Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir...

Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe.Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case studies in Castile, Zurich and Shetland to explore what food can reveal about the wider social and cultural history of early modern communities undergoing religious upheaval. Issues o...

Die Psalmen gehören zu den bekanntesten und beliebtesten Büchern der Bibel. Nach den zwölf Untersuchungen zu den Asaph-Psalmen im Vorgängerband ÖBS 57 werden hier weitere zwanzig Studien (vier davon auf Englisch) zu Psalmen und Psalter publiziert. Erstmals veröffentlicht wird eine Studie zu Psalm 91 und seiner frühen Nachgeschichte. Darüber hinaus werden in diesem Sammelband verstreut erschienene Beiträge in überarbeiteter, aktualisierter und teils erweiterter Form neu zugänglich gemacht. ...

Think of the poems in this book as mini-experiences similar to enjoying your favourite cup of warm liquid surrounded by strangers with their faces buried in their laptops, dinner and a movie, drinks with a friend or a favourite cerebral massage or something to chew on from a bubblegum machine. Like anything else you consume on a daily basis, poetry has value and poems are worth something. Unlike behind the counter culture products, poems have different value for each reader. Follow the eas...

Steve Beat gets involved in an absolutely massive scandal the likes of which have rarely if ever been seen in the normally quiet town of Worceston. Steve and his crew form a posse and head on a mission to right the so called wrongs of the world one client at a time. When Steve is confronted by a violent rabid beast that he befriends and uses to treat what he believes are his struggling clients. Their unorthodox method is brought to the test by unwilling clients, who fall back into their tr...

This is Steve Beat's tale of monsters and mayhem. He hopes you enjoy it because he happened to have put everything into it, including his very own collection of music available on the various selling outlets. Oh yeah, and Steve Beat takes us on a set of wild adventures, ranging from his experience around some of the greatest ball players to walk the Earth to his horrific experiences with the supernatural. In the middle of these adventures includes his grueling bicycle ride across the Color...

This book reveals how, in confrontation with secularity, various new forms of Christianity evolved during the time of Europe's crisis of modernisation.Rudolf Schlögl provides a comprehensive overview of the development of religious institutions and piety in Protestant and Catholic Europe between 1750 and 1850; at the same time, he offers a detailed exposition of contemporary philosophical, theological and socio-theoretical thought on the nature and function of religion. This allows...

The author's hand-drawn illustrations provide the basis for a clear understanding of each procedure.This successor to the author's standard-setting, problem-solving manual on tympanoplasty contains step-by-step illustrations of surgical techniques that have proven valuable during 30 years of experience. The illustrations were drawn by the author himself and provide the details essential for a firm understanding of each procedure. The book describes the pri...

Paul Johnson lives a quiet life. Teaching English in a Sheffield Comprehensive, looking after his daughter, cooking for his wife, the surface of his life is the height of stability. But Paul can't walk to his car without chanting to himself, trying to drown out the voice pulsing through his mind: You can't keep them safe. You can't keep them safe. He has learned how to calm his panicked students - but not himself. One grey morning, the calm veneer of his life is fractured when he discovers...

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants...

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered ways. Using case studies from thea...

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them. The Museum der Kulturen Basel is systematically examining its collection for coloniality and highlighting the central importance of collaborating with communities in the Global South. This work also reveals how complex and demanding ethnological provenance research is. This volume "raises groundbreaking q...