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The focus of this book is Andromalius, the 72nd demon in the Goetia, and how he functions as a mirror of Lucifer himself. In the process of illustrating the Lucifer/Andromalius …

Tämä on kirja jokapäiväisestä ja poikkeuksellisesta, tavallisesta ja taianomaisesta, paikallisesta ja yleismaailmallisesta. Tämä on kirja säästä. Tässä kirjassa Matti Mäkelä avaa …

Esseitä kuolemasta ja elämästä ja matkoista niiden välillä. Silvia Hosseinin toisessa esseekokoelmassa kuljetaan kohti väistämätöntä – muutaman mutkan kautta. Esseissä retkeillään …

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the …

From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of …

In these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God …

From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).A staff writer for The New Yorker …

'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and …

For porn stars, "coming out" is a process that never ends. To the uninitiated, the idea of a career in the adult film industry may come with stigma that porn performers and sex …

A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bjoerk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape CodPoet and post-punk …