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In 1848 Henry David Thoreau, a young man of twenty-one, met and fell in love with Ellen Sewall, a young woman aged seventeen. This play, From Lake Walden, With Love, is based on what is known of their relationship.

The United States’ military doctrine, as proclaimed by its Department of Defense, is to attain ‘full-spectrum dominance… in the air, land, maritime and space domains and information environment… without effective opposition or prohibitive interference.’ This is an agenda for global conquest...

In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...

Sixteen stories of true crime from America’s foremost authority on the underworld James “Whitey” Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath—who also happened to be a secret FBI informant—his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than...

A long sequence of social, cultural, and political processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto former colonial and national traditions. Although much of...

When Luke Warm finds breaking up with his fiancée is hard to do, he makes the mistake of going to Dr. Looney, a psychiatrist, for help.

When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would...

Of all the demons, monsters, fiends, and ogres to preoccupy the western imagination in literature, art, and film, no figure has been more feared—or misunderstood--than Satan. But how accurate are the popular images of Satan? How--and why--did this rather minor biblical character morph into the very...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...

David's father is worried. His son loves water. When they had their garden landscaped and a pond put in David would spend all of his time outside looking at the water. As strange things begin to happen David's father becomes worried that it is not the water David is looking at. He thinks there might be something else. Something beneath the surface.

"Christian Success in a Secular World" is a guide that reveals that the terms: Christian and Success, are not mutually exclusive but, rather very compatible. By living a Christ-like life style and carring those parameters into one's career path, any employer would want that employee in their...

Here T. J. Murphy, a longtime triathlete and Editor-in-Chief of Triathlete Magazine, offers the aspiring triathlete a clear and simple pathway that will guide him or her toward experiencing the ultimate fitness lifestyle, culminating with the successful completion of a first triathlon. Beginning with...

Calcius and his apprentice Rikkaton enter the tomb of the cult of Muta, ancient God of Silence. But all is not as it seems within the tomb, there are unanswered questions. What happened to the people, how did the disaster happen, and there is the saying: Silence is golden.

Blockchain: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin Blockchain is a database that is truly on the cutting edge of technology at the moment. So much so that its true potential has not even come close to be discovered. Nevertheless, analysts...