The Way of The Sacred
Hardback Bloomsbury 1989 320 Quarto 1870630483 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations Nice clean bright tight book i Very Good (Book ref. 545576) £10.00
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society
Paperback Thomson Learning 1992 200 9780030310379 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations Nice clean bright tight bo Very Good (Book ref. 544999) £8.00
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Shamanism Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Paperback Arkana 1989 640 0140191550 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations cover has minor crease - book ow solid Very Good (Book ref. 543622) £7.00
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Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religions
Paperback University Of Chicago Press 1978 158 0226203921 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations Nice clean bright Very Good (Book ref. 543621) £10.00
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Amulets and Superstitions: The Original Texts With Translations and Descriptions of a Long Series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian
Paperback Dover Publications 1977 608 0486235734 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations Nice clean bright tight boo Very Good (Book ref. 543618) £10.00
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Biblical Anthropology Compared with and Illustrated By the Folklore of Europe and the Customs of Primitive Methods
London: Oxford University Press, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 5¾" - 6'' Tall This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover book in a Very Good Dust-jacket that has some light general rubbing and wear to the outer edges of the wrapper with miniscule nicks to the d/j at head of spine..Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is NO leaning to spine.clean copy internally,8vo 262pp First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 62694) £15.00
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Anthropology.
London: Williams and Norgate, nd [c. 1920]. No edition stated (hardback). 16mo, 256pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Endpapers browned, light foxing to the edges of the text block. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition. (Book ref. 26221) £10.00
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From the Mountains to the Plains: Integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese Society (Scandinavian Institute of African Studies).
Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 1994. ISBN: 9171063366. 173pp. University library stamp to prelim. No other library marks and otherwise clean and neat. Paperback. Good, sound copy. (Book ref. 7909) £8.00
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Road Belong Cargo : A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District New Guinea.
Melbourne University Press / Manchester University Press, 1967. 293pp.Spine sunned. Some reading wear. Rubbed. Paperback. Good, sound copy. (Book ref. 7237) £6.00
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Claude Lévi-Strauss: An Introduction.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. ISBN: 0224005952. 110pp. An introduction to the work of the structural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss written by the Mexican poet. literary critic and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Amongts other attributes Paz discusses the Marxist, Freudan and Buddhist strands in Claude Lévi-Strauss' work. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein and Maxine Bernstein. Inlcudes selcted bibliography and biographical notes. An ex-library copy with the usual stamps, labels etc. inlcuding label to the dust wrapper spine. Black boards with silver titles to spine ar every neat and have no library marks. Hard Cover. Good, sound ex-library copy in like dust wrapper. (Book ref. 6028) £9.00
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Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit.
Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984. ISBN: 0920234607. 107pp. Square format. Exhibition catalogue illustrated throughout mainly in black and white but with some colour. Introduction by the guest curator, Lipton. Also includes essays by Helga Goetz "Three Decades of Innuit Art", and by Marybelle Myers "A Brief History of the Marketing of Canadian Innuit Art". Select bibliography. Index of artists; indedx of communities. Rubbed to corners. Paperback. Very good+ copy. (Book ref. 5523) £8.00
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Off the Middle Way: Report From a Swedish Village
New York: Pantheon Books, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0394468538 Life in and around Vasteras in Sweden based in interviews with twelve Swedes who tell their stories in this book give a more realistic picure of a Middle Way that failed. They include retired middle-aged and younger persons who have spent their lives at all kinds of common labour. Translated from the Swedish by Angela Gibbs with an introduction by Jan Myrdal. Part of Pantheon's series of reports from villages throughout the world. (Book ref. 039283) £18.40
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Death's Acre - INSIDE THE LEGENDARY 'BODY FARM'.
LONDON.TIME WARNER BOOKS (UK),2004.. UK.8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.. Hardback.. FINE./FINE.. 8vo. 0316725277. UK. 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn thus.[Not indicated as a reprint or a subsequent impression - merely states first published 2003, by same publisher as this edition, but in 2004.]FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean, matt, wrap-around colour scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - almost as new.Top+fore-edges minimally aged, but bright and clean, contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright, crisp, red ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip, sharp corners and immaculate plain black eps.8vo, vii-xv+1-299pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements, contents list/table, Patricia Cornwell foreword (book's title was also the title of her 5th Dr Kay Scarpetta novel), 20 chapters, 16pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp142/3, appendices(2), an index, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication and 2pp blanks to rear. In 1981 Dr William Bass founded the Antropology Research Facility at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.It was the first, and remains the only, institution in the world dedicated to research into the timing of post-mortem human decomposition.It quickly acquired the nickname 'the body Farm' - phrase given international recognition after Dr Bass assisted Patricia Cornwell with her forensic research and she used the sobriquet as the title for the 5th Dr Kay Scarpetta novel. The notion that knowledge was desperately needed about the minutiae of how our bodies decay after death struck Dr Bass in the early 1960's when he was asked if he could estimate the interval since a dead cow had been killed by cattle rustlers:he had to reply that there was no known scientific method of establishing that fact.The seed remained in his mind and began to take firmer root in 1977 while he was examining some human remains that appeared to be only a few months old, when in fact the time since death was more than a century.This episode spawned the Body Farm; in the decades since, the research facility and its founder have revolutionised forensic science and have successfully helped to prosecute hundreds of criminals. Besides detailing the meticulous work on the Body Farm - the study of the effects of humidity, temperature, clothing and shelter on bone and flesh, and how insects and bacteria leave a now easily interpreted trail - and describing how numerous killers were brought to justice through Dr Bass's work. 'Death's Acre' also offers a fascinating and intriguing chronicle of a visionary scientist who has inspired his peers and who has helped shape the art of forensic investigation into the remarkable science it is today. (Book ref. rja31878) £10.00
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Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism - Sacred Ceremonies of North America.
USA.CALIFORNIA,ABC-CLIO INC.,1998.. US,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.. Hardback.. FINE./No dw/dj - as issued.. Thick Qrto. 0874369339. Encyclopaedia. US, Qrto HB, no dw/dj - as issued, 1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn, no dw/dj - as issued.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated upper bd and immaculate, plain white eps, with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright, tight and pristine - an unread copy.Thick Qrto, v-xxxvii+1-468pp [paginated] includes dedication, contents list/table, illus list/table, preface, user's guide, maps list/table, 15 b/w culture/geographical maps, profuse b/w contemporary photographs and b/w line illustrations, throughout the text and the book, references, ethnobotany biblio, illustration credits, and index, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and 4pp blanks to rear. An authoritative account of the various shamanic powers that have been observed among the Native Americans of North America since the 16thC.Surveying apsects of Native American sacred ceremonies in Canada and all 50 states of the United States, this book focuses on "medicine" ceremonies in which the power of the Creator is manifested for all to behold.Such ceremonies might be as simple as uttering a short prayer before undertaking a certain act, or they might involve the performance of a four-day prescribed ritual.The A-to-Z entries include the names and results of various medicine ceremonies, shamans who are acclaimed for their medicinal powers, and the techniques shamans used to acquire and control the powers needed to perform sacred ceremonies.In addition, readers will find explanations of the terminology anthropologists use to describe these ceremonies, symbolic motis that recur cross-culturally in sacred ceremonies, plants and sacred paraphernalia associated with ceremonies, and recurring structural themes. Although much of the material included in this work has been documented by anthropologists, the accounts of priests, trappers, and explorers who recorded their observations have also been included. Also featured in this unique volume are extensive cross-references, illustrations and maps, an ethnobotanical bibliography, and an index. An exceptional addition to every library's reference collection, this book will be invaluable to students of anthropology, Native American studies, religious studies, pyschology and sociology.It will also appeal to readers interested in the magical or supernatural aspects of Native American cultures and the New Age movement. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the weight and the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! (Book ref. rja30778) £60.00
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A Thousand Lives: An Account of the English Revolutionary Movement, 1660-1685
London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. Third Impression. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall (Book ref. 039281) £9.99
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Pastor C. H. Spurgeon, His Conversion, Career, and Coronation
London: J.B. Knapp, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was a large British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times each week at different places. His sermons have been translated into many languages. Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination. In 1857, he started a charity organization called Spurgeon's which now works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held throngs of listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature. Prize bookplate. (Book ref. 039280) £145.00
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Famine in Tudor and Stuart England
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0853230145 This study shows that the Northwestern English counties of Cumberland and Westmorland suffered severe famines in 1587, 1597, and 1623. (Book ref. 039268) £11.95
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Great Days: The Autobiography of an Empire Pioneer
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B00180HLWQ Fracture to corner of front board. Scarce. (Book ref. 039261) £40.00
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THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Languages and History of the Territories Under British Protection in East Central Africa, Between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and Between the First Degree of South Latitude and the Fifth Degree of North Latitude.
Hutchinson & Co. 1902. 1st Ed. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. xix + xiii + 1018pp. 253 ills., 42 cold. plates, 7 folding maps. Dec. e.ps., hinges cracked, shaken, ex.-libris H.S.W. Edwardes, original cloth with ills. to upper board, spines sl. chipped. Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston, (1858-1927). In 1899 Sir Harry was sent to Uganda as special commissioner to end an ongoing war. He improved the colonial administration, and in 1900 concluded the Buganda Agreement dividing the land between the UK and the chiefs. US$318 (Book ref. 212751) £200.00
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The Ideas in Barotse Jurisprudence
Hardback Yale University Press 1st Edition 1965 301 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations Nice clean bright tight Very Good (Book ref. 544694) £25.00
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