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Mighty MagicWes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination,        charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy,        from descriptions of creatures found in the external world to the drama of human        motivation, of sexual and political identity. At its centre are readings of...

This study, based on a careful examination of hundreds of authoritative rabbinic writings, offers a very different picture of the textual reality of, and the rabbinic beliefs about the Torah. B. Barry Levy explores exactly how perfect or imperfect these rabbis thought the text to be. He demonstrates conclusively that many of the same rabbinic...

In recent years it has become increasingly obvious that PD is more than a disorder of movement with pathology localized to the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway. This book therefore seeks to take this discussion into this new area of research and define the nature of the non-dopaminergic features of PD in a new and exciting way. This includes...

The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His FollowersIn the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian        religious and scientific thinkers emerged, united in the conviction that humanity        was entering a new stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role        in the cosmos. The...

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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an eclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics....