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A poet who crafted thegreatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. His Paradise Lost is a touchstone of English literature.In the latest entry in Ig's celebrated Bookmarked series, author Ed Simon considers Paradise Lost within the scope of his own alcoholism and recovery, the collapse of higher education, the imbecility ofthe canon wars,...

A fascinating and accessible guide to the Faustian bargain throughout the ages, written in a lively and engaging style.From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain -- the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power -- has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations.Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from the Bible to blues, and illustrates how the in...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every time period has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which gestures beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feat...

At once a log of pandemic life in New York City and a meditation on selfhood, memory, and language, Emily Simon's first book is a lyrical and timely experiment in prose fragments.In Many Ways describes a self in process, at odds, and enthralled, in search of the origins of her unsatisfiable pursuit of meaning. The writerly drive to fix the fleeting moment comes up against a contradictory impulse to escape--through writing--the binds of formal ...

A gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art, religion, and literatureIneffable, invisible, inscrutable¿angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images: fat babies with wings and guardians ...

What Your Mentor Forgot to Tell You is a collection of hints, terms and definitions that will help you in your beekeeping endeavor. This list is from various sources collected over twenty years of beekeeping. For the beginning beekeeper it will provide a reference to the huge number of terms that are tossed around by the more experienced beekeepers.

Binding the Ghost considers the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and writing. Ed Simon presents a lyrical, incisive, and humane sacralization of reading and writing that takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of the very idea of poetry and fiction.

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Ranging from the earliest scriptural references to demons in the New Testament through the Enlightenment and Romantic eras when our devils took on a subtler form, Pandemonium functions as a compendium of Lucifer's subjects from Dante's The Divine Comedy to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and all points in between.

This book is dedicated to the many educators who experienced their share of gut bursting and knee slapping laughs.

An idiosyncratic look at an American city

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In sailing to Utopia, we must first chart our ships through the Renaissance to discover our radical intellectual origins.

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A fragmentary, digressive, impressionistic account of what the radical implications of goodness could possibly be in late capitalism.

If America or God didn't exist it would be necessary to invent them. Let's start.

A collection of devotions, Bible verses, and prayers to be shared with young children at bedtime.

MOSCOW IN THE MAKING By Snt E. D. SIMON. M.A. PREFACE By SIR E. D. SIMON MY wife and I had long felt that the best way to attempt to understand something of the great Russian experiment would be to study a single aspect of Russian life which would bring us into effective contact with Russians dealing with a kind of work which we understood. We decided, therefore, to investigate the city government of Moscow, my wife dealing with educational ad...