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  • Crisis in Early Religion

    Edited by Mait Kõiv, Märt Läänemets, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Religion is closely linked to social development as it often serves as the ideological fundament of a society and one of the foremost expressions of its culture. The articles in this volume are devoted to the study of religious crisis in Anqituity and deal with these pheonomena in the Ancient Near East, Rome, Greece, China and India. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin

    Medycyna i język – język medycyny

    Edited by Eva Brinkschulte, Fritz Dross, Anita Magowska, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Teichfischer ...
    Series Book 20 - Medizingeschichte im Kontext
    Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin lautete das Thema der 14. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin. Der Tagungsband umfasst 17 Beiträge, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Verhältnis von Sprache und Medizin thematisieren. Die Autoren diskutieren die medizinische Fachsprache als internes und externes Kommunikationsmittel hinsichtlich ihres ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe

    Shared Identities, Entangled Histories

    Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Is ‘Jewish medicine’ a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at answering this question historically by presenting comprehensive coverage of Jewish medical traditions in Central Eastern Europe, mostly on ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1

    From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series Book 1 - A History of Religious Ideas
    "Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book ReviewThis extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind's earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, ... Read more

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  • Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

    A Nineteenth-Century Life

    by Jonathan Sperber ...
    Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Transformation

    The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought—from the New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase“A splendid book.... Lucid, highly readable.... Relevant to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds.” —The New York Times**In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

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  • The Philokalia

    A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality

    Edited by Brock Bingaman, Bradley Nassif ...
    The Philokalia (literally "love of the beautiful or good") is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church. First published in Greek in 1782 by St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St. Macarios of Corinth, the Philokalia includes works by thirty-six influential Orthodox authors from the fourth to fifteenth-centuries such as Maximus the Confessor ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945

    Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance

    by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen ...
    A new comprehensive biography of this hugely important Christian martyr, 60 years after his execution at the hands of the NazisBonhoeffer has gained a position as one of the most prominent Christian martyrs of the last century. His influence is so widespread that even 60 years after his execution by the Nazis, Bonhoeffer's life and work are still the subject of fresh and lively discussion. As a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The New Science of Politics

    An Introduction

    by Eric Voegelin ...
    Series series Walgreen Foundation Lectures
    "Must be considered one of the most enlightening essays on the character of European politics that has appeared in half a century… powerful and vivid."— Times Literary Supplement"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete ... Read more

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  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    by Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... Read more

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