Presenting a survey of sports in ancient Greece, this work describes ancient sporting events and games.

Seen through the eyes of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Jacob Riis, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, Alfred Kazin, Elizabeth Hardwick, Colson Whitehead, and Teju Cole, almost all the ...

" --Lysa TerKeurst, #1 New York Times bestselling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries "If you find yourself trying to get back up after falling down, you'll find this book brimming with encouragement and buoyant with hope.

Studie van de geschiedenis van de westerse conversatie vanaf de Griekse Oudheid tot heden.

With a touch of dry humor, Miller identifies bumps in the road, briefly offers popular interpretations, and leaves you with food for thought. This is a fast-paced, fun, and reliable guide for your tour through the Bible.

In this first book-length study of the Endowment, Stephen Miller offers a trenchant analysis of the agency's origins, its accomplishments, and the criticisms leveled against it.

This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts.

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel.

Million Dollar Quartet’ is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves"--Page 4 of cover.