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  • The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues

    A Visual History

    de Ed Simon ...
    Series series Visual History of the Sacred & Profane
    The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History is a richly illustrated, large‑format exploration of how humanity has attempted to understand morality, self‑control, and spiritual struggle through art, religion, and philosophy.Presented as a substantial hardcover volume with extensive color imagery throughout, the book brings together visual history and cultural analysis in a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dove and the Dragon

    A Cultural History of the Apocalypse

    de Ed Simon ...
    No Western religious concept has been as socially, culturally, economically, and politically significant as that of the apocalypse. Neither heaven and hell, nor sin and salvation, nor even God and the devil have merited the attention of billions of people in the manner that belief in the end of the world has. Apocalyptic thinking is riven by a fruitful--and at times dangerous--binary between the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Devil's Contract

    The History of the Faustian Bargain

    de Ed Simon ...
    **"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." — James Wood, The New YorkerA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond . . .**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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Writing During the Apocalypse

    Reflections on the Great Unraveling

    de Dr. Ed Simon ...
    All of American literature is a tragedy. What we're living through now isn't a tragedy, however – it's a horror novel. W****hy bother writing when the world's on fire?Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inflation. Wealth disparity. War. Climate change. While every time period is marked by apocalyptic fears, it certainly seems like our current anxieties aren't ill placed. And yet, art and literature ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Pandemonium

    A Visual History of Demonology

    de Ed Simon ...
    A compendium celebrating the art of hell and its minionsPandemonium: The Illustrated History of Demonology presents—for the first time—Satan’s family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout the book, there are short entries on individual demons, but Pandemonium is more than just a visual encyclopedia. It also focuses on the influence ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Alternative History of Pittsburgh

    de Ed Simon ...
    "[An] epic, atomic history of the Steel City . . . a work of literature, a series of linked creative nonfiction essays, an historical story cycle." ―Phillip Maciak, Los Angeles Review of BooksThe land surrounding the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers has supported communities of humans for millennia. Over the past four centuries, however, it has been transformed countless ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Soul of Pittsburgh

    Essays on Life, Community and History

    de Ed Simon ...
    "Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here." - Art Rooney Sr. What does it mean to be from Pittsburgh? Author Ed Simon explores the nature of the Yinzer and how the Steel City shapes anyone who is fortunate to call it home. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Binding the Ghost

    Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature

    de Ed Simon ...
    Binding the Ghost is both manifesto and example of a new variety of reading that centers a theological perspective in considering what literature actually does. Neither dogmatic nor apologetic, sectarian or denominational, this mode of reading acknowledges the inherently charged strangeness of writing and fiction, whereby authors have the ability to seemingly create entire universes from words ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Relic

    de Dr. Ed Simon ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • America and Other Fictions

    On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

    de Ed Simon ...
    At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the need for an Augustinian left, legacies of American violence, speaking in tongues, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Cognition Switch #5

    de Ed Simon, Michael Strauss, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, Johanna Hanink ...
    Series Libro 5 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #5: April 2019Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The God Beat

    What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters

    de Costica Bradatan, Ed Simon ...
    In the wake of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks we, as an increasingly secular nation, were reminded that religion is, for good and bad, still significant in the modern world. Alongside this new awareness, religion reporters adopted the tools of so-called New Journalists, reporters of the 1960s and '70s like Truman Capote and Joan Didion who inserted themselves into the stories they covered ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus