wyszukanych pozycji: 37
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The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415342926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 18 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about whether there are universal standards in the ideologies of warfare between the major religious traditions of the world. While the chapters are written by specialists in Asian cultures, some of the conceptual apparatus is drawn from the scholarly discourse on just war, developed in the study of the ethical tradition of Christianity. Taking a comparative approach, the book looks at six different Asian religious, philosophical and political... This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about wheth... |
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763,79 |
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Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market
ISBN: 9780190627690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be analysed as a market similar to markets for other goods and services, like bottled water or haircuts. Faithonomics is about today's religious markets, but in sweeping detours through the histories of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism, Brekke shows us the religious markets of the past, although these were sometimes heavily regulated by states. He argues that...
Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case ...
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153,08 |
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Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
ISBN: 9780700716845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why did people in North India in the fifth century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This work applies the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community.
Why did people in North India in the fifth century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This work applies the insights of soc...
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261,11 |
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Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9780521149792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders and their followers seek to infuse religious values and practices into all spheres, especially law, politics, education, and science. The patterns of religious authority and leadership that...
This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, ...
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123,01 |
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The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism
ISBN: 9780198790839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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473,13 |
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Ein rostiger Klang von Freiheit
ISBN: 9783948065225 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. OSLO 1968. Es herrscht Aufbruchsstimmung, von überall her ist der Klang von Freiheit zu hören. Es gibt politische Diskussionen, Proteste gegen den Vietnamkrieg, sexuelle Freiheiten werden ausgetestet, Büstenhalter brennen. Agathe meldet sich kurz vor dem Abitur von ihrem konservativen Gymnasium ab, um im neu gegründeten Versuchsgymnasium die freie Atmosphäre von Summerhill atmen zu können. Alles könnte gut sein, wenn sie in der eigenen Familie nicht immer vor neue Rätsel gestellt würde. Die Mutter will Agathe und ihren Bruder nicht mehr sehen, der Vater ist gar nicht der richtige...
OSLO 1968. Es herrscht Aufbruchsstimmung, von überall her ist der Klang von Freiheit zu hören. Es gibt politische Diskussionen, Proteste gegen den V...
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107,86 |
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Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
ISBN: 9780700716838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the i...
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788,42 |
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The Complete Guide to Runes
ISBN: 9798886508239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Explore rune magic and create your own powerful practice with this complete guide to runes for beginners Deepen your understanding of runes-from their origins and meanings, to their use in divination, and how to cast your own runes to inspire self-discovery and transformation. With this clear and in-depth rune book, you'll find everything you need to read different rune sets, learn where they come from, and infuse them into your life. Explore the history of runes-Dive into runelore and uncover a complete overview of different alphabets, early inscriptions, and their strong connections to...
Explore rune magic and create your own powerful practice with this complete guide to runes for beginners Deepen your understanding of runes-from their...
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61,45 |
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Death Song
ISBN: 9781447222743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jorgen Brekke returns at the top of his game in this nonstop thrill ride through place-and time.
Jorgen Brekke returns at the top of his game in this nonstop thrill ride through place-and time.
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62,19 |
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Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere
ISBN: 9783642438905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers comprehensive covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere, where the polar lights demonstrate the end product of a process taking place at extremely high latitudes between the solar wind and the upper polar atmosphere.
This book offers comprehensive covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere, where the polar lights demonstrate the end product of a...
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606,65 |
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Faithonomics
ISBN: 9781849046367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Deregulation of the religious marketplace will foster more harmonious societies, Brekke argues, with religions being treated exactly like any other commodity that can be bought and sold.
Deregulation of the religious marketplace will foster more harmonious societies, Brekke argues, with religions being treated exactly like any other co...
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155,61 |
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Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780199252367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines religious transformation in South Asia in the 19th century, perhaps the most important period of religious change in the history of the region. By looking at some outstanding individuals from different religions the book sheds light on the questions that lie at the heart of later nationalist discourse: Who is a Hindu? Who is a Buddhist? What is the relationship between the religious communities of South Asia?
This book examines religious transformation in South Asia in the 19th century, perhaps the most important period of religious change in the history of...
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834,93 |
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Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9780521766258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders and their followers seek to infuse religious values and practices into all spheres, especially law, politics, education, and science. The patterns of religious authority and leadership that...
This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, ...
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342,42 |
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Our Explosive Sun: A Visual Feast of Our Source of Light and Life
ISBN: 9781461405702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Sun, which is our own star at the center of the Solar System, gives rise to all life on Earth and is the driver of photosynthesis in plants and the source of all food and energy for living things. As seen with the naked eye, the Sun appears as a static and quiet yellow disk in the sky. However, it is a stormy and ever-changing star that contributes much more than light and heat. For example, it is the source of the beautiful northern lights and can affect our technology-based society in many ways. Our Explosive Sun: A Visual Feast of our Source of Light and Life is a great...
The Sun, which is our own star at the center of the Solar System, gives rise to all life on Earth and is the driver of photosynthesis in plants and th...
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145,99 |
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The 52nd President
ISBN: 9780595339884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At a conference table in the White House Situation Room, the president of the United States receives grim news: the Harbinger League, a network of mysterious figures strangely preoccupied with the future, has attained a dangerous level of power. Within a matter of decades, the League has gained the potential to control global corporations, natural resources, elections--even governments. The president must find a way to stop the League. It is in the conference room that he first learns of "WH52"--the code word for the future 52nd president of the United States, a prime target of the Harbinger...
At a conference table in the White House Situation Room, the president of the United States receives grim news: the Harbinger League, a network of mys...
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49,77 |
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Our Explosive Sun: A Visual Feast of Our Source of Light and Life
ISBN: 9781493951994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a visual feast and a great introduction to the Sun for general readers as well as scientists who are not solar physicists. It presents the basic properties of the Sun, describes how it has always fascinated, and shows how it influences technology.
This book is a visual feast and a great introduction to the Sun for general readers as well as scientists who are not solar physicists. It presents th...
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115,10 |
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The Northern Light: From Mythology to Space Research
ISBN: 9783642691089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion of the northern light appears in Kongespeilet (The King's Mirror) a thirteenth-century Norwegian chronicle. It is described in vivid detail as the following translated excerpts demonstrate: These northern lights have this peculiar nature, that the darker the night is, the brighter they seem, and they always appear at night but never by day, most frequently in the densest darkness and rarely by moonlight. In appearance they resemble a vast flame of fire viewed from a great distance. It also looks as if sharp points were shot from this flame up into...
In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion of the northern light appears in Kongespeilet (The King's Mirror) a thirteenth-century Norwegian chronicl...
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202,19 |
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Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere
ISBN: 9783642274008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the only extended textbook that covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere where the polar lights demonstrates the end product of a process taking place at extremely high latitudes between the solar wind and the upper polar atmosphere.
A textboook that meets the modern requriement for reading in order to obtain a master of science or a Dr. of science degree in upper polar atmosphere physics or the interaction between the soalr wind and the Earth's atmosphere This is the only extended textbook that covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere where the polar lights demonstrates the end pro...
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606,65 |
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Where Evil Lies
ISBN: 9781447218319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Medieval fascination with anatomy and modern day obsession with rare books spark a series of gruesome murders in Norway and the US, and bring detectives from both countries together to hunt down a serial killer. 1528. A young Franciscan monk travels to Norway to collect a set of scalpels from a barber surgeon with whom he shares a dark and mysterious obsession with the dissection of human corpses. He travels north and settles in a remote village. His deadly legacy is a mysterious manuscript, the Book of John, bound in human skin. Nearly five hundred years later, it seems that the ancient...
Medieval fascination with anatomy and modern day obsession with rare books spark a series of gruesome murders in Norway and the US, and bring detectiv...
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72,57 |
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Healing Hands
ISBN: 9781365049866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nancy Lott arrived in India in July of 1960, a newly commissioned missionary nurse from the United States eager to serve rural populations. In her first few years of service she learned the language, became nursing superintendent of a mission hospital, and met a handsome and talented Indian surgeon, Virendra Henry. Their marriage and partnership in medical mission would take them throughout Northern India, transforming the operation and sustainability of many mission hospitals. Together they raised three children, went to America, and returned to India to continue providing health and...
Nancy Lott arrived in India in July of 1960, a newly commissioned missionary nurse from the United States eager to serve rural populations. In her fir...
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80,83 |