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Offering a new template for future exploration, Susan Greenwood examines and develops the notion that the experience of magic is a panhuman orientation of consciousness, a form of knowledge largely marginalized in Western societies.

Recurrent questions about space have dogged philosophers since ancient times.

This unique reference provides insider observations of the entire 2007 Championship season from Mr.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of Russian intellectual thinkers, with fourteen essays by an international team of experts.

The "e;Young American"e; critics - Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford - are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "e;Little Renaissance"e; of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics.

This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson.

On the field or off, Eric 'The King' Cantona has always been known as an artist.

Tendai Mtawarira is known throughout the rugby world simply as Beast.

Of all the topics of interest in the digital humanities, the network has received comparatively little attention.

This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe.

El centro de la obra de Reinhart Koselleck lo ocupa la denominada «historia de los conceptos», cuyo paradigma él desarrolló en su calidad de «historiador pensante», como le llamara Hans-Georg Gadamer, convirtiéndolo en fundamento del monumental diccionario Conceptos históricos fundamentales, editado junto con Otto Brunner y Werner Conze.

This authoritative reference work presents a full image of the Prince of Darkness as he appears throughout traditional theology, mythology, art and literature, and popular culture.

The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.

The Mountains of My Life collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the world, as well as the real story behind the controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life.

More clearly than any previous work on the subject, Michael Palmer's Love of Glory and the Common Good defines the relationship between Periclean democracy and the decline in Athenian political life that followed the death of Pericles.

Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.

Anticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes's ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

On February 15, 1961, all 18 members of the U.

*; Explores the schools of Solomonic magic around the world and works such as The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King and The Hygromancy of Solomon *; Examines Solomon's magical possessions, including his famous ring that gave him command over animals, weather, demons, genies, and djinns, as well as his amulets, remedies, exorcisms, and charms *; Looks at the extensive presence of Solomon in folklore around the world, including in Armenia, Malaysia, Russia, Bulgaria, Morocco, India, and Egypt Looking at the Solomonic magical tradition and Solomon's profound influence on esoteric traditions around the world, Claude Lecouteux reveals King Solomon not only as one of the great kings of prehistory but also as the ancient world's foremost magician and magus.

This new title by Kate West, bestselling author of The Real Witches' Handbook, will contain masses of spells and rituals for celebrations marking the seasons and festivals of the year, as well as a wealth of other information about magic for the initiated or the beginner alike.

Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies.

Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress.

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

Much of Michael Oriard's education took place outside the schoolroom of his native Spokane, Washington, during "e;slaughter practices"e; on high school football fields.

Today basketball is played above the rim by athletes of all backgrounds and colors.

Since the early 1980s, there has been renewed scholarly interest in the concept of Christian Humanism.

Foucault's intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored.

For the edition of A Second Collection prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, editors Robert M.

Casey Award Winner: "e;Follows seven Dodgers, including Sandy Koufax, through the 1960s, telling a story about baseball and about larger cultural changes.

Der neue Megastar des American FootballDer Quarterback der Kansas City Chiefs hat mit 27 Jahren bereits Geschichte geschrieben.

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors.

In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity.

This book provides a clear, comprehensive survey of Deleuze''s philosophy, whilst also offering deep analysis of key aspects of his thought.

Laufen meets Kunst: Die außergewöhnliche Biografie eines LebenskünstlersPhilipp Jordan ist Läufer.

New York Times Bestsellerautor und Ultramarathon-Legende Dean Karnazes bringt seinen Körper und Geist an seine Grenzen.

Hilbert's Programs & Beyond presents the foundational work of David Hilbert in a sequence of thematically organized essays.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025 CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR'McKinstry's biography will fascinate cricket lovers' The Times 'An eye-popping biography' Daily MailCRICKET LEGEND.

An in-depth look at the life of the influential University of Kentucky basketball coach and his legacy.

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths.

Hodder & Stoughton admire Sir Mo's bravery in revealing his experience of being trafficked as a child.

Als Phantom wird ein Trugbild bezeichnet, eine Täuschung oder ein Blendwerk.

A practical guide to recognizing and overcoming the patterns and influences of the four generations before you *; Provides exercises to uncover your family's psychological heritage, heal negative patterns of behavior and illness in your family tree, and discover your true self *; Explains how we are the product of two forces: repetition of familial patterns from the past and creation of new ideas from the Universal Consciousness of the future *; Interwoven with examples from Jodorowsky's own life and his work with the tarot, psychoanalysis, and psychomagic The family tree is not merely vital statistics about your ancestors.

This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife.