by Zach Dundas
A wickedly smart and rollicking
journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most
beloved sleuth.Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first capered into our world, what is it about Arthur Conan Doyle’s peculiar creation that continues to fascinate us? Journalist and lifelong Sherlock fan Zach Dundas set out to find the answer.
The result is The Great Detective: a history of an idea, a biography of someone who never lived, a tour of the borderland between reality and fiction, and a joyful romp through the world Conan Doyle bequeathed us.
edited by James K. Barnett
and David L. Nicandri
Accompanying
an exhibition of the same name, Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the
Northwest Passage sheds new light
on Cook's northern exploration.
A collection of essays from an international
and interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book uses artifacts, charts, and
records of the encounters between Native peoples and explorers to tell the
story of this remarkable voyage and its historical context. In addition to
discussing Cook's voyage itself, the book also provides new insights into
Cook's legacy and his influence on subsequent expeditions in the Pacific
Northwest. Finally, the collection uses Cook's voyage as a springboard to
consider the promise and challenge of the "new north" today,
demonstrating that it remains, as in Cook's time, a unique meeting place of
powerful political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces.
by Eric Metaxas
Each
of the world-changing figures who stride across these pages—Joan of Arc,
Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa,
and Rosa Parks—is an exemplary model of true womanhood. Teenaged Joan of Arc
followed God’s call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr’s death.
Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant
evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. Corrie ten
Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a
concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. And Rosa
Parks’ deep sense of justice and unshakeable dignity and faith helped launch
the twentieth-century’s greatest social movement.
Writing
in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how
the other extraordinary women in this book achieved their greatness, inspiring
readers to lives shaped by the truth of the gospel.
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