"David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, mutation, monstrosity, murder, and mayhem, and delivers them to us wi...

I, David, was in the world without knowing about the salvation that God gives in the forgiveness of sins. In Brawley C.A. with the prayers of a Christian group, I received the Lord Jesus as my only savior asking for Gods forgiveness I became a Christian since January of 2005. Just a couple days after I accepted our Lord Jesus as my only savior, I was walking at the north-west side of Brawley which is Westmorland C.A. I was alone facing the sky and talking to the Lord Jesus, at that night I...

This is the final prophetic message, the beginning of the Hebrew calendar and the end of all creation. Here in this little book open, thee will find the open books of the Holy Scriptures. The ultimate plan of God is given to all of us, so we can be prepared. Here are twelve levels, each level has a single prophecy of all that has been written by the ancient prophets of God Almighty. The year 2017 and 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. The year Shevat 5778 in the Hebrew calendar. The question ...

Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like A...

The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? is a lucid meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and comba...

The second volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over the choice of presidential candidate. He was an original member of the New York Board of Education.