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Regarding the Pain of Others
2024 || Paperback || Susan Sontag || Penguin Books Ltd
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
The Book of Magic
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
2016 || Paperback || Brian Copenhaver || Penguin Books Ltd
A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics black spine edition
". . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun . . ."
The Bible is full of stories featuring forms of magic and possession-from Moses batt...
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
2024 || Paperback || David Graeber || Penguin Books Ltd
The Naked Neanderthal
2024 || Paperback || Ludovic Slimak || Penguin Books Ltd