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Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son
Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers accordingly sought to speak to the experience of bereavement and to provide cultural scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient writers turned to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job and Jephthah as models for grieving and for confronting or submitting to the divine. Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah’s Son traces the stories these writers crafted and the ways in which they shaped the lived experience of familial bereavement in ancient Christianity. A compelling social history that conveys the emotional lives of people in the late ancient world, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son is a powerful portrait of mourning that extends beyond antiquity to the present day.
Vampirus
Un anno fa Cal Thompson frequentava il primo anno di college e della biologia, così come ai suoi amici, non gliene importava niente. Oggi, dopo aver trascorso una notte insieme a Morgan, una misteriosa ragazza incontrata in un bar, la biologia è diventata la sua unica via di salvezza. Perché Morgan gli ha trasmesso un parassita temibile: quello del vampirismo. Per fortuna, Cal risulta essere un portatore sano. Non si trasforma dunque in un cannibale spietato, ma si ritrova dotato di sensi acuiti, di una forza e una velocità sovrumane, e di una dote che gli sembra quasi uno scherzo del destino: una costante eccitazione sessuale. Un dramma per il ragazzo, che non può concedersi neppure un...
The Laughter of Sarah
The laughter of delight has gone unheard in the Western tradition. This work brings new light to the notion, and has a consistent leitmotif: the delighted laughter of the matriarch Sarah in the book of Genesis, when she gives birth to her son Isaac. This laughter is "heard" through biblical commentaries and twentieth-century theorists of laughter.
Architecture and Violence
"In today's turbulent times few subjects deserve a closer scrutiny than the interactions between violence and constructed environment. Modernity's contradictory histories laid bare the fact that it is impossible to consider architecture simply a benign, passive victim of humanity's violent vices. Built space is as capable of incarnating violent acts as enacting them, disciplining and silencing the subject in the process. In this compelling volume, some of the most incisive thinkers of contemporary architectural theory make manifest the intricacies of interrelations between architecture and violent events. Employing a wide variety of perspectives and methodical approaches, the authors examine some of the most dramatic and unexpected instances of these vexing relations"--Back cover.
Dream Like a Champion
Since becoming the Nebraska women's volleyball coach in 2000, John Cook has led the team to four national championships, seven NCAA semifinal appearances, and the nation's top winning percentage in women's volleyball. In Dream Like a Champion Cook shares the coaching and leadership philosophy that has enabled him to become one of the game's winningest coaches. Growing up in San Diego, Cook acquired his coaching philosophy from his experiences first as a football coach, then as a student of the sport of volleyball on the beaches of Southern California. After a stint as an assistant volleyball coach at Nebraska, he returned to Nebraska as head coach in 2000 and won the national championship in...
Il diario di un ciclista fiesolano in fuga
Un romanzo di ambientazione storica che apre, anche, uno squarcio sulle imprese del ciclismo “eroico”: quello degli anni Venti e Trenta, per intenderci, da Bottecchia a Girardengo ai primi successi di Gino Bartali. E, in bici da corsa, si muovono anche i protagonisti della narrazione, due corridori dilettanti che fuggono dall'Italia dell'oppressione fascista, e da un arresto ormai quasi certo, valicando i passi appenninici e quelli alpini, resi mitici dal Giro d'Italia e dal Tour de France. Un'idea narrativa nuova e stimolante, quella di Alberto Pestelli, che ci conduce attraverso gli anni difficili dell'affermarsi delle dittature nazi-fasciste e della guerra civile spagnola, in un Europa che precipitava, senza quasi accorgersene, verso l'abisso del secondo conflitto mondiale. Gianni Marucelli
Consequences
“Please let her be all right–I haven’t even had a chance to tell her how much I love her!” Devoted wife and mother Emily Stratton has spent her life suppressing the knowledge that she is attracted to women. A systems analyst with the Maine State Police, Emily’s life is turned upside down when her husband is killed in what appears to be a tragic accident. Calm and self-controlled Detective Kay DeLorme has always loved women, but never really been in love. Kay and her partner in the Major Crimes Unit are tracking down a vicious sociopath linked to a notorious drug gang and they need Emily’s info-tech expertise. Emily and Kay are both startled by the instantaneous attraction they feel toward one another, but neither is quite sure how to handle it. As their friendship grows and the case heats up, so does their passion. But the decisions they’ll make and the risks they’ll take will soon engender consequences that neither of them could imagine. Consequences is a stunning romantic thriller by debut author Sarah Libero.
The Arch of Aramoth
The Arch of Aramoth is about the search and discovery of a supernatural arch which was discovered in a small but short lived town in northern Italy in the late 1500's. After an earthquake hit the town and reburied the arch in the mid 1600's, the arch was rediscovered in the early 2000's and moved to San Francisco by a billionaire who put the arch in his personal museum. Many mysteries of the arch are discovered including the creation of two superheroes. There is much action including the rescue of a CIA agent, the saving of a corporate CEO, the foiling of a kidnapping and bank robbery as well as trips to planets, light years away. This book is intended to be the first book of a trilogy. The second book will be The Column of Serese and the third will be The Black Arch.
