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  • Space Monsters #2: The Night Slayers

    Space Monsters

    Series Book 2 - Space Monsters
    Rondo Award Nominated! The anthology that celebrates the strange, the obscure, and the way-out returns for its second issue.Space Monsters is the quarterly anthology for monster kids who never grew up. From horror hosts to cryptid conspiracies, from kaiju to cult cinema, this is where the groovie ghoulies gather.In this Rondo Award-nominated issue:Special Editorial — Monroeville Mall: From Black ... Read more

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  • The Serotonin System

    History, Neuropharmacology, and Pathology

    Edited by Mark Tricklebank, Eileen Daly ...
    The Serotonin System: History, Neuropharmacology, and Pathology provides an up-to-date accounting on the physiology and pathophysiology of serotonin and the role it plays in behavioral functions. In addition, the book explores the potential roles of 5-HT1 in neurodevelopmental disorders and summarizes the history of the discovery and development of serotonergic drugs for the treatment of ... Read more

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  • John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance

    by Irene O'Daly ...
    Series Book 5 - Manchester Medieval Studies
    This book is a detailed but accessible treatment of the political thought of John of Salisbury, a twelfth-century author and educationalist who rose from a modest background to become Bishop of Chartres. It shows how aspects of John's thought – such as his views on political cooperation and virtuous rulership – were inspired by the writings of Roman philosophers, notably Cicero and Seneca. ... Read more

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    Space Monsters

    Series Book 1 - Space Monsters
    The magazine that started it all. Back for a new generation.Space Monsters Magazine is the quarterly anthology that celebrates the strange, the obscure, and the way-out. From horror host icons to cryptid conspiracies, from indie horror to the golden age of monster movies—this is the magazine for monster kids who never grew up.In this inaugural issue:Cinema Macabre with Dennis Daniel — The Shiver o ... Read more

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

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  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    by John Boswell ...
    "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions." — NewsweekJohn Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay ... Read more

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  • What Was History?

    The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

    Series series Canto Classics
    From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history ... Read more

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  • The Hidden History of Women's Ordination

    Female Clergy in the Medieval West

    by Gary Macy ...
    The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was the process and the ceremony by which one moved to any new ministry (ordo) in the community. By this ... Read more

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  • Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

    Four Studies

    by A.J. Woodman ...
    This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. Includes detailed discussion of the work of Thucydides, Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. ... Read more

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  • A Written Republic

    Cicero's Philosophical Politics

    by Yelena Baraz ...
    In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to ... Read more

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