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Explores how form is described in primate biology, and the effects of form on function and behavior.

Originally published in 1982, The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author's wide experience of occultism, western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism, to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society.

Paracelsus – ein Name, der die Medizin des 16.

Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.

Offers a strikingly original interpretation of Leo Strauss, his ''political philosophy'', and the connection of both to the American conservative movement.

This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day.

The book is divided into three sections: "e;Reflections on Innis"e; provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "e;Gaps and Silences"e; considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "e;Innis and Cultural Theory"e; offers speculations on his influence on cultural analysis.

Originally published in 1970, this book explores the role of concepts of disease in the social life of the Safwa of Tanzania, particularly through beliefs concerning witchcraft and sorcery.

A translation of Hegel''s classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right.

Geboren 1922 in einer Mainzer jüdischen Familie von Weinhändlern, floh Peter F.

In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America.

William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day.

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Combines medieval studies and contemporary neuroscience to explore the fascinating and surprising concept of ''phantom limb pain''.

No puede entenderse la teoría junguiana si no se comprende el lugar de la alquimia en la misma, porque la alquimia constituyó su orientación hermenéutica fundamental durante los últimos treinta años del desarrollo de su concepción.

This book is the first detailed analysis and interpretation of Kant''s ethics as anti-realist and idealist.

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

An overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present.

This book frames Romanticism as the epicentre of modern Europe''s fascination with orientation and disorientation in literature and politics.

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels.

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces.

In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding.

The essays in this volume focus on Rousseau''s genuine yet undervalued stature as a philosopher.

Jacqueline Taylor offers an original reconstruction of Hume's social theory, which examines the passions and imagination in relation to institutions such as government and the economy.

The first cross-disciplinary history of women''s international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century.

A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences exposes parallels and contrasts in the way the histories of the social sciences are written.

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The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field.

A 15th-century grimoire, or book of magic, that includes instructions on how an individual can make contact with their Holy Guardian Angel.

In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject.

A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

This book systematically traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid.

Great business leaders possess more than celebrated traits like charisma and an appetite for risk.

Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.

Gwenda Roland nos presenta una obra reveladora y profunda en "Mujeres en los Ritos Masones: Pioneras de lo Prohibido", un estudio exhaustivo y apasionante sobre la participación histórica y contemporánea de las mujeres en la masonería.

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948.

*; Examines the esoteric side of texts and tales from the Middle Ages, including the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places and the roles of witches, house spirits, rune priests, shapeshifters, and the undead*; Discusses the dividing line between magic and deviltry, as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, storm callers, and more*; Serves as a guide to a still-present magical and imaginal realm, pointing readers to the borderlands and liminal thresholds that enable access to the other worldIn this new collection of his writings, scholar and Sorbonne professor Claude Lecouteux reveals that the magical world of the distant past is real and still very presentif you know where to look.

A clear introduction to Nietzsche''s influential text featuring a section-by-section analysis.

A sociological deconstruction of the public response to Bernie Madoff and his crimes.

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.