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Here is an excellent collection of texts illustrative of the struggle between medieval sects and ecclesiatical authorities in medieval Europe. . . . Excellent bibliographical essays complement chapter introductions, making this volume unusually valuable

The cerebral cortex, especially that part customarily designated "neocortex, " is one of the hallmarks of mammalian evolution and reaches its greatest size, relatively speaking, and its widest structural diversity in the human brain. The evolution of this structure, as remarkable for the huge numbers of neurons that it contains as for the range of behaviors that it controls, has been of abiding interest to many generations of neuroscientists. ...

Volume 6 of Cerebral Cortex is in some respects a continuation of Volume 2, which dealt with the functional aspects of cortical neurons from the physiological and pharmacological points of view. In the current volume, chapters are devoted to the catecholamines, which for a number of reasons were not represented in the earlier volume, and to acetylcholine and the neuropeptides, about which much new information has recently appeared. Volume 6 de...

During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels

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As powerful men in Washington push hard to approve funding for the Next-Generation Fighter-Bomber, a controversial "miracle" war machine with a $300 billion price tag, a savage terror bombing levels an aircraft research facility in France. The loss of lives is staggering--and retribution begins even before the guilty are clearly identified. Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds struggles to remain an honorable man and a loyal soldier, but soon star...

Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Magician, the Witch, and the Law, The First Crusade, Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, and, with Alan C. Kors, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Torture has ceased to exist, " Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the pr

Helps to place our understanding of medieval witchcraft into a broader context. . . . Sheds light on the various genres of literature in which magic was discussed."--"Speculum

Excerpt from Modern Copper Smelting It has been my intention to confine myself principally to facts gleaned from my own experience, and only to touch upon theoretical questions when essential for the understanding of practical facts. As the items of cost, both of construction and subsequent operation, are amongst the most important of all the practical questions that face the originators of new smelting enterprises, and as these are virtuall...

Excerpt from Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting The collection of papers which forms this book was mostly prepared in moments stolen from more active professional duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruc...

Excerpt from The Practice of Copper Smelting This work is written to replace my former book, "Modern Copper Smelting, " and is intended to describe present metallurgical practice. It consists, in the main, of two classes of material: Studies of actual operations and results at representative plants, supplemented largely by synopses of practising metallurgists, and investigations, comparisons, and discussions of these results, with a view to ...

Volume 5 of Cerebral Cortex completes the sequence of three volumes on the individual functional areas of the cerebral cortex by covering the somatosensory and motor areas. However, the chapters on these areas lead naturally to a series of others on patterns of connectivity in the cortex, intracortical and subcortical, so that the volume as a whole achieves a much broader viewpoint. The individual chapters on the sensory-motor areas reflect th...

Excommunication. To our modern ears, the very word evokes something dark and foreboding, something out-of-place in contemporary society. Many associate excommunication with the medieval Church, with the Inquisition and witch-hunts, and think it has no place in our more enlightened, tolerant times. Yet this ecclesiastical discipline is as relevant today as it was five hundred or a thousand years ago, an unfortunate last resort in combating the ...

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