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This novel features the fictional memoirs of Peppe, a heretical dwarf from the Vatican of the Renaissance.
Author : David Madsen
Publisher : Dedalus Hall of Fame
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909232754
This novel features the fictional memoirs of Peppe, a heretical dwarf from the Vatican of the Renaissance.
Author : David Madsen
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the intersection of the 15th and 16th centuries, a Dwarf (Big "D" to show respect) goes from the mean streets of Rome to walk with the giants of that world. Madsen remarkably gives us a tour of Europe, Italy, Rome, the Vatican, the papacy, Gnosticism, side-shows, sex, gore and love - always love. The Inquisition is in bloom and heretics are treated in ways that are described in detail, with questioning normal Christian or Roman Catholic beliefs as well as intimate descriptions of sex or be exposed to visceral scenes. The book is very well written and flows smoothly.
Author : Eric Russell Chamberlin
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780880291163
The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.
Author : David Madsen
Publisher : Original Fiction in Paperback
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Confessions of a Flesh-Eater is the story of a grand passion - the story of man and meat, and the intimate relationship between them. That man is Orlando Crispe, universally acknowledged as one of the finest exponents in the world of classical and creative cuisine, and at present languishing in a Roman prison, charged with the murder of at least four people. The confessions of Orlando Crispe constitute a detailed and frank account of the love affair between a master and his medium. For Crispe, the consumption of flesh is essentially an act of love, a communion as intimate as the act of sex, and such intimacy inevitably achieves its own proper apotheosis between persons. The novel gives Orlando Crispe's classic menus and readers who wish to try them are advised that whenever human flesh is specified, animal flesh can be used instead - indeed it should be.
Author : David Madsen
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780688105631
A journalist in Washington becomes possessed by a voodoo spirit which uses him to assassinate an exiled Haitian leader, part of a plan by a Haitian faction to take power on the island. By the author of U.S.S.A.
Author : David Madsen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2023-07
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 148144090X
Offers adaptation of the best-selling exploration of the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.
Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0307772713
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1612193757
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.
Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780337663
Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist , together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is living up to his reputation as 'The Father of Curses'. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the 'pyramids' of Mazghunah - countless mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems of any interest but then a murder in Cairo changes all of that. The dead man was an antiques dealer, killed in his shop, so when a sinister-looking Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah, Amelia can't resist following his trail. At the same time she has to keep an eagle eye on her wayward son Rameses and his elegant and calculating cat and look into the mysterious disappearance of a mummy case...