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 The Quest for the Wicker Man: History, Folklore and Pagan Perspectives by Stephen Harper, Benjamin Franks, Jonathan Murray English | March 31, 2014 | ISBN: 1905222718 | EPUB | 224 pages | 8.8 MB One of the greatest films ever to be made in Scotland, "The Wicker Man" immediately garnered a cult following on its release for its intense atmosphere and shocking denouement. This book explores the roots of this powerful, enduring film. With contributors including "The Wicker Man" director Robin Hardy, it is a thorough and informative read for all fans of this indispensable horror masterpiece.
 The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era by Barry Eichengreen English | June 4, 2018 | ISBN: 0190866284, 019005882X | EPUB | 260 pages | 0.6 MB Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies economic and political elites and instead lionizes 'the people.' The people, populists of all stripes contend, need to retake power from the unaccountable elites who have left them powerless. And typically, populists' distrust of elites shades into a catchall distrust of trained experts because of their perceived distance from and contempt for 'the people.' Another signature element of populist movements is faith in a savior who can not only speak directly to the people, but also serve as a vessel for the plain people's hopes and dreams. Going back to the 1890s, a series of such saviors have come and gone in the US alone, from William Jennings Bryan to Huey Long to-finally-Donald Trump.  The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: Best of the Annuals By Elaine Biech 2007 | 513 Pages | ISBN: 0787997366 | PDF | 3 MB Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, 2nd Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes.  The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Bonnie Effros, Isabel Moreira English | September 10, 2020 | ISBN: 0190234180 | EPUB/PDF | 1168 pages | 13.7/21.2 MB The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Roman inhabitants and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power of ancient Rome while simultaneously forging the beginnings of what would become medieval European culture.  The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Brad E. Kelle, Brent A. Strawn English | November 16, 2020 | ISBN: 0190261161 | EPUB/PDF | 616 pages | 1.5/4.1 MB The Oxford Handbook of Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of essays that provide resources for the interpretation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. The volume is not exhaustive in its coverage, but examines interpretive aspects of these books that are deemed essential for interpretation or that are representative of significant trends in present and future scholarship. The individual essays are united by their focus on two guiding questions: (1) What does this topic have to do with the Old Testament Historical Books? and (2) How does this topic help readers better interpret the Old Testament Historical Books? Each essay critically surveys prior scholarship before presenting current and prospective approaches.  The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Samuel E. Balentine English | September 25, 2020 | ISBN: 0190222115 | EPUB/PDF | 592 pages | 3/30.4 MB Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. This Handbook provides a compendium of the information essential for constructing a comprehensive and integrated account of ritual and worship in the ancient world. Its focus on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, as opposed to religious studies, highlights that the world of ritual and worship was a topic of central concern for the people of the Ancient Near East, including the world of the Bible.  The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Frank Coulson, Robert Babcock English | November 2, 2020 | ISBN: 0195336941 | EPUB/PDF | 1088 pages | 58/19.8 MB Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they were written. Palaeography, in the strictest sense, examines how the changing styles of script and the fluctuating shapes of individual letters allow the date and the place of production of books to be determined. More broadly conceived, palaeography examines the totality of early book production, ownership, dissemination, and use. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography includes essays on major types of script (Uncial, Insular, Beneventan, Visigothic, Gothic, etc.), describing what defines these distinct script types, and outlining when and where they were used. It expands on previous handbooks of the subject by incorporating select essays on less well-studied periods and regions, in particular late mediaeval Eastern Europe.  The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Timothy Insoll, Corisande Fenwick, Bethany Walker English | November 27, 2020 | ISBN: 0199987874 | EPUB/PDF | 792 pages | 26.5/10.8 MB Born from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. With its roots in the colonial periods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its rapid development since the 1980s warrants a reevaluation of where the field stands today. This Handbook represents for the first time a survey of Islamic archaeology on a global scale, describing its disciplinary development and offering candid critiques of the state of the field today in the Central Islamic Lands, the Islamic West, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.  Margo True, Staff of Sunset Magazine, "The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table" English | 2011 | ISBN: 158008527X | 272 pages | AZW3 | 59.95 MB Based on the James Beard Award-winning blog The One-Block Diet, this all-in-one home gardening, do-it-yourself guide and cookbook shows you how to transform a backyard or garden into a self-sufficient locavore's paradise.  Ray Takeyh, "The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty " English | ISBN: 030021779X | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries |
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