A Leg to Stand on

Literature & Fiction

SACKS, OLIVER

Contemporary

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.

Critical Introduction to the Old Testament

G.W. Anderson

In this study, the author sets out to unravel and expose one of the most powerful and compelling phenomena, a subject which has generated books, films and media, and has now become one of the most popular topics of entertainment: evil. This book argues that evil may be understood empirically as a type of mental and physical behaviour. Analyzing this behaviour in terms of all aspects of popular culture, painting, psychology, law, philosophy and history, it argues that evil contains predictable, specific ingredients. It also takes place within a highly specialized landscape, in which its massive violence, its diabolical self-consciousness and its impersonal selections of victims may develop with impunity. Evil is thus a demonstratable fact: by understanding its nature we can diagnose its specific manifestations in mass murder, genocide and serial killings. The book crisscrosses a variety of cinematic and literary genres in developing its evidence. It considers such films as "Persona", "The Silence of the Lambs", "Brazil" and "Performance", while from literature it draws upon such works as "Richard III", "Oedipus the King" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Relevant works of art, by Goya, Fuseli, Dali and Waterhouse, among others, plus a re-examination of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, complement enquiries into the role of criminality and a peculiar linguistic straining and collapse that is seen in environments of evil.

Evil and the Demonic: A New Theory of Monstrous Behaviour

Paul Oppenheimer

Oedipus at Colonus (Focus Classical Library)

Sophocles/blundell

Classics

Handbook of Russian Verbal Prefixes

Robert Hale

Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic

Knapp, Robert & Pamela Vaughn

Reference

Greek Religion: A Sourcebook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of ancient Greek religious beliefs and rituals through a rich collection of ancient source readings. The translations draw from the Focus Classical Library sources as well as new translations by the author and other outstanding scholars. Chapters cover such topics as ancient magic, mystery cults, divination, and festivals. Illustrated throughout with photos and maps, this book is designed as a companion to Valerie Warrior's Roman Religion: A Sourcebook.

Greek Religion: A Sourcebook

History

Ancient Civilizations

This best-selling textbook, by author Anne-Christine Rice, has defined the market of language learning through film. 
NEW IN THE 2ND EDITION: - 4 new films - Supplementary reading selections (Historical documents, literary works, interviews, critiques and excerpts from screenplays) - Critical analysis of the original French dialogues and their English subtitles - Expanded biographies of the directors and actors - Enhanced focus on cultural understanding and research - Exploration of parallels between films

Cinema for French Conversation: Le Cinema en Cours de Francais, Second Edition

Rice, Anne-Christine

Humor & Entertainment

Theologico-Political Treatise (Focus Philosophical Library)

A complete translation in English of this modern text, with substantive apparatus to allow the student and serious reader to grapple in a meaningful way with this seminal text. The text includes ample footnotes, Spinoza’s annotations, an interpretative essay, glossary and other indices. 
Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Spinoza’s immediate audience. 
This is the paperback edition.

Politics & Social Sciences

Spinoza

Philosophy

This is an English translation of Sophocles’ tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet while on the way to Troy. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Sophocles: Philoktetes (Focus Classical Library)

SOPHOCLES

Dramas & Plays

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