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A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity In this provocative, irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention, Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion, the historical Jesus, and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he calls "empathetic wonder" -- imagining what Romans, pagans, Jews, and Christians thought, felt, experienced, and believed -- by employing a series of engaging literary devices. These include a TV drama about the Dead Sea Scrolls; the first-person testimony of a pair of time-travelers to Pompeii; a meditation on Jesus' apocryphal twin brother; and an unusual letter on God, demons, and angels.
The Piazza Tales Published in 1856, The Piazza Tales was written upon the public indignation over his novel Pierre, which had forced Melville to retire to the piazza of his house in Lenox, Massachusetts. The six tales included here are among Melville's most notable writings. They include the famed tale "Bartleby, " a story of slavery, "Benito Cereno," "The Encantadas," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Bell-Tower," and the title story, "The Piazza."
Ars Erotica: An Arousing History of Erotic Art This book presents sexuality of every kind in twelve themed chapters; from group sex to solitary joy, from gay to straight, from the heavenly bliss of the classical gods to the more mundane pleasures of earthbound lust. The social course of sexuality is revealed in the erotic poetry and prose of writers form ancient times through the present, including John Donne, Pablo Neruda, the Marquis de Sade, e. e. cummings, and the many anonymous writers of works such as First Training, Venus in India, and The Story of O. Arousing art of all periods and mediums illustrates the theme of each chapter. Contemporaneous social and critical reactions to this art and literature are discussed, and debates are presented on the timeless issue of pornography.
The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair at waging war in a foreign land against an unseen enemy for unclear purposes. When first published, Borovik's groundbreaking revelations exposed the weaknesses beneath the Soviet Union's aura of military might, creating an enormous controversy both in Russia and around the world. A vital and fascinating portrait of the Soviet empire at the twilight of its power, this is a book that still resonates today.
The Voyeur When a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated, suspicion immediately surrounds Mathias, a reclusive traveling salesman. And, as the circumstances are eerily recreated through the eyes of the suspected killer, the reader is drawn into a complex and haunting mystery. In this masterful example of the nouveau roman, Alain Robbe-Grillet demonstrates his stunning ability to transform the mystery story into the realm of high art.
The Poetics of Space Thirty years since its first publication in English, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams. "A magical book…The Poetics of Space is a prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced significance. Every reader of it will never again see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." From the new Forward by John R. Stilgoe. |
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Christian Theology: An Introduction Since its first publication Christian Theology: An Introduction established itself as the leading introductory textbook worldwide. Now, Alister McGrath provides a full new edition which maintains the strengths, structure and features of the first edition in its comprehensive but user-friendly style and coverage. At the same time, it has been revised and updated in light of feedback from students and lecturers internationally. Based on many years' experience of teaching Christian theology, Alister McGrath has provided the finest textbook available in the field.
The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I insisted that her court go "on progress," a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England. These trips provided the only direct contact most people had with a monarch who made popularity a cornerstone of her reign. Public appearances gave the queen a stage on which to interact with her subjects in a calculated effort to keep their support. The progresses were both emblematic of Elizabeth's rule and intrinsic to her ability to govern. In this book, Mary Hill Cole provides a detailed analysis of the progresses. Drawing on royal household accounts, ministerial correspondence, county archives, corporation records, and family papers, she examines the effects of the visits on the queen's household and government, the individual and civic hosts, and the monarchy of the Virgin Queen.
Samuel Pepys: A Life (1633-1703), perhaps the most famous Englishmen of the Restoration and one of the greatest writers of any period, is brought thrillingly to life in this new biography. Pepys was a man of boundless energy, intimately involved with the most important events of his tumultuous time. His friends included the luminaries of the age, including Christopher Wren and Isaac Newton. Of all his achievements, the diary Pepys kept is probably the most well-known. Begun in 1660, Pepys's daily chronicle of his life is an intricate portrait of his age. Stephen Coote carefully charts the enormous range of talent Pepys brought to all his endeavors, in both peace and war. Pepys's descriptions of the Plague's toll on London, the Fire of London's devastation, and the brief but fateful reign of James II are not merely historical documents, but also masterpieces of English literature.
Of One Mind: The Collectivization of Science This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientist at work and at play, in which "plaster saints" are turned charmingly and thoughtfully into "living people." We then take a journey through the world depicted by contemporary scientists, how physicists make discoveries, and how they test each other's claims. Ziman then travels with us on an even more delicate odyssey, into the personal as well as the professional minds and performances of scientists as they are pulled into competing directions. We discover that the path of discovery is strewn with complex human needs, the demands of the state, the desire for profits, the exercise of technical virtuosity. This is an essential guide for the initiated and the novice over the terrain of modern science and what it means to be a scientist today.
The Life of the Cosmos At the end of the twentieth century we stand at the verge of another step in our growing understanding of the universe. We live in the middle of one of the great revolutionary periods in our understanding of nature. Relativity, quantum theory and the discovery of the expanding universe have in different ways overthrown the previous understanding of nature that was forged by Newton and stood as the foundations of the scientific world view for more than two centuries. A new view of the world, a new cosmology, is necessary to provide the overall framework for our scientific understanding of nature. This framework must provide new answers to questions which the developments of this century have made urgent: Why is there life in the universe? Why is the universe full of such a variety of beautiful things? Are the laws of physics eternal truths, or were they somehow created, with the world? Is it possible to conceive of, and understand, the universe a whole system, as something more than the sum of its parts?
Symposium and Phaedrus It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. Of these, the Symposium is by far the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of philosophy or Greek society. Describing a party in the Athens of the fifth century BC, this short and deceptively unassuming book introduces profound ideas about the nature of love in the guise of convivial after-dinner conversation. Published together with the Symposium is Phaedrus, in which Plato discusses the place of eloquence in expounding truth. Socrates plays the leading role in both dialogues, by turns arguing, joking, and teasing his followers into understanding ideas that have remained central to Western thought ever since. |
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