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Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature

Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature

Peter Dendle

Dendle argues that the devil's nebulous character reflects anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos.
The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature

The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature

Tina Marie Boyer

In Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle, 1–16. Ashgate Research Companion. Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. Mittman, Asa Simon, and Peter Dendle, eds. The Ashgate Research ...
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000–2010

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000–2010

Peter Dendle

This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre.
Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Dendle

The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a potential outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of a society that was at the center of multiple ...
Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-human

Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-human

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AND THE DEAD SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH Part introduction by Peter Dendle 1. Ben Nuckols, “Humans vs. Zombies: New Sport Sweeping College Campuses, ” The Herald (Sierra Vista, AZ), Dec. 9, 2008. See also Matthew Daneman, ...
Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

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Where Kevin Boon has laid out the nature and origin of the zombie, Peter Dendle proceeds with the demonstrative aspect of the monster, the function of The Zombie as Barometer of Cultural Anxiety. Taking a journey through cinematic history, ...
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia

Peter Dendle

ZombieJuice.com, Jesse Mark Cesario, Liana Martin, Bill Hellfire, Michael Weldon, Ken Kish, and Jerry Ohlinger. Special thanks to Bryan Senn, for proofreading and moral support, for generously making his private collection of stills available ...
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

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list of Plates Contributors acknowledgments introduction Alain Touwaide and Peter Dendle 1 1 10 the legacy of Classical antiquity in Byzantium and the West Alain Touwaide 2 Plants and Planets: linking the vegetable with the Celestial in late ...
Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us

Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us

Adam Golub

19. selections from Edward said, Orientalism (new York: Pantheon, 1978); Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (new York: Routledge, 1994); Partha Mitter with Asa simon Mittman and Peter Dendle, “Postcolonial Monsters: A Conversation ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

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Partha Mitter, with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle Editorial Introduction In 1977, Partha Mitter published his landmark study Much Maligned Monsters.1 Rooted in Postcolonial Studies, a field only just being developed—Edward Said's  ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
South Asia: An Environmental History

South Asia: An Environmental History

Christopher V. Hill

... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

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Boettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
Haunted London

Haunted London

Peter Underwood

Peter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...
Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...

Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...

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Boettke, Peter, and Peter Leeson. 2004. “Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy.” Journal of Markets & Morality 7(1): 99–111. Boettke, Peter. 2009. “Institutional Transition and the Problem of Credible Commitment,” The Annual ...

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