Saint Antony, Abba Pambo, Syncletica of Palestine, Saint George of Choziba, Abba Aaron, Saint Theognius, Saint Omnophrius come to life through translations og biographical documents from Greek and Coptic. Discussion of women, the structure of a monastery, miracles and relics, and the cult of the saints illuminates the text.
In 1994 the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, in cooperation with the Fourth Freedom Forum, conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of the Indian public's attitude toward nuclear arms. This book examines the findings of that landmark survey.
Exploring the history of resistance to racial and gender oppression--from a slave women in 19th-century America to a woman patient of Sigmund Freud, this book traces the failed promises of the American Revolution in the oppression of subordinate groups. Poling reviews resistance by analyzing communities that understand evil as the abuse of power.
This first book on the director of The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia is comprehensive, analyzing each of Jonathan Demme's thirteen films. Demme received the 1980 New York Film Critics Award as Best Director for Melvin and Howard. Subsequent Demme films such as Something Wild and the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, which won ......
This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert that Rice expands the conventions of the horror genre's formula to examine important social issues. Like a handful of authors working in this genre, Rice manipulates its otherwise predictable narrative ......
Scientists often test the claims of astrology. Efforts to prove the claims fall short. The one exception, according to backers of astrology, is the work of Michel and Francoise Gauquelin. This title presents a study that examines the birth data for 1,066 French sports champions culled from two leading Who's Who anthologies focusing on athletes.
Shows that energised creative geniuses are self-motivated and driven individuals who learned how to be great. This book helps motivate those who dare to reach for success and power in their own lives. It concentrates on six distinctive outlets to realise individual creative potential.
Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition
Televangelist Pat Robertson has built one of the most powerful religious-political movements in American history. This book examines the role, Robertson plays in contemporary politics and his efforts to influence American society through his various political organisations, businesses, and broadcast empire.
The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and certainly sex. Her textual landscape includes rock climbers and the ill, female killers who take to the road and women who survive by climbing out of ......
