Art of Destiny

This chapter focuses on the Knights of the Golden Circle. George Washington Lafayette Bickley became one of the most famous members of the Brotherhood of the Union after he founded...

This chapter examines the animal realm of rebirth in early Buddhist doctrine and cosmology and shows that the animal rebirth was characterized very negatively in comparison to rebi...

This book focuses on the imagery and roles of nonhuman animals in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature. Part I examines the animal realm of rebirth in Buddhist doctrine and co...

This chapter adopts a broad perspective on the issue of social identity and the human essence. It first considers the unique capacity of reflexivity not only as a likely element of...

“The best review I’ve ever had was when Michael Billington said, ‘like Balzac, David Edgar seems to be a secretary for our times’...I’d like to be a secretary for the times through...