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The Question of Faith examines the cultural resources underlying manifestations of ‘faith’ in the larger context of communalism and fundamentalism. Countering the economistic and political interpretation of these phenomena, the author focuses instead on the possibilities of resilience contained ... More

Three seemingly independent events occur one morning in London: an MP wakes up after spending the night with a woman he picked up in a bar; a tycoon meets a Bank of England official for breakfast; and a criminal briefs his crew. A journalist struggles to unravel the truth behind the three events.... More

The name on the computer screen is James Barbous Matlock. Vietnam veteran. College professor. He's Washington's choice to stop a far-reaching conspiracy, an undercover assignment destined to put Matlock's neck against the razor's edge of danger. And the faceless men in Washington don't care if it me... More

Georg Moritz Ebers (1837-1898), was a German Egyptologist and a novelist who discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873-74. Ebers early conceived the idea of popularizing Egyptian lore by means of historical romances. An Egyptian Princess was published in 1864 an... More

The subject of this book is not a history of the origin of the belief in immortality, but an examination of the evidence on which those who call themselves spiritualists base that belief. Contents: Part I: introductory; Part II: Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism: historical; explanatory; Part III: ... More

Originally published in 1958, "The Question" is the book that opened the torture debate in France during Algeria's war of independence and was the first book since the eighteenth century to be banned by the French government for political reasons. At the time of his arrest by French paratroopers dur... More

To try your luck with Xanthe? I tell you, it's trouble wasted, for she's dressing her hair to receive our guest from Messina; and, if she were standing where those cabbage-leaves be, she wouldn't contradict me if I were to repeat what you heard from my lips this morning at sunrise. Our girl will nev... More

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