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Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer CinemaThe Desiring-Image redefines queer cinema as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexuality and desire as fundamentally fluid for all people, exceeding familiar stories and themes in many LGBT movies....

A Cross-Categorial View of Event StructureThis volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies...

This volume offers groundbreaking dialogue by many of the most prominent scholars in the field in a definitive treatment of central issues in theism and Christian faith....

Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of BaptismAt Easter 387, an event took place which had profound implications for the development of Christianity, as Bishop Ambrose of Milan baptised the future Saint Augustine. Sixteen centuries later, archaeologists uncovered the site outside the cathedral. Gary Wills tells the story of the discovery, the...

Anthony Jahn, M.D., internationally-acclaimed for his work as an "e;opera doctor"e; with some of the most prestigious opera companies in the world, brings together some of the profession's greatest doctors, performers, and instructors in a thorough and comprehensible guidebook on all aspects of health and disease that affect the voice....

Building on the highly praised and deliciously browseable two-volume compendium the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, this new work serves up everything you could ever want to know about American consumables and their impact on popular culture and the culinary world. Within its pages for example, we learn that Lifesavers candy owes...