997 results for 'Purity'

Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne's second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years,...

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world-renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. It is a completely new reading which transforms the interpretation...

Combining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald's experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the...

The Bio World War that decimated earth's population a thousand years ago was just the start. Though few survived the apocalyptic horrors, people and technology eventually bounced back. Christians,...

The Tibetan teaching of Dzog-chen (pronounced ZOAK-chen), also known as Ati yoga, is considered by its adherents to be the definitive and most secret teaching of the Buddha. Primordial Experience is...

The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual...

The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely...

Coke Sprite and Fantasy-On the Rocks- is a collection of poetry and is categorized into four parts; Coke, Sprite, Rocks, and Fantasy.This book depicts the emotion of sorrow written in Coke (black),...

Raw cooking is a form of eating food full of life and nutrition, which contains exquisite flavors, aromas, and textures in order to delight our five senses, particularly our palate...

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester...

Describes the theory, apparatus, performance and usage of modern methods for trace element determination, atomic absorption, emission, fluorescence and mass spectroscopies, x-ray techniques and...

Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing.White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White Ribbon...

In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant...