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Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. While studies of sanctity and heresy tend to be undertaken separately, this book brings these two avenues of inquiry together.

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Prudentius' Psychomachia, written about A.D. 405, has been studied by classicists, medievalists, and general literary historians. Nevertheless, scholars have barely explored the allegory's inner workings or related it to its historical context. The present study remedies this critical neglect and its attendant misreadings. The author arrives at a

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In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes a powerful case that there is a form of shame essentia

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A study of the pseudo-random generator, a basic primitive in crytography which is useful for constructing a private key cryptosystem that is secure against chosen plaintext attack. The author stresses rigorous definitions and proofs related to private key cryptography.

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Contents: Introduction: Psychedelics, page 1. Glossary, page 4. Legal Aspects of Drug Use, page 7. Medical Aspects of Drug Use, page 8. Social Aspects of Drug Use, page 11. The Psychedelic 'Experience', page 16. A Successful Trip, page 16. An Unsuccessful Trip, page 17. Counsel and Information, page 19. Conclusions, page 20. Bibliography: Psychedel

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Between the years 1906 and 1912, Jung practiced as a psychoanalyst, and his association with Freud was very close. Though their personal relationship became strained after the publication of Jung's book, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (1911-12), Jung continued to serve as president of the International Psychoanalytic Association until 1914. The

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Extracted from The Development of the Personality, Vol. 17, Collected Works, Jung's early study "Psychic Conflicts in a Child" (1910) with later papers on child development and education including "The Gifted Child" (1946). Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availabl

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Jung began his career as a psychiatrist in 1900, when he was 25, as an assistant working under Dr. Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli Hospital in Zurich. In 1906, after he had become senior staff physician and before his first meeting with Freud in Vienna in 1907, Jung wrote his famous monograph "On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox." Ernest Jones de

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Offers a translation of the "Geography" and provides an introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the "Geography", and the later history of the work. This work also includes color reproductions of maps from manuscripts and early printed editions of the text.

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Adding a new dimension to the history of mentalites and the study of popular culture, Thomas Brennan reinterprets the culture of the laboring classes in old-regime Paris through the rituals of public drinking in neighborhood taverns. He challenges the conventional depiction of lower-class debauchery and offers a reassessment of popular sociability.

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Shows that, under the right political conditions, voters are well informed on the issues that they care about and use their knowledge to hold politicians accountable. This book finds that the media - while far from ideal - do provide the populace with information regarding the responsiveness of elected representatives.

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Identifying a form of government intervention in social and economic affairs called public service liberalism, Alan Stone looks to that ideology to confront the problems of the 1990s and beyond. He shows in this fascinating case study that the policy has been effective in the past: the American telephone industry from its inception until 1934 is an