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Investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects as they experience transformations, and demonstrates these objects' dynamic potential to transform their environments and others as they journey through time and space.

A collection of essays examining the Holiness, Radical Holiness, and Pentecostal movements, focusing on the circulation of ideas among these movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Southeast and East Asia.

Explores the life and work of historian Edward Gibbon, and his complex relationship with Christianity, through an examination of his correspondence, private journals, early works, and unfinished memoirs.

This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious praise uses acclaim to censure or to critique. This book reassesses the genre of praise-and-blame rhetoric by considering the potential of odious praise to undermine consensus and to challenge a society's normative values.Surveying literature from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, Eric MacPhail identifies a tradition of epideictic rhetoric that began with the sophists but was cultivated and employed most vigorously by Renaissance political thinkers. Presenting examples from the writings of Lorenzo Valla, Niccolò Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Michel de Montaigne, Joachim du Bellay, and Jean Bodin, among others, MacPhail shows that by inscribing a positive value to an object worthy of blame, cultural values are turned on their head. MacPhail traces the use of this technique to critique the values of the classical and scholastic traditions. Recognizing and engaging with this tradition, MacPhail argues, can reinvigorate our study of the history of social thought and reveal further the roots of modern social science.Rigorous and lucid, Odious Praise presents a rhetoric capable of suspending and thus critiquing the values of a culture, and in doing so, it uncovers the first serious attempts at social thought and the seedbed of modern social science. It will be welcomed by scholars of Renaissance literature and culture, the history of rhetoric, and political thought.

Teaches the basic cuneiform signs in both an active and passive way, allowing students to produce the Neo-Assyrian signs as well as to recognize them.

Follows the stories, in graphic novel format, of two twenty-something roommates, one Christian and one atheist, as they seek to find their place in the world. Explores the themes of faith deconstruction, identity, young love, and loss to create an engrossing world in which waking and sleeping dreams collide.

A collection of essays by art historians on works of art, artifacts, and monuments that are no longer extant, have disappeared, or perhaps never existed outside of language. Addresses destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.

Demonstrates how comics can address topics such as disease outbreaks, opioid addiction prevention, healthcare reform, and climate change while eliciting empathy, clarifying complexity, and broadening perspectives.

A biography of a leading loyalist named Thomas Bradbury Chandler (1726?1790), exploring his advocacy of monarchy and his criticisms of the American revolutionary movement.

Examines the historiography of art and architecture in the German-speaking context in the first half of the twentieth century, with a focus on the tensions between individualism and collectivism. Centers on key art-historical figures, including Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Gombrich, and Hans Sedlmayr.

An eminent philosopher of the 20th century, W.V. Quine made contributions to the philosophy of science, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of language. This work examines Quine's views, particularly his holism and naturalism, for their value to feminist theorizing.

Daniel J Flood was among the last of the oldtime movers and shakers on Capitol Hill. Based on declassified FBI documents, court records, public papers, and contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as more than thirty interviews of Flood's widow, this title explodes the myths surrounding Pennsylvania's controversial - and colorful - congressman.

Musicians engage in many practices that may be viewed as modes of interpretation. This book aims at making the case for understanding these activities of transcribing, varying, and realizing music as various forms of interpretation.

During the 1990s, governments, employers, and international agencies pressed for greater flexibility in labor regulations throughout much of Latin America. This comparative study of six Latin American countries shows why these common pressures for flexibility led to varied labor reform outcomes.

Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state's history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, and W.D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born master John Updike. The book's 103 poets also include such noted authors as Diane Ackerman, Maggie Anderson, Jan, Beatty, Robin Becker, Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Gary Fincke, Harry Humes, Julia Kasdorf, Ed Ochester, Jay Parini, Len Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl, and Judith Vollmer. In these pages, poems sketch the landscapes and cultural terrain of the state, delving into the history, traditions, and people of Philadelphia, "Dutch" country, the coal-mining region, the Poconos, and the Lehigh Valley; the Three Rivers region; the Laurel Highlands; and Erie and the Allegheny National Forest. Theirs is a complex narrative cultivated for centuries in coal mines, kitchens, elevated trains, and hometowns, a tale that illuminates the sanctity of the commonplace--the daily chores of a Mennonite housewife, a polka dance in Coaldale, the late shift at a steel factory, the macadam of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With its panoramic vision of Pennsylvania, its culture, and its thriving literary heritage, CommonWealth is a collection of remembrance for a state that continues to inspire countless contributions to American literature.

This volume describes some of the most outstanding overlooks in Pennsylvania, providing a general description of the area, the site's distinguishing features, its height, the compass direction of the view, and nearby and distant features visible from the outlook.

This text, originally published in Germany in 1990, proposes an extended and original interpretation of Kant, social morality, and philosophy of law. The author articulates his reading of Kant in the context of an account of modernity as a "polyphonous project".

Villanova is one of America's oldest and largest Catholic universities. Founded in 1842, it has seen great change in its 150-year history. Here, David Contosta presents a combination of text and photographs to recount the history of the school and the forces that have shaped its growth.

A collection of essays that explore the collapse of economic growth in Venezuela since the 1970s. Essays discuss the relevance of public investment, labor markets, fiscal policy, institutions, politics, and values.

A collection of essays examining Immanuel Kant's lectures and minor writings as well as his political essays. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Kant's political thought from a position of engagement with modern political and philosophical questions.

Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. His sincere reflections add to the value of this personal and historical document.

This text discusses observations and discoveries in the art and architecture of Rome.

This text examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the daily experience of middling urban families - from work to family to neighbourhood to involvment in local politics.