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Father Gabriel Garza has just started his ministry in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC, but he already asks too many impertinent questions.

The dogmatic Archbishop, frustrated with this troublesome newcomer, exiles Garza to Rome for graduate study. As he stumbles through bloody Vatican archives, Garza discovers Emperor Constantine's original Christian credo from 325 AD and evidence of continual Church atrocities against the Jewish people and heretics.

Secrets can't stay buried forever. Garza reveals his findings to Paolo Nasrani, his mysterious thesis advisor and a secret...

The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas, and techniques of six distinguished directors of the European stage--each considered a master of the art--are surveyed in depth by author Samuel L. Leiter in this groundbreaking study. Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Jacques Copeau, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean-Louis Barrault, representative of the broad spectrum of directorial art as it has developed in this century, are examined in six exhaustively detailed, yet compact chapters. In Leiter's informative introduction, salient aspects of the director's art exemplified...

This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory--why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why, for example, can a religious soup kitchen get an exemption from zoning laws in order to expand its facilities to better serve the needy, while a secular soup kitchen with the same goal cannot? Why is a Sikh boy permitted to wear his ceremonial dagger to school while any other boy could be expelled for packing a knife? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded...

This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory--why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of...

This volume presents a broad picture of the theatrical controversies, developments, and talents of the 1970s. Among the many topics discussed are the avant-garde's stretching of the traditional boundaries, the redefinition of the musical theatre, the expansion of Off Off-Broadway productions, institutionalized and subsidized productions, the economic turnaround of the commercial theatre, and the rise of many talented young actors and director. This is the first comprehensive account of the New York theatre of the 1970s.

A unique nurturing perspective to empowering children against a life-altering impact of parental PTSD, Anita Miranda is giving you a chance to download "Helping Hand with PTSD," the first in its series from Nana Knows for free. This book opens the door for families to discuss the complexity of PTSD in the home.

"Nana's Helping Hand with PTSD" is a book that can have a profound impact in helping children and grownups learn about this condition that mistakenly has been thought to be a result of military experiences only. The author through story-telling provides insight and facts...

This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's "From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage" (Greenwood Press, 1991), provides exhaustively detailed, yet compact accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight outstanding directors of the English-speaking stage as well as separate, thorough bibliographies and chronologies of each. Samuel L. Leiter selected directors David Belasco, Harley Granville-Barker, George Abbott, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Margaret Webster, Elia Kazan, Joan Littlewood, and Peter Brook as exemplars of the broad spectrum of...

In the beloved book Sweet Pea's Tale of TOO MANY TOMATOES you met Sweet Pea, a little bunny who lives in a tidy hole by the stream on the south side of the meadow. In this second Sweet Pea Tale, all of Sweet Pea's friends and relations decide to come visit for the holidays. As the guest tally increases, she finds there is more and more to do Will she be ready by Christmas Day? Will String Bean be able to help her out when an unexpected calamity ruins all her plans? Find out, as SWEET PEA'S CHRISTMAS unfolds one day at a time just like an Advent Calendar. Just like TOO MANY...