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Message from Robert Gore regarding three Freedom Centers in Chicago. He recommends that the nation Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) office "maintain closer contact with the Chicago project" to mitigate problems in the future.

"From antiquity, Plato's Parmenides has been considered an enigma. In this book Robert Turnbull offers a translation and explanation of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to elucidate Plato's major late dialogues." "Turnbull claims that, in the…

This work offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, centering on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts: bright vs. dismal, heaven vs. reincarnation, theocentric vs. anthropocentric heaven, etc.…

Over 2,600 entries identify the women of classical mythology.
Offers information on women from mythology, including heroines, murderesses, lovers, female animals and monsters, hermaphrodites, and transsexuals.

Chaucer and the Mystics is a contextualization of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in terms of the genre Chaucer himself valorizes in his Retraction, the prose treatise of morality and devotion. The many works of this kind have not yet been…

Surveys great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, exploring why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, how they were inspired by a conception of the divine, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and…