Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
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As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price...
A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
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A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to...
Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
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Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn...
The Solace of Water
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After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans...
"the solace of water" race relations romance love death suicide
American Furniture: 1650 to the Present
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Drawing on the latest scholarship, this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey tells the story...
Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-reformation England
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During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a...
Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria
Publius Ovidius Naso, Len Krisak and Sarah Ruden
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The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is...
Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
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In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women,...
The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment
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In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated...
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
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In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval...