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James Smith is anxious about his life and his family on his fortieth birthday, but experiences a change in attitude.

"The Case of Copper Beach" follows Alice Hurst, an F.B.I. agent. Bodies have been found in Brookings, Oregon, completely mutilated. Pieces of the bodies are missing; eyes, brain, skin, bones, etc. It'

John Calvin understood the importance of prayer to the Christian life and wrote extensively on the subject in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Now modern readers can come to a firmer grasp of

Among the vast body of Jonathan Edwards's writings—characterized by rich doctrine, a clear and forceful style, a powerful depiction of God's majesty, the sinfulness of sin, and Christ's power to save—

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two expe

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