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A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of LifeThe study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise. Yet, no one existing volume pulls together perspectives from a diverse array of religions with ethical...

The End of GloryNapoleon: The End of Glory tells the story of the dramatic two years that led to Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. Though crucial to European history, they remain strangely neglected, lying between the two much better-known landmarks of the retreat from Moscow and the battle of Waterloo. Yet this short period saw both...

The Art Object&'s Political LifeModernism&'s Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernism&'s commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, Lisa Siraganian persuasively argues that...

Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles...

Acousmatic Sound in Theory and PracticeSound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his...

The Matter of Money in English Renaissance LiteratureMoney talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today. But what the sixteenth century&'s gold and silver had to say for itself is strikingly different from the modern discourse of money. As David Landreth demonstrates in The Face of Mammon, the material and historical differences...