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This 1927 classic is a systematic introduction to Hindu mysticism as it evolved in India through the ages. This book gives a brief general outline of some of the most important types of mysticism, indicating their mutual relations, sometimes genetically and sometimes logically. These include early...

184 pages, 60 images, 21 contributors This pocket-sized reference serves as a valuable reference for medical and legal investigations of possible cases of abusive head trauma to ensure that no possibility is ignored and that children receive appropriate care for their specific circumstance. In cases...

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.

Aborda este trabajo el estudio de las denominadas comparativas de desigualdad cuya coda se encuentra introducida por la preposición «de» en español actual. La vinculación que muchos han establecido entre estas construcciones y la llamada pseudocomparación exige posicionarse con respecto a este...

When Mr. Neill was correcting the proofs of The Problem Child, he realized suddenly that he had written the wrong book. “There isn’t a problem child,” he said, “there is only a problem parent.” That was some years ago, and then he had no time to tell the problem parent what he thought of...

Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects.

Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew Hopkins, who pioneered “techniques” for examining...

What is life all about? Many have asked this question, many more have looked for answers. Life appears as a bundle of experiences accumulated over a lifetime. There is happiness and sorrow, pleasure and pain, success and failure. What does life have to offer to the seeker? A gifted opportunity to...

Dans la « Métaphysique de l'amour sexuel », tirée du Monde comme volonté et comme représentation, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) considère l'amour comme une ruse suprême de la volonté de vivre (Wille zum leben), qui se sert de l'individu pour perpétuer l'espèce. Avec un malin plaisir,...

The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos, Rex Stem presents Nepos as a valuable...

Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance...

Oct. 21st.—They have told me to-day, with obvious reluctance, and in the kindest fashion, that I am to go to-morrow to the house of a Dr. Schreiber, in whose care I am to remain until I am restored to health. Restored to health!—my God! I am as healthy a lad of nineteen (I believe) as any one...

The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.