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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden | Waterstones
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden | Waterstones
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Paperback 2023 9780593468463 | eBay
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Paperback 2023
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage, this is a brilliant read--both powerful and prescient."--Elif Shafak The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us
A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible
The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. It is read with intense devotion by hundreds of millions of people, stands as authoritative for Judaism and Christianity, and informs and affects the politics and lives of the religious and non-religious around the world. But how well do we really know it? The Bible is so familiar, so ubiquitous that we have begun to take our knowledge of it for granted. The Bible many of us think we know is a pale imitation of the real thing. In A Most Peculiar Book, Kristin Swenson addresses the dirty little secret of biblical studies -- that the Bible is a weird book. It is full of surprises and contradictions, unexplained impossibilities, intriguing supernatural creatures, and heroes doing horrible deeds. It does not provide a
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succu…