History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European

The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad: A New History (Fisher Greg)(Paperback)

This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin,

The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age - A History of Contested Ideas (Nira Wickramasinghe)(Paperback / softback)

Concise history of the Sri Lankan

Ideas - A History (Watson Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition through two and a half

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Iqbal Mohammad)(Paperback)

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbal's major philosophic work: a series of profound reflections on the perennial conflict among science, religion, and philosophy, culminating in new visions of the unity of human knowledge, of the human spirit, and of God

Islam - A New Historical Introduction (Hillenbrand Carole)(Paperback / softback)

Offers an understanding of the history of Muslims and their faith, from the life of Muhammad to the religion practised by 1.6 billion people around the world today. In this book, each chapters explains a core aspect of the faith in historical perspective, allowing readers to gain a sensitive

Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History (Beard Mary)(Paperback)

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the

History of the Prophets (Ali Maulana Muhammad)(Paperback / softback)

The Formation of Islam 1ed (Berkey Jonathan P.)(Paperback)

Jonathan Berkey surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from approximately 600 to 1800 c.e. After examining the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, he investigates Islam's first century, the 'classical' period from the accession of the Abbasids to the rise of

History of Magic - From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Gosden Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Unravelled Knots: The Teahouse Detective: Volume 3 (Baroness Orczy)(Paperback)

Another classic collection of mysteries from the Golden Age of British crime writing, by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel It has been twenty years since Polly Burton last saw the Teahouse Detective, but one foggy afternoon she stumbles into a Fleet Street caf and chances upon the cantankerous

Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, volume 3 (Delbruck Hans)(Paperback)

From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare begins in the time of Charlemagne, who maintained a military system of freemen and of vassals bound to him in service for lands granted in fief. These pages are crowded with

Muhammad (Rodinson Maxime)(Paperback)

A classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad that vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born. Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book, a classic in its field, has

Foundation - The History of England Volume I (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The first volume in Peter Ackroyd's stunning six-part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry

The Age of Revolution (Kovacs Charles)(Paperback)

An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when every person had their place in the hierarchy

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium (Harman Chris)(Paperback)

Building on A People's History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An 'indispensable volume' on class and capitalism throughout the ages--for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and

The Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Azzam Leila)(Paperback)

This children's book on the life of the Prophet Muhammad is taken from traditional Muslim biographical literature. Although written for children of 10 to 15 years of age, it can be usefully read by anyone as an introduction because of its completeness and

Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth (Williams Mark)(Paperback)

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fictionIreland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in

Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 (Kenny Anthony)(Paperback)

Presenting the history of Western philosophy, this book charts the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance. It is intended for those interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western

Tudors - The History of England Volume II (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England:

Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age (Bendazzi Giannalberto)(Paperback)

A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering