wyszukanych pozycji: 311
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China
ISBN: 9781107003880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The centrality of death rituals has rarely been documented in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism. Bringing together a range of perspectives including ethnographic, textual, historical and theoretically informed accounts, this edited volume presents the diversity of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China. While the contributions show that the ideas and ritual practices related to death are continuously transformed in local contexts through political and social changes, they also highlight the continuities of funeral cultures. The studies are based on...
The centrality of death rituals has rarely been documented in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism. Bringing together a range of perspective...
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448,56 zł |
Apple Bay: Or Life on the Planet
ISBN: 9780934558273 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,93 zł |
Mahájánový buddhismus
ISBN: 9788074360640 / Czeski / Miękka / 2017 / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mahájánový buddhismus se od chvíle svého vzniku ve starověké Indii rozšířil po celé Asii a v Tibetu a východní Asii se stal převažující formou religiozity. V průběhu posledních pětadvaceti let zájem obyvatel Západu o mahájánu výrazně vzrostl, což se odráží jednak v množství odborných pojednání, jednak v počtu západních vyznavačů tibetského buddhismu a zenu.
Kniha Paula Williamse Mahájánový buddhismus je považována za standardní odborný úvod do tématu a jako taková byla přeložena do několika evropských a asijských jazyků a... Mahájánový buddhismus se od chvíle svého vzniku ve starověké Indii rozšířil po celé Asii a v Tibetu a východní Asii se stal převažujíc...
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122,85 zł |
Murder Inc.: The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Most Dangerous Criminal Gang
ISBN: 9780241970461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. It describes the depravity and decadence of the gangs, their deadly rivaliries, and their reigns of terror over the community in which they lived. Finally, Williams traces the faultlines that eventually led to the implosion of the gangs and their defeat. Drawing on his vast inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, an unparalleled range of contacts and eye witness...
Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account of...
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55,97 zł |
The Djibouti Gateway
ISBN: 9781491856550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The sequel to the thrilling "Bam Memorandum" follows the notorious terrorist, Ibrahim, a top level planner for al Qaeda, as he resurrects his plan for a global attack on the Western world. He is aided in his campaign by an unwitting group of wealthy Americans, planning to overthrow the Administration of the United States, but unaware that their leader is a Russian agent, determined to aid Moscow to return to the glory days of the Soviet Union. Pitted against these zealots are the embattled and overstretched security forces of the United States and Great Britain who, however, have one ace up...
The sequel to the thrilling "Bam Memorandum" follows the notorious terrorist, Ibrahim, a top level planner for al Qaeda, as he resurrects his plan for...
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124,19 zł |
Pamatuj na své bytí
ISBN: 9788090188464 / Czeski / 2023 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Paul Williams má blízko ke svobodomyslnosti čínských taoistů, k jejich pojetí světa formovaného z tao a ctnosti, a sdílí pohled sótó zenu na dokonalost zjevení v přítomném okamžiku. Připomene čínského filosofa Mistra Čuang-c‘ a jeho slovní i myšlenkové hříčky a mluví o podprahové zkušenosti ze života v naší době. Kniha Remember Your Essence, vycházející v českém překladu pod názvem Pamatuj na své bytí, pochází z roku 1987 a pokračuje v duchu hřejivé, důvěrné a srdečné rozpravy se čtenářem. Poetickým jazykem a těžce znovunabytou...
Paul Williams má blízko ke svobodomyslnosti čínských taoistů, k jejich pojetí světa formovaného z tao a ctnosti, a sdílí pohled sótó zenu...
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78,97 zł |
Unexpected Way: On Converting from Buddhism to Catholicism
ISBN: 9780567088307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The story of one man's unexpected pilgrimage from Buddhism to Catholicism.There are Christians who, in mid-life decide to abandon their Christian faith and become Buddhists. Paul Williams did the opposite. After twenty years spent practising and teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Britain, scholar and broadcaster Paul Williams astonished his family and friends in 1999 by converting to Roman Catholicism. Williams explains why he joined a Church that many Buddhists and others might regard as a repressed and outdated way of life and belief. He argues that being a Catholic in the modern world is no... The story of one man's unexpected pilgrimage from Buddhism to Catholicism.There are Christians who, in mid-life decide to abandon their Christian f... |
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311,17 zł |
Stevie - Sad Spider: DrinkyDink Rhymes
ISBN: 9781518841507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oh, Stevie loves to see Stevie: Sad Spider Play all day Come and walk with Stevie Find the other DrinkyDink Rhymes;)
Oh, Stevie loves to see Stevie: Sad Spider Play all day Come and walk with Stevie Find the other DrinkyDink Rhymes;)
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36,37 zł |
Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations
ISBN: 9780415356534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Paul Williams' Mahayana Buddhism is widely regarded as the standard introduction to the field, used internationally for teaching and research and has been translated into several European and Asian languages. This new edition has been... Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-fi... |
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228,18 zł |
Stevie - Big Red Balloon: DrinkyDink Rhymes
ISBN: 9781518807053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oh, Stevie loves to look at things Stevie: Big Red Balloon The sky will bring Come and walk with Stevie Find the other DrinkyDink Rhymes;)
Oh, Stevie loves to look at things Stevie: Big Red Balloon The sky will bring Come and walk with Stevie Find the other DrinkyDink Rhymes;)
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36,37 zł |
Heart of Gold
ISBN: 9780934558372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,58 zł |
Buddhistické myšlení
ISBN: 9788090424685 / Czeski / Miękka / 2011 / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tato kniha vede čtenáře k pochopení a ocenění základních pojmů klasického indického buddhistického myšlení: sleduje jeho vývoj už od Buddhovy doby a otvírá pohled na nejnovější vědecké poznatky i sporné otázky.
Autoři zpřístupňují jasným a srozumitelným stylem i abstraktní a složité myšlenky. Obzvláště zajímavý je tu zdaleka nejdostupnější a nejnovější přehled buddhistické tantry v Indii. V tantrickém buddhismu může za přísně kontrolovaných podmínek hrát na duchovní cestě roli sexuální činnost. Tento na první pohled... Tato kniha vede čtenáře k pochopení a ocenění základních pojmů klasického indického buddhistického myšlení: sleduje jeho vývoj už od B...
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65,66 zł |
The Us Graphic Novel
ISBN: 9781474423373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to be a novel debates that accelerated after the term 'graphic novel' was coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural form is...
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics....
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127,24 zł |
Expect to Believe: 90 Bible Devotionals to Grow Your Faith for the Impossible
ISBN: 9781940024813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,16 zł |
How to Become Fabulously Wealthy at Home in 30 Minutes by Letting Go of the Desire to Be Wealthy: The Bodhisattva Strategy
ISBN: 9780934558228 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "This pamphlet's assertion that it is possible for the reader to become fabulously wealthy in 30 minutes is based on its author's enthusiasm upon hearing Confucius's wonderful promise, 'All things come to the person who is modest and kind...' and recognizing it as being very close to similar statements by Jesus Christ and the Buddha. If all these sages concur, surely this recipe is worth testing in our own lives..".
"This pamphlet's assertion that it is possible for the reader to become fabulously wealthy in 30 minutes is based on its author's enthusiasm upon hear...
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34,64 zł |
Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds
ISBN: 9781846317088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have answered the following question: are nuclear weapons 'white'? Many texts respond in the affirmative, and arraign nuclear weapons for defending a racial order that privileges whiteness. They are seen as a reminder that the power enjoyed by the white western world imperils the whole of the Earth. Furthermore, the struggle to survive during and after a speculated nuclear...
Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons a...
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191,05 zł |
The Art of Losing
ISBN: 9781907335617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,01 zł |
Magnolia Grove
ISBN: 9781491856512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heisman Trophy winner and college football star Michael Levesque returns home to his parents' mansion in New Orleans for Easter, to find that his father, a wealthy oil tycoon, has purchased a beautiful, but dilapidated Mississippi river-front antebellum mansion, that he intends to demolish to make way for a new oil refinery. Michael and his sister are appalled by their father's plans and set out to save the house. They soon become aware of the mansions historical importance, and are both troubled by eerie glimpses of the past. Ultimately, Michael finds himself on an impossible journey that...
Heisman Trophy winner and college football star Michael Levesque returns home to his parents' mansion in New Orleans for Easter, to find that his fath...
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150,33 zł |
Crooks: The Stories Behind the Headlines
ISBN: 9781805461197 / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
Stevie - Presents: DrinkyDink Rhymes
ISBN: 9781518841767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oh, Stevie loves to see Stevie: Presents Play all day Come and walk with Stevie Find the other DrinkyDink Rhymes;)
Oh, Stevie loves to see Stevie: Presents Play all day Come and walk with Stevie Find the other DrinkyDink Rhymes;)
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34,27 zł |