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Author | : David Farley |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-07-09 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 110110497X |
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Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its disappearance. Farley recounts how the relic passed from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
Author | : David Farley |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-07-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1592405495 |
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Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its disappearance. Farley recounts how the relic passed from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
Author | : David Farley |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 9781322685182 |
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Author | : David Farley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Calcata (Italy) |
ISBN | : 9781101104309 |
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Author | : Gianfranco Cecchin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 042991525X |
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Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between three creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues the tradition of the Milan group and later systemic thinkers by examining the way a therapist's own thinking can block the process of therapy and lead to feeling stuck. The authors define and demonstrate the use of a concept in the therapeutic field - irreverence - which allows therapists to free themselves from the limitations of their own theoretical schools of thought and the familiar hypotheses they apply to their client families. They illustrate their ideas with some very challenging family therapy cases and include an interesting consultation with the staff caring for a hospitalised patient. The book also extends the notion of irreverence beyond therapy to the fields of training and research where its application is both fresh and profound.
Author | : Richard Vine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1101612371 |
Download The Curious World of Wine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Curious World of Wine is a fascinating miscellany about the colorful characters, celebrated places, and quirky events surrounding wine-making. Recounting wine tales that are by turns amusing, surprising, and occasionally a bit naughty, wine expert Richard Vine reveals little-known facts such as: • The oldest vineyard still producing grapes is thought to be in Maribor, Slovenia, where vines up to four hundred years old remain fruitful. • “Plonk,” a term used to insult any modestly priced wine, got its name from the French words for white wine—vin blanc, pronounced “vawn blawnk,” which was corrupted to “plawnk” or “plonk.” • Thomas Jefferson was so eager to plant native French vines at his Monticello mansion that he nearly went bankrupt fruitlessly hiring experts to defeat a condition that caused European vines to mysteriously die in North American soil. • Touching wineglasses as a toast was originally a deft move to exchange a splash of wine into each other’s cup to ensure that neither party was being poisoned. The Curious World of Wine will keep any wine fan entertained and enlightened—from the most erudite connoisseur to Two Buck Chuck devotees.
Author | : Mary Roach |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2004-04-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0393324826 |
Download Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Author | : Geoffrey K. Pullum |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1991-07-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226685349 |
Download The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."
Author | : Terry Darlington |
Publisher | : Delta |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008-03-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0440337569 |
Download Narrow Dog to Carcassonne Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a “lunatic scheme” to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France.
Author | : Mary Roach |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393245454 |
Download Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.