The Summa Theologica is a compendium of theology written by Thomas Aquinas between 1265 and 1273. In Roman Catholicism it is the sum of all known learning and doctrine, of all that can be known about God and humanity's relations with God -- a landmark in the history of theology that famously offers five proofs of God's existence, the first three of which are cosmological arguments; the fourth, a moral argument; and the fifth, a teleological argument.
The third quarter of the thirteenth century marked the first decisive philosophical encounter between Hellenism and Christianity. The rediscovery of Aristotle's works after the Dark Ages ushered in a new era of intellectual fervor in Europe, and the work of Thomas Aquinas is a commentary on Aristotle, whose writings were lost to the non-Arabic world until the beginning of the Thirteenth Century. To many, Aristotle's worldview was a pagan threat to Christianity. To Aquinas, it provided an exciting cosmological framework on which to build an all-encompassing Christian worldview.
His thoughts unfolding with a calmness of order and an assurance of judgment, Aquinas explores in the Summa the primary role of the senses in the acquisition of knowledge and the metaphysical analysis of things in terms of matter and form. But unlike Aristotle's God, who did not care one whit about the world, the God of Christianity, insisted Aquinas, is a personal God. Like Aristotle, Aquinas believed that each human being has a soul and that all created things have a purpose. For Christians, all are part of a divine plan.
This dazzling synthesis of Catholic doctrine has had a profound impact on Christian thinking since the thirteenth century and has become the de facto official teaching of the Catholic Church -- the intellectual underpinning of the Church to this day.

The Dead is one of the twentieth century's most beautiful pieces of short literature. Taking his inspiration from a family gathering held every year on the Feast of the Epiphany, Joyce pens a story about a married couple attending a Christmas-season party at the house of the husband's two elderly aunts. A shocking confession made by the husband's wife toward the end of the story showcases the power of Joyce's greatest innovation: the epiphany, that moment when everything, for character and reader alike, is suddenly clear.

All the great issues, forces, and institutions of the thirteenth century are reviewed at generous length-the rise and character, the curricula, and the influences of the early universities; the steps taken towards popular education, both literary and technical; the development of letters; the great books and the great writers of the period; the Latin hymns of the church; Thomas Aquinas, Dante, the Golden Legend, the Romance of the Rose, Jocelyn de Brakelond, Matthew Paris, and Vincent of Beauvais; hospitals; famous women; Marco Polo and the story of geographical exploration; the systematization of law; and the beginnings of modern commerce.

Don't spend another minute designing language and grammar lessons. Thomas Fasano has done the hard work for you. Common Core Grammar: High School Edition is your one-stop guide to putting the English Language Arts Standards into day-to-day practice in your classroom. Each lesson and exercise is aligned to the Common Core and compliant with grades 9-12. - Language standards printed on every page to keep the focus on Common Core objectives - Detailed and complete lessons with thousands of example sentences that clarify all Core concepts - Numerous exercises to help students apply the language standards - Highly adaptable for creating your own lessons in compliance with the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards - A detailed and time-saving index All in all, Common Core Grammar: High School Edition is a reliable source of ready-made lessons for the English teacher's classroom.

EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY (1904) and EVE'S DIARY (1906) are essentially send-ups of the scripture, in which Twain parodied Genesis, the parables of creation and original sin, and Eve's role in the fall of humankind. In EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY, published with Fred Strothmann's humorous cartoons of supposedly ancient stone carvings on every left-hand page, Twain playfully established Niagara Falls Park as the setting of the Garden of Eden, the honeymoon capital of the world. EVE'S DIARY, accompanied by the stunning line drawings of Lester Ralph, was Twain's moving eulogy to his wife, Livy, who died the previous year. The grief-stricken Samuel Clemens, in a letter to his brother-in-law, Charles Langdon, wrote: I am a man without a country. Wherever Livy was that was my country. Similarly Adam's tribute to Eve at the end of Eve's Diary reads, Wheresoever she was, there was Eden. Eve's story is tender throughout and focuses on the more humorous aspects of Adam and Eve's relationship and eventual marriage. Like Adam's story it lacks the darker implications of the other biblical pieces Twain wrote during the last decade of his life.

From the mind-expanding imagination of H. P. Lovecraft come these spine-tingling horrors. In addition to such classics as Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Herbert West: Reanimator, this volume contains some fascinating rarities of Lovecraft's earliest strange tales.

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experiences with a patient who died . . . a lighthouse keeper engages in a peculiar fantasy . . . a man is found wandering through a swamp with no memory of how he got there . . . humanity anticipates a great unknown evil . . . a dying man tells of his dreams to know what lies beyond the gate . . . a doctor reanimates corpses. . . .

Woe betide the Lovecraft fan who dare be without this volume.

The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems contains some of Frost's best-known, anthologized, and closely examined poems, such as The Road Not Taken, An Old Man's Winter Night, Birches, and 'Out, Out---'. As a whole, the volume is a reflection on space and time, on the boundaries where city meets country, where humans meet nature, and where humans meet each other. In addition, his portraits of women---particularly The Witch of Co s and Wild Grapes---are among the finest and most complex in the English language. Like the speaker in The Road Not Taken, these poems will continue to be read somewhere ages and ages hence.

Fasano's long, thin poem is a masterful blend of form and content-a journey printed on thermal cash register receipt paper that challenges the very boundaries of its medium. Originally conceived on a roll of old, yellowed cash register receipt paper and later transposed via a text app, this work is a uniquely autobiographical narrative capturing the essence of a single month during a California winter.

Immerse yourself in a series of poetic meditations that explore the delicate interplay between creative expression and the transitory nature of life. The work delves into themes of impermanence, transformation, and the paradox of order and chaos, using vivid imagery that spans from the tactile act of typing on a narrow strip of paper to the dramatic shifts in nature-rain, snow, and changing seasons.

Experience a narrative that reflects on creative endurance and the eternal cycles of decay and rebirth, ultimately offering hope for new beginnings. Through its lyrical language, the text oscillates between the physical and the abstract, challenging creative constraints while celebrating liberation, love, and loss. Each line invites you to witness the profound interplay of tragedy and renewal-a testament to the ceaseless march of time and the promise hidden within every ending.

Discover a work where the medium informs the message, and every word is a meditation on the fleeting yet impactful moments that define our lives.

These dialogues by Plato have been translated from the original Greek by the scholar and classicist Benjamin Jowett, whose translations are known for their elegance and accuracy.

In this novel about music, love, and creativity, Hermann Hesse weaves a tale of loss and redemption. Kuhn, the sensitive narrator, disabled in an accident as a young man, has become a renowned composer. He is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious singer named Gertrude and becomes engulfed in an enduring passion for her. But because he fears her sympathy, he ends up losing her to his friend and singer, Muoth. Kuhn becomes inextricably involved in their ill-fated marriage and is almost destroyed -- but eventually he finds his redemption through his art and the completion of his opera.

Dashiell Hammett is the innovative master and inventor of hard-boiled fiction, an unsentimental style of American crime writing in which the isolated hero exists in a sordid world where treachery is the only norm. Many of these stories first appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask and exemplify Hammett's formidable literary and moral imagination operating at full strength. These stories introduce the Continental Op, the dispassionate operative from the Continental Detective Agency, a company molded on the Pinkerton Agency, for which Hammett worked prior to taking up writing. In these stories the reader will find the main themes of Hammett's later fiction -- the skewed moral environment where nothing and no one can be trusted, the steely-eyed detective whose only interest is to do his job, and the criminals whose depravity mocks the pretensions of the modern world. These stories create a universe of violence and stealth, of cold passion, desperate action, and great excitement. They prefigure not only the world of subsequent detective fiction, but the contemporary world itself.

The six essays and one address in this volume flesh out Emerson's transcendentalist ideas. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are History, Friendship, The Over-Soul, The Poet and Experience, plus the famous Harvard Divinity School Address.

In Luminance Thomas Fasano invites readers to explore the intricate connections between the natural world, cosmic phenomena, and human experience. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, these poems illuminate the dance of light, shadow, and transformation across dimensions-from the microscopic to the celestial. Each verse is a prism, refracting moments of introspection and wonder into a kaleidoscope of meanings.

In a distant future, a battle of wills rages between two brothers on opposite sides of a war that could mean the end of humanity. On one side is an augmented faction of Martian colonists, determined to escape from their oppressors. On the other, a powerful military unit whose leader seeks merciless revenge. Can one soldier's peaceful mission to negotiate an end to the violence be an effective counterweight to his brother's aggression? This thrilling novel offers an exciting journey into a transhumanist world where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

A new, completely revised and much extended edition of H. L. Mencken's well-known work first issued in a limited edition as a preliminary inquiry in 1919, this book is the most comprehensive treatise on the American dialect ever attempted. It almost exhausts the subject. It is a genuine magnus opus of over 500 pages, with extensive bibliographies and a word and phrase index of 12,000 entries. Avoiding the typical dullness of such books about language, Mencken created a thoroughly entertaining read. The bulk of the previous research and writing on the American Language, according to Mencken in the Preface to the First Edition, had been dedicated to absurd efforts to prove that no such thing as an American variety of English existed - that the differences I constantly encountered in English and that my English friends encountered in American were chiefly imaginary. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE was nothing less than a declaration of linguistic independence. No more would America suffer the oppression of literary colonialism. A new day had dawned on American literature. American writers were finally able to take flight from the old tree and to trust for the first time their own dialect, Edmund Wilson observed. Mencken showed the positive value of our own Vulgate heritage.

Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale Rip Van Winkle and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, Winter Dreams. Other selections include Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener, Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp, To Build a Fire, by Jack London, The Middle Years by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.

One of Herman Hesse's earliest novels, In the Old Sun (In der Alten Sonne) was completed in 1908. The book, out of print in English for a hundred years, was originally published before the novels that were to make Hesse famous in the decades after World War II. The poorhouse derelicts of Gerbersau (Hesse's boyhood town of Cawl) appear to have walked out of the fictional world of Gottfried Keller, whose collection of short stories, The People of Seldwyla, was a favorite of Hesse's. The antics of H rlin, the bankrupt manufacturer, and of Heller, a malicious and lazy former rope maker, are both humorous and poignant. Coyote Canyon Press is proud to bring back into print this lost novel by Hermann Hesse.

Written with all the power and conviction that made THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED classics of American letters, Ayn Rand's ANTHEM is a hymn to man's independent spirit and to the highest word in the human language -- the word Ego. ANTHEM tells the story of a man who rediscovers individualism and his own I It is a world of absolute collectivization, a world where sightless, joyless, selfless men exist for the sake of serving the State; where their work, their food, and their mating are prescribed to them by order of the Collective's rulers in the name of society's welfare. It is a world which lost all the achievements of science and civilization when it lost its root, the independent mind, and reverted to primitive savagery a world where language contains no singular pronouns, where the We has replaced the I, and where men are put to death for the crime of discovering and speaking the unspeakable word. ANTHEM presents not merely a frightening projection of existing trends, but, more importantly, a positive answer to those trends and a weapon against them, a key to the world's moral crisis and to a new morality of individualism -- a morality that, if accepted today, will save us from a future such as the one presented in this story.

The Bront family was an unparalleled literary phenomenon. Both Charlotte's JANE EYRE and Emily's WUTHERING HEIGHTS stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. Coyote Canyon Press unites these two enduring favorites with the lesser known work of their youngest sister, Anne, whose novel, AGNES GREY, was drawn from her experiences as a governess and offers a compelling view of Victorian society and materialism. Its inclusion makes THREE NOVELS BY THE BRONT SISTERS a must-have volume for anyone enamored with this singularly talented family.

After resigning his post at the Tampa Tribune, Tim Fasano decided to stop worrying about the rest of his life and focus on having adventures.

An amateur photographer and philosophy major, Fasano began driving a cab. At first the job was easy and fun and put quick cash in his pockets, but as the years went by, the job became harder and less profitable as the sun-washed streets he rolled along became dark avenues. The Cabbie's Tale chronicles the pivotal year of 2009.

We follow Fasano through his daily entries as he works different shifts, drives passengers home from the airport, picks up drunks in bars, observes fares making drug deals, delivers hookers to their johns and strippers to their clubs. There are endless waits at Tampa International Airport, vivid accounts of the homeless and mentally ill, sad tales of the poor being displaced by gentrification, customers who spew racism, and those who are surprised that a philosophy major is driving a cab.

Throughout the year, Fasano details a colorful cast of characters that includes a master poker player who dies when a tree falls on his cab; an Ivy League grad who vanishes after crashing his cab live on the local news; a lounge lizard and retired Air Force officer who becomes a friend; a no-nonsense single mother who drives a cab and dreams of retiring to the mountains of North Carolina; an older driver who becomes a mentor; a dispatcher who loves animals; and a mechanic who sells antique bicycles on eBay.

More than a firsthand account of what it is like to be a member of the working poor, this memoir is a testament to one man's spiritual journey and a quest to discover lurking mysteries.