Surveillance Cinema
Book
In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the...
The Art of Power
Book
Turning our conventional understanding of power on its head, world-renowned Zen master, spiritual...
The Brain's Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
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In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new...
The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi
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Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish middle ages....
The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science
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The Indigo Child concept is a contemporary New Age redefinition of self. Indigo Children are...
The Liquidation of the Church: From Parochial Religion to Religion on Stage
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Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories...
The Max Weber Dictionary: Key Words and Central Concepts
Richard Swedberg and Ola Agevall
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Max Weber is one of the world's most important social scientists, but he is also one of the most...
The New Tenement
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This book examines "new tenements" - dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the...
Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine: Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr
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A distinctive feature of Christian culture in early Islamic Syria and Palestine was a renewed...
Trash Cinema: The Lure of the Low
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This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from...