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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 16.99
€ 15.50
Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages: Essays in...
. Ed(S): Sayer, Duncan; Williams, Howard
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 32.99
€ 29.60