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  • The Hostages of the Northmen
    Stefan Olsson
    The aim of this book is to investigate the taking and giving of hostages in peace processes during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in Scandinavia and adjacent areas. Scandinavia has been absent in previous research about hostages from the perspectives of legal and social history, which has mostly focused on Antiquity (the Roman Empire), Continental Germanic cultures, such ...
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    36,07 €

  • A Veiled Gazelle
    Idries Shah
     A ‘Veiled Gazelle’, as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ of higher perception. Sufi experientialists refer to the activation of these centres of awareness as the awakening of real knowledge of Truth beyond form. A Veiled Gazelle considers the symbolic and instrumental employment of its literature in Sufi studies. Seldom...
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    6,84 €

  • A Veiled Gazelle
    Idries Shah
    A ‘Veiled Gazelle’, as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ of higher perception. Sufi experientialists refer to the activation of these centres of awareness as the awakening of real knowledge of Truth beyond form.A Veiled Gazelle considers the symbolic and instrumental employment of its literature in Sufi studies. Seldom di...
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    6,50 €

  • Education and Elitism in Nazi Germany
    Robert Cecil
    For more than thirty years, The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) led the field in stimulating debate and examining ideas within the humanities. Among the Institute’s active followers was J. D. Salinger, Robert Graves, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, and many others from all walks of life.During its long and distinguished service, ICR published dozens of papers on cultural an...
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    3,05 €

  • Exploring Human Behaviour in Groups
    A. John Allaway
    For more than thirty years, The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) led the field in stimulating debate and examining ideas within the humanities. Among the Institute’s active followers was J. D. Salinger, Robert Graves, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, and many others from all walks of life.During its long and distinguished service, ICR published dozens of papers on cultural an...
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    3,14 €

  • The Sufis
    Idries Shah
    What is Sufism?The book follows the Sufi principle of ‘scatter’ in answering this unanswerable question.It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition.Instead, it throws out ideas.Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.Neither emotionalist nor academic, this book offers the closest thing a written work can to an ...
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    19,77 €

  • The Sufis
    Idries Shah
    What is Sufism?The book follows the Sufi principle of ‘scatter’ in answering this unanswerable question.It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition.Instead, it throws out ideas.Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.Neither emotionalist nor academic, this book offers the closest thing a written work can to an ...
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    29,30 €

  • The Book of the Book
    Idries Shah
    Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: ‘When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.’When the book first appeared in English thirty-five years ago, its printers ...
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    18,52 €

  • The Book of the Book
    Idries Shah
    Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: ‘When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.’When the book first appeared in English thirty-five years ago, its printers ...
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    18,52 €

  • Evenings with Idries Shah
    Idries Shah
    Evenings with Idries Shah collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hafiz.The Sufis have been using carefully constructed stories for teaching purposes for thousands of years. Though on the surface these often appear to be little more than entertaining fairy tales or folk tales, they enshrine — in their characters, plots, and imagery — patterns and relationships that nurture a part ...
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    3,22 €

  • Observations
    Idries Shah
    According to the Sufis, human faculties, although perceptive, are limited: like a radio set, which can receive only certain electromagnetic waves and not other parts of this band. The inability to transcend the barrier of limited senses explains human subjectivity. The Sufis assert that through familiarization with concepts, patterns of thought, and ideas that form part of thei...
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    5,43 €

  • Letters and Lectures
    Idries Shah
    According to the Sufis, human faculties, although perceptive, are limited: like a radio set, which can receive only certain electromagnetic waves and not other parts of this band. The inability to transcend the barrier of limited senses explains human subjectivity. The Sufis assert that through familiarization with concepts, patterns of thought, and ideas that form part of thei...
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    3,27 €

  • Destino La Meca
    Shah Idries
    Publicado por primera vez en 1957, Destino La Meca es tanto un ambicioso diario de viaje como también un trabajo de investigación etnográfica y cultural. Shah documenta un amplio rango de viajes fascinantes: su expedición tras las minas de oro del Rey Salomón en las costas del mar Rojo en Sudán, sus encuentros en caravasares del desierto y estadías con contrabandistas del Medit...
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    10,94 €

  • Breve historia de la mitología griega
    Rebeca Arranz Santos
    Descubra el universo de mitos y leyendas de la cultura helénica, cuna de la civilización occidental. Un sinfín de aventuras legendarias, grandes epopeyas y hazañas imposibles protagonizadas por héroes, dioses, seres fantásticos y terribles monstruos.Tres mil años de historia desde las culturas minoica y micénica hasta la guerra de Troya, La Ilíada y La Odisea. Conozca la Mitolo...
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    23,77 €

  • The Sufis (Large Print Edition)
    Idries Shah
    What is Sufism?The book follows the Sufi principle of ‘scatter’ in answering this unanswerable question.It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition.Instead, it throws out ideas.Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.Neither emotionalist nor academic, this book offers the closest thing a written work can to an ...
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    43,30 €

  • The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry
    Nigel H. Foxcroft / Nigel HFoxcroft
    The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans is an interdisciplinary investigation of the multifaceted, intuitive insight of international modernist writer Malcolm Lowry through an analysis of a selection of works and correspondence. Nigel H. Foxcroft analyzes his psychogeographic perception of the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and civilizations in...
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    128,71 €

  • The Rig Veda
    This hardbound Rig Veda is specifically designed to be a simple modern source in the standard Sanskrit and Devanagari script. It leverages extremely readable typography so that you can even learn Sanskrit as you read. ...
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    89,70 €

  • Hail the Gods
    Eirik Westcoat
    The author’s Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites is a hefty and imposing book, one that made quite a statement. Now, the best of his mythological and praise poems from that book have been collected in this lighter and friendlier volume for your reading enjoyment. These twenty-seven poems include the following:•  Yggdrasilsdrápa •  A Tale of Wisdom’s Well •  Rise and Reach the Gods!...
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    8,90 €

  • The Sufis (Large Print Edition)
    Idries Shah
    What is Sufism?The book follows the Sufi principle of ‘scatter’ in answering this unanswerable question.It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition.Instead, it throws out ideas.Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.Neither emotionalist nor academic, this book offers the closest thing a written work can to an ...
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    43,30 €

  • The Sufis
    Idries Shah
    What is Sufism?The book follows the Sufi principle of ‘scatter’ in answering this unanswerable question.It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition.Instead, it throws out ideas.Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.Neither emotionalist nor academic, this book offers the closest thing a written work can to an ...
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    29,30 €

  • Tales of the Dervishes
    Idries Shah
    Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe ...
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    17,65 €

  • Rendering Divine Names on Coins
    Brad Yonaka / David Bentley
    After Jesus glanced at the temple coin, he said, ''Render to Caesar.'' This book’s title and theme are based upon Jesus’ command to give allegiance to both the state and God.Coauthor David Bentley is the historian-theologian who reads and translates the coins’ messages. Coauthor Brad Yonaka is the geologist-scientist who finds the copper, silver, and gold coins which are on dis...
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    19,45 €

  • Rendering Divine Names on Coins
    Brad Yonaka / David Bentley
    After Jesus glanced at the temple coin, he said, ''Render to Caesar.'' This book’s title and theme are based upon Jesus’ command to give allegiance to both the state and God.Coauthor David Bentley is the historian-theologian who reads and translates the coins’ messages. Coauthor Brad Yonaka is the geologist-scientist who finds the copper, silver, and gold coins which are on dis...
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    37,60 €

  • The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender
    Veena R. Howard
    ’How do gender constructions transform religious experiences?’ ’What is the role of bodily materiality in ethics and epistemology?’ ’How does rethinking gender and sexuality force us to reconceptualise settled ontological frameworks?’ This collection provides the first research resource to Indian philosophical gender issues, exploring a variety of texts and traditions from Indi...
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    258,27 €

  • In Brasile Invece di Uccidere
    nannini Guido
    Giulio e il figlio maggiore di una famosa famiglia Senese che e stato truffato dalla sua eredita dai suoi stessi genitori e fratelli. Sua sorella diva del'opera si preoccupa solo di se stessa e dei soldi, suo padre era donnaiolo senza amore e suo fratello ex pilota di motoscafi di regata. Suoi fratelli con l'assistenza della madre si preoccupavano solo di ereditare il p...
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    12,25 €

  • The Commanding Self
    Idries Shah
    Do you command it?Or does it command you?The commanding self is the bundle of conditioned responses that we need to survive – but which holds most of us prisoner. Psychology and personal development are only just beginning to catch up with what the Sufis have said for hundreds of years.You can take control of your commanding self and choose how and when it operates.This book ca...
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    21,03 €

  • The False Gods
    George Horace Lorimer
    'The False Gods' is a 1906 novel by George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937). Lorimer was an American author, journalist, and publisher most famous for being the editor of The Saturday Evening Post between 1899 and 1936. As editor, the paper’s circulation rose from a few thousand to over a million. This interesting novel offers an insight into contemporary journalism and Lorimer’s exp...
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    16,14 €

  • Vico’s Theory of the Causes of Historical Change
    Leon Pompa
    For more than thirty years, The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) led the field in stimulating debate and examining ideas within the humanities. Among the Institute’s active followers was J. D. Salinger, Robert Graves, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, and many others from all walks of life.During its long and distinguished service, ICR published dozens of papers on cultural an...
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    4,40 €

  • The Commanding Self
    Idries Shah
    Do you command it?Or does it command you?The commanding self is the bundle of conditioned responses that we need to survive – but which holds most of us prisoner. Psychology and personal development are only just beginning to catch up with what the Sufis have said for hundreds of years.You can take control of your commanding self and choose how and when it operates.This book ca...
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    14,39 €

  • Plotinus on Beauty (Enneads 1.6 and 5.8.1-2)
    Andrew Smith
    Plotinus composed the widely influential Neoplatonic work On Beauty (Ennead 1.6) in the third century CE. This volume includes the Greek text of and English notes on this work, which demonstrates Plotinus’s systematic argument and engaging exhortation to foster the inner self. The volume also includes the text of and notes on Plotinus’s complementary statements in On Intelligib...
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    22,51 €