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Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion Death and Reciprocity

Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion Death and Reciprocity

This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods. These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive giving an impression that ancient worshippers derived little or no benefit from developing ongoing relationships with them. In this book the first book-length study that focuses on Underworld gods as an integral part of the religious landscape of the period Mackin Roberts challenges this view and shows that Underworld gods are in many cases approached and ‘befriended’ in the same way as any other kind of god. Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion provides a fascinating insight into the worship of these deities and will be of interest to anyone working on ancient Greek religion and cult. | Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion Death and Reciprocity

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Slavic Gods and Heroes

Slavic Gods and Heroes

This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the Slavic pagan religion made on the basis of a thorough re-examination of all reliable sources. What did Slavic pagan religion have in common with the Afro-American cult of voodoo? Why were no Slavic gods mentioned before the mid-tenth century and why were there no Slavic gods at all between the Dnieper and the Oder? Why were Slavic foundation legends similar to the totemic myths of the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe and who were Slavic Remus and Romulus? What were the Indo-European roots of Slavic hippomantic rituals and where was the Eastern Slavic dragon Zmey Gorynych born? Answers to these and many other provocative questions can be found in this book. | Slavic Gods and Heroes

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Men and Gods in Mongolia

Men and Gods in Mongolia

First published in 1935 Men & Gods in Mongolia is rare and unusual travel book that takes the reader into the virtually unknwon world of Mongolia a country only now opening up to the West. Henning Haslund was a Swedish Explorer who accompanied Sven Hedin and other explorers into Mongolia and Central Asia in the 1920s and 30s. Haslund takes the reader to the lost city of Karakota in the Gobi desert introduces the reader to the Bodgo Gegen a God-king in Mongolia and allows the reader to meet Dambin Jansang the dreaded warlord of the 'Black Gobi'. Alongside the esoteric and mystical material there is plenty of adventure; caravans across the Gobi desert; kidnapped and held for ransom; initation into shamanic societies; encounters with warlords; and the violent birth of a new nation. | Men and Gods in Mongolia

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In the Garden of the Gods Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

In the Garden of the Gods Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later historical periods through popular literature including the Epic of Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest times Near Eastern kings and their scribes adapted these metaphors to promote royal legitimacy in accordance with legendary exempla that highlighted the role of the king as the establisher of order and civilization. As another Gilgameš and later as a pious servant of Marduk the king renewed divine favour for his subjects enabling them to share the 'Garden of the Gods'. Seleucus and Antiochus found these cultural ideas as they had evolved in the first millennium BCE extremely useful in their efforts to establish their dynasty at Babylon. Far from playing down cultural differences the book considers the ideological agendas of ancient Near Eastern empires as having been shaped mainly by class — rather than race-minded elites. | In the Garden of the Gods Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

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Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic Etruscan and Latin deities in context and in the material remains and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts. Many deities were worshipped in ancient Italy by different individuals and communities using different languages at different sanctuaries and for very different reasons. This multiplicity creates challenges for modern historians of antiquity at different levels. How do we cope with it? Can we reduce it to the conceptual unity necessary to provide a meaningful historical interpretation? To what extent can deities named in different languages be considered the equivalent of one another (e. g. Artemis and Diana)? How can we interpret the visual representations of deities that are not accompanied by written text? Can we reconstruct what these deities meant to their local worshippers although the overwhelming majority of our sources were written by Romans and Greeks? The contributors of this book a group of ten scholars from the UK Italy France and Poland offer different perspectives on these problems each concentrating on a particular god or goddess. Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on ancient Roman and Italian religion.

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Euhemerism and Its Uses The Mortal Gods

Euhemerism and Its Uses The Mortal Gods

Euhemerism and Its Uses offers the first interdisciplinary focussed and all-round view of the long history of an important but understudied phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural history. Euhemerism – the claim that the Greek gods were historically mortal men and women – originated in the early third century BCE in an enigmatic and now fragmentary text by the otherwise unknown author Euhemeros. This work the Sacred Inscription has been read variously as a theory of religion an atheist’s manifesto as justifying or satirizing ruler-worship as a fantasy travel-narrative and as an early ‘utopia’. Influencing Hellenistic and Roman literature and religious and political thought and appropriated by early Christians to debunk polytheism while simultaneously justifying the continued study of classical literature euhemerism was widespread in the middle ages and Renaissance and its reverberations continue to be felt in modern myth-theory. Yet though frequently invoked as a powerful and pervasive tradition across several disciplines it is still under-examined and poorly understood. Filling an important gap in the history of ideas this volume will appeal to scholars and students of classical reception mediaeval and Renaissance literature historiography and theories of myth and religion. | Euhemerism and Its Uses The Mortal Gods

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Medieval Liturgy A Book of Essays

Medieval Liturgy A Book of Essays

Originally published in 1997 Medieval Liturgy is a unique and interesting collection of nine essays that explores medieval liturgy from three distinct perspectives: historical liturgical and theological. The book includes contributions from eminent scholars of the time and discusses the development of 9th to 11th century ordines the meaning of the Mass in the 12th and 13th centuries medieval preaching ordination practices popular penance practices marriage rites the role of music in Eucharistic liturgy and the relationship between liturgical architectural space and theology. | Medieval Liturgy A Book of Essays

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The Big Book of Drones

The Big Book of Drones

Drones are taking the world by storm. The technology and laws governing them change faster than we can keep up with. The Big Book of Drones covers everything from drone law to laws on privacy discussing the history and evolution of drones to where we are today. If you are new to piloting it also covers how to fly a drone including a pre-flight checklist. For those who are interested in taking drones to the next level we discuss how to build your own using a 3D printer as well as many challenging projects for your drone. For the truly advanced The Big Book of Drones discusses how to hack a drone. This includes how to perform a replay attack denial of service attack and how to detect a drone and take it down. Finally the book also covers drone forensics. This is a new field of study but one that is steadily growing and will be an essential area of inquiry as drones become more prevalent.

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An Act of Imagination Book - Scott Bourne

An Act of Imagination Book - Scott Bourne

An Act of Imagination Book - Scott Bourne • Children’s book written by Scoot BourneAn Act of Imagination is a collection of poems that tap into the wonders of childhood, taking everyday events and characters and infusing them with imaginative invention and contemporary moral questions. There’s the bookworm left homeless by digital books, the Zombies riding buses (highlighting modern-day phone addiction) and the Dontknowsians, a race who destroyed their planet and now warn others of this fate.• Illustrations by Todd Bratuad• Hard cover

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Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists then and now Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit ('the horde') rather than the family and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-interest. Hence for Durkheim one of the gravest problems facing sociology is how to mold these human proclivities to serve the collective good. The analysis of elementary religions Durkheim believed would allow social scientists to see the fundamental basis of solidarity in human societies built around collective representations totems marking sacred forces and emotion-arousing rituals directed at these totems. The first half of the book traces the key influences and events that led Durkheim to embrace such novel generalizations. The second part makes a significant contribution to sociological theory with an analysis that essentially tests Durkheim's core assumptions using cladistic analysis social network tools and theory and data on humans closest living relatives—the great apes. Maryanski marshals hard data from primatology paleontology archaeology genetics and neuroscience that enlightens and surprisingly confirms many of Durkheim’s speculations. These data show that integration among both humans and great apes is not so much group or kin oriented per se but orientation to a community standing outside each individual that includes a sense of self but also encompassing a cognitive awareness of a sense of community or a connectedness that transcends sensory reality and concrete social relations. This community complex as Maryanski terms it is what Durkheim was beginning to see although he did not have the data to buttress his arguments as Maryanski is able to do. | Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

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Silvine Triplicate Invoice Book 210x127mm (Pack of 6) 619

Silvine Triplicate Invoice Book 210x127mm (Pack of 6) 619

This Silvine Triplicate Invoice Book allows you to make 100 invoices in triplicate to help you keep track of financial transactions. The gummed invoice book allows you to make an exact carbon copy, with pre-printed pages for detailed, accurate records. Each book measures 210x127mm, with perforated, easy tear pages. This pack contains 6 books. Size: 210x127mm Numbered 1 - 100 Printed pages Perforated for easy removal Tape bound Pack of 6

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The Foundations of Marketing Practice A history of book marketing in Germany

The Foundations of Marketing Practice A history of book marketing in Germany

Between 1815 and 1890 the German book market experienced phenomenal growth driven by German publishers’ dynamic entrepreneurial attitude towards developing and distributing books. Embracing aggressive marketing on a large scale they developed a growing sense of what their markets wanted. This study based almost entirely upon primary sources including over seventy years of trade newspapers is an in depth account of how and why this market developed—decades before there was any written theory about marketing. This book is therefore about both marketing practice and marketing theory. It provides a uniquely well-researched account of how markets were developed in very sophisticated ways long before there was a formal discipline of marketing: for example German publishers used segmentation at least 150 years before the first US articles on the subject appeared. Much of their experience was also shared by the UK and US book markets through international interactions between booksellers and other businessmen. All scholars of marketing will find this historical account a fascinating insight into markets and marketing This will also be of interest to social historians scholars of German history book trade and book trade historians. | The Foundations of Marketing Practice A history of book marketing in Germany

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Challenge Duplicate Receipt Book 100 Sets 105x130mm (Pack of 5) 100080444

Challenge Duplicate Receipt Book 100 Sets 105x130mm (Pack of 5) 100080444

Challenge Duplicate Receipt Book 100 Sets 105x130mm (Pack of 5) 100080444. Provides duplicate copies for your records. Each book is tape bound at the side and contains 100 numbered sets. This pack contains 5 receipt books. Make instant copies of your hand written receipts Make duplicate copies with self duplicating pages Ideal for keeping accounting records Each book is tape bound at the side Number of Sets: 100 Size: 105x130mm Pack of 5

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The Big Book of Blobs

The Big Book of Blobs

The Big Book of Blobs is a collection of Blob pictures that can be used as prompts to explore feelings. The relatable Blob characters are depicted in many different situations which can be used as a springboard for meaningful discussion on a range of issues and topics. The Blobs in this collection are organised into themes of places issues occasions and personal development and include scenarios such as beach cinema city concert home playground bullying death fame money parents romance sleep Christmas Easter Olympics body caring and feelings. This second edition includes new Blob pictures in areas such as bereavement self-harming faith and A&E. Each Blob picture comes with suggested questions that can be used to guide the discussion; ranging from straightforward questions (Which Blob is happy?) to more personal questions designed to explore opinions and feelings (Which Blob do you not understand? Which Blob would you like to be?). Offering handy photocopiable resources The Big Book of Blobs provides a unique way to initiate conversations on a range of topics with individuals or groups of any age.

GBP 42.99
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Avery DTR Eco Book Rack W372 x D260 x H275mm Black DR300BLK

Avery DTR Eco Book Rack W372 x D260 x H275mm Black DR300BLK

This environmentally friendly Avery DTR Eco book rack is made from 100% recycled plastic and is ideal for desktop filing and organisation. The book rack has five moveable dividers to accommodate a variety of widths, and a base made up of interlocking sections that means further racks can be added. The angled base helps keep contents secure. This black book rack measures W372 x D275 x H260mm. Made from 100% recycled plastic Five adjustable compartments Interlocking base allows for other racks to be added Angled base for secure storage Colour: Black Dimensions: W372 x D275 x H260mm

GBP 22.99
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