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Routledge Library Editions. Political Sc The Illusion of the Epoch Routledge Library Editions (Hardcover)

British thinkers have considered Marxism primarily as a body of economic and social doctrine. They have concentrated attention on the class struggle and the alleged decline of capitalism but Marxism is also in a wide sense of the word a system of... more

Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft Witches (RLE Witchcraft): Investigating An Ancient Religion (Hardcover)

Clues to T.C. Lethbridge s books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eventually became... more

Routledge Library Editions: Christianity Christianity Among the Religions (Paperback)

Originally published in 1961 Christianity Among the Religions examines whether it is possible to learn from other religions without compromising on personal religious loyalties. The book traces from the thirteenth century the gradual awakening of the... more

Routledge Research in Religion Media an Religion and Commodification: Merchandizing Diasporic Hinduism (Hardcover)

Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality that makes the... more

Routledge South Asian Religion Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism (Hardcover)

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical... more

Routledge South Asian Religion Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism (Paperback)

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical... more

Routledge Library Editions: Addictions: Psychosocial Constructs of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (Paperback)

Originally published in 1983 in an attempt to provide a broader knowledge base to aid both treatment and prevention experts examine topics such as the need for an holistic approach to therapy sexual functioning drug abusing youths in inner city... more

Routledge Library Editions: Library and Monographs in Sci-Tech Libraries (Paperback)

This book first published in 1983 is devoted to a consideration of the contributions monographs make to all types of sci-tech libraries as well as their probable role in the future. Several related topics are also included such as sources for obtaining... more

Pre-Owned Facts About Hinduism World Religions Library Binding Alison Cooper

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Pre-Owned Hinduism Understanding Religions Library Binding Vasudha Narayanan

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Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft European Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft): Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture 1300-1500 (Hardcover)

In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This study concentrates on the period between 1300 and 1500... more

Pre-Owned The Complete Idiot s Guide to Hinduism 2nd Edition : A New Look at the World S Oldest Religion 9781592579051

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Routledge Library Editions: Buddhism Buddhist Meditation (Hardcover)

As an intensely practical religion Buddhism has concentrated on devising a great number of meditations. In recent years psychologists have shown great interest in the therapeutic value of these meditations but accurate information about them has been... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan (Hardcover)

Shinto the national indigenous religion of Japan has supplied Japan with the basic structure of its mentality and behaviour. Although its classical texts have been translated into English this volume was the first major study of this important... more

Routledge Library Editions: Buddhism: The Buddhist Way of Life : Its Philosophy and History (Hardcover)

This study of Buddhism deals with the early tradition followed by a brief consideration of its historicity and the form the religion takes in Sri Lanka Burma and Thailand. The main line of development in India China and Japan is then discussed.... more

Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy o Language Mind and Value: Philosophical Essays (Paperback)

Philosophical themes as diverse as language value mind and God are among the topics discussed in this book originally published in 1963. Considerably influential there are contributions on Time Camrbidge Philosophy Doedelian Sentences Morality by... more

Routledge Library Editions: Ethics A Theory of Value and Obligation (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1987 and re-issued in 2020 with a new Preface this book presents and elaborates interrelated solutions to a number of problems in moral philosophy from the location of intrinsic value and the nature of a worthwhile life via the... more

Routledge Library Editions: The Economic The Telecommunications Revolution Book 43 (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1992 this book charts the global restructuring of telecommunications industries away from the monopoly structures of the past towards increased competition deregulation and privatization. The book s authors are international... more

Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Stu Media Cultures: Reappraising Transnational Media (Paperback)

This book first published in 1992 challenges the elitism and cultural pessimism of much Anglo-American and Continental cultural debate with regard to the role and power of transnational media practices. In a series of ten innovative essays an... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan Populist Nationalism in Pre-War Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigo (Hardcover)

Nakano has received very little attention in works in English on the relevant period as his approaches to effective power were limited while his career also lacks the violent drama associated with movements resorting to terrorism. Even in Japan he has... more

Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World: Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances (Paperback)

Originally published in 1990 Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances. The book addresses the lack of consensus on the... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan A Study of Shinto (Hardcover)

This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view illustrating the higher aspects of the... more

Routledge Library Editions: Cinema: Film Semiotics Metz and Leone s Trilogy (Paperback)

Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it presents an explanation of film semiotics with direct... more

Routledge Library Editions: Energy Resou Primary Resources and Energy in the Third World Book 11 (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1988. In this clear yet stimulating introductory text John Soussan explores the issues and arguments involved using a variety of case studies from across the Third World including the tin mining industry Rio Tinto-Zinc and... more

Routledge Library Editions: Landmarks in Studies in the Theory of Business Cycles: 1933-1939 (Paperback)

This volume originally published in 1966 contains essays from the 1930s and is valuable not only in the context of the history of thought. It provides an excellent introduction to the general theory of employment interest and money and reflect the most... more

Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Secu Internationalization to Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons Book 5 (Hardcover)

First published in 1980 the original blurb read: In August - September 1980 the second Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will take place in Geneva. As this Treaty is the most important barrier to the proliferation of nuclear... more

Routledge Library Editions: Internationa The Future of Air Power (Paperback)

Air power has been one of the key elements in modern warfare. This book first published in 1986 analyses the likely changes to this key role as military technology and strategic thinking evolve. It begins with the history and present status of air... more

Routledge Library Editions: Study of Sha Shakespeare s Other Language (Paperback)

Shakespeare s last plays the tragicomic Romances are notoriously strange plays riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist... more

Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama: Enchanted Shows: Vision and Structure in Elizabethan and Shakespearean Comedy about Magic (Paperback)

The book first published in 1988 examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays including Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream and The Tempest rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities... more

Routledge Library Editions: Women and Politics: Women and the State: The Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private (Hardcover)

In the late 1980s despite the fact that the vast majority of women now had a dual role - in paid work and in the domestic realm - the world of work the welfare state and the domestic sphere were all still organized as though women s place were... more

Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Politics of Oi: The United States and the Control of World Oil (Hardcover)

This volume originally published in 1983 analyses the extent to which American dominance in world affairs is based on the control of oil resources and the changes which will inevitably take place with the end of the oil era. The author concludes that... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan Japan s Political Warfare (Hardcover)

After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in the Western world. Overshadowed by the much nearer and... more

Routledge Library Editions: Beckett Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music Visual Arts and Non-Print Media (Paperback)

This book first published in 1999 addresses Beckett s visual and musical sensibilities and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage radio television and film when his medium was the written word. The first... more

Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

This book first published in 1977 begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects the Russian empire being considered from... more

Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Lite New Songs from a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry Translated with Annotations and an Introductio (Hardcover)

This book first published in 1982 was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t- ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of love poems compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering... more

Routledge Library Editions: Social and C Renaissance Man (Paperback)

Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare Dante Petrarch Michelangelo Machiavelli Montaigne More and Bacon Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a Renaissance man. The concept was generalised and accepted by all; its... more

Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Secu Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Security (Paperback)

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty had recently undergone its third formal review by its signatories who had assessed its effectiveness and considered how it might better be implemented. This book originally published in 1987 written by experts many... more

Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval The Medieval Charlemagne Legend (Paperback)

Originally published in 1993 The Medieval Charlemagne Legend is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne. The book provides a chronological listing of sources on the legend and man is... more