Mark Swanson Knihy

Whittaker N. Blackwood, Editor in Chief of a periodical known as The Blackwood Articles, has a plan to slip the clutches of death- Claim sole dominion over the written word. He offers fifty guineas to any writer who submits to him the story of their own death: a story of truth, a story offering glimpses of the unknown, a story packed with sensation the likes of which the world has never seen. Before long, all the writers of 19th century London have dueled, hung, and drowned themselves to oblivion, and the city is overwrought with (singing and dancing) ghosts and their stories. Now Blackwood's is the only periodical left except for one. Owner and Editor of The Bluebatch Signora Psyche Zenobia, a woman of self-professed Greek heritage who once rejected a smitten Whittaker Blackwood at the London Periodical Editors' Ball, stands between Blackwood and the power to glorify his name indelibly throughout the world and across the chapters of the future. In this curious, Poe-inspired musical, a man's worth is measured by the stories that outlive him- and those who survive to tell them. Will Truth still speak after time cuts her (from the neck) down? - ...a dark and delectable little comedy.- -New York Times 1F, 3M, Ensemble 1 Hour, 30 Minutes

Graduate-level, systematic presentation of path integral approach to calculating transition elements, partition functions, and source functionals. Covers Grassmann variables, field and gauge field theory, perturbation theory, and nonperturbative results. 1992 edition.

An authoritative account of the Coptic Papacy in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the onset of the Ottoman era, by a leading religious studies scholar, new in paperback In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of "apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and theological resistance" were determinative for the cultural construction of Egyptian church leadership in late antiquity. Volume 2, The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, shows that the medieval Coptic popes (641-1517 CE) were regularly portrayed as standing in continuity with their saintly predecessors; however, at the same time, they were active in creating something new, the Coptic Orthodox Church, a community that struggled to preserve a distinctive life and witness within the new Islamic world order. Building on recent advances in the study of sources for Coptic church history, the present volume aims to show how portrayals of the medieval popes provide a window into the religious and social life of their community.