Ctesias' Persica in its Near Eastern Context
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The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias,...
Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being
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For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years,...
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos and Harry G. West
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In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose...
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Frances W. Pritchett and Owen T. A. Cornwall
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This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to...
Niorstigningar Saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse Descent into Hell
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The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing...
The Upanishads: A Complete Guide
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The Upanishads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Written from...
Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S., 1859-79
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This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women's travel narratives...
Quick Curtain
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Quick Curtain is a witty detective story, originally published in 1934. It is one among many books...
The Napoleon Complex
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Napoleon stood before a stormy sky. In his hand was a scroll, and on that scroll were characters....
Extinction
Philip Gabriel and Kazuaki Takano
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He is a new kind of human He may mean the end for the rest of us...One bright morning in Washington...