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This best-selling guide draws a full picture of the mysterious landmark Glastonbury Tor.  It describes the Monastery of St. Michael, the labyrinth, the astronomical alignments, the underground water, the geology, and the associated myths and legends.  It sets the Tor in its various historic...

From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of the far East, blazing in rude vessels of baked earth;...

What role does the Christian church play in human history? If you take the sovereignty of God seriously, what role should the church play? Here is an interpretive survey of church history that attempts to answer those questions. It’s written for serious Christians who may be just a little uncertain about church.

This lively and original guidebook offers an invitation to the study of Greek philosophy and signposts to lead the student deeper. The reader is drawn in to the questions the philosophers posed. Doing Greek Philosophy conveys a vital sense of the dynamism and continuity in the Greek philosophical...

"As primeiras civilizações" é uma obra enganadoramente fácil que, uma vez iniciada, se lê de uma vez só. O texto claro é fruto de cuidadosa elaboração e sua leveza esconde anos de pesquisa e docência do historiador Jaime Pinsky. No livro - que ultrapassou 50 mil exemplares vendidos...

Galland (1646-1715) qui avait suivi les cours de langues orientales au Collège de France, où il termina sa carrière, fut d’abord attaché à l’ambassade de France à Constantinople. Il retourna ensuite au Levant pour d’autres missions. Il profita de ses voyages pour compléter ses études...

Sergio Leone, célèbre par le western spaghetti et son style inimitable, en fera une adaptation libre en 1959. Avec en toile de fond la tragédie du Vésuve – l’une des plus grandes catastrophes naturelles de l’Antiquité. Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition.

Enquête ou Les Histoires (en grec ancien Ἱστορίαι/Historíai) est la seule œuvre connue de l’historien grec, Hérodote (vers 484 av. J.-C. – vers 425 av. J.-C.). Le titre signifie littéralement « recherches, enquêtes » (du grec ἵστωρ/histôr, « celui qui sait, qui connaît...

This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the little-known modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwaller de Lubicz. Running alongside the mainstream of Western intellectual history there is another...

Ce livre unique comporte une biographie de Olympe de GOUGES et une de ces oeuvres :"LES DROITS DE LA FEMME". Auteur : Marie Gouze, dite Olympe de Gouges, née le 7 mai 1748 à Montauban et morte guillotinée le 3 novembre 1793 à Paris, est une femme de lettres française, devenue...

Hayy ibn Yaqzan ("Alive, son of Awake"; Latin: Philosophus Autodidactus "The Self-Taught Philosopher"; English: The Improvement of Human Reason) was the first Arabic novel and the first philosophical novel, written by Ibn Tufail (also known as Aben Tofail or Ebn Tophail), a Moorish...

"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five...

What do ancient Indian sacred texts and terrified Tibetan mystics have to do with Stealth technology, antigravity projects and a new Indian warfighting strategy—let alone the ongoing clashes between India and Pakistan in long-disputed Kashmir?What will happen when India’s strategic bluff...

Learn About The History Of World Power In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!Diamond says that twenty-five years ago he met a politician in what is now Papua New Guinea, Yali, who asked why white people had so many things, but black people did not. The book attempts to...