but dissatisfied with his career defending the downtrodden of Vancouver s criminal world, trades in the courtroom for the high school classroom. Soon Winston s past life meets his present when a student accuses a fellow colleague of a teacher-student love affair. Reluctantly, Winston agrees to provide legal defence, but the case takes an even uglier turn: the student is murdered, making her alleged lover the prime suspect. And this is no ordinary student. With her family connections reaching as high as the Prime Minister s office, Winston and his friend...

Although not much is known about the three Stuart plays in this edition, which was first published in 1987, we can ascribe them to one of the English universities, and each is indicative of a distinctly different influence on the Renaissance academic drama. Heteroclitanomalonomia is part of a minor subgenre referred to as the academic play. It demonstrates the predominance of language or rhetoric studies in the period and its very subject is of purely academic interest. Gigantomachia displays the continuing interest of the Renaissance in classical mythology. And A Christmas Messe follows a...