Allegro's Secret


Book Description

Al Deforest married Amanda Piper, the love of his life. Always a team, they have made a wonderful life. They are wealthy and retired now, enjoying the far end of life. Before, in his youth, Al made some mistakes. As a result, he is a traitor and a murderer. It was all buried under a 75-year diplomatic hold until an investigative reporter dug up scraps of his heavily classified military service file from 50 years ago. He was a quirky warrior back then, sometimes cowardly and sometimes magnificently brave. He won the Medal of Honor. He also collobarated with the enemy. And now suddenly the Government wants to talk to him about those long-ago events, too. Are they setting him up? Should he talk to them? Unless the elderly couple can think of something, their rich life could disappear like a summer raindrop on a hot sidewalk.




The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross


Book Description

This book is the first published statement of the fruits of some years' work of a largely philological nature. It presents a new appreciation of the relationship of the languages of the ancient world and the implication of this advance for our understanding of the Bible and of the origins of Christianity.




Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing


Book Description

Winner of the 2006 Pietro Di Donato and John Fante Literary Award from The Grand Lodge of the Sons of Italy, New York State Robert Viscusi takes a comprehensive look at Italian American writing by exploring the connections between language and culture in Italian American experience and major literary texts. Italian immigrants, Viscusi argues, considered even their English to be a dialect of Italian, and therefore attempted to create an American English fully reflective of their historical, social, and cultural positions. This approach allows us to see Italian American purposes as profoundly situated in relation not only to American language and culture but also to Italian nationalist narratives in literary history as well as linguistic practice. Viscusi also situates Italian American writing within the "eccentric design" of American literature, and uses a multidisciplinary approach to read not only novels and poems, but also houses, maps, processions, videos, and other artifacts as texts.







The Italian American Experience


Book Description

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




High Culture


Book Description

Humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. Beginning at the close of the eighteenth century, this book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period.




The Copper Scroll - 3Q15: A Reevaluation


Book Description

This volume deals with the Copper Scroll, an almost two thousand year old cryptic proto-Mishnaic Hebrew Dead Sea document. It is the largest known ancient text to have ever been recorded on metal. The Introduction covers the nature and site of the discovery, opening of the two brittle oxidized copper rolls, deciphering the text, controversy about genuineness of the content, etc. The in-depth study presents the primary major studies, and offers a new reading, translation, and interpretation, including alternatives, as well as detailed studies of some unique aspects. The analysis is based on Rabbinical Jewish sources originating largely in the same historical era. This results into a more reliable interpretation of the Copper Scroll which probably originates from the Priestly leaders of Jerusalem, and contains a list of the hidden treasures of the Second Temple before its destruction by the Romans.




The Academy


Book Description




Musical News


Book Description