Chase's Calendar of Events 2025: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months
ISBN: 9798892050234 / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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455,79 zł |
The Empty Chair: Handling Grief on Holidays and Special Occasions
ISBN: 9780801063770 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Losing a loved one--whether a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend--leaves people feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. Holidays and other special occasions seem to intensify the pain. Whether the occasion is Christmas or Easter, a birthday or anniversary, these celebrations force the bereaved to again face the reality of a loved one's absence. Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge and Robert C. De Vries know firsthand the sorrow of bereavement: Both lost a spouse. Yet as they faced their pain and gleaned insights from their professions--Susan is a psychologist, Robert, a minister--they found renewed...
Losing a loved one--whether a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend--leaves people feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. Holidays and other special oc...
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56,74 zł |
Yule: A Celebration of Light and Warmth
ISBN: 9781567184969 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There’s just something magical about the Yuletide season, no matter where you live or who you are. As bright candlelight mingles with the smells of pine and warm cookies and we perform our yearly rituals of song and family gatherings, the spirit of peace and goodwill seems to reach the heart of even the most cynical Scrooge. In the pages of Yule, Dorothy Morrison presents a wonderful potpourri of holiday lore from around the world and throughout history, along with fun crafts, delicious recipe seven a calendar of celebrations for every day in December. Learn where the... There’s just something magical about the Yuletide season, no matter where you live or who you are. As bright candlelight mingles with... |
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74,21 zł |
Sabbats: A Witch's Approach to Living the Old Ways
ISBN: 9781567186635 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First and foremost, Witchcraft or Wicca is a religion. In The Sabbats, Edain McCoy reveals the eight major holidays of this faith and the many ways in which they are celebrated. There are two basic types of holidays. The first come at the Solstices and Equinoxes. The others divide the time between those dates in two, resulting in eight major holidays or Sabbats with approximately the same amount of days between them. The balance, here, gives the appearance of spokes in a wheel, so this cycle is commonly called the Wheel of the Year. The holidays represent two things. First, the...
First and foremost, Witchcraft or Wicca is a religion. In The Sabbats, Edain McCoy reveals the eight major holidays of this faith and the many ...
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109,16 zł |
Holidays on Ice
ISBN: 9780316078917 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight Black Men"); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ("The Monster...
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites <...
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69,85 zł |
Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld
ISBN: 9781433120275 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American literature, Thomas Pynchon. Through close readings and broad amplification, this book illustrates that the descent to the underworld is the single most important myth in Pynchon s work, conferring shape and significance upon each of his novels. This book also offers a unique perspective on postmodernism, which is characterized by ludic syncretism the playful synthesis of myths from a variety of cultures. In...
Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-Wo...
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549,89 zł |
Erschaffung Und Zerstoerung Der Schoepfung: Ein Beitrag Zum Thema Mythos
ISBN: 9783034304795 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mythen und Mythenbildung sind in den Wissenschaften der Postmoderne ein sehr aktuelles Thema. Der vorliegende Sammelband mochte als Beitrag zur kulturgeschichtlichen Arbeit am Thema des Mythos verstanden werden. Der interdisziplinar ausgerichtete Band vereint nach einer thematischen Einfuhrung literaturwissenschaftliche, agyptologische und bibelwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Das Themenspektrum reicht von verschiedenen Reprasentationen des Mythischen bis hin zum Vergleich schriftlicher Uberlieferungen aus dem antiken Griechenland, Mesopotamien, Agypten und Israel, die von der Erschaffung der...
Mythen und Mythenbildung sind in den Wissenschaften der Postmoderne ein sehr aktuelles Thema. Der vorliegende Sammelband mochte als Beitrag zur kultur...
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266,34 zł |
Poesía Religiosa Cómico-Festiva del Bajo Barroco Español: Estudio Y Antología
ISBN: 9783034310871 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La poesia religiosa comico-festiva alcanzo su mayor auge en el reinado de Felipe IV (ultimos decenios) y en el de Carlos II, periodo en que es escrita regularmente por dramaturgos del ciclo calderoniano como Agustin de Moreto y por autores como Diego Calleja, Manuel de Leon Marchante o, en America, la propia Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Aun cuando hoy en dia resulte casi desconocido, se trato de un subgenero lirico muy practicado a mediados del XVII y constituye un capitulo indispensable del conceptismo hispano. En la primera parte de este libro se estudia el contexto socio-politico, religioso...
La poesia religiosa comico-festiva alcanzo su mayor auge en el reinado de Felipe IV (ultimos decenios) y en el de Carlos II, periodo en que es escrita...
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535,50 zł |
Mehrfache Intertextualitaet Bei Prudentius
ISBN: 9783631561553 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Spanier Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 - nach 405) zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Dichtern lateinischer Sprache. Sein Werk stellt den Ausdrucksreichtum der klassischen Dichtung in den Dienst der christlichen Verkundigung. Schlichter Lobpreis und hochste poetische Komplexitat finden in seinem Werk zusammen und offenbaren die beiden Quellen, aus denen seine Kunst sich speist: Christentum und klassische Tradition. Ziel dieser Abhandlung ist es, anhand von Textstudien aufzuzeigen, wie und warum Prudentius Klassisches mit Christlichem in Beziehung treten lasst. Dabei wird sich das Phanomen...
Der Spanier Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 - nach 405) zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Dichtern lateinischer Sprache. Sein Werk stellt den Ausdrucksreich...
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376,44 zł |
Das Paraśurāma-Kalpasūtra: Sanskrit-Edition Mit Deutscher Erstuebersetzung, Kommentaren Und Weiteren Studien
ISBN: 9783631603499 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Parasurama-Kalpasutra (PKS) ist eine Anleitung fur das tagliche Ritual, wie es so oder ahnlich bis heute in der hindu-tantrischen Schule der Srividya von Verehrern der Gottin Lalita ausgeubt wird. Der sudindische Sanskrittext aus dem 15. oder 16. Jahrhundert wird hier das erste Mal in eine europaische Sprache ubersetzt. Die verschlusselten Mantras des linkshandig-tantrischen Werkes konnten mithilfe von Autoren der gleichen Tradition dechiffriert werden. Dazu gehoren die Schriften von Umananda, Ramesvara, Lak?ma?a Rana?e, Cidanandanatha und Svami Kar'patri. Der Kommentar des Lak?ma?a...
Das Parasurama-Kalpasutra (PKS) ist eine Anleitung fur das tagliche Ritual, wie es so oder ahnlich bis heute in der hindu-tantrischen Schule der Srivi...
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752,88 zł |
Was Ist Religion?: Beitraege Zur Religionsforschung - Edmund Weber Zum 70. Geburtstag
ISBN: 9783631609309 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was ist Religion? greift den Titel eines Kolloquiums auf, welches Edmund Weber 2008 an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main zur kritischen Betrachtung religionstheoretischer Ansatze sowie moderner und traditioneller Glaubenskulturen durchgefuhrt hat. Zu Ehren seines 70. Geburtstages setzen sich Schuler und Kollegen mit dieser Frage vor dem Hintergrund ihrer jeweiligen Forschungs- und Tatigkeitsbereiche auseinander. Die Beitrage beleuchten das Phanomen -Religion- von verschiedenen Seiten und zeigen so seine Vielfaltigkeit auf: als zu vermittelndes Wissen, Ritual,...
Was ist Religion? greift den Titel eines Kolloquiums auf, welches Edmund Weber 2008 an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main...
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383,38 zł |
Welcoming the Interfaith Future; Religious Pluralism in a Global Age
ISBN: 9781433119408 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Members of many religions live alongside one another in sprawling urban centers and isolated rural communities, and conflict and misunderstanding among religions are widespread. From a Christian and Anglican perspective, this book searchingly examines the nature of such encounters and explores the meaning of religious dialogue and terms like conversion, syncretism, salvation, and pluralism. Tightly focused historical chapters discuss expanding twentieth- and twenty-first-century Catholic and Protestant views about other religions and conclude with a fresh interpretation of the formative Asian...
Members of many religions live alongside one another in sprawling urban centers and isolated rural communities, and conflict and misunderstanding amon...
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470,48 zł |
The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China
ISBN: 9780820486246 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in any language offering a comprehensive study that places Daoxuan (596-667), one of the most important scholarly monks, in the context of medieval Chinese Buddhist history. In presenting a fresh image of medieval monastic life of Chinese Buddhism, it focuses on several key issues in Daoxuan s work, including the veneration of Buddha s relics, the re-creation of the ordination platform and ordination ritual, and how the Buddhist community reclassified and dealt with monastic property. It is indispensable for all those who are interested in the religions and history of...
This is the first book in any language offering a comprehensive study that places Daoxuan (596-667), one of the most important scholarly monks, in the...
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506,46 zł |
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
ISBN: 9781935760078 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,69 zł |
The Seductions of Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition
ISBN: 9781472440075 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience; and the often unforeseen elements that lead pilgrims off their desired course. Presenting the first comprehensive study of the role of seduction on individual pilgrims in the study of pilgrimage...
The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses...
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704,29 zł |
Rhodos Und Helios: Mythos, Topos Und Kultentwicklung
ISBN: 9783631301784 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 561 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schon in der Antike hielt Rhodos an seinen oft altertumlichen Traditionen fest. Im Laufe der Untersuchung der Mythen und Grabungsfunde kristallisiert sich ein vorgriechischer Kult und dessen Kriterien unter der Dominanz der Frau heraus. Die rhodische Kultentwicklung hingegen ist gekennzeichnet durch die Phasen der Deszendenz dieser Dominanz. Im Zentrum der Studie steht Helios, der Herrscher der Insel, aber auch Athene als Gattin und Mutter der Korybanten."
Schon in der Antike hielt Rhodos an seinen oft altertumlichen Traditionen fest. Im Laufe der Untersuchung der Mythen und Grabungsfunde kristallisiert ...
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523,93 zł |
Riding on Horses' Wings; Reimagining Today's Horse for Tomorrow's World
ISBN: 9781433132841 / Angielski / Twarda / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bond between humans and horses is deep. For humans, horses provide freedom. Riding on horses and horse-drawn chariots or carts has allowed humans to go farther and faster than they could on their own. Horses (now high-horsepower cars) are our wings. As a result, their images show up in our dreams and our personal and cultural stories as symbols not only of freedom, but of power, swiftness, nobility, and beauty. Equine images empower us to ride on inner journeys, explore the mysteries of the soul, and carry the human spirit forward. In bringing to life the horse tales of many cultures...
The bond between humans and horses is deep. For humans, horses provide freedom. Riding on horses and horse-drawn chariots or carts has allowed humans ...
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667,66 zł |
Thanksgiving Joy: A Cornucopia of Stories, Songs, Poems, Recipes, and Traditions
ISBN: 9780990497790 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thanksgiving is one of the most-loved holidays in North America. Make the day even more enjoyable with: *Classic Thanksgiving recipes - along with a few new ones - to prepare a feast appropriate for the day *Blessings from many cultures *A history of the holiday, including differing perspectives of the Puritans and the Native Americans *Music, readings, and activities to enhance the festivity *Customs from around the world to inspire a celebration that reflects your own personal style The ideas, tips, and suggestions in Thanksgiving Joy... Thanksgiving is one of the most-loved holidays in North America. Make the day even more enjoyable with: *Classic Thanksgiving recipes - alo... |
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60,93 zł |
The Seductions of Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition
ISBN: 9781138546301 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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250,36 zł |
The Holy Year: Meditative Contemplations of Seasons and Festivals
ISBN: 9781782505525 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In our hurried, everyday lives, time of day and even seasons can blur together, leaving us distanced from the natural world and spiritual rhythms. This book is a visionary and practical exploration of thoughts and meditations which can help us engage with the changing moods of the year. Rittelmeyer's descriptive sketches of the Christian festivals and subjects from the New Testament are offered as helpful spiritual signposts along the path of the year. The meditations can be used as devotions to help us deepen our own insight, and to stimulate creative and meaningful religious celebrations.
In our hurried, everyday lives, time of day and even seasons can blur together, leaving us distanced from the natural world and spiritual rhythms. Th...
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67,06 zł |