Oneworld publications nov 2021 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Ridiculously enjoyable'Tom HollandA Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History MagazineThe 'Mermaid of Morwenstow' excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday. When he was late for a service, Bishop Lancelot Fleming commandeered a Navy helicopter. 'Mad Jack' swapped his surplice for leopard skin and insisted on being carried around in a coffin. And then there was the man who, like Noah's evil twin, tried to eat one of each of God's creatures.In spite of all this they saw the church as their true calling. These portraits reveal the Anglican church in all its colourful madness.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael ScottCan you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus In this unique introduction, Philip Womack leads his beloved lurcher Una (and us) on a fleet-footed odyssey through the classical world. From Aeneas to Cerberus to Polydorus, you'll learn about the world of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and, with a bit of luck, you'll be able to pass it on to your dog. But maybe best leave out that story of the hounds who tore their very own master limb from limb.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.'Fascinating. I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.' Adrian TinniswoodThe rose is bursting with meaning.Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown.Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life's seminal moments.Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us.The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare's sonnets to Bulgaria's Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and hybrids of remarkably different provenance.This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.\*\*\*'Fascinating material, surveyed with relish and acumen.' Times Literary Supplement'Morley's book is, in part, the story of how humans came to raise roses so consistently and abundantly that we demand them even in freezing February. First, though, By Any Other Name recounts the love affair with a flower that drove us to want to do that in the first place.' Wall Street Journal'An intellectual and artistic journey. digging around the history of how roses have become entangled with human life. By Any Other Name will be a source of inspiration for us.' Kim Wook-Kyun, President of the South Korea Rose Society.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this classic study, Herbert A. Davidson examines every medieval Arabic and Hebrew proof for the eternity of the world, the creation of the world and the existence of God which has philosophical character, disregarding only those that rest entirely on religious faith or fall below a minimum threshold of plausibility. Classifying the proofs systematically, he analyses and explains them, and traces their sources in Greek philosophy. He pursues the penetration of some of these Islamic and Jewish arguments into medieval Christian philosophy and, in a few instances, all the way into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European philosophy.Unique in both its classification of the proofs and its comprehensiveness, this work will once again serve medievalists, historians of philosophy and historians of ideas.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'Ridiculously enjoyable'Tom HollandA Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History MagazineThe 'Mermaid of Morwenstow' excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday. When he was late for a service, Bishop Lancelot Fleming commandeered a Navy helicopter. 'Mad Jack' swapped his surplice for leopard skin and insisted on being carried around in a coffin. And then there was the man who, like Noah's evil twin, tried to eat one of each of God's creatures.In spite of all this they saw the church as their true calling. These portraits reveal the Anglican church in all its colourful madness. 208 pp. Englisch.…