Author: Antonio Gallonio
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: martyrs, christian, torments, torture
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2006-07-09
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1428635327
ISBN-13: 9781428635326

The English Translation Of De SS. Martyrum Cruciatibus.

Authors:Helisenne De Crenne, Lisa Neal, Steven Rendall, Lisa
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: love, torments
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1996-03
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 0816627886
ISBN-13: 9780816627882

Author: David Rakoff
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: olive, artisanal, quest, oil, first, problems, world, ending, count, coach, indignities, comfortable, class, torments, thread, low, don
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0767916034
ISBN-13: 9780767916035

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot—where he is provided with his very own personal manservant—rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating