Cosimo Jun 2007 (43 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This outstanding study examines the origin and philosophy of Egyptian rituals, their transplantation to other cultures, and their surviving vestiges. Among the topics covered: funerary rites intended to help equip departed souls for a higher, more exalted spiritual existence; transmigration…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and drew from it for their own work. It is, in short, one of the most important volumes of 18th-century nature and travel writing. American botanist and natura…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Culled from the rare and often inaccessible actual manuscripts of magical grimoires from the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, this replica of the 1911 edition of the classic work on magic and its secrets reveals all the modern magician needs to know in order to begin communing with the supernatural…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Contents: Thoughts on Mind and Style; The Misery of Man Without God; Of the Necessity of the Wager; Of the Means of Belief; Justice and the Reason of Effects; The Philosophers; Morality and Doctrine; Fundamentals of the Christian Religion; Perpetuity; Typology; Prophecies; Proofs of Jesus C…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Persuasive and humane, this classic offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of ethical themes. A defiance of Kant's ethics of duty, it proclaims compassion as the basis of morality and outlines a perspective on ethics in which passion and desire correspond to different moral characters, b…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Discusses calculating with natural numbers, the first extension of the notion of number, special properties of integers, and complex numbers; algebra-related subjects such as real equations with real unknowns and equations in the field of complex quantities. Also explores elements of analys…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1926, this book is the most important writing from preacher Ernest Shurtleff Holmes. In it, he strives to introduce man to himself, as he truly is. Man is part of the Infinite Spirit, as is all of the visible and invisible in existence. And sharing in the creative power o…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - We are active, restless both in body and mind. Curiosity has replaced blind faith. We go groping, peering, searching, scornful of dogmas, back, further back to sources. And just as the physicist thrills at the universes he discovers as he works inward in the quest of his electrons, so the a…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Night-attack of wolves in Mongolia.' 'Nearly fatal combat with a kangaroo.' 'Comic scenes with the Elephant.' 'Captain Herriman examines a supposed Sea-serpent.' This charming book, published by British naturalist PHILIP HENRY GOSSE (1810-1888) in 1860, was a best seller in its day, and no wonder…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is the annual Economic Report of the President for 2007 originally issued by the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. Each year in February, the Council of Economic Advisers submits this report on its activities during the previous calendar year in accordance with the require…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Everyone has the right to be rich! The author of this rediscovered classic asserts that life's direction is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and his advice is practical, rather than philosophical. This approach advocates the purposeful application of creative thought and willpower as the sure-fire way…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On the following day the Goths destroyed the gates of the tower with no trouble and made the crossing, since no one tried to oppose them. But Belisarius, who had not as yet learned what had happened to the garrison, was bringing up a thousand horsemen to the bridge over the river, in order…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Speculation is no simple business.Indeed, speculation requires broader knowledge, closer attention, sounder judgment than the average business. Published in 1930, on the heels of America's greatest depression, Philip L. Carret's classic is a perceptive and complete examination of speculation and i…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The English reader has now, in the first three volumes of this Library, a complete collection of the historical writings of the Fathers, whose permanent value, as sources, is universally acknowledged. Several of them have never before appeared in English. The unavoidable delay in the publication o…