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The Handy Mythology Answer Book
ISBN: 9781578594757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Stories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient, every culture has its myths. Mythology forms our understanding of our origin, history, and traditions. They tell of our heroes and deities. Myths are vehicles for understanding religion, for learning language, and for understanding society, but they can often be difficult to understand and confusing. The Handy Mythology Answer Book examines and explains, in plain English, numerous myths and mythology.
From the ancient Greek and Roman to... Stories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient, every culture...
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The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
ISBN: 9781780235097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are.
Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who... For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind s earliest agricultural civilizations, she pla...
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Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
ISBN: 9780195104622 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso, hauling wood near Oaxaca, or even hitching a ride on a semi rig. She is the bone woman, the gatherer, La Loba. She collects bones, especially those of wolves. When she has collected enough bones to make a whole wolf, she sings over the skeleton, and it begins to grow flesh and fur. She sings some more and the wolf becomes strong; then it breathes. La Loba keeps singing and soon the wolf leaps up and...
An old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes ...
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The Mythology of Native North America
ISBN: 9780806132396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisingly few of us are familiar with Coyote, Spider Woman, Water Jar boy, Falling Sky Woman, or the epic of the Blessingway - to name just a few of the stories retold in this collection of significant myths of Native North America. David Leeming and Jake Page, building on the success of their Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine and God: Myths of the Male Divine, have provided an introduction and commentary on seventy-two myths drawn from a variety of cultures and language groups. They honor the Native...
Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisingly few of us are familiar with Coyote, Spider Woman...
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85,50 |
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God: Myths of the Male Divine
ISBN: 9780195093063 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and his life story is told here in this graceful and illuminating account by David Leeming and Jake Page.
Illustrating their points with materials ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to the mystic Jewish Kabbalah, from the ancient Indian Vedas to tales of the North American Indians and other myths from around the world, Leeming and Page... He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the cr...
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Re-Viewing James Baldwin
ISBN: 9781566397377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new collection of essays presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work, looking beyond the commercial and critical success of some of Baldwin's early writings such as Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son. Focusing on Baldwin's critically undervalued early works and the virtually neglected later ones the contributors illuminate little-known aspects of this daring author's work and highlight his accomplishments as an experimental writer. Attentive to his innovations in style and form, Re-Viewing James Baldwin reveals an author who continually challenged the notion...
This new collection of essays presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work, looking beyond the commercial and critical success of some of B...
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146,07 |
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition
ISBN: 9780805039399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings--a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"--and the... This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paper... |
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Encyclopedia of Allegorical Literature
ISBN: 9780874367812 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Entries cover the Western allegorical tradition, as well as selected Indian, Middle Eastern, South American, and African works.
Entries cover the Western allegorical tradition, as well as selected Indian, Middle Eastern, South American, and African works.
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