Kenneth Tudyk is the high counselor and closest friend of Ethan Lyons, the king of Eden. His world is turned upside down when the king mysteriously disappears and his expectant wife is kidnapped. In order to find those he lost, Kenneth joins forces with some old friends and elves with a fearsome reputation that he believes may have been involved with both disappearances. If he is to save his friend and his family, he must learn to trust those he believes are not worthy of trust and more importantly put his faith in the god Elyon. Benniah wakes up on the shore of a volcanic island with no memory of who he is or how he arrived on the island. He is taken in by an old hermit and begins to learn the teachings of Elyon including the ways of Elyon's legendary warriors called to stand against injustice and fight evil. After he and his new mentor are exiled from the island by a power-hungry chieftain, Benniah finds himself standing up against a tyrant king to save innocent people from a lifetime of cruel oppression. Both Kenneth and Benniah are soon drawn into a struggle against men intent on harnessing the power of ultimate evil in order to enslave every living soul. It will take all of their skill and faith to prevail, and a warrior, a warrior of Elyon.

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This text provides an integrative survey of the burgeoning social-psychological literature on the self. By way of an introduction, the authors establish the intellectual climate that gave rise to contemporary perspectives on the self and integrate early and more recent research on the structure of the self. The core of the text surveys the literatu

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world.
John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the "Prose Salernitan Questions," for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the Ovidian literature of the schools; Jean Renart, for the contemporary romances; and Jean Bodel, for the emerging voices of the "fabliaux." Baldwin juxtaposes their views on a range of essential subjects, including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation. The result is a fascinating dialogue of how they agreed or disagreed with, ignored, imitated, or responded to each other at a critical moment in the development of European ideas about sexual desire, fulfillment, morality, and gender.
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Taken together, these voices extend their reach, encompass their subject, and point to a center where social reality lies. By articulating reality at its varied depths, this study takes its place alongside groundbreaking works by James Brundage, John Boswell, and Leah Otis in extending our understanding of sexuality and sexual behavior in the Middle Ages.
"Superb work. . . . These five kinds of discourse are not often treated together in scholarly writing, let alone compared and contrasted so well."--Edward Collins Vacek, "Theological Studies"
" Baldwin] has made the five voices speak to us in a language that is at one and the same time familiar and alien in its resonance and accents. This is a truly exceptional book, interdisciplinary in the real sense of the word, which is surely destined to become a landmark in medieval studies."--Keith Busby, "Bryn Mawr Reviews"
" Baldwin's] attempt to 'listen' to these distant voices and translate their language of sex into our own raises challenging methodological questions that will be of great interest to historians and literary scholars alike."--John P. Dalton, "Comitatus"