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Hardcover. This edited volume of specially commissioned essays written for the anniversary of 'Abdu'l-Baha's journey to America tells the story of this former prisoner's interactions with the white upper echelon of American society as well as his impact on the lives and writings of important early figures in the African-American civil rights movement. Editor(s): Mottahedeh, Negar. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBJK; HRAC; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032003
- ISBN
- 9781137032003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Paperback. This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRK; HRQM2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137534798
- ISBN
- 9781137534798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBTB; HRQX9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512246
- ISBN
- 9781137512246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HRQX9; JFC; JFSL; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503046
- ISBN
- 9781137503046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HRQA; HRQA5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137477675
- ISBN
- 9781137477675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.52
€ 47.52
Hardcover. This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465771
- ISBN
- 9781137465771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.68
€ 126.68
Hardcover. India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies. Rather than focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, India and the Occult looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British 20th century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, etc. Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404985
- ISBN
- 9781137404985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.44
€ 160.44
Hardcover. This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRKP; HRQX2; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380876
- ISBN
- 9781137380876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52
€ 116.52
Hardcover. MSIA, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, has been called the Cadillac of cults. Those interested in new religions may only know of MSIA from these kinds of labels. However, when looked at from a qualitative sociological perspective, a more complex story of religious innovation and cultural change can be told. Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374189
- ISBN
- 9781137374189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. Series: Vox Humana. Num Pages: 84 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896030213
- ISBN
- 9780896030213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.16
€ 26.16
Hardback. Proceedings Warburg Colloquium 1989 Editor(s): Rattansi, Piyo; Clericuzio, Antonio. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HRQX2; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792325734
- ISBN
- 9780792325734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.50
€ 194.50
Hardcover. Frazer set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in ancient Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana - and was led by his investigations into a twenty-five year study of primitive customs, superstitions, magic and myth throughout the world. Num Pages: 770 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRQX; JFHF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1124.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333059104
- ISBN
- 9780333059104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.17
€ 132.17
Hardback. Men -- as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed -- are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France. Editor(s): Rowlands, Alison. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 270 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553293
- ISBN
- 9780230553293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.27
€ 183.27
Hardcover. This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the narratives of witchcraft as they were laid forward by people involved in the trials. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300712
- ISBN
- 9780230300712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.68
€ 149.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRQM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577310761
- ISBN
- 9781577310761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.29
€ 18.99
€ 17.29
paperback. This is the most detailed and comprehensive account of SRA from a clinical perspective available to date. As reports of SRA continue to escalate, it will be a valuable resource for all practicing therapists and psychiatrists. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX9; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802073570
- ISBN
- 9780802073570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Num Pages: 56 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 4. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Original Falcon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935150756
- ISBN
- 9781935150756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. Editor(s): Evans, Dave. Series: Journal for the Academic Study of Magic. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869928674
- ISBN
- 9781869928674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.29
€ 18.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: HRQX9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869928544
- ISBN
- 9781869928544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Bentzen, Ruth. Series: Danish Humanist Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1DND; CF; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892764
- ISBN
- 9788772892764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935150794
- ISBN
- 9781935150794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.49
€ 24.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 118 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Original Falcon Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935150732
- ISBN
- 9781935150732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.29
€ 18.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Evans, David; Green, David. Num Pages: 332 pages, b/w illlus. BIC Classification: HRQX2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869928964
- ISBN
- 9781869928964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.08
€ 26.99
€ 19.08
hardcover. Contains L. Ron Hubbard's advice on improving one's everydaylife. The book covers the search for personal happiness, handling marital problems, dealing with children, improving relationships with others and the nature of man himself. Num Pages: 357 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRQM; VSP; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 245 x 32. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- New Era Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788779897571
- ISBN
- 9788779897571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.07
€ 33.99
€ 23.07