A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.
Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.
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A gripping account of rampant crime in Fort Worth, Texas, during the 1930s, through the 1950s, with hoodlums, gamblers, murderers, dopers, pimps, and lawmen on the take. The author recounts the ...więcej »
Contemporary controversies over the inspiration and authority of the Bible have left many people confused. The host of specialized studies makes it difficult for a reader to be introduced to the na...więcej »
This highly readable book is among the first to link social movement and cultural theory. Building on previous studies, the authors examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation...więcej »
This is a remarkable account of a personal journey exploring the evidence for, and far-reaching implications of, human evolution. It is also a powerful inside look at the experience of lecturing on...więcej »
Gilbert Dahan offers a compact overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, then moves to a discussion of the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation. Dahan ...więcej »
This is the first book to offer step-by-step instruction in Shambhala warriorship. Combining Buddhist mindfulness practice and pre-Buddhist shamanic teachings, Shambhala warriorship training teache...więcej »
There is no other comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin. The book is aimed at arts students - the primary market. Deals extensively with gender issues.więcej »
"Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic
After four years of college in New England, Louise Brown is back in New Orleans, steepe...więcej »
A series of studies on a wide variety of themes ranging from a consideration of God's theocracy to the evasive modes post-exilic Jews used in referring to God. Includes a study of Jewish eschatolog...więcej »
We assume men grow up. But do they? Dr. Jim Wilder contends that many men never fully mature because they fail to negotiate the passage from boyhood to manhood. An almost equally tragic trend occur...więcej »