Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the "great refiner" who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant images of folly and deceit. He was also a celebrated reprobate and an ambitious entrepreneur. David Riggs illuminates every facet of this extraordinary career, giving us the first major biography of Jonson in over sixty years.
The story of Jonson's life provides a broad view of the literary procession in early modern England and the milieu in which Elizabethan drama was produced....
Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the "great refiner" who alchemized...
War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the challenges of personal, social, and economic resources on the home front. U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sent a million service personnel from the U.S. alone into conflict areas leaving millions of spouses, children and others in stressful circumstances. This is not a new situation for military families, but it has taken a toll of magnified proportions in recent times. In addition, medical advances have prolonged the life of...
War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the chal...
War-related separations challenge families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with combat deployments provokes anxiety in family members left at home. Lengthy separations may challenge the personal, social, and economic coping resources of families at home. In this war, thanks to medical advances, many service members who previously would have died of their injuries are returning home to live long, although altered lives. As a result, families are facing the additional challenge of assisting service members who have experienced amputation, traumatic brain injury, and...
War-related separations challenge families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with combat deployments provokes anxiety in family membe...
Embattled Shrine is a narrative of the Civil War at one of America's earliest national symbols, recounting how both sides conducted that war behind the Richmond-Petersburg front. Here is the most recent scholarship on one of the Civil War's forgotten places.
Embattled Shrine is a narrative of the Civil War at one of America's earliest national symbols, recounting how both sides conducted that war behind th...
War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the challenges of personal, social, and economic resources on the home front. U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sent a million service personnel from the U.S. alone into conflict areas leaving millions of spouses, children and others in stressful circumstances. This is not a new situation for military families, but it has taken a toll of magnified proportions in recent times. In addition, medical advances have prolonged the life of...
War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the chal...
Bomarcus, a mysterious voice heard only in dreams, speaks to a young mental patient to foretell a tragedy about to befall a sinister, polygamous family in northern Arizona. A war-wounded veteran of the Gulf War, now a psychological researcher from Seattle, is abruptly coerced away from a much-anticipated motorcycle vacation in South Dakota. He becomes tangled in a desperate race to rescue several young women, the wives of a dangerous and demented patriarch. Shocking discoveries at the polygamous compound reveal a pattern of corruption, sex abuse, incest and murder, with origins decades...
Bomarcus, a mysterious voice heard only in dreams, speaks to a young mental patient to foretell a tragedy about to befall a sinister, polygamous famil...
The title, "Lord of Obstacles" is taken from the Indian elephant diety, Ganesh, The Lord of Obstacles. The story centers around a young man who sustains a traumatic brain injury during the Gulf War and now works as a freelance writer and researcher in Seattle. He is given an assignment to interview and document the case of an eleven year-old girl who awoke from a long-term vegetative coma following brain surgery and now has exact memories belonging to someone long dead and with no apparent connection to her or her family. She cannot remember her own identity but has found an 'imaginary'...
The title, "Lord of Obstacles" is taken from the Indian elephant diety, Ganesh, The Lord of Obstacles. The story centers around a young man who sustai...
