wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide
ISBN: 9781848311756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist. "Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for... |
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46,63 zł |
Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life
ISBN: 9781782506096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship with the natural world.
This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps ...
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103,72 zł |
Divination: Perspectives for a New Millennium
ISBN: 9781409405559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book...
Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practic...
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805,53 zł |
Divination: Perspectives for a New Millennium
ISBN: 9781138268210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This...
Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practic...
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280,58 zł |
Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works
ISBN: 9781032404684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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649,62 zł |
Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence
ISBN: 9781443847261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the artistic genius to the tarot reader, a sense of communication with another order of reality is commonly affirmed; this 'other' may be termed god, angel, spirit, muse, daimon or alien, or it may be seen as an aspect of the human imagination or the 'unconscious' in a psychological sense. This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence in a diversity of manifestations, presenting new insights into inspired creativity and human beings' relationship with mysterious and numinous dimensions of reality. In art and literature, many visual and poetic forms have been given to the...
From the artistic genius to the tarot reader, a sense of communication with another order of reality is commonly affirmed; this 'other' may be termed ...
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285,78 zł |
Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
ISBN: 9780618478859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A timely critical analysis of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterful trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, addresses the social and political structure of Middle-earth, its nature and ecology, and the spirituality and ethics of Tolkien's world.
A timely critical analysis of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterful trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, addresses the social and political structure of Middle-eart...
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76,31 zł |
Ecological Ethics: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780745651255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics.
He discusses light green or anthropocentric ethics with the examples of stewardship, lifeboat ethics, and social ecology; the mid-green or intermediate ethics of animal liberation/rights; and dark or deep green ecocentric ethics.... In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecol...
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328,23 zł |
Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works
ISBN: 9781032404677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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187,04 zł |
Ecological Ethics: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780745651262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics.
He discusses light green or anthropocentric ethics with the examples of stewardship, lifeboat ethics, and social ecology; the mid-green or intermediate ethics of animal liberation/rights; and dark or deep green ecocentric ethics.... In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecol...
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136,71 zł |
Deep Roots in a Time of Frost
ISBN: 9783905703337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of his published essays, Patrick Curry explores two themes in Tolkiens great work: enchantment, the Elves and Faërie, and the natural world of Middle-earth. He considers their different effects on both readers and literary critics, and brings to light the deep connections between these two subjects, as well as between them and Tolkiens ultimate concern, Death and the desire for deathlessness. Also illuminated, in contrast, is magic, as epitomised by the One Ring. Finally, he argues that the hobbits are exemplars of how to live in relation to enchantment: neither pursuing,...
In this collection of his published essays, Patrick Curry explores two themes in Tolkiens great work: enchantment, the Elves and Faërie, and the natu...
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127,09 zł |
Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781907767302 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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127,22 zł |