Jihad in the West
Militant Salafism is one of the most significant movements in politics today. Unfortunately its significance has not been matched by understanding. To begin to address this knowledge deficit this book argues that, rather than the largely unhelpful...
Poets of Devon and Cornwall, from Barclay to Coleridge
Alexander Barclay, Richard Carew, Humfrey Gifford, Anne Dowriche, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, Joseph Hall, John Ford, Robert Herrick, Sidney Godolphin, William Strode, William Browne, Mary, Lady Chudleigh, John Gay, Samuel Taylor Colerid...
Hearthstone Cottage
"Lee creates an atmosphere of unease and foreboding that culminates in explosive violence and terror. Rife with frightening imagery, ghosts, and visceral horror, this tale will please the most ardent of horror fans." - Booklist Mike Cart...
Algebraic Number Theory
This undergraduate textbook provides an approachable and thorough introduction to the topic of algebraic number theory, taking the reader from unique factorisation in the integers through to the modern-day number field sieve. The first few chapter...
The Golden Bough
The Golden Bough
The Golden Bough
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12 volumes. Reissued here is Frazer's own single-vo...
Religious Beliefs of America's Founders
Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to ...
Empowered Embroidery
With Art Makers: Empowered Embroidery, learn to sketch and stitch strong, recognizable women from all walks of life. Featuring sketching and illustration instructions, basic stitches, embroidery techniques, and 6 projects with portraits of famous ...
A.W.N. Pugin
A.W.N. Pugin transformed the Gothic Revival from an architectural style into an international movement. He decorated and furnished the Houses of Parliament, creating one of the icons of modern British identity in the process. His church designs we...
Frankie Sparks and the Big Sled Challenge
Frankie Sparks uses her inventing skills to build the best sled ever in this third chapter book in the STEM inspired Frankie Sparks, Third-Grade Inventor series. Frankie Sparks can't wait to enter the town-wide sled design contest. With the help of a team, she must design and build a sled using only cardboard and duct tape. And there are PRIZES Each team in the contest will be judged on: 1. Best looking sled. 2. Fastest sled. 3. Most team spirit. Even though Frankie might know a lot about building a sled, it turns out she still has a lot to learn about building a team. With lots of twists, turns, and big bumps along the way, can Frankie and her fellow super-sled designers create a dream machine--and a dream team?
Zolotaja vetv. Issledovanie magii i religii
Dzhejms Dzhordzh Frezer (1854-1941) - izvestnyj britanskij etnograf, issledovatel drevnerimskoj literatury i Vetkhogo Zaveta, vidnyj predstavitel klassicheskogo evoljutsionizma v antropologii, odin iz pionerov sravnitelnogo religiovedenija, kotoryj vnes ogromnyj vklad v izuchenie totemizma, kulta prirody i verovanij v zagrobnuju zhizn. Ego glavnyj trud - 'Zolotaja vetv: Issledovanie magii i religii', vpervye opublikovannyj v 1890 g. v dvukh tomakh, a v posledujuschikh izdanijakh vyrosshij do 12 tomov, schitaetsja vekhoj v istorii antropologii i religiovedenija. V etoj knige Frezer sobral i sistematiziroval unikalnyj material po drevnim i sovremennym religijam, narodnym obychajam, suschestvujuschim v razlichnykh ugolkakh zemnogo shara. Opirajas na ogromnyj massiv etnograficheskikh i istoricheskikh dannykh, avtor stremilsja pokazat tselostnuju kartinu verovanij i obrjadov razlichnykh epokh. Perevedennaja na mnozhestvo jazykov, eta kniga prinesla avtoru vsemirnuju izvestnost i
Mad World
'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' Dazed Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism ...
Birth Flower Embroidery
Create personalized, floral embroidery projects with Birth Flower Embroidery, featuring unique designs for every month’s birth flowers. Celebrate every month of the year with stunning floral embroidery patterns in Birth Flower Embroidery. This beautifully curated collection offers in-the-hoop embroidery designs for each month’s birth flowers, allowing you to make meaningful and personalized projects for birthdays, anniversaries, or other special occasions. From delicate daisies to bold roses, these floral designs are perfect for embroiderers of all skill levels. With easy-to-follow instructions and expert tips, Amy Frazer helps you bring each bloom to life through basic stitches. Whether you’re crafting for yourself or a loved one, these projects will add a touch of nature’s beauty to any home or wardrobe. Inside you’ll discover: * 26 unique birth flower embroidery patterns: Each project highlights a different birth flower, providing a year-round collection of floral designs. *
The Enlightenment of Sympathy
Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth century were committed to the ideal of reflective autonomy--the principle that each of us should think for ourselves, particularly when determining moral and political standards. In keeping with that era's ...
Golden Bough
A certain sacred tree was forbidden to the touch, save only for runaway slaves: if the slave could break off a branch - The Golden Bough - he could challenge the tree's attendant priest to mortal combat. If victorious, the slave would replace the ...
The Golden Bough
This work by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) is widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. At the same time, by applying modern methods of comparative ethnography to the classical world...
Aftermath
The Scottish social anthropologist Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) first published The Golden Bough in 1890. A seminal two-volume work (reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), it revolutionised the study of ancient religion through comparative...
