Teresa of Avila: Doctor of the Soul
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Following the success of John of the Cross (Continuum 2010) and Return to the Mystical (Continuum...
The Fathers of the Church: Catecheses - St. Clement of Rome to St. Augustine of Hippo
Benedict and Joseph T. Lienhard
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At his Wednesday audiences during 2007 and 2008 Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of short talks on...
The Will to Battle: Terra Ignota Book 3
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The year is 2454. Three centuries of peace and a hard-won golden age have come to an abrupt end. ...
science fiction fantasy
Napoleon Wasn't Short and St Patrick Wasn't Irish: When History Gets it Wrong
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After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited...
Illuminated Manuscripts
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Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art....
An Introduction to Medieval English Literature: 1300-1485
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This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination,...
Waiting for the Past
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The clearly-focussed lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the...
Britain: A Genetic Journey
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Based on exciting new research involving the largest sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair...
What Girls Are Made Of
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When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina...
Young Adults
Awix (3310 KP) rated On the Basis of Sex (2018) in Movies
Mar 1, 2019
Well-mounted and with some decent performances, and there are some startling revelations (sex discrimination was not considered unconstitutional in the US until fairly recently), but the actual story of the main case covered by the film is not that gripping (a lot of discussion of legal procedure and tax law), and the earnestness of the film also threatens to make it a bit indigestible: of course RBG is an important figure fighting for a good cause, but that doesn't mean any film about her has to feel like The Lives of the Saints. The documentary about Ginsberg is also flawed, but more peppy than this.