When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run "from" somewhere, she wants to run "to" somewhere -- to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing that her younger br[...]

What happens when society finds a wild boy alone in the woods and tries to civilize him? A true story from the author of "The Fairy Ring."
One day in 1798, woodsmen in southern France returned from the forest having captured a naked boy. He had been running wild, digging for food, and was covere[...]

Fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea was an erudite Scripture commentator, an architect of Trinitarian theology, a founder of monasticism, and a metropolitan bishop. This introduction to Basil's thought surveys his theological, spiritual, and monastic writings, showing the importance of hi[...]

A master of song poems which celebrate and incarnate the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of his mas[...]

Basil of Caesarea, the Great, has drawn the admiration of many for centuries. He was a father of eastern coenobitic monasticism; an author of orthodox Trinitarian theology and eloquent defender of the Spirit; a model of social virtue and concern for the poor; and an erudite preacher and able bishop.[...]

This book is largely made up of conversations that Dr. Serge Bolshakoff had with monastic fathers of the Russian Orthodox Church. These took place through 50 years in Russia, Estonia, Finland, on Mount Athos, and in France. Many of them appeared, in a somewhat different form, in the book In Search o[...]

One of the great pioneers of electrical science, Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) was a self-educated, fiercely independent genius who cared nothing for social or mathematical conventions. Among many achievements, he showed how to rid telephone lines of distortion and put Maxwell's wonderful but hithert[...]

The remarkable and challenging story of a man who dared to believe that God both could and would supply all of his needs?whether personal or for the thousands of orphans in his care! Though confirmed in the church at the age of 14, George Muller was raised without a real concept of God. By the time[...]