Being with the Dead: Burial, Sacrifice, and the Origins of Historical Consciousness

Strong, though a man of his time, illustrates the perennial conflict created by competing interests of theology and history, a conflict that still ...

Strong, though a man of his time, illustrates the perennial conflict created by competing interests of theology and history, a conflict that still ...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour - Alexandre G. Mitchell

Reducere. The contemporary and mythological worlds collide in this 4th thrilling Pegasus adventure with a feisty female heroine. A deadly plague has struck O...

Reducere. In recent years science and philosophy have seen a resurgence of open-mindedness toward deeper views of consciousness. This book explores ideas and...

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.W...

Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind-s understandi...

Follow the author as they excavate human remains buried inside an ancient Kirk.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

Reducere. DescriptionIn Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness, R.D.V. Glasgow seeks to ground the logical roots of consciousness in what he has p...

In this revealing study, now available in a revised and expanded new edition, Christopher Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subs...

Reducere. Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"?Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?Th...

Reducere. Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kojin KarataniTranslator: Joseph a. MurphyIn Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy--published originally in Japanese and n...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David WhitehouseIllustration(s): Ill.Number of pages: 182Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 154 x 228...

Any attempt to explain the mysterious connections between consciousness and matter, and self-consciousness in particular, necessarily involves much...

Reducere. The Anatomy of the Body of God. by Frater Achad. Although the title of this short essay may seem, to some who have not read its contents, to be bot...

Reducere. The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has l...

Reducere. Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd ...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypa...

Reducere. DescriptionGenesis 9 teaches that God gave moral law to all nations after the Flood. This is called Noahide Law. The apostle Paul taught that the L...

Over one hundred years ago in Russia, G. I. Gurdjieff introduced a spiritual teaching of conscious evolution--a way of gnosis or "knowledge of bein...

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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 ...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Eike ExnerIllustration(s): 10 colour, 50 black & white imagesNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 20...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Claudia LosiIllustration(s): 72 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the Believers' movement begun by th...

The year is 1839, and Mary Shelley - the author of Frankenstein - is alone. Sorting through her husband's scattered papers she is reminded of their...

From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word "God" functions in the world's great faiths Despite the ...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging yet concise study, Alain de Benoist brings his incisive intelligence and wide erudition to bear on the fiercely debated subjec...

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political orga...

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlig...

Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, in...

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Reducere. In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stant...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...

Reducere. Evil walked the earth when angels fell. Evil stalks us now in disembodied spirits; immortal wraiths once clothed in flesh when angel and women bred...

Reducere. The Lies of Money: Who are you Being is dedicated to all of you out there struggling with money. To all of you feeling like the debt or financial w...

Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in...