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Paperback. There is widespread evidence of belief in the efficacy of magic in the ancient world. This text aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to ancient magic, surveying magical beliefs and practices from the 6th century BC to late antiquity, describing rites and explaining the theory behind them. Translator(s): Philip, Franklin. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HRKP; HRQX2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674541535
ISBN
9780674541535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.12

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

€ 111.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: HRKT; JHM; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226571638
ISBN
9780226571638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.67

Paperback. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. The author tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Claudine Michel's account of working with Mama Lola after the Haitian earthquake. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 472 pages, 47 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
3rd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268104
ISBN
9780520268104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRK; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Rudolf Steiner Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
4th
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855840584
ISBN
9781855840584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.86

Paperback. The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India, and Susan L. Schwartz's Rasa: Performing the Divine in India, Mantra presents an introduction to the use of sound-mantra-in the practice of Indian religion. Num Pages: 136 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; HRK; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129619
ISBN
9780231129619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Traces the history of the Jesuits' invention of Confucius and of themselves as native defenders of Confucius' teaching. This book demonstrates how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the historical figure who has since been globally celebrated as philosopher, and prophet. Num Pages: 472 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320470
ISBN
9780822320470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Line Drawings. BIC Classification: HRKN; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590309933
ISBN
9781590309933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.56

Paperback. I choose to take back my life. My life. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day's grace. It's time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge.. Translator(s): Power, Ben. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD; HRKP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571320769
ISBN
9780571320769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. A guide to sources that paints a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress Medea, famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her own home and replaced by a new wife. This book brings into focus themes of the Medea myth, and provides an introduction to the story and its history. Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. Num Pages: 168 pages, 5 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HD; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415300704
ISBN
9780415300704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.01

Hardback. In this book, David Leeming analyses the Medusa in myth, history, philosophy, modern psychoanalysis, art, literature, feminism and the advertising industry Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black and white. BIC Classification: HRKP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780230955
ISBN
9781780230955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
NIPPOD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472530530
ISBN
9781472530530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Gorey, Edward. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; HRKP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172636
ISBN
9781590172636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Serran-Pagan y Fuentes, Cristobal. Series: Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKN5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 226 x 31. Weight in Grams: 541.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fons Vitae,US United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9781887752992
ISBN
9781887752992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.85

Hardback. Messiah: My Testimony to Rev. Sun Myung Moon is an autobiographical account of Dr. Bo Hi Pak's forty-year association with the founder of the Unification Movement. Translator(s): Lausberg, Andrew. Num Pages: 534 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 44. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Edition
2 ed
Number of pages
534
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761824572
ISBN
9780761824572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.53

Paperback. Conjures the consciousness of Mexico, evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. This book takes readers into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLC; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226110035
ISBN
9780226110035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Readers of Greek literary, historical, oratorical, ritual and even medical texts, are all liable to encounter ideas of pollution. This text seeks to describe and analyze this wide-ranging and complex concept. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198147428
ISBN
9780198147428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 163.56

hardcover. Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table, 13 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804751605
ISBN
9780804751605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.97

Paperback. The Tuatha de Danaan in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HRKP2; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780997964
ISBN
9781780997964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.50

hardcover. A collection of essays exploring the interpretation of medieval identities through burial data. Editor(s): Sayer, Duncan; Williams, Howard. Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Num Pages: 320 pages, 53 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HDDM; HRCR; HRKP2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 254 x 26. Weight in Grams: 786.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
002nd Edition
SKU
V9780859898317
ISBN
9780859898317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.51

Hardback. The term "Islamic fundamentalism" is often laden with negative connotations in today's media. Mahboob A. Khawaja, in Muslims and the West, argues for a new understanding of what fundamentalism really is. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761816522
ISBN
9780761816522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 265 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HB; HRKP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 187 x 19. Weight in Grams: 720.
Publisher
Northgate Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780952423317
ISBN
9780952423317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.49

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578631414
ISBN
9781578631414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 18 photographs, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HRKT; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803295230
ISBN
9780803295230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

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