Ruins Lesson. Meaning and Material in Western Culture, Paperback - Susan Stewart

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DescriptionThe story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian ph...

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Goth...

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Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical t...

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

New B-format paperback - Susan Stewart guides the reader through the bewildering, fascinating and complex story of cosmetics, from the ancient worl...

Presents a survey of the perception and reality of the use of cosmetics and perfumes under the Roman Empire. This work, a companion to "Roman Cloth...

Reducere. From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined IndiaIn 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published...

This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it...

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wea...

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things t...

Reducere. A study of a largely forgotten optical device and its relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination.In this first full-length study...

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth ce...

Contributor(s): Author: Susan WolfCommentaries by: John KoetheCommentaries by: Robert M. AdamsMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify...

Reducere. In the 1980s small groups of experienced magicians experimented with the secret techniques of the Western Mystery Tradition. They produced a renais...

Brands are a dominant feature of everyday life. This book argues that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into econ...

Reducere. A selection of recent articles about Western paganism and hermeticism, indebted as those articles are to David Myatt's translations of texts from t...

Reducere. The runes are said to have -revealed themselves- to von List, uncovering a complete cosmology and esoteric understanding of the primeval Teutonic/A...

Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political and cultural change under t...

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating por...

Reducere. How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a uniqu...

Reducere. National Book AwardsThis magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societi...

Reducere. "The Awakening of the West" is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western cul...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Susan Moller OkinNumber of pages: 440Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 215 x 142 x 27Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: McFarland & Co IncAuthor(s): Sharon Paice MacLeodIllustration(s): 17 illustrationsNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2013Dimensions: ...

Reducere. "Stewart presents readers with a dynamite coming-of-age story ... A tale spins its answer to an age-old question into an inclusive, hilarious, and ...

Introduction to Human Communication shows how central effective communication is to shared meaning making, identity construction and maintenance, a...

Reducere. What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these qu...

The New York Times bestseller from the founders of WE Charity--a human rights organization that has lifted over 1 million people from poverty globa...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Owen (Duke University) FlanaganIllustration(s): 1 fig, 6 tbls illus.; 7 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of page...

Reducere. An ancient tomb is discovered in the ruins of Babylon. The Pope sends Vatican archeologist Fr. Daniel Azar and his best friend, Swiss Guard Luca Ro...

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Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the ...

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Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity, drawing on data from Slavic languages. Sipka addresses issues of interes...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but ...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

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Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

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Reducere. In A Time to Seek, Susan Pohlman invites the reader on a spiritual journey through Florence, Italy, then westward along the coast of the Italian Ri...

New York Times bestselling author Phil Robertson delivers a blueprint for standing up for the truth of Jesus Christ in a culture that has forgotten...

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