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Deals with Plotinus’ development of the Platonic Forms, and includes an assessment of Porphyry’s contribution to the Platonic tradition. This title embraces a number of issues that have become particularly…
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The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial…
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Plotinus, the founding father of Neoplatonism, composed On Beauty (Ennead 1.6), the foundational work for Neoplatonism. This volume translates into English with notes Plotinus’s strong and systematic argument with Platonic…
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Several years ago, I put some of my writings into a little book called Manna for the Journey. Since then, I have committed more thoughts to writing, and there were…
This book is a collection of notes delivered by Professor A. Smith on the causes, symptoms and treatment of the diseases of domestic animals at the Ontario Veterinary College of…
The origins of Khoekhoen herding society in southern Africa is contentious. Two competing theories: 1) when domestic animals arrived in southern Africa they were absorbed into aboriginal hunting societies by…
When Sophie’s teenage sister turns up at her flat one evening after an absence of four years, Sophie’s suspicions are roused. Why is she there? Where has she been? And…
Presentando…Una Forma Secreta de Hacer $11,547 Por Mes en Airbnb…SIN Poseer Ninguna Propiedad…
Si no quieres perderte de lo que inc.com esta diciendo, Airbnb tiene mas oportunidad de crecimiento que…
"You know that some day in the far and distant future our grandchildren will look back on this as some kind of golden age, and isn't that the most depressing…
The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One.
Drawing heavily on the key themes of moral strength, wisdom, positivity, harmony, faith, clarity, passion, love, spirituality, courage, misfortune, hypocrisy, jealousy, and betrayal, True Wisdom and Knowledge offers a kind…
A Contribution to South African Materia Medica - Chiefly from Plants in use among the Natives is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor…
Johnny is an old man who plays Santa for the under-served every year. Johnny’s message is always the same, whether he’s with the kids or at his favorite watering hole…
Several years ago, I put some of my writings into a little book called Manna for the Journey. Since then, I have committed more thoughts
toward writing, and other early…
Before readers embark on an Airbnb journey, this guide explains how to identify a target audience and optimize decorations for this audience, how to profit with Airbnb without owning any…
An Insider's Guide to Business Valuation provides board members and executives with a quick reference guide for conducting business valuations for their businesses. Topics covered include: Valuation Procedures, New Approaches…
When fighting the insurgency in Iraq, the Coalition suffered an operational, if not strategic, surprise in the form of the IED threat. To deal with that surprise, both the United…
Twelve-year-old Sam Abernathy, nervous about leaving Texas soon for an Oregon boarding school, has one last adventure with friends when possible vampires move into the town’s haunted house.
Designed for counsellors, therapists and other practitioners, this book explores therapeutic work with the partners and relatives of sexual offenders
What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and everyday life in a…
Philosophy in Late Antiquity provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the nineteenth century.
The 2nd edition of Consumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a consumer behaviour textbook for the new marketing reality. In a world of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, this…
This text is dedicated to the use of events in regeneration. It explores the relationship between events and regeneration by analyzing a range of cities and a range of sporting…
This book explores the commonly expressed notion that ‘the city is a stage’. Public spaces in our cities are increasingly being used as venues for major events.
twelve tales from the golden age of the mummy story
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Ryan Dean finds himself as the rugby team’s new captain and stand-off - the position once played by his friend, Joey. Somehow he’s inherited as his room-mate Sam Abernathy, a…
Arek, having lived his sixteen years in a hole with his small family, sets out into a monster-filled world with his friend Mel to find his fathers and, perhaps, another…
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic…
Eleven-year-old Sam Abernathy, extremely overprotected and a reluctant celebrity since he was trapped in a well at age four, dreams of becoming a chef and starts by entering a local…
The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national, colonial…
Originally published: Great Britain: Bloomsbury, 2005.
This is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. The treatise is at once a philosophical search for the nature of…
This book is a sort of last will and testament of a man who has spent his life trying to discern the fundamental questions of life. It is some speculation…
No one expects a catastrophic medical event. What do you do when a seemingly normal day turns into one of the worst days in your life?
Andrew Smith describes what…
‘Victorian demons’ explores how a crisis in masculinity was represented in literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts at the fin-de-siecle. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Gothic.
Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment…