Ivan Ilych Polensky, a young Ukrainian farmer, experiences a life-changing event that brings his world crashing down, and propels him into a race against time and forces of evil. At first, Ivan's newfound spiritual clarity clashes with the chaos that surrounds him. He suffers rejection from friends, family, even his childhood love, the beautiful equestrian Katrina. Ivan's struggle is both heartbreaking and joyous as he comes to understand his recent transformation, and exchanged life. Branded an international terrorist by the newly anointed General Gog, Ivan encounters world views representing the spectrum of human emotion and impulse, from secular to sacred. Trans Figuring Ivan takes the reader from earth to heaven and hell and back, from bitter cold of the Ukraine to the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean and the dusty, cutthroat deserts of the Middle East. Ivan's humble spirit and poetic optimism throughout his perilous quest in the days leading up to the Rapture inspire and empower, making his victory our victory. R. Ty Epling is an evangelist who loves sharing the Bible with anyone who will listen and discuss its riches. He was born in Crab Orchard, West Virginia February 6, 1941. Ty served in the United States Navy and traveled through the Mediterranean countries. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and holds a Bible Certificate from Appalachian Bible College. Brother Ty, as he is affectionately called by those that know him, has served as witness, teacher, counselor, and preacher for decades in several states. He resides in Titusville, Florida near his son Grant H. Epling, his daughter Jeannette Epling Arn, grandchildren Danielle, Emma, and Benjamin Arn.

This rich collection of essays offers a multi- and inter-disciplinary discussion of "trans-Asia" approaches from critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film studies. In doing so the authors lay down the groundwork for a more inclusive knowledge-production and fruitful transnational collaboration. The authors engage with the implications of “trans-Asia” using a range of empirical cases. At the heart of the book is a desire and attempt to give a grounded understanding of what “trans-Asia” approaches are by examining human mobilities, media culture flows and connections across Asia and beyond in four key aspects: cross-border flows and connections; inter-Asian comparison and referencing; transnational and de-nationalized approaches; and cross-border collaboration.

Serpentinization is a reaction that involves the hydration of ferromagnesium minerals (e.g., olivine, pyroxenes), resulting in the production of hydrogen gas and reduced carbon compounds. This reaction also leads to the formation of mineral carbonates, and highly alkaline and reducing fluids. Microorganisms have adapted to such extremes and robust microbial communities were discovered at several locations, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Mariana Forearc, the Cabeço de Vide Aquifer, the Cedars, the Coast Range Ophiolite Microbial Observatory, Hakuba Happo, the Samail ophiolite, the Voltri Massif, and the Zambales ophiolite. These locations represent a range of pressure and temperature conditions, demonstrating that serpentinization is a ubiquitous geologic process occurring at subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, and passive margins. This process is also thought to have supported early life because of the availability of reduced products and the presence of geochemical disequilibria.

Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before begining the third part. Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stalin prize, but Part Two met with the Kremlin's disfavour and was eventually banned until 1958. Using research gathered from Soviet archives, Yuri Tsivian offers an insight into Eisenstein's grand project. He reconstructs the director's 'mental film' that underlies the finished work. The book attempts to follow the train of thought that connect the aesthetic construction and visual design of the film to Eisenstein's knowldege of iconography and painting, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Shakespeare and Balzac - and much more.

Fyodor Dostoevsky has often been regarded as a prophet who foretold the rise of totalitarian socialism in Russia. But his political vision had deep spiritual roots. Dostoevsky's searing struggle with the question of God is famously presented in the legend of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov.

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Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from the Holy Land as a license for invention. The question at the heart of Figuring Jerusalem is this: how did these writers bring their imagination “home” in the Zionist century? Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi finds that the same diasporic conventions that Hebrew writers practiced in exile were maintained throughout the first half of the twentieth century. And even after 1948, when the state of Israel was founded but East Jerusalem and its holy sites remained under Arab control, Jerusalem continued to figure in the Hebrew imagination as mediated space. It was only in the aftermath of the Six Day War that the temptations and dilemmas of proximity to the sacred would become acute in every area of Hebrew politics and culture. Figuring Jerusalem ranges from classical texts, biblical and medieval, to the post-1967 writings of S. Y. Agnon and Yehuda Amichai. Ultimately, DeKoven Ezrahi shows that the wisdom Jews acquired through two thousand years of exile, as inscribed in their literary imagination, must be rediscovered if the diverse inhabitants of Jerusalem are to coexist.

Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. --

First published in 1987. These Collected Papers, covering a period of almost 30 years, will allow the reader to trace the developing thought of one of the world's seminal family therapists and theoreticians.