"A lively biography of Sam Houston's illustrious son"The youngest son of General Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston, Temple Lea Houston lived his comparatively short life fast and hard. From 1881 to 1905, he was one of the Southwest's most brilliant, eccentric, and widely known criminal lawyers. T[...]

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruct[...]

In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as "America's sweetheart," and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple's films strike many modern viewers as perverse. Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines her early career in the context of the history of girlhood [...]

Ready-to-build model included Solomon's Temple, known as the location of the famous Ark of the Covenant, was the focus of worship in Old Testament times. What did it actually look like? Why was it built? What happened in the Temple? Discover the answers to all of these questions and many more in th[...]

The story of Israel is one of the outstanding tales of human history. Israel, occupying a narrow strip of land between sea and desert, was positioned on an international highway of commerce and warfare. This was a people whose future would be intertwined with the stories of nations great and small. [...]

The Gospels contain many hard sayings of Jesus, but perhaps none have puzzled and intrigued readers as much as Jesus' discourse on the coming of the Son of Man in Mark 13. Is Jesus speaking entirely of an event in the near future, a coming destruction of the temple? Or is he referring to a distant, [...]

The Temple of Sethos I at Abydos is one of the best-preservedmonuments from the New Kingdom. This work was 1st published intwo now long-out-of-print but much sought-after classics: ReligiousRitual at Abydos (1973), and A Guide to Religious Ritual at Abydos(1981). This edition incorporates new materi[...]

Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It's a peaceful existence[...]

'When men in police uniforms came to execute me on the roadside, beside dark fields, it was a definite sign that my new life was over.' A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend [...]

An essential guide for anyone wishing to cook delicious dishes in time-honoured fashion. Gustav Temple, editor of The Chap magazine and gentleman about town, ensures that culinary magnificence is achieved in the most genteel and correct manner, whilst Clare Gabbett-Mulhallen leads you expertly throu[...]

This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.[...]