During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a discourse of masculinity crisis precipitated the appearance of a number of what Susan Jeffords describes as "rearticulations of screen masculinity," which influenced the production of a group of films whose narrative diegeses reaffirmed the heteronormative, hypermasculine facade onscreen. These films are identified and defined in this book as remasculation pictures, or narratives that showcase the hero's oscillation between two oppositional expressions of screen masculinity. In the rhetoric of the remasculation film, the protagonist's emasculation...

A study of joseki mistakes in playing the game of go and how to correct them or take advantage of them when your opponent makes the mistake.

Book Description: Doing theology is like building a comically circuitous Rube Goldberg machine: you spend your time tinkering together an unnecessarily complicated, impractical, and ingenious apparatus for doing things that are, in themselves, simple. But there is a kind of joy in theology's gratuity, there is a pleasure in its comedic machination, and ultimately-if the balloon pops, the hamster spins, the chain pulls, the bucket empties, the pulley lifts, and (voila ) the book's page is turned-some measurable kind of work is accomplished. But this work is a byproduct. The...