The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty
Author: James J. Megivern
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1997
Genre: Capital punishment
ISBN: 1616437928

A comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West that provides more material on capital punishment in Western Christian history than is available in any other work in English.

Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity

Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity
Author: Marcel Poorthuis
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047401603

This volume deals with the role of saints and exemplary persons in Judaism and Christianity throughout history to the present time in an interdisciplinary perspective.

A Social and Religious History of the Jews: Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion, 1200-1650

A Social and Religious History of the Jews: Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion, 1200-1650
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1952
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231088503

Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition
Author: Eugene Christian Brugger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

What is the Catholic Church's position on the death penalty? How and why has it changed through the ages? Tracing the history of this thorny moral issue, Brugger offers a detailed exegesis of the Church's account of its morality as formulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies
Author: George Gordon Coulton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1924
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

The Cultural Migration

The Cultural Migration
Author: W. Rex Crawford
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1512815373

Contributors: Franz L. Neumann, Henri Peyre, Erwin Panofsky, Wolfgang Köhler, and Paul Tillich.

Burning Bodies

Burning Bodies
Author: Michael D. Barbezat
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501716824

No detailed description available for "Burning Bodies".