How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity.
"e;And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
For anyone ready to move their life forward, from tragedy, personal failure, unfair circumstances, or just a sense of being stuck, baseball legend and bestselling author Darryl Strawberry offers transformational practices and the tangible hope that you can enjoy a future filled with power, purpose, and freedom.
In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, now expanded with bonus content, Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way.
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point.
From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political livesLike much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history.
This book analyzes how AKP's embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks.
This updated edition of a NEW YORK TIMES best seller includes a final chapter, which chronicles the last years of his life and examines his enduring legacy.
This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon.
Clint Castleberry was already an Atlanta-area football sensation when he arrived at Georgia Tech in 1942, and in one meteoric college season he became a national sports hero as well.
From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism.
From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism.
*Shortlisted for Cycling Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2024*From award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay at the heart of Spanish cycling.
Es imprescindible para cualquier ritualista práctico, practique la magia o la brujería doméstica, que tenga o conozca los productos y pequeños secretos que actualmente pueden hallarse fácilmente a la venta, y que son utilizados en la magia de cada día.
Desde hace varias décadas, las actividades, ceremonias y rituales conocidos popularmente como "magia casera" se han venido extendiendo de una manera extraordinaria por diversos grupos y clases sociales.
Los ensayos que integran el libro que el lector tiene ahora entre sus manos se plantean como objetivo contribuir a desentrañar las relaciones existentes entre demonología cristiana y cultura folklórica en un escenario específico –España y el mundo ibérico– y, en un período determinado, los siglos de la primera modernidad.
This insightful, inspiring devotional examines the lives of specific women in the Bible and how their wants, needs, and feelings relate with those of women today.
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, two of the most persistent themes in American history were immigration and the growth of reform movements, among them women's rights and the antislavery crusade.
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, two of the most persistent themes in American history were immigration and the growth of reform movements, among them women's rights and the antislavery crusade.
La estrella del programa Drive to Survive de Netflix cuenta todos los secretos de la temporadaGuenther Steiner es uno de los personajes más célebres del automovilismo.
This book is the first critical interdisciplinary examination in English of Italian women's contributions to intellectual, artistic, and cultural production in modern Italy.
George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together.