Tacitus (c. 55 c. 120 CE), renowned for concision and psychology, is paramount as a historian of the early Roman empire. What survives of Histories covers the dramatic years 69 70. What survives of Annals tells an often terrible tale of 14 28, 31 37, and, partially, 47 66.

Sir George Darwin (1845 1912) was the second son of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His work was concerned primarily with the effect of the sun and moon on tidal forces on Earth, and with the theoretical cosmogony which evolved from practical observation: he formulated the fission theory of the formation of the moon (that the moon was formed from still-molten matter pulled away from the Earth by solar tides). He...

After enduring six years of marriage to an abusive husband still attached to a destructive ex-girlfriend, this thirty year old young woman discovered that when her burden became unbearable, God was there to deliver her. In "Not By Chance, But For the Glory of God," she shares her own story of God's deliverance so she can help prevent others from making the mistakes she did in choosing a mate. As a young woman, she did not seek God in every decision she made, but rather was searching for love on her own. That choice, you will see by her story, nearly cost her life.
Then God gave her a...