Recent years have seen an increase in the ownership of exotic pets, as these species have become more widely available. Diagnosis of the diseases and disorders from which they suffer, however, has often proved difficult. This work aims to provide the practitioner with a comparative guide to the radiographic examination of exotic pets - a technique which is seen as an important means of diagnosing some of their most common conditions. Covering small mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, the book offers guidance on anaesthetic and radiographic techniques for every species group. Accompanying notes on the development and clinical interpretation of the material help to enable the practitioner to make better use of radiography as a diagnostic tool. For every species group, the authors illustrate normal radiographic anatomy and pathological appearance, with special attention to abnormal variations. Clinical cases are discussed to illustrate the species groups. Within each group, the material is categorized by organ system, covering normal radiographic anatomy, radiographic abnormalities, musculoskeletal system, lungs, liver, gastrointestinal tract and urogenital tract.

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the 18th century, selling 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual "guide book," it detailed the names and "specialities" of the capital’s prostitutes. During its heyday, 1757–1795, Harris’s List was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Yet beyond its titillating passages lay a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by the List’s profits during the Georgian era. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, ruddiest, and most surreal entries penned by Jack Harris, "Pimp-General-of-All-England" into this book.

"An outstanding work. Jay Ruby's easygoing style makes the presentation accessible to readers interested in social history and societal values and tastes. Along these lines, the book has no equal or rival. Ruby brings to his subject the superb dual qualification of a visual anthropologist and photo-historian." — Heinz K. Henisch, Research Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University

Secure the Shadow uses a combination of cultural anthropology and visual analysis to explore the photographic representations of death in the United States from 1840 to the present. It looks at the ways in which people have taken and used photographs of deceased loved ones and their funerals to mitigate the finality of death.

Ruby employs newspaper accounts, advertisements, letters, photographers' account books, interviews, and other material to determine why and how photography and death became intertwined in the nineteenth century. He traces this century's struggle between America's public denial of death and a deeply felt private need to use pictures of those we love to mourn their loss.

Holy relics — the bodily remains of saints and other sacred figures — were for centuries the most revered objects in the Western world, at center-stage in Europe's great churches and cathedrals. Today some relics have been shunted to side chapels and dark crypts, yet many continue to draw prayerful pilgrims, as they have for centuries, seeking solace, inspiration, and signs of miracles. In Magnificent Corpses, Anneli Rufus recounts her visits to 18 of Europe's most significant relics. With an engaging mix of history and personal narrative, Rufus tells their secret stories and, along the way, revisits with a fresh eye the compelling accounts of the saints whose physical bodies the relics represent.

Welcome to Weird Europe...where truth is stranger than fiction.

Thrill-seekers, students of the bizarre, travelers searching for relief from the usual tourist attractions-rejoice! At last, here is a guidebook to Europe's dark side. From strange natural wonders to the handiwork of mad scientists, dreamers, and zealots, Europe harbors hundreds of fascinating-and occasionally gruesome-suprises. In these pages, you'll discover:

-Two-headed animals

-Erotic museums

-Creepy catacombs

-A cathedral made of salt

-A railroad operated by children

-The Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum

-An all-ice hotel

-Ancient pagan rituals

-Mines

-Sewer tours

-A museum of espionage

-UFO landing sites

-Pictures drawn by the dead

-A frog museum

-Pancake races

-Oddball art

-Underground cities

-Giants, freaks, and Siamese twins

-The Temple of Echoes

-And more!

Covering twenty-five countries, with complete directions, opening hours, and admission prices for nearly a thousand wild attractions, Weird Europe is an indispensable guide to a world that you never knew existed. Once you enter Weird Europe, there's no turning back.

Black and white reproductions of vintage photographs of very special people, including stars of the side show: Pop-eyed Perry, Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Annie Jones, Jack Earl, Fat men, bearded ladies, midgets, giants, siamese twins, human oddities, albinos, etc.

Undeniably, evil exists in our world; we ourselves commit evil acts. How can one account for evil's ageless presence, its attraction, and its fruits? The question is one that Jeffrey Burton Russell addresses in his history of the concept of the Devil―the personification of evil itself. In the predecessor to this book, The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity, Russell traced the idea of the Devil in comparative religions and examined its development in Western thought through ancient Hebrew religion and the New Testament. This volume follows its course over the first five centuries of the Christian era.

Like most theological problems, the question of evil was largely ignored by the primitive Christian community. The later Christian thinkers who wrestled with it for many centuries were faced with a seemingly irreconcilable paradox: If God is benevolent and omnipotent, why does He permit evil? How, on the other hand, can God be all-powerful if one adopts a dualist stance, and posits two divine forces, one good and one evil?

Drawing upon a rich variety of literary sources as well as upon the visual arts, Russell discusses the apostolic fathers, the apologetic fathers, and the Gnostics. He goes on to treat the thought of Irenaeus and Tertullian, and to describe the diabology of the Alexandrian fathers, Clement and Origen, as well as the dualist tendencies in Lactantius and in the monastic fathers. Finally he addresses the syntheses of the fifth century, especially that of Augustine, whose view of the Devil has been widely accepted in the entire Christian community ever since.

Satan is both a revealing study of the compelling figure of the Devil and an imaginative and persuasive inquiry into the forces that shape a concept and ensure its survival.

The Washington Post called this book "perfect." Illustrated with more than 300 paintings, pastels, drawings and photographs both old and new, Paris is simply the best book on everyone's favorite city.310 photos, 85 color. 352 pp. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4. Orig. $45.00.

Before The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, there was The Case Against Satan
 
By the twentieth century, the exorcism had all but vanished, wiped out by modern science and psychology. But Ray Russell—praised by Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated practitioner of Gothic fiction—resurrected the ritual with his classic 1962 horror novel, The Case Against Satan, giving new rise to the exorcism on page, screen, and even in real life.

Teenager Susan Garth was “a clean-talking sweet little girl” of high school age before she started having “fits”—a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. Then one night, she strips in front of the parish priest and sinks her nails into his throat. If not madness, then the answer must be demonic possession. To vanquish the Devil, Bishop Crimmings recruits Father Gregory Sargent, a younger priest with a taste for modern ideas and brandy. As the two men fight not just the darkness tormenting Susan but also one another, a soul-chilling revelation lurks in the shadows—one that knows that the darkest evil goes by many names.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.