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Has any film director had a greater impact on popular culture than Steven Spielberg?

The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice.

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Embrace your identity as God's beloved, step out of your own brokenness, and bring hope to a darkened world.

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fictionIreland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies.

A comparative look at female political activism in today's most influential Israeli and Palestinian religious movementsHow do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles?

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs.

The real history of the Amazons in war and loveAmazons-fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world-were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks.

In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious faith take precedence over freedom of expression.

An argument against treating our bodies as commoditiesNo one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale.

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society.

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1976 erschien ein zweibändiges Werk mit Rembrandt Grafiken, dessen Volumen so umfangreich ist, dass auch jetzt nur exemplarisch aufgezeigt werden kann, wie stark Kunst einerseits Begehrlichkeiten weckt, zum anderen manipuliert wird und als Kommunikationsmittel für Kreise dient, die sich normalerweise mit anderen Recherchen wie zu militärischen und politischen Strategien beschäftigen.

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

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Using modern biology and history to investigate a series of grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France.

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The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption.

The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers.

Explores the many forms and abilities of the devil in stories from around the world*; Draws on folk traditions from all over Europe, including Transylvanian Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Switzerland, Italy, France, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries*; Traces the devil's shapeshifting powers back to their Vedic origins in ancient India and looks at his connections with witches and storm magic*; Reveals how many of the qualities and magical powers attributed to the devil were once those belonging to pagan godsThe devil has many more guises than the clich red boogeyman named Lucifer or Satan who haunts Christianity.

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Winner of the 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award: Collections of Prayers (First Place).

This book shakes the core of Christian belief.

Die Medienlandschaft ist zweifellos ein faszinierendes, aber auch komplexes und mitunter kontroverses Thema.

Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics.

Upholds "e;a Disney vacation as a religious experience .

THE FORGOTTEN PAGAN ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITYS MOST EMBLEMATIC CELEBRATION Easter by whatever name it may be known is a theme common to almost every religion and every people.

In 1994 a researcher working in the Italian National Library in Rome discovered a manuscript containing 80 mysterious paintings, believed to have been devised by the mysterious prophet Michael de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus.

The vast and mysterious world of criminals, from ancient times through the 21st century, is vividly captured in The Great Pictorial History of World Crime.

Cult, as used in this book, means a system of religious belief and worship, especially the rites and ceremonies employed in such worship.

Her interdisciplinary perspective and her focus on a uniquely female immigrant cultural practice will make this study fascinating reading for scholars of anthropology, gender, folklore, psychology, performance, philosophy, and sociology.

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Although obtaining physical gold is held in high regard, panning for gold nuggets within the pages of our Bibles is actually where lasting riches are found.

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The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization.

Pinky Colefounder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegantakes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.

For hundreds of years, tarot cards have been used for predicting the future, and a way to cast light on life's big questions and inevitable challenges.

Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey one of the largest ever conducted in the U.

Did Hitler-code name "e;Grey Wolf"e;-really die in 1945?

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• Explica el papel de las runas en la tradición de la sabiduría nórdica y su influencia en obras como El señor de los anillos de Tolkien

Las runas nórdicas son un sistema mágico potente y profundamente transformador que brinda a los lectores contemporáneos acceso a la antigua tradición de las culturas del norte de Europa.

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How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries?

The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers.