wyszukanych pozycji: 218
Doomsday Prophecies: A Complete Guide to
ISBN: 9781573926904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the time of the earliest tribal religions, high priests, self-proclaimed prophets, and purveyors of doom have been predicting the end of time.
This encyclopedic survey of endtime predictions looks at the history of these prophets and the religious sects that forecast the exact dates that civilization would take its final bow. Author James R. Lewis eloquently remarks that all of these doomsday fear- mongers have one thing in common: they have all been wrong. As the year 2000 ushers in a new millennium, widespread interest in the end of the world, judgment day, and the "return" of a... From the time of the earliest tribal religions, high priests, self-proclaimed prophets, and purveyors of doom have been predicting the end of time. |
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252,09 zł |
Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781576072929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This nonsensationalist encyclopedia examines contemporary images of the devil and sorts out the many different forms these images take. Although much of the myths relating to Satan derive directly or indirectly from the Christian tradition, the key sources of diabolical images today are horror movies, heavy metal music, and conservative Christian literature. This encyclopedia gives a brief overview depicting the history and transformation of the meaning of the Prince of Darkness, and 300 entries cover subjects like the angel of death, backward masking (messages revealed when songs are... This nonsensationalist encyclopedia examines contemporary images of the devil and sorts out the many different forms these images take. Although mu... |
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622,53 zł |
Share, Inc.
ISBN: 9780595291144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,99 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
ISBN: 9781107140141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Does religion cause terrorism? This volume presents a range of theories and case studies that address this important issue.
Does religion cause terrorism? This volume presents a range of theories and case studies that address this important issue.
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399,37 zł |
Cults: A Reference and Guide
ISBN: 9781845539740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined - apocalypticism, deprogramming, social isolation, cults and the media, the use and threat of violence, child custody, libel, tax evasion, solicitation, and...
Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religi...
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191,87 zł |
Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan
ISBN: 9780700713011 / Twarda / 2003 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries.
This study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries.
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700,25 zł |
Handbook of Nordic New Religions
ISBN: 9789004292444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tollefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area...
When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many rese...
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871,43 zł |
Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions
ISBN: 9781576071342 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Witchcraft Today" presents a concise survey of this fascinating movement, charts its development, and offers A-Z coverage of Neopagan concepts, rituals, practices, and practitioners ranging from African Religions and Celtic Tradition to Numerology and Theosophy. An excellent and thorough introduction that explains the origin and history of contemporary Wiccan and Neopagan beliefs and a chronology detail the development of these modern religions. A documents section reprints texts important to the central belief system of Wiccans and Neopagans, including the text of "Charge of the... "Witchcraft Today" presents a concise survey of this fascinating movement, charts its development, and offers A-Z coverage of Neopagan concepts, ri... |
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550,75 zł |
Falun Gong: Spiritual Warfare and Martyrdom
ISBN: 9781108445658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Focuses on Falun Gong and the teachings of Li Hongzhi and its effects on the practice of brutalization and martyrdom.
Focuses on Falun Gong and the teachings of Li Hongzhi and its effects on the practice of brutalization and martyrdom.
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88,18 zł |
Usability Evaluation: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
ISBN: 9780805896756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1: Foundation. H.R. Hartson, T.S. Andre, R.C. Williges, Criteria for Evaluating Usability Evaluation Methods. R.E. Cordes, Task Selection Bias: A Case for User-Defined Tasks. M. Hertzum, N.E. Jacobsen, The Evaluator Effect: A Chilling Fact About Usability Evaluation Methods. J.R. Lewis, Evaluation of Procedures for Adjusting Problem-Discovery Rates Estimated From Small Samples. M. Hassenzahl, The Effect of...
Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1...
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295,61 zł |
The Project Manager's Desk Reference
ISBN: 9780071464642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The definitive guide to keeping your project on time, under budget, and problem-free In this Third Edition of The Project Manager's Desk Reference, top project management consultant James Lewis arms you with today's most comprehensive and understandable project management resources, showing you how to conduct a project of any size or nature-from the office move to building new facilities. Using results-oriented language and easy-to-understand examples, this comprehensive, quick-reference guide presents specific situations taken from today's fast-moving business... The definitive guide to keeping your project on time, under budget, and problem-free In this Third Edition of The Project Manager'... |
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465,81 zł |
Legitimating New Religions
ISBN: 9780813533247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work deals explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. It contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. recognizing its status as a genuine religion and thus recognizing its right to exist. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies James Lewis explores the diversification of legitimation...
This work deals explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. It contends that a new religion has at least four different...
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181,55 zł |
Back in the Game
ISBN: 9781719175869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,84 zł |
Time Management Stop Procrastinating: Getting Things Done
ISBN: 9781500749804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,67 zł |
Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft
ISBN: 9780791428900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This comprehensive anthology examines contemporary neo-paganism ranging from goddess theology to historical-critical essays. Many of the contributors are academically trained neo-pagans, and the resulting volume is a benchmark study of a significant movement that promises to reshape the religious landscape of the next century.
This comprehensive anthology examines contemporary neo-paganism ranging from goddess theology to historical-critical essays. Many of the contributors ...
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151,24 zł |
Handbook of Scientology
ISBN: 9789004328716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Scientology brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religions. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been directed at the Church of Scientology, resulting in a small tsunami of new scholarship. We have finally reached a point in time where a book on Scientology need not restrict itself to basics. Thus, for example, the historical chapters in the present volume are not really aimed at providing elementary facts on Scientology s background, but, rather, focus on understanding how the Church...
The Handbook of Scientology brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religi...
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950,25 zł |
Cults: A Reference and Guide
ISBN: 9781845539733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined - apocalypticism, deprogramming, social isolation, cults and the media, the use and threat of violence, child custody, libel, tax evasion, solicitation, and...
Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religi...
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700,25 zł |
When the Jobkins Fell to Earth
ISBN: 9781912969173 / Miękka / 2020 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Zac is busy doing his chores when three Jobkins accidentally fall out of their spaceship and into his garden. The Jobkins are small furry creatures just right for cuddling, but there is much more to them than meets the eye ... Jobkins is a fun story about helpful aliens who find solutions to engineering and construction problems.
Zac is busy doing his chores when three Jobkins accidentally fall out of their spaceship and into his garden. The Jobkins are small furry creatures ju...
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32,71 zł |
Violence and New Religious Movements
ISBN: 9780199735617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest--an interest heavily fueled by multiple incidents of mass violence involving certain groups. Some of these incidents have made international headlines. When New Religious Movements make the news, it's usually because of some violent episode. Some of the most famous NRMs are known much more for the violent way they came to an end than for anything else. Violence and New Religious Movements offers a comprehensive examination of violence by-and against-new religious...
The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest--an interest heavily fueled by m...
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207,72 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements: Volume II
ISBN: 9780190466176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground. In this all-new volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen bring together established and rising scholars to address an expanded range of topics, covering traditional religious studies topics such as "scripture," "charisma," and "ritual," while also applying new theoretical approaches to NRM topics. Other chapters cover understudied...
The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of Th...
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657,41 zł |