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  • Enchantment

    Wonder in Modern Life

    de Patrick Curry ...
    Enchantment is a profound human experience. When we encounter wonder, awe or amazement, that is enchantment. Enchantment can reveal profound truths, lead to deep values and become central to a life well-lived.This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts -- in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Defending Middle-Earth

    Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

    de Patrick Curry ...
    A scholar explores the ideas within The Lord of the Rings and the world created by J. R. R. Tolkien: “A most valuable and timely book” (Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of Changing Planes).What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that the appeal for fans goes far deeper than ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Machiavelli

    A Graphic Guide

    de Patrick Curry ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical philosophy of 'the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Prophecy and Power

    Astrology in Early Modern England

    de Patrick Curry, H Darrel Rutkin ...
    Patrick Curry rediscovers the history of astrology in early modern England: he seeks to overturn the accepted view that astrology was a marginal pursuit that died out after the mid-seventeenth century. Curry demonstrates that in reality, astrology was a vital part of English cultural life, surviving in various forms and despite powerful opposition throughout the eighteenth century. Drawing on a ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ecological Citizen

    Selected papers from the peer-reviewed, ecocentric journal, 2018 - 2019

    Edición de Patrick Curry, Joe Gray, Adam Dickerson ...
    A selection of papers published in the Ecological Citizen journal; an independent, peer-reviewed, free-to-access journal that provides a forum for inspiring and mobilizing discussion with an Earth-centred perspective. Each paper offers a perspective on ecocentric approaches to life. What does it mean to be ecocentric? Deep green, or ecocentric, is feeling that it is wrong for humans to have an ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Art and Enchantment

    How Wonder Works

    de Patrick Curry ...
    Series series Contemporary Liminality
    This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic experience and activity, including painting, music, fiction and poetry, before exploring the possibility of a life oriented to enchantment as the ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Astrology, Science and Culture

    Pulling down the Moon

    de Roy Willis, Patrick Curry ...
    Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest. From daily horoscopes to in-depth and personalized star forecasts, astrology, for many, plays a crucial role in the organization of everyday life. Present-day scholars and scientists remain baffled as to why this pseudo-science exercises such control ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Divination

    Perspectives for a New Millennium

    Edición de Patrick Curry ...
    Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

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  • Tolkien and the Great War

    The Threshold of Middle-earth

    de John Garth ...
    How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: "Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written." —A. N. WilsonAs Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • J.R.R. Tolkien

    Author of the Century

    de Tom Shippey ...
    The definitive Tolkien companion—an indispensable guide to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and more, from the author of The Road to Middle-earth.This "highly erudite celebration and exploration of Tolkien's works [is] enormous fun," declared the Houston Chronicle, and Tom Shippey, a prominent medievalist and scholar of fantasy, "deepens your understanding" without "making you forget your ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    de J.R.R. Tolkien ...
    The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Morgoth's Ring

    The Later Silmarillion, Part One: The Legends of Aman

    de Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien ...
    In Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years before he completed The Lord of the Rings. The text of the Annals of Aman, the "Blessed Land" in the far West, is given in full. And in writings never ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD