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  • The Furthest Goal

    Engelbert Kaempfers Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

    de Beatrice Bodart-Bailey, Derek Massarella ...
    This important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer (author of the History of Japan, also published by Curzon) for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • Rudolf Steiner

    An Introduction to His Life and Work

    de Gary Lachman ...
    The first truly popular biography of the influential twentieth-century mystic and educator who-while widely known for founding the Waldorf schools and other educational and humanitarian movements-remains a mystery to many who benefit from his ideas.People everywhere have heard of Waldorf schools, Biodynamic farming, Camphill Villages, and other innovations of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • Witch Craze

    de Lyndal Roper ...
    From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches-of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops-and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Astronomer and the Witch

    Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

    de Ulinka Rublack ...
    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • To Have and to Hold

    An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting

    de Philipp Blom ...
    "This curiously moving history . . . traces the development of collections since the Renaissance through lively portraits of famous collectors." — The New YorkerFrom amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • German : Biography of a Language

    Biography of a Language

    de Ruth H. Sanders ...
    Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the influence ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Master Plan

    Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

    de Heather Pringle ...
    A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millionsIn 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof of Ancient Aryan conquests. But history was not their most important focus. Rather, the Ahnenerbe was an essential part of ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Goethe

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Hermann Hesse

    A Pictorial Biography

    de Hermann Hesse ...
    A Vivid Visual Journey Through the Life of Nobel Prize-Winning Author Hermann HesseHermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography offers a treasure trove of previously undiscovered photographic and textual material, shedding new light on the life and works of this exceptional German author. Over 200 photographs, discovered among Hesse's literary effects after his death, chronicle his family background, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Dance of Death

    de Hans Holbein ...
    A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabreOne of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Man Into Wolf - An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy

    de Robert Eisler ...
    This vintage work contains a treatise on an anthropological interpretation of sadism, masochism, and lycanthropy, which has been compiled from the notes of a lecture delivered at a meeting of the 'Royal Society of Medicine'. This fascinating and arresting collection of notes will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in psychiatry or the influential work of Robert Eisler. It is a ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    de Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Traducido por Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD