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Swedish Mentality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text examines Swedish culture and mentality and draws upon statistics gathered over more than a decade of research. The author describes a range of factors influencing Swedish character, including population composition, rural background, and even climate.
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Hua-Yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Julian of Norwich is recognized as one of the great speculative theologians of the Middle Ages, whose... Læs mere
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Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics, explores the Byzantine paradigm of animation.
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Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. This text challenges the dominance... Læs mere
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The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyzes the emergence and development of art history as a discipline in Austria-Hungary. Focuses on the ways in which... Læs mere
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Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts.
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Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Lehigh Valley: A Natural and Environmental History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Comprising approximately 730 square miles and more than half a million residents, the Lehigh Valley is the third largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania. This work is a combination of narrative natural history, identification handbook and travel and hiking guide.
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Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated... Læs mere
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Ireland and the Problem of Information: Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A series of studies examining literary modernism in Ireland. Explores how cultural work assumed new meaning amid the strategic imperatives of the mid-twentieth century, and demonstrates how the late modernist field became today’s information age.
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