Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practice? The Religious Society of Friends - also known as Quakers - believes that everyone can have a direct... Læs mere
Copyright A2010 [first edition] Richard Cockett.
Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. This book recounts individual suicide cases from the Bible and ancient Greeks to the present day and analyzes how ideas about suicide have changed over time.
The first part of a sweeping multivolume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.
'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair,... Læs mere
Clarence H. Miller's translation of "The Praise of Folly", based on the definitive Latin text, seeks to echo Erasmus' own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original... Læs mere