Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge
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Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge
Paperback. Demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRH; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214133
- ISBN
- 9780253214133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.47
€ 21.99
€ 21.47
Paperback. Heroic women warriors as reflections of social and moral values Num Pages: 280 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- American Literatures Initiative
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592139712
- ISBN
- 9781592139712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Hardcover. Num Pages: colour illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788120773172
- ISBN
- 9788120773172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
€ 13.99
€ 10.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Tangerine Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910691175
- ISBN
- 9781910691175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. Young readers can join Granny as she journeys around the world on a magic carpet, shopping for amazing treasures in all of the places she visits, and taking readers on a counting adventure through the different countries of the world. Full color. Illustrator(s): Corr, Christopher. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 245 x 212 x 3. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Barefoot Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905236626
- ISBN
- 9781905236626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.95
€ 9.99
€ 8.95
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Dundurn Group Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781459705371
- ISBN
- 9781459705371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HRCC2; JFHF; JFSV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578633159
- ISBN
- 9781578633159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.62
€ 23.99
€ 21.62
hardcover. This work examines the mysterious death of Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University who died in 1905 - shortly after recovering from strychnine poisoning. At the time the University President, David Starr Jordan, claimed she died from heart disease, a claim this book refutes. Num Pages: 192 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFH; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804747936
- ISBN
- 9780804747936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.19
€ 31.99
€ 27.19
Paperback. Using folklore, sociology, history, psychology, and forensic science - as well as good old-fashioned detective work - Radford reveals the truths and myths behind New Mexico's greatest mysteries. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826354501
- ISBN
- 9780826354501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.39
€ 26.99
€ 23.39
Paperback. Explore the mysterious and mythic treasures of Wales. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; JFHF; WQ; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445658674
- ISBN
- 9781445658674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.35
€ 21.99
€ 17.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Adventures Unlimited Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935487104
- ISBN
- 9781935487104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.75
€ 29.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. Illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular song; explores uses made of the term 'myth' within the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, cultural studies, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415442848
- ISBN
- 9780415442848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.65
€ 27.65
Paperback. In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HBTB; HPC; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 4. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802063489
- ISBN
- 9780802063489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.09
€ 16.09
Paperback. Assessing of the state of the study of myth, this text explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course that takes into account both the comparative and the contextual issues raised since 1985. Editor(s): Patton, Laurie L.; Doniger, Wendy. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916576
- ISBN
- 9780813916576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.82
€ 52.82
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; HPCB; HPJ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691646350
- ISBN
- 9780691646350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.05
€ 215.05
Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299175
- ISBN
- 9780942299175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.16
€ 25.99
€ 19.16
Paperback. Editor(s): Gerster, Patrick; Cords, Nicholas J. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- SKU
- V9780252060243
- ISBN
- 9780252060243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.44
€ 21.99
€ 21.44
Hardback. Editor(s): Pozzi, Dora Carlisky; Wickersham, John M. Series: Myth and Poetics. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801424731
- ISBN
- 9780801424731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.68€ 71.19
€ 83.68
€ 71.19
Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 528 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Edition
- New ed of 2 Revised ed
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299199
- ISBN
- 9780942299199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788120742109
- ISBN
- 9788120742109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
€ 13.99
€ 10.85