Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Selection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Columbia University
Author: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Columbia University
Author: Columbia UniversityPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231076487
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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.
A Selection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Columbia University
Author: Jane E. RosenthalPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Columbia University
Author: Beatrice Terrien-SomervillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780231076487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Catalog of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of American
Author: Nadezhda Kavrus-HoffmannPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Russia in the Twentieth Century
Author: Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and CulturePublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Celebrating the Liturgy's Books
Author: Columbia University. LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
From Immigrant to Inventor
Author: Michael PupinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The author tells of his life story coming from Serbia as an immigrant arriving in Castle Garden with five cents in his pocket. His objective for writing the book was to describe the rise of idealism in American science, and particularly in physical sciences.--Publisher's description.
The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: David A. SmithPublisher:
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Category : National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Shape of Sex
Author: Leah DeVunPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231551363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America Winner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society Winner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion Honorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH) Longlisted, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies, Lambda Literary Awards The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex. The Shape of Sex examines a host of thinkers—theologians, cartographers, natural philosophers, lawyers, poets, surgeons, and alchemists—who used ideas about nonbinary sex as conceptual tools to order their political, cultural, and natural worlds. DeVun reconstructs the cultural landscape navigated by individuals whose sex or gender did not fit the binary alongside debates about animality, sexuality, race, religion, and human nature. The Shape of Sex charts an embrace of nonbinary sex in early Christianity, its brutal erasure at the turn of the thirteenth century, and a new enthusiasm for nonbinary transformations at the dawn of the Renaissance. Along the way, DeVun explores beliefs that Adam and Jesus were nonbinary-sexed; images of “monstrous races” in encyclopedias, maps, and illuminated manuscripts; justifications for violence against purportedly nonbinary outsiders such as Jews and Muslims; and the surgical “correction” of bodies that seemed to flout binary divisions. In a moment when questions about sex, gender, and identity have become incredibly urgent, The Shape of Sex casts new light on a complex and often contradictory past. It shows how premodern thinkers created a system of sex and embodiment that both anticipates and challenges modern beliefs about what it means to be male, female—and human.