Triumph Beyond Silence

Herbert Hoover Hart was born on Election Day in 1928. He was a healthy, hearing child born to deaf parents on the eve of the Great Depression. Over his first few years, life was chaotic, uncertain, and often desperate. Yet his mother's scrappy determination and his stepfather's ethic of hard work kept the family afloat. Everything changed for Herb and his two half-sisters one day in 1938 when his mother disappeared. This is the true story of how love, education and faith helped one boy overcome tremendous challenges to grow into a successful and happy man.

Lucy Bregman guides the reader through the wealth of recent literature on death and dying, giving special attention to the autobiographical narratives of terminally ill people and to books offering counsel to the dying, their caregivers, and the bereaved. She argues that this literature should supplement, not supplant, Christian understandings of death.

Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, "Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public life, it is gaiety that sustains us, and love, and the imagination's power to create from both deprivation and delight." This collection embodies those emotions and that imaginative power. Hoffman's verse has always exulted in the resources of language, as sensuous in sound as in response to the natural world. Beyond Silence, to be published on Hoffman's eightieth birthday, presents his shorter poems culled from eight previous collections, plus several new poems. Here, rather than in chronological order, they appear thematically and invite the reader to partake of the pleasures that characterize this distinguished poet's verse: "clarity, grace where desired, accuracy of visual detail and dialogue, and a formal mastery so deft that playfulness comes easily" (Fred Chappell). Arriving at last. It has stumbled across the harshStones, the black marshes. True to itself, by what craftAnd strength it has, it has comeAs a sole survivor returns. From the steep pass.Carved on memory's staffThe legend is nearly decipherable.It has lived up to its vowsIf it enduresThe journey through the dark placesTo bear witness,Casting is messageIn a sort of singing. -- "The Poem"

A Point Beyond Silence is a compilation of the author's award winning poems for which Mr. Phelan received the prestigious Author's Award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used—and misused—to brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and other protest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.

Troubled by a recurring nightmare following his brother's death, Andrew accompanies his father to the family castle in Scotland where he has several encounters with one of his forebears.

Shows that law it is often better understood as an entangled web rather than as a coherent, orderly system.

Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma, and to legitimize their power. Triumphs in the Age of Civil War rethinks the nature and the character of the phenomenon of civil war during the Late Republic. At the same time it focuses on a key feature of the Roman socio-political order, the triumph, and argues that a commander could in practice expect to triumph after a civil war victory if it could also be represented as being over a foreign enemy, even if the principal opponent was clearly Roman. Significantly, the civil aspect of the war did not have to be denied. Carsten Hjort Lange provides the first study to consider the Roman triumph during the age of civil war, and argues that the idea of civil war as "normal" reflects the way civil war permeated the politics and society of the Late Roman Republic.

June Scobee Rodgers, wife of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee, tells of her inspirational journey from victim of the Challenger tragedy to survivor committed to continuing the mission.

Embark on a spellbinding journey with Genevieve 'Gen' Thornhill, a determined 17-year-old whose world shatters when her brother, Jack, mysteriously disappears. Unveiling his hidden life as a fearless member of an elusive guild of hunters sends Gen hurtling through a mystical portal into a parallel realm, where fairy tales give way to ominous realities. Joining forces with an eclectic band of warriors of The Guild—Sirus, the wise and strong leader; Lila, the mastermind tactician; Eldrin, the enigmatic scout; Mara, the lethal weapon wielder; Ola, the secretive shadow; and Eli, the empathetic healer—Gen treads a perilous path through a landscape fraught with danger. A steadfast friendship binds them as they confront challenges beyond imagination. Gen exposes a sinister scheme orchestrated by the malevolent Morlak that threatens to upend the delicate harmony between worlds. However, a harrowing revelation awaits Gen—an encounter that spirals into a clash of ideologies as she delves into forbidden magic to achieve her aims. The confrontation sparks a sequence of deceptions, sacrifices, and buried truths, plunging Gen into a maelstrom of doubt and treachery among those she once held close. Will Gen and The Guild defeat Morlak, or will his darkness take over the realm and all living things? Join The Guild of Shadows and experience a world where destinies are entwined, and the battle between light and darkness hangs in the balance.