wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Christmas: A Candid History
ISBN: 9780520258020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmasfrom its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of...
Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, ...
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99,36 zł |
America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories
ISBN: 9780520284722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. America s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America s culturally important holidays Christmas, Valentine s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday s traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? Appealing and...
America s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America s culturally important holidays Christmas, Valentine s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Tha...
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115,98 zł |
Religion and Popular Culture in America
ISBN: 9780520291461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture.
Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of ...
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165,69 zł |
Religion and Popular Culture in America
ISBN: 9780520291447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture.
Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of ...
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392,13 zł |
Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series
ISBN: 9781349528844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. An objective look at the" Left Behind" series, the significance of the Biblical references in the books, and what they can tell us about apocalyptic Christian fiction in general
An objective look at the" Left Behind" series, the significance of the Biblical references in the books, and what they can tell us about apocalyptic C...
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70,49 zł |
Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies: Naval War College Press Newport Papers, Number 35
ISBN: 9781475027709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recent naval operations by the world's major navies show a clear revival of interest in piracy and piracy suppression. The present work of collaborative scholarship, completed as a project in the Maritime History Department at the U.S. Naval War College, demonstrates that historical insights from a selection of piracy case studies over the past two centuries have potential relevance to current and future thinking about antipiracy operations. This monograph is intended as a contribution to both scholarship and professional naval thinking; it is an academic and comparative examination of twelve...
Recent naval operations by the world's major navies show a clear revival of interest in piracy and piracy suppression. The present work of collaborati...
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107,12 zł |