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The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the "rights of victims" and make pronouncements against...
Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Revelations about the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults
Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Revelations about the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults
This book is a collection of thoughts and researches about secret societies. It is going to take you on many journeys, but whether you arrive or where you arrive will be your decision. I need to make a simple point before you proceed to “bite the apple”: Clear your mind of anything you have been told. I care not...
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic interactions that take place between the articulation and the realization of Cassandra's...
A Walk through the Southern Sky: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends
A Walk through the Southern Sky: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends
What star is that? Where is the Southern Cross? Who was Orion? Answering these questions and many more, this book will become an essential traveling companion for amateur astronomers heading abroad. Its unique simplified maps make it easy to find the constellations in the southern hemisphere skies, and the stars within them. Clear instructions...
Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach
Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach

What is a realistic image? This is an age-old question in art, and a contemporary question in computer graphics. This book provides a modern answer involving the computer and a new definition of realism.

The classic definition of realism has been veridical realism. Does the picture pass the comparison test? That is, would an...

Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings (Studia Semitica Neerlandica)
Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings (Studia Semitica Neerlandica)

In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on different academic fields (biblical studies, rabbinic studies, and literary studies) and on various methodologies (literary criticism, rhetorical...

The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (Handbook of Oriental Studies)
The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (Handbook of Oriental Studies)

The historical and cultural role of the Aramaeans in ancient Syria can hardly be overestimated. Thus The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria gives precise and up-to-date information on different aspects of Aramaean culture. To that end, history, society, economy and law, language and script, literature, religion, art and architecture of the...

Ancient Epistemology (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)
Ancient Epistemology (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)
This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from...
Asthma: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)
Asthma: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)

Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda.

As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma became clearer, and its basis in the lungs recognized.
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Brain-Computer Interfaces: Applying our Minds to Human-Computer Interaction
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Applying our Minds to Human-Computer Interaction

For generations, humans have fantasized about the ability to create devices that can see into a person’s mind and thoughts, or to communicate and interact with machines through thought alone. Such ideas have long captured the imagination of humankind in the form of ancient myths and modern science fiction stories. Recent advances in...

Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain. Michael Hanlon identifies ten scientific questions that we simply can't seem to answer and explains why these compelling mysteries will remain unsolved for...
The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

It is widely accepted by New Testament scholars that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles probably originated as two parts of one work by a single author. In spite of this, the books have been assigned to very different genres: Luke is traditionally viewed as a biography of Jesus, and Acts as a history of the early church....

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