• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Beauvoir…

First book in the Don Juan series. The author meets Don Juan and is introduced to his magical world and philosophy by means…

• Počet stran 432
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• Rok vydání 2023

What would it take for your body to be good enough? The pressure to change our bodies is overwhelming. We strive to defy…

Tells the story of the Tibetan people. This title offers an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. It presents a quest for…

• Počet stran 240
• Rok vydání 2010

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his…

Recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. This book sets…

• Počet stran 416
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• Rok vydání 2024

The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For…

The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which the author, one of the most humane thinkers, believed everyone…

Although the exact identity of this text's author remains obscure, he was probably an English country parson of the late…

Tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to human project. This title examines…

Presents an introduction to the mythology of the peoples, who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe from Britain and…

• Rok vydání 1973

Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the Greeks. He undergoes…

Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion…

The Ramayana is the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. Telling the…

Set at the end of the tenth century, this title is about the time Scandinavia was converting from worship of Norse gods to…

• Rok vydání 2009

Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, The Qur'an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the archangel…

Free when packaged with any Damrosch World Literature title.…

'The Upanisads' is the Hindu equivalent of the Christian New Testament. It is a collection of spiritual treatises written in…

Demonstrates the individual's reliance on God and on the words of Christ, and the futility of a life without faith, as well…

All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the…

• Rok vydání 1977

A king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a…

• Počet stran 320
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• Rok vydání 2001

Hildegard, the "Sybil of the Rhine," was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the…

The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. This title follows the…

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. The…

• Rok vydání 1983

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this work applies the scientific method to a field abounding in…

Continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice, Dante progresses through the spheres of Paradise.…

Gathering a range of traditional African myths, this collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and…

• Rok vydání 1976

Includes various stories. In, Math Son of Mathonwy two brothers plot to carry off the virginal Goewin, while in Manawydan…

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in…

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell…

Brings together various W B Yeats' published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects…

Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest…

When Cabrillo and his ship are hired by the US government to find an ancient statue known as the Golden Buddha, stolen from…

'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been…

Zen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the…

• Rok vydání 2014

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including "The Rig Veda" and "The Mahabharata", "Hindu Myths" are thought to date back as…

Collects poems that: are compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, are based on sources dating back centuries…

A biography of the historical figure of Jesus. It studies the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, distinguishing…