Launched by the summer?04 award-winning best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by John Jodzio, Tom Kaczynski, Peter Schilling Jr., David Housewright, Steve Thayer, Judith Guest, Mary Logue, Bruce Rubenstein, K.J. Erickson, William Kent Krueger,...

Geologist and historian Greg Brick takes readers on a tour of the tunnels, caves, and industrial spaces under the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Discusses the geology of the area, and provides historical background on each of the locations.

Presents a diary of youngster Clotilde "Coco" Irvine, in which she documents her adventures, troubles, and romances in the heart of the Jazz Age.

Beginning in 1882, many Russian and Eastern-European Jews who fled to the United States settled in the "West Side Flats" in St. Paul, Minnesota. The area once stretched from the banks of the Mississippi River to the cliffs of the West Side Hills, about 320 acres in all, but has since fallen victim to the vagaries of the mighty river and the progress of "urban renewal." The Lost Jewish Community of the West Side Flats: 1882-1962 takes the reader on...

Explores the cultural, religious, economic, and everyday lives of the early Jewish pioneers in St. Paul, Minnesota, and highlights the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish community. Discusses the establishment of Mt. Zion and Sons of Jacob, the first two major synagogues in St. Paul, and profiles prominent Jews of the community between 1849 and 1874. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Paul's letter to the Romans is considered by many to be the richest exposition of theological truth ever written. The majestic themes of justification by faith, freedom from sin, substitutionary atonement, and God's gracious adoption of sinners ring throughout its pages. In this classic commentary, now updated with a fresh look and Scripture references from the ESV Bible, pastor R. Kent Hughes brings clear exposition and pointed application to this...

Decades after setting the study of Paul on a profoundly new footing with Paul and Palestinian Judaism (Fortress Press, 1977), E.P. Sanders now offers an expansive introduction to the apostle, navigating some of the thorniest issues in scholarship in language accessible to the novice and seasoned scholar alike. Always careful to distinguish what we can know historically from what we may only conjecture, and these from dogmatically driven misrepresentations,...

Relates some of the legends of Paul Bunyan, a lumberjack said to be taller than the trees, who had a pet ox named Babe that he once hitched to a road that took too long to travel and had her pull it straight.