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Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019079
ISBN
9780691019079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. Examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive 'substratum' of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 974.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
718
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015149
ISBN
9780691015149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 46.48

Hardcover. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HRKN; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674698383
ISBN
9780674698383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.96
€ 53.28

Hardcover. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 228 pages, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, tables. BIC Classification: HRKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 180 x 23. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674356184
ISBN
9780674356184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.10

Hardback. In this first systematic study in English of the highly influential yet overlooked thinker Xue Xuan (1389--1464), author Khee Heong Koh seeks to redress Xue's marginalization while showing how a study interested mainly in "ideas" can integrate social and intellectual history to offer a broader picture of history. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 370 pages, 2 maps, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HPDF; HRKN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062443
ISBN
9780674062443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.91

Hardback. An history of the early Chinese ancestral cult, particularly its cognitive aspects. It intends to excavate the cult's color and vitality and to quell assumptions that it was no more than a simplistic and uninspired exchange of food for longevity, of prayers for prosperity. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 484 pages, 6 halftones; 2 line art. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 34. Weight in Grams: 832.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056077
ISBN
9780674056077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.30

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.34

Hardback. Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain oyama has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan. This book offers a narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 1 table, 1 map, 23 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRKN3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027756
ISBN
9780674027756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Hardback. By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernisation. It focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 5 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HRAX; HRKN5; HRLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025059
ISBN
9780674025059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.30

Hardcover. Despite Taiwan's rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factors - social, economic, political - have stimilated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 38 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JJ; ASZ; HRKN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010970
ISBN
9780674010970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.02

Paperback. This dictionary of classical mythology distills into brief form a single-source dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman myths and legends. This concise version covers virtually all major characters, and eight genealogical tables present the principal complex relationships between gods and men. Translator(s): Maxwell-Hyslop, A. R. Num Pages: 616 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; CBD; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1050.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Unabridged
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631201021
ISBN
9780631201021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99

Paperback. This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. Series: Ancient World S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200475
ISBN
9780631200475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.13

Hardback. This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. Series: Ancient World S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200468
ISBN
9780631200468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.25

Hardback. Placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, this book explains the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 b/w images, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3D; 3F; HBLA; HRCC; HRKZ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286191
ISBN
9780520286191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 72.77

Hardback. Investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; HRKP; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520284265
ISBN
9780520284265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 72.77

Paperback. Tells the story of an idea that humanity's expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRKP; JFSR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275324
ISBN
9780520275324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. Focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa and in the world: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. This title presents a study of the spiritual and cultural center of the Yoruba religion, tells how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Num Pages: 356 pages, 24 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HRAC; HRKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520265554
ISBN
9780520265554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.60
€ 57.98

Paperback. A work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife. It explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, it presents non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead. Num Pages: 234 pages, A Lillienthal title. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259881
ISBN
9780520259881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. This work describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HRKT; HRQX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520249882
ISBN
9780520249882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.86

Hardback. Examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. This work describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the Persian empire. Num Pages: 476 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243491
ISBN
9780520243491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.07
€ 65.15

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