Robert Bartlett: 20 books
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?
Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation....
The Hanged Man
A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved...
by Robert Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. This was a period in which the ruling dynasty...
by Robert Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Challenges to Democratic Participation
Antipolitics, Deliberative Democracy, and Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Finally, Part III approaches pluralism and cultural diversity in a shared public space. Its main challenge consists in promoting an idea of active citizenship that can meet the demands of a world increasingly defined by the processes of globalization. Ultimately, that is what will end up combining...
by Robert Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Cole Murphy glides down the road on his custom chopper enjoying the cool autumn serenity of the North Carolina mountains. Harboring a terrible secret, his mind is lost in worrying about the impact that such a secret will have on his life and the lives of his family when he is caught in the maelstrom...
The Log of Bob Bartlett
The True Story of Forty Years of Seafaring and Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Each year, thousands of people visit Bob Bartlett’s boyhood home located in Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador, to catch a glimpse of this famous sealing captain’s amazing life. Hawthorne Cottage has been designated a National Historic Site. The Log of Bob Bartlett captures details and experiences...
Sophistry and Political Philosophy
Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born...
Real Alchemy
A Primer of Practical Alchemy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A ground-breaking modern manual on an ancient art, Real Alchemy draws on both modern scientific technology and ancient methods. A laboratory scientist and chemist, Robert Allen Bartlett provides an overview of the history of alchemy, as well as an exploration of the theories behind the practice. Clean,...
by Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
For more than two thousand years. Aristotle’s “Art of Rhetoric” has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial, and epideictic), the...
The Karluk's Last Voyage
An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
“We did not all come back.” Thus begins the rare firsthand account of the extraordinary ordeal of the Karluk, the flagship of explorer Vilhjalmar Stefansson’s Arctic expedition of 1913-1916. When ice trapped the Karluk, Stefansson abandoned Captain Robert A. Bartlett and the crew—eleven of...
by Captain Robert A. Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2008
Sails Over Ice picks up where The Log of Bob Bartlett left off. Between the years 1925–1933, Captain Bob Bartlett and the Morrissey explored coastal Greenland and much of Northern Canada, harvesting scientific specimens and Inuit artifacts for North American societies and museums and collecting...
The Last Voyage of the Karluk
Shipwreck and Rescue in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
On January 4, 1914, the Karluk was stuck in ice when the ominous sound of the ship’s stern being ripped open by pack ice was heard by all on board. It sounded like the firing of a cannon. Bartlett immediately ordered supplies be unloaded on the ice. The Karluk began to break up on January 10, and...
by Bartlett, Robert Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Alchemy is the ancient sacred science concerned with the mysteries of life and consciousness as reflected through all Nature. It is a harmonious blending of physical and subtle forces which lifts the subject, whether it be man or metal, to a more evolved state of being. The Way of the Crucible is...
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