Believing in Ghosts and Spirits. The Concept of Gui in Ancient China, Paperback - Hu Baozhu

The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main foc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul C. ChallenExamines ancient China and how its politics, daily activities, art, religion, economy, and social structures...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressNumber of pages: 290Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the ...

Sets out for the first time the ancient views and debates about productive knowledge or techne through the whole period of antiquity, covering all ...

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The understanding of motion - the core concept of natural philosophy - underwent crucial changes in Greek thinking from Parmenides to Aristotle. Th...

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

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Bringing together for the first time all the available evidence for the origination and development of the concept of Arcadia, from the Homeric per...

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DescriptionThis book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known 'spirit' entities of ancient Egypt, daemons, the mysterious and often fantastica...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Andrew B. KipnisIllustration(s): 17 color photographs, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 190Publication da...

Take a spirited tour through the supernatural history of America, from its haunted sites to its famous ghosts to its ghost-obsessed pop culture. Gh...

Natural Magic and Folkways from Those Who Call the Blue Ridge Mountains Home The southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This bo...

"If I were, upon dying, to come back as a ghost, I can think of no more beautiful a city to haunt than M rida" - Carlos Fuentes. What is it about t...

Reducere. Contains more than 600 entries about ghosts, hauntings, related paranormal phenomenon, the people who investigate them, and the key theories about ...

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy pub...

Description'Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World' brings together papers d...

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Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is what makes us human.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): I...

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Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contr...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Feng MenglongIllustration(s): 2 mapsTranslator: Olivia MilburnNumber of pages: 344Publication d...

Reducere. This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory, " the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle'...

Reducere. This classic on the general history of functions was written by one of the twentieth century's best-known mathematicians. Hermann Weyl, who worked ...

Examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part...

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Uncover some of the most chilling practices in ancient China. This book explores all the gruesome details, from rituals and rites to battles and si...