Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904, Paperback - Yehudah Mirsky

Reducere. An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.About author(s): Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Jud...

Reducere. The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth--studies dedicated to the "middle" trend in ...

The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914 - T. G. Otte

Reducere. This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of...

Reducere. Gopi Krishna, born and reared in a rural area of Kashmir, achieved Cosmic Consciousness at the age of 34. This is such a rare achievement that it i...

Reducere. Police are popularly understood as the "thin blue line" that "serves and protects" us from violence and crime in the pursuit of justice. In Policin...

North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectu...

Offering a kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitali...

Reducere. "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth ...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corru...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

Description"An essential read for any true seeker."--Eben Alexander, MD, Neurosurgeon, author of Proof of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe W...

This book details the conditions leading to the failure of constitution making and constitutional reform in Turkey, and offers lessons that can be ...

Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Reducere. In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2: 10) symboli...

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Reducere. For centuries, the Kabbalah had been closed to all but a few. It was Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag who opened this spiritual treasure for all. He becam...

By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely collection provides illuminating insights into the emerge...

Retaining well-loved features, this book covers in breadth issues of change, continuity, and cause and consequence in this period of American histo...

A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

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A Journey into the Mysteries of Divine Creation...From one woman's near-death experience, comes an astounding story that explores the depths of man...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Reducere. This authentic translation into English of two Kabbalah texts written in Hebrew asks deeply personal questions about the essence of an individual a...

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radical...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Virginia SeaseIllustration(s): halftonesTranslator: Matthew BartonNumber of pages: 112Publication date...

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868-19...