Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism: With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred Grove and Other Allied Symbols by John Newton - Th

Reducere. The relationship between Christian symbols and those of ancient religions is storied and complex; in this illustrated work, surgeon and mythologist...

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

Reducere. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...

Reducere. Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine is one of the most ground-breaking and influential theological works since the Reformation....

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, GuardianIsaiah Berlin's cl...

Reducere. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) is considered one of the great wisdom books of mankind. Since its metaphorical language is hard to unde...

Reducere. Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English he...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): R P Dunn-PattisonIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 172Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 150 x 225 x 1...

Reducere. A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; t...

Reducere. How We ThinkJohn Dewey No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it...

In this carefully argued essay, leading theologian David Bentley Hart critiques common understandings of Christian tradition by offering a compelli...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The early history of Christianity was marked by blood covenants - rituals involving the blood of believers or animals, which was used to bond worsh...

Reducere. The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age--fleeing the security of civilization for the deser...

Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.In the period betwe...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

Reducere. Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the...

Reducere. For most of our contemporaries, to speak of modernity is to think immediately of liberty, equality, and democracy—and to assume that all is well. B...

Reducere. An easy-to-understand guide for everything you want to know about Paganism!Have you ever wanted to understand the sophisticated belief systems of a...

Reducere. Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society, V46, Part 3, September, 1956.

An updated edition to Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth, including brand new bush food recipes from Indigenous chefs.Publisher: NewSouth Publi...

Connect with the magic of the southern land, its seasons, animals, plants and spirits.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Julie BrettNumber o...

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the c...

John Newton hated being a sailor. The ship's officers treated him terribly. John wondered how God could have let this happen to him. Every day he g...

A title, in which, the author predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, wherein humans would disregard the limits of natural resources...

Six articles by leading scholars on the culture of the Assyrian world pay homage to Paolo Matthiae, known internationally for the discovery of the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Raymond BucklandAs human beings, we live in a world of symbols. From traffic signs to the very letters that comprise these ...

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Eckart (University of Tubingen, Germany) GoebelTranslator: James C. WagnerNumber of pages:...

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

Including three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jer...

"It is always understood that Free-Masons have a secret which they carefully conceal; but from every thing that can be collected from their own acc...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The ancient and mystical poetry of Zarathushtra and the first Zoroastrians: Now accessible to the public in a modern translation.Publisher: John Hu...

Reducere. This is a book about Australian food, the unique flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples of this land for over 50 000 years. It is be...

Reducere. Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante's Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising r...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Malthus was a mild-mannered economist who set the world afire in 1798 with this essay on the 'principle of population.' Prompted ...

Moderation suffers in today's culture of excesses. In resuscitating this discarded virtue, Harry Clor unveils the intrinsic power of moderation to ...

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. This is the second of several bo...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

Reducere. First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter (Tutor and Musician in Residence, St. John's College) PesicIllustration(s): 46 illus.; 46 Illustrations, u...

In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the ...