Search Results: Religion: Other from The Owl at the Bridge

First in a projected series to reproduce the manuscript's 224 folios with a total of 94 full-page and 54 column illuminations, 24 medallions, and marginal vignettes. "Scholars attribute the illustrations in the manuscript to Pol de Limbourg and his brothers, Herman and Jean, and perhaps their co-workers. There can be no doubt of the close relationship in style between our manuscript and many of the illustrations in the Très Riches Heures in Chantilly, which is known to be the work of the Limbourg brothers." "Color reproductions printed in France by Draeger Press; text printed in New York by The Spiral Press with ornaments adapted from the manuscript by Fritz Kredel; cover paper printed by the Meriden Gravure Co.; binding by Russell-Rutter Company." Hardcover. [23] pages of text, 33 color facsimile plates; 25 cm. Bound in faux vellum stamped in gold; tissue dj spine darkened; ink owner name inside front cover; VG+ in cardboard slipcase. stock#3107/h.

New York : Pantheon Books, ©1978.. Hard Cover. 241 p. : 261 illus. ; 32 cm. Translation of Danses d'Afrique. "For the last 30 years Michel Huet has traveled throughout the continent, photographing the extraordinary masks and costumes that are so central a part of the African tradition." Stock# 44,833. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Pantheon,1950. Hard Cover. xv, 243 p., illus., 24 cm. Bollingen Series: XXV. A disciple of Jung's interpretation of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. (A book recently attributed to Leon Battista Alberti). Stock# 32,257.Vg/ dj poor.

Benwood, W. Va., Pyramod Zen Society, 1973. Soft Cover. 36, 12, 17, 10, 8 p.; 27.5 cm. Zen Buddhism from West Virginia. Stock#29752. Vg/ wrappers.

'4th printing, 1957'. Hardcover. 48 pages, color and black&white illustrations & decorations throughout; 13.5 cm. Twenty-five brief children's prayers for morning, evening, grace, other occasions. Bound in blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, color front-cover label; covers spotted, lightly worn; no dust jacket; VG. stock#703.

N.Y., Holt, Rinehart, 1980.. Hard Cover. xii, 402 p. During a darker phase of Korean history, the repressive dictator Tongsun Park and power crazed religious fanatic Sun Myung Moon manipulated the American government through massive flows of money. Stock #26578. Vg/vg. Korea United States Foreign Relations

Boston, Beacon Press, [1956, c1951].. Soft Cover. xvi, 388 p., index, 20.5 cm. Written as a companion to Greek literature and history, this study of religion in Greece is an "examination of the meaning of the major gods, taken individually, and of the groups of less important divinities.." Stock# 40,071. Good+, used paperback.

Boston, Shambhala, 1987. 'First Paperback Edition'. First Edition. Soft Cover. 289 p., index, glossary; 23 cm. America: Rinzai Journals 1969-1976; Nepal: Himalayan Journals 1973; Japan: Soto Journals 1976-1982. Includes glossary. Double paper covers, edges slightly curled; fine. Stock#100813.

London, Aquarian Press, 1995. "A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men." Soft Cover. xv, 405, [2] pages, illustrations; 23.5 cm. New from publisher; fine. Stock#101423x.

Mansfield Centre, CT, Martino Pub., 2007. A thoughtful book based on a large amount of material, dealing in four parts with: 1. Definition and origin of religion; 2. Indo-European and Indo-Iranian religion; 3. Vedic religion; 4. Brahmanism. The main idea is that religion does not owe its origin to magic, but springs directly from "belief in the powers beyond" (which is also the root of magic) and that both existed side by side in the most primitive times. Reprint; originally published London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Based on his D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Includes bibliographical references and index. Stock#42565. Hard Cover. xvi, 378 pages; 23.5 cm. Fine, new in shrinkwrap from publisher.

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972. "The religious act is not a simple experience, but a complex movement..." By a Catholic philosopher. Hard Cover. [vii], 565 pages; 21.5 cm. Vg / dj vg. Stock#45675.

Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1972. Hard Cover. ix, 340 p.; 22 cm. The Sather Lectures at the University of California, first published in 1932. Deals with Roman religions and cults. Vg/ no dj as published. Stock#32455.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1987. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 273 p. 24 cm. Argues that conservative Catholic clergy have increased their role in secular politics to control subjects of concern. Many of the problems addressed here, absolutist morality except when it applies to themselves, exclusion of other views, exclusion of women, are in the same people, such as Cardinal Law, are now tearing at the Church from the other side Stock #29,276. Vg/ dj vg

Princeton University Press, ©1994. Hard Cover. xvi, 420 p.; 24 cm. "Selections... almost all of them originally in Arabic"--Preface. To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps to reshape, an understanding of the Islamic tradition, F. E. Peters skillfully combines extensive passages from Islamic texts with a fascinating commentary of his own. Stock#45562. Vg / no dj.

Wilmette, Ill., Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1968. Soft Cover. xxi, 350, [8] p. Translated from Nur al-abha. Basic doctrines of the Baha'i faith. Stock#100955.

Madras, Ganesh [1973]. Hard Cover. 68 p. 'He joined Sri Aurobindo in 1939 and has been closely associated with him' Last four pages in sanskrit. Stock #25,331a. Vg/ dj. India Religion

[NY] Pantheon [1953]. Hard Cover. xvi, 376 p., illus.; 27 cm. Bollingen series 38. "Originally published... as La survivance des dieux antiques... The present edition has been revised by the author." Translated from the French by Barbara F. Sessions. "The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity-- or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life." Bibliography, pp. 327-345. Vg / dust jacket frayed. Stock#43048.

NY, Penguin Books [1980, c1976]. Soft Cover. 180 p.; 19.5 cm. Introduction, by Jan Kott, translated by Michael Kandel. Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics. Borowski spent two years as a Polish political prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau. "Published in Poland after World War II, Tadeusz Borowski's concentration-camp stories show atrocious crimes becoming an unremarkable part of a daily routine. Prisoners eat, work, sleep, and fall in love a few yards from where other prisoners are systematically slaughtered. The will to survive..." Stock#40574. Good+/ paper.

N.Y. & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1987.. Soft Cover. 138 p. First published 1970, this is the 23rd paperback printing. 'Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice.' A previous owner has place petals of a flower at p. 99. Whatever charma they may have added is complemented by stained paper. Stock #100,677.