1649 results for '"Simon, Denis Fred'

"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."--Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images...

An electrifying memoir from a pioneering cultural icon whose fearless creativity reshaped the worlds of art, music, and styleFab 5 Freddy doesn’t just have a great story—he is the story. Name a...

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far. But in The Next Great Globalization, eminent...

The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses...

A classic by a renowned Dutch artist that offers a way to rediscover the world and experience Zen through seeing and drawing. Drawn and handwritten by the author. Seeing/Drawing is spiritual...

An elegantly packaged new edition of a classic Chinese folk tale collection that responds to the contemporary fascination with the ancient culture of the Far East. This elegantly presented edition of...

Willie Halliday, the private eye with Buddhist beliefs, is on holiday when the peace is shattered by a chance meeting with a long legged, redhead. It isn't long before he's involved in a case that...

Poems deal with the past, mortality, war, Europe, spring, America, travel, identity, meaning, and language

The idea of security—from ancient Greece to the War on TerrorIn The Security Principle, French philosopher Frédéric Gros takes a historical approach to the concept of security, looking at its...

"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession...

While riding on a bus in New York City, the author looks back on his life and examines the Jewish culture

Del and Bud, two middle-aged brothers from Biloxi, Mississippi, have never quite grown up and regularly mess up each other's lives, as Bud chases after a glamorous life and Del chases Bud's wife,...

Pauline scholarship has typically interpreted 2 Corinthians as a later editorial composite of several letters. Fredrick Long situates the text within Classical literary and rhetorical conventions and...

Jewish Images in the Comics showcases more than 150 comic strips, comic books and graphic novels from all over the world, stretching over the last five centuries and featuring Jewish characters and...

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the...