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Den femte december 1872 hittades ett spökskepp, vid namn Marie Celeste, som drev runt på havet utanför Azorerna i Atlanten. När fartyget bordades hittade man ingen besättning, …

Bestimmte Erscheinungen in unserer Realität verlangen nach klarer Erklärung. Es geht nicht bloß um Aggressivität und Gewalt in ihren unterschiedlichen Formen und Gestalten. Es geht …

Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni …

Full details of where to find - and how to kill - all of Britain's most historic zombies. Fact files on the undead in history, including Roman revenants, people who were buried …

Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings …

Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types …

Zizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy."e;A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."e;-Ludwig WittgensteinThe good …

Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy.“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”—Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is …

This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. …

Get this:Cronus liked to eat babies.Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate.Odin got construction discounts with bestiality.Isis had bad taste in jewelry.Ganesh …