eurospan nov 2011 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. Topics include the presence of the Celtic Otherworld and its inhabitants, cosmology and sacred cycles, wisdom texts, mythological symbolism, folklore and legends, and an appreciation of the natural world. Evidence is drawn from the archaeology of sacred sites, ethnographic accounts of the ancient Celts and their beliefs, medieval manuscripts, poetic and visionary literature, and early modern accounts of folk healers and seers. New translations of poems, prayers, inscriptions and songs from the early period (Gaulish, Old Irish and Middle Welsh) as well as the folklore tradition (Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx) complement the text. Information of this kind has never before been collected as a compendium of the indigenous wisdom of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose traditions have endured in various forms for almost three thousand years.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'With new introduction by Mohamed A. El-Erian'--Cover.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cheryl Suzack is an assistant professor of English and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. Shari M. Huhndorf is a professor of ethnic studies and women¿s and gender studies at the University of Oregon. Jeanne Perreault is a professor in and associate head of the Department of English graduate program at the University of Calgary. Jean Barman is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Originally published in hardcover in 2004.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is the search for the right answers. Robert M. Martin's popular collection of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, jokes, and anecdotes is updated and expanded in this third edition, with dozens of new entries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Whole Earth Catalog was a national phenomenon catering to hippies, do-it-yourselfers, and anyone interested in self-sufficiency independent of mainstream America. This book takes a fresh look at those who worked in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to construct this philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism, and shows us that Whole Earth was more than a mere counterculture fad.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An award-winning Civil War historian sheds new light on the Union commanders' central role in the North's victory. He reevaluates the generalship of the victors and lays bare the sometimes vicious rivalries among the Union generals and theffect those clashes had on the war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the date on which to end her life. And her next step was to tell her daughter all about it. For twenty years, Irmgard maintained an unwavering goal, to commit suicide at age seventy. She managed her chronic hypertension, stayed healthy and active, and lived life to the fullest. Meanwhile, Christine fought desperately against the decision. When Irmgard wouldn't listen, the only way to remain part of her life was for Christine to swallow her mother's plans--hook, line, and sinker.Christine's father, as it turned out, prepared too slowly for old age. Before he had made any decision, fate disabled him through a series of strokes. Confined to a nursing home, severely impaired by dementia and frustrated by his circumstances, his life epitomized the predicament her mother wanted to avoid. 'So Far Away' gives us an intimate view of a person interacting with and reacting to her parents at the ends of their lives. In a richly detailed, poignant story of family members' separate yet interwoven journeys, it underscores the complexities and opportunities that life presents each one of us.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In 'Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance 'Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Hipsky puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats.