Burial Rites

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective...

Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hannah Kent*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence* A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true st...

Reducere. Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family,...

Reducere. Award NameInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardAward categoryFictionDescription*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence* A...

Reducere. This classic work on the Winnebago Indian tribe remains the single best authority on the subject. Based on Paul Radin's field work in 1908-13, The ...

Reducere. DescriptionPrimitive Money of Africa entertwines the culture, history, and traditions of the African people through the uses of objects such as bea...

The Element summarises the state of knowledge about four styles of prehistoric rock art in Europe current between the late Mesolithic period and th...

DescriptionOn a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in Beirut's Christian enclave, we meet an eccentric young man named Pavlov, the son of a loca...

Death is universal, but each culture has found a different way to deal with it. This wide-ranging book examines the compelling subject of death, fu...

Reducere. A fascinating portrayal of womanhood in Victorian England that is also a nail-biting thriller that will keep readers riveted until the very last pa...

Reducere. A Thyme to Die Peggy Lee and her gardening friends have managed to persuade the International Flower Show to move to Charlotte from Atlanta this ye...

The powerful, moving and truly unique new novel from the international bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People.Publisher: Pan Macmil...

Reducere. The ancient Romans held complex beliefs in the afterlife, reflected in their religious rites, pantheon of Gods, and ideas expressed in folklore and...

Reducere. Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws...

DescriptionAn illustrated introduction to rites and traditions relating to death, funerary rites and commemoration, from Medieval times to the pres...

Nuala Byrne is faced with a difficult decision. In this 19th century novel set on a remote Irish island, Nuala is abandoned by her family for the N...

A vivid historical narrative of how London has dealt with its dead from pagan burial rites through the Black Death to the Blitz and the death of Di...

The author of }The Unseeing{ presents a period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustices set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to those ...

Picked in }The Times{ as book of the month. In the dark midwinter of tenth-century Iceland, two friends set out on an adventure with fatal conseque...

A sexually-charged mixture of murder, treachery and witchcraft comparable to The Essex Serpent and Burial Rites, in which a celebrity couple are im...

From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a second brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and ...

"Antigone, " the first Theban play written by Sophocles yet chronologically last in the cycle, is a masterpiece of classical antiquity which examin...