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View book details for The New Path
My Life with Paramhansa Yogananda
The New Path tells the story of a young American's spiritual quest, his discovery of the powerful classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, and his subsequent meeting with-and acceptance as a disciple by-the book's author, the great spiritual teacher and yoga …
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The Man and His Work
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of …
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Lawyer and Art Collector, 1841-1917
John G. Johnson, who died in 1917, became a legend soon after his death. His prodigious intellect and energy, his consummate skill in court, his independence of thought and action are still spoken of with the same awe his name …
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A Peasant Family in the Machine Age
Rise From Want explores the ways in which a family of poor peasants from the Karst plateau above Trieste, Italy, lived through the great changes brought about by industrialization and modernization. The book is a careful and imaginative reconstruction of …
View book details for Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
A Sumerian Epic Tale of Iraq and Iran
University Museum Monograph, 7
View book details for Closure and Mahler's Music
The Role of Secondary Parameters
Through scrupulous and perceptive analyses, Hopkins shows how parameters other than melody, harmony, and rhythm compensate for the weakening of tonal syntax in Mahler's music.Closure and Mahler's Music provides a conceptual framework that can enhance understanding of the stylistic changes …
View book details for Reconciling Ireland
Fifty Years of BritishIrish Agreements
Reconciling Ireland is a unique guide to the history of the last half-century, compiling all the texts of the key BritishIrish legal and political agreements relating to Northern Ireland for the first time. These forty documents, presented alongside expert analysis …
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The Battle to Save Stormont and the Play for a New Ireland
This is a book about political stasis; the purgatory that Stormont became, and the sins of that long standoff. The story begins in January 2017, with Martin McGuinnesss dramatic resignation as Deputy First Minister, and chronicles all the behind-the-scenes negotiations …
As the worlds most popular annual Bible commentary for more than two decades, Standard Lesson Commentary (SLC) provides 52 weeks of study in a single volume and combines thorough Bible study with relevant examples and questions. Key features include: Verse-by-verse …
Old Ireland in Colour brings to life the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of these stunning images of all walks of Irish life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the chaos of the …
View book details for The Heartbeat of Trees
Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESA powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest …
The textbook begins with a chapter on exclusivism, inclusivism, particularity and pluralism, and one on interfaith. Each chapter explains the history, rationale and workings of the various approaches. Moreover, each is divided into sub-sections dealing with various forms of each …
View book details for Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass
Revised New Edition
Some thirty years since its first publication, David Caron returns with an updated, redesigned, and greatly expanded edition of the Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass, the definitive guide to Irish stained glass from 1900 to the present day. This is …
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A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Over 200,000 copies soldfully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.Anyone who wants to learn basic living skillsthe kind employed by our forefathersand adapt them for a …
View book details for The Age of Minerva, Volume 2
Cognitive Discontinuities in Eighteenth-Century Thought--From Body to Mind in Physiology and the Arts
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of …
View book details for They Watch Me as They Watch This
Gertrude Stein's Metadrama
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleGertrude Stein wrote almost one hundred plays, many of which were published and performed during her lifetime. In "They Watch Me as They Watch This," the first full-length study of Stein's plays, …
View book details for The Moment of Rupture
Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought
An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks, kairos, the time …
View book details for Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France
Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine
Examines the tolerance between Catholics and Protestants in a period when vicious sectarian strife was the rule of the day. Tolerance here means more than mere coexistence but a daily interaction between people without regard for their faith.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of …
View book details for The Nature of the Page
Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England
An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on papermaking in the RenaissanceIn The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper …
Freedom of religion or belief is deeply entrenched in international human rights conventions and constitutional traditions around the world. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as does …
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Ywain in the Visual Arts
Modern audiences are most likely to encounter Yvain and other Arthurian characters in literature. We read Chretien de Troyes's Yvain or Hartmann von Aue's Iwein, and easily slip into the assumption that during the Middle Ages the title character existed …
During the colonial period in India, English historians portrayed the British conquest and domination of India as the realization of a historic destiny, absorbing the particular history of India into the overarching narrative of the Empire. When Indian scholars educated …
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Lyric Insertions in French Narrative Fiction, 12-14
The Song in the Story is the first full-length examination of lyric insertions in medieval French literature. Boulton's discussion of the function of the literary device is firmly placed in the context of contemporary rhetorical theory and the literary trends …
During the sixties and seventies, the fictional "reinventions" of john Barth, along with his misread and influential essay 'The Literature of Exhaustion," established the comic novelist as a leading practitioner and theorist of what was then coming to be called …
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