The Delicious History of the Holiday
ISBN: 9780415133043 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, and fed on in imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we wish we were. In this book, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu. He celebrates the bodily pleasures of generations of tourists - from Edwardian banquets in Paris to fish and chips on the beach, from the Bright Young Things on the...
Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, and fed on in imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want ...
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The Delicious History of the Holiday
ISBN: 9780415133050 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, and fed on in imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we wish we were. In this book, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu. He celebrates the bodily pleasures of generations of tourists - from Edwardian banquets in Paris to fish and chips on the beach, from the Bright Young Things on the...
Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, and fed on in imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want ...
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237,65 zł |
Spirituality and the Occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern
ISBN: 9780415244480 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as:
* medicine * science * philosophy * Freudian and Jungian... Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the ...
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Espejos y Ventanas/Mirrors and Windows: Historias Orales de Trabajadores Agricolas Mexicanos y Sus Familias/Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and
ISBN: 9780971299665 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Espejos y ventanas details the individual stories of the Mexican community of Kennett Square, a community of three generations who have migrated to work in the world's largest mushroom industry, and details their personal and political aspirations. Published with both Spanish and English versions, these oral histories provide a window into the lives of retirees who came north twenty-five years ago; of mothers and children who stayed in Mexico and finally made it over; of teenagers building a house for their family in Mexico; of children graduating from college, their feet planted in two...
Espejos y ventanas details the individual stories of the Mexican community of Kennett Square, a community of three generations who have migrated to wo...
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Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9780852558836 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone.
A comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone.
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Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1986-97
ISBN: 9780852552476 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit, raised an army called the 'Holy Spirit Mobile Forces' and with it waged a war, not only against the National Resistance Army of the government but also against internal enemies in the form of 'impure' soldiers, witches and sorcerers. She came close to her goal of overthrowing the government but was defeated and fled to Kenya. This book gives an account of the movement from within, based on interviews with and writings of its members, and concludes with an account of...
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit, raised an army called...
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