1010 títulos para "Penn State University Press"
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Reimagining Advocacy
Britt, Elizabeth C.
978-0-271-08102-1Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning embodied advocacy—a practice that re...
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Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism
Kazen, Thomas
978-1-57506-811-4In this volume of collected articles and papers on impurity and purification in early Judaism, Kazen focuses primarily on questions of the impurity of discharges and the practice of hand-washing before meals. Kazen uses both literary and historical methods, as well as approaches based on cognitive s...
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Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation
Gutas, Dimitri
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Transmitting the Spirit
Oosterbaan, Martijn
978-0-271-07844-1Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its successfully incorporating native cosmologies in new religious frameworks. This volume probes for more complex explanations to this phenomenon in the favelas o...
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Literary Obscenities
Bachman, Erik M.
978-0-271-08006-2This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representa...
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Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England
Hadass, Ofer
978-0-271-08019-2The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man whose...
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Thinking Together
978-0-271-08088-8Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how pe...
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Middle English Marvels
Williams, Tara
978-0-271-07964-6This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and...
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Posthumous America
Hoffmann, Benjamin
978-0-271-08008-6Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnés...
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Gluttony and Gratitude
Stelzer, Emily E.
978-0-271-08376-6Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve’s sin as one of gluttony—and the evidence for Milton’s adaptation of this tradition—has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily Stelzer provides the fir...
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Wrestling with the Violence of God
978-1-57506-828-2The prevalence of evil and violence in the world is a growing focus of scholarly attention, especially violence done in the name of religion and violence found within the pages of the Old Testament. Many atheists consider this reason enough to reject the notion of a supreme deity. Some Christians at...
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Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't
Jarvis, Sharon E. / Han, Soo-Hye
978-0-271-08125-0For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes...
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