The Decline of Magic. Britain in the Enlightenment, Paperback - Michael Hunter

A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century BritainPublisher: Yale Univers...

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics ...

DescriptionAn acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)...

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth-century....

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Reducere. This book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, t...

In 1940, the skies over Britain were the scene of furious fighting between the aeroplanes of the RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Technology played a ...

Reducere. The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul KlebnikovFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regi...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

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

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Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. T...

Publisher: Redcliffe Press LtdAuthor(s): Michael SymesNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 269 x 15Cover type: Paperback / s...

Stumbling Into Infinity is the intimate and sometimes startling account of Michael Fischman's spiritual journey and the encounter that changed his ...

Reducere. In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political...

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 ...

Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer L...

Reducere. A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

Reducere. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature. It is the story of four...

A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth centuryAfter Utopia was Judith Shklar's first book, a h...

Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has l...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Decline of the West Volume I: Form and Actuality By Oswald Spengler Contents I-Introduction II-The Meaning of Numbers III-The Proble...

Reducere. This book relates the part played by Royal Navy Top Guns in defence of UK's global National Interests since World War II. It is an intimate account...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Friedrich TorbergNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 17Cover type: Paperback / sof...

The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Decline of the West Volume II: Perspectives of World-History By Oswald Spengler Contents I-Origin and Language--The Cosmic and the M...

Reducere. "The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time an...

A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 'This is one of the m...

DescriptionEverything you know is a lie The biggest irony in that statement lies in the fact that the truth is always right in front of your face. ...

The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland - Michael J. Braddick, David L. Smith

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Michael K. KelloggNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 235 x 37Cover type: HardbackRed...

An Authoritative study which explores how after years of fighting each other for South Asia, Russia and Britain started to lose their influence in ...