wyszukanych pozycji: 6
The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraqvolume 40
ISBN: 9780520245785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This pioneering study uses an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend to elucidate the culture and society of late antique Iraq. Translated from Syriac into English here for the first time, the legend of Mar Qardagh introduces a hero of epic proportions whose characteristics confound simple classification. During the several stages of his career, Mar Qardagh hunts like a Persian King, argues like a Greek philosopher, and renounces his Zoroastrian family to live with monks high in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Drawing on both literary and artistic sources, Joel Walker explores the...
This pioneering study uses an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend to elucidate the culture and society of late antique Iraq. Translated from...
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522,34 zł |
Switching Gears: There Are No Rules
ISBN: 9781662911118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,32 zł |
Into the Ruins: Winter 2017
ISBN: 9780997865622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this fourth issue of Into the Ruins, we explore futures near and far, all of them unique and dealing in their own ways with the fallout from fossil fuel exploitation and ecological destruction. In these stories, we see everyday people grappling with political chaos, economic contraction, the destruction wrought by rising seas, and the surprising cultural and social constructs found hundreds of years in the future. These stories bring us new visions of the future made far more enjoyable by their absence of the usual science fiction tropes. Instead of interstellar travel, we get an abandoned...
In this fourth issue of Into the Ruins, we explore futures near and far, all of them unique and dealing in their own ways with the fallout from fossil...
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54,64 zł |
A Preliminary Look at Flourishing Congregations in Canada: What Church Leaders are Saying
ISBN: 9781365661051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This monograph presents the context for congregations in Canada, across Catholic, Mainline and Conservative Protestant sectors. The monograph presents the voices of several dozen experts from across Canada and presents preliminary findings from consultations with over 100 denominational and local congregation leaders.
This monograph presents the context for congregations in Canada, across Catholic, Mainline and Conservative Protestant sectors. The monograph presents...
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Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World
ISBN: 9780271022581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. In Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to--or, in some cases, to bind or escape from--the divine powers of heaven and earth.... In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicate... |
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179,91 zł |
The Adventures of Joey Alligator
ISBN: 9781493786855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's the last day of school, and Joey Alligator's curiosity gets the best of him. Although he knows he shouldn't leave the school grounds, his desire to see the two new firetrucks parked nearby, was too much for him to handle. He wanders away, and before you know it, he's lost in a big city. Meanwhile, everybody back at the school, including his mother, were worried beyond belief. As the day winds down, and night begins to fall, Joey Alligator, learns valuable lessons in kindness, and bravery, trying to find his way back to school.
It's the last day of school, and Joey Alligator's curiosity gets the best of him. Although he knows he shouldn't leave the school grounds, his desire ...
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59,15 zł |