James O'Neal, promoted to colonel and battalion commander. Three or four days later, after fighting hard, they lost the Union cavalry that had ambushed us and had caused the death of Garnett. After several hours of riding as unit A ...
In this groundbreaking book, Thomas G. Long—a theologian and respected authority on preaching—explores how Christians talk when they are not in church.
The hurt of it wounded his pride. In this day and age, Tyrone hadn't truly expected to marry a virgin. So it had been an extra-special delight to find on their wedding night that she'd never been with another man.
In the spirit of Goonies and Stranger Things, Testimony challenges young Peter to rely on friendship and possibly put his trust in a higher power.
As we crawled into bed, I realized how beautiful she was, with a strong resemblance to Charlotte Rampling, the gorgeous star of the film The Night Porter. We melted into one another, and just before we fell into blissful sleep, ...
... and/or the apparent application – because of the rather vague criteria proposed for evaluating sexual relationships – of something like Fletcher's situation ethics to matters of sexuality.15 Paul Ramsey argued that the report failed ...
A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.
Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in Testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller.
This commemorative book relates how the foundation accomplished this feat through a worldwide network of dedicated people, pioneering interview methods, and state-of-the art technologies.
A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in which participants were caught on videotape, a situation that derails the innocence and best intentions of students, parents, and others in life-shattering ways.
In this unique collection, Yale literary critic Shoshana Felman and psychoanalyst Dori Laub examine the nature and function of memory and the act of witnessing, both in their general relation to the acts of writing and reading, and in their ...
Author of Recollections and Reconsiderations “Paul Kahn's Testimony is an extraordinary and profound meditation on the fundamental questions of human existence—trauma, rage, memory, love, faith, and care—drawn from a shattering ...
TESTIMONY THE MEMOIRS OF DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Guardian heralded Testimony as “the most influential music book of the 20th century.” Testimony offers a chance to reckon with the life and work of one of history’s most lauded musical geniuses—as a man and an artist.
A former rural schoolteacher gives an account of a village (fictitious name) and villagers destroyed by elements of the Guatamalan army in search of revolutionaries and guerrillas.
Two years later, she died. Testimony is a son’s memoir of this struggle. Paul Kahn finds here a story of the twentieth century, beginning with poverty in the Depression and immigration from Hitler’s Germany.
In Testimony, Black students across the country express their generation's shared experiences—from racism in school to the politics of hair.
This book fills that gap, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of all major competing theories. All chapters conclude with Suggestions for Further Reading and Discussion Questions.
TESTIMONY: DEATH OF A GUATEMALAN VILLAGE is an eyewitness account by a Guatemalan primary school teacher detailing one instance of violent conflict between the indigenous Maya people and the army....
A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's book explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.