D Ryan: 117 books

Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence...

In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...

“The eyes were exactly as she had remembered them, cold and vacant, his irises indistinguishable from the colour of his pupils as if they had been swallowed by dark voids of emptiness. They were dead of any love, any compassion.”Despite growing up in a world of privilege, Audrey Montgomery...

A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval. Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things—books...

Eleven preachers with different gifts, backgrounds, and personal emphases show how they proclaim Christ from all the Scripture in a variety of contexts. Edmund P. Clowney (1917-2005), the late president and professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, was a trailblazer...

Turn The Page.... began as a simple idea and grew from there. No matter how bad things seem to be, just turn the page, there’s more—better—things to come. This is only one chapter in your life. It’s not the whole story. With this simple idea, Novice Sister Eroti-Quill—whom most know better...

Homeless---faceless? unknown? unseen? After nearly 10 years of ministry with this population, Muriel Ryan puts her experiences in print. In 2015, she and the ministry was awarded the Jefferson Award for volunteerism in her local community. But the blessings have gone both ways and the glory goes to...

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...

The long-awaited NEW RELEASE from D. D. VanDyke! Private eye California “Cal” Corwin faces her most dangerous case yet in DEADLY SECRETS. When Cal Corwin is asked to find a missing man, she’s happy to get away from sleazy infidelity cases, boring skip-tracing, and her mother’s irritations....

The use of hyperthermia in radiation oncology is well established. Many publications cover the whole field of possibilities and problems of this therapeutic modality. The new development of interstitial and intracavitary hyperthermia, however, is not well known: there are only a few relevant publications...

As global societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. This book addresses this lapse by presenting interdisciplinary perspectives...

Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management

Follow four of today’s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality—and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldly suspense. Beginning with "Haunted in Death," a tale from...