When Charlie discovers an intruder in her kitchen she has no warning of the adventures which are to follow. The strange creature is Skrubb, a Gremal who has been sent to The Surface by his tribe who dwell deep in the Underworld. His cousin Skreng has stolen a sacred scroll and Skrubb has just three days to recover it - or his family will be put to death. Charlie recruits her bookish friend Ollie to help in a desperate race against time that takes them from the darkened halls of the British Museum to the modern towers of Canary Wharf, from caverns deep below the Tower of London to the...

Issues of New Testament Anti-Judaism brings a fresh analysis to the emerging conflicts between the earliest followers of Jesus of Nazareth and the leaders of the Jewish communities in Palestine and its environs.

Without Old Buck, there would have been no Civil War. Without Old Buck, there would be no President Obama. Without Old Buck, there would be no America as we know it. "Old Buck is that rare feat-a tremendously entertaining novel and an astonishingly enlightening one too. Evans... has written a book that will stand the test of time." David Goehring, Harvard University. All the principal characters and events are true. James Buchanan, 15th President, is the titular protagonist. Ann Coleman is the daughter of America's wealthiest war profiteer. Thaddeus Stevens is the nation's leading...

Music is a means of unifying and a means of distinguishing; a means of establishing and a means of revolting; a means of being intensely present and a means of escape. This book, with its several stories of the musical occasion in extreme diversity of place and time, aims at implicating a wide variety of readers in the consideration of truly social issues. All members of society are engaged in the musical phenomena in some way; many who are not professional musicians or academicians will be glad of an opportunity to consider such experiences more consciously.

The year is 1939. Seven kids and our parents living in a three-bedroom house with no indoor plumbing. Nevertheless, we were happy and things were going great until 1941, when my mother was committed to the West Virginia State Mental Hospital. She was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, and would spend the next 19 years of her life there. My dad was faced with raising seven kids between the ages of two and 14 years old. People have often asked me how my dad was able to overcome such a task. I would always tell them that it was with his strong faith in God and two nails. My dad had driven two nails...