Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm throughout canonical literature, examining the metamorphoses of charm through the millennia. The book examines the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Proust, Joyce, Mann, and others, considering the multiplicity of ways charm is defined, depicted, and utilized by authors. Positioning these poems, dramas, and novels as case studies, Beckman reveals the mercurial yet enduring connotations of charm.

"[Book title] explores two major areas of interest. First, [author] examines the historical, social, and critical contexts of the debates between music advocates and the music establishment over the uses of serious music in cinema. Next, he elaborates a model for understanding the relationship of film to film music: as film-musical counterpoint, expressed in the Soviet cinematic avant-garde, and as an essential programmatic component to the narrative film."--Page 4 of cover.

What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings is a collection of poems to provide comfort, courage, and humor at difficult or daunting moments in life. It conjures forth laments, spells, invocations, chants, blessings, promises, songs, and charms. Here are pleas on how to repair a friendship, wishes to transform one’s life or to slow down time, charms to face the shame of a disapproving crowd, invocations to ask for forgiveness, to understand the mysteries of happiness, and to bravely face a dark and different world. These words help us remember or grieve; they bolster courage and guard against evil; they help us celebrate and give thanks. This elegant gift book also includes a red ribbon for readers to mark their favorite poems. Poet extraordinaire Joyce Sidman won the Newbery Honor Medal for Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night and continues to write poetry for children that has been called "fresh," "inspiring," and "accessible" to her young audience. She is intrigued by the idea of "words of power"—chants and charms that were once believed to have real influence in everyday life. Caldecott Honor-winning Pamela Zagarenski's beautiful art captures a world of emotion and the essence of Sidman's words.

Does God seem like an ancient, incomprehensible mystery? Does he feel so distant that you struggle to understand who he is? Is the concept of the Trinity something you've never been able to grasp? Integrating current scientific research, firsthand spiritual experiences, and scriptural knowledge, author Gene Paul Ort works to address some of these common issues. As Christians, unattended questions about our faith can become doubts, small cracks in our faith's foundation that are vulnerable to the rain of science and disinformation, the intentional chipping away by others, and the gradual decay caused by our own laziness. We can't see God because we are led astray by our doubts and lack of understanding and are lost in the fog of our own busyness. Resonant Trinities: When Reason, Love, and Faith Come Together can help lift the fog and lead us to a greater awareness of who God is. Ort takes readers along on his own quest for answers. Written conversationally so that all readers can relate, Resonant Trinities: When Reason, Love, and Faith Come Together details his conclusions about: bull; What it means to be made in the image and likeness of God bull; How our own personal trinity of mind, heart, and spirit is modeled after God's bull; The possibility of man being made of the same substance as God Armed with this newfound knowledge, readers may find the answers they too have been searching for.

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