Symbolic | Death

Examines humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. This book leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end o...

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

Reducere. Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of in...

The loss of a loved one can make you feel like the world is a very lonely, frightening place. The Coat I Wear follows the story of that experience ...

Night as Clear as Day--In the tradition of Flannery O'Connor and J. F. Powers, these thirty-five inspirational short stories portray unforgettable ...

Reducere. "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase." "Austin American-Statesman" "The Inf...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of The Lamb's Supper and Signs of Life comes an illuminating work on the Catholic Eucharist and its link to the Jewish ...

A figure of speech is an expression in which the words are used, but not in their literal sense, to create a more forceful or dramatic meaning. The...

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Reducere. To live in an Alaska of the mind is to map the imagined cartography of winter on all that is physical. To dwell perpetually in a symbolic cold, and...

Reducere. The ancient Egyptians created some of the world's most beautiful art and architecture. To this day, this ancient civilization--which produced the g...

Reducere. At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the ma...

Reducere. Rituals mark life's momentous and symbolic events: from special birthdays and holidays to personal affairs such as a child's first day of school or...

DescriptionFrans Hals (1582-1666) was one of the foremost portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, yet little has been written about his lively f...

Reducere. This is the third of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume i...

Reducere. This is the second of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume...

Reducere. This is the first of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume i...

Reducere. A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-control...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

Reducere. His exploration ship blasted from orbit, Terran scout Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a world colonized by three alien species -- the Chasch, the...

Reducere. Rituals mark life's momentous and symbolic events: from special birthdays and holidays to personal affairs such as a child's first day of school or...

DescriptionSylvia Ji's haunting, seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women offer a whole new slant on femininity, and blur the line ...

Reducere. Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Wa...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts describing the Mysteries *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Ancient Gr...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave many lectures in logic at Berlin University between 1818 and his untimely death in 1831. Edited posthumously by ...

Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to hu...

It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding...

Reducere. Although it is difficult for us to fathom, pure monsters do not exist. Terrorists and other serial killers massacre innocent people, yet are perfec...

Reducere. The Bird of Time (1912) is a poetry collection by Sarojini Naidu. Naidu's second book of English verse is steeped in the Romantic tradition while e...

Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide...

Reducere. DescriptionSynopsis: Revelation is a book that many Christians find confusing due to the foreign nature of its apocalyptic imagery. It is a book th...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

Reducere. Angels Before You: A Tale of a Great Flame following a Little Light is a beautifully illustrated, four-color, gift book. This inspirational tale ex...

Reducere. "Something has gone crack, " Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haun...