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  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

    by Robert Kirk ...
    One of the most sought after and enigmatic texts about Celtic fairies. Written by a Scottish clergyman, Robert Kirk, in 1691, and not committed to print until the early 19th century, The Secret Commonwealth is an unusually sympathetic account of the denizens of fairyland, and a complex of still mysterious extrasensory phenomena including poltergeists, clairvoyance and doppelgangers.Magic was a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

    by Andrew Lang, Robert Kirk ...
    This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer. Mr. Kirk's little book was written in 1691 and was probably not printed until 1815, when an edition of only one hundred copies appeared at Edinburgh from the press of James Ballantyne & Company for Longman & Company of London. Mr. Kirk's book ... Read more

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  • The Secret Commonwealth

    Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies

    by Robert Kirk ...
    A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures.Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners’ many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgängers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk’s words, “a middle nature betwixt man and angel.” For ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves, Fauns And Fairi

    by Robert Kirk, Andrew Lang ...
    The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairiesby Robert Kirk and Andrew LangThis monograph, originally written in 1691, is a classic of Scottish fairy folklore.These Subterraneans have Controverfies, Doubts, Difputes, Feuds, and Siding of Parties... As to Vice and Sin, whatever their own Laws be... they tranfgrefs and commit Acts of Injuftice... -from Chapter 11 As a study of 17th-century ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies

    by Andrew Lang, Robert Kirk ...
    THE bibliography of the following little tract is extremely obscure. The title-page of the edition of 1815, which we reproduce, gives the date as 1691. Sir Walter Scott says in his Demonology and Witchcraft, (1830, p. 163, note), "It was printed with the author's name in 1691, and reprinted, in 1815, for Longman & Co." But was there really a printed edition of 1691? Scott says that he never met ... Read more

    $3.24 USD

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: A Study in Folk-Lore and Psychical Research

    by Robert Kirk & Andrew Lang ...
    The tract, of which the reader now knows the history, is a little volume of somewhat singular character. Written in 1691 by the Rev. Robert Kirk, minister of Aberfoyle, it is a kind of metaphysic of the Fairy world. Having lived through the period of the sufferings of the Kirk, the author might have been expected either to neglect Fairyland altogether, or to regard it as a mere appanage of Satan’s ... Read more

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  • The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies

    by Robert Kirk ...
    In "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies," Robert Kirk delves into the rich and often mystical folklore of the Scottish Highlands, presenting a nuanced examination of the beliefs surrounding the faerie realm. Written in the late 17th century, the text is characterized by its vivid descriptions and meticulous observations, blending elements of personal narrative with scholarly inquiry. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies

    by Robert Kirk ...
    “The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies” is the famous and mysterious treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, second sight, and ghosts by Gaelic scholar and minister, Robert Kirk. Written before he died in 1692, the work was not published until 1815 after many legends had grown around Kirk’s death, which imagined that he was secreted away by the fairies themselves for revealing their ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War

    Germany, National Socialism and the Political Warfare Executive

    by Kirk Robert Graham ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote resistance against Nazi hegemony. Staffed by civil servants, journalists, academics and anti-fascist European exiles, PWE oversaw the BBC ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Evolution Fact or Fable?

    The Case Against Darwin's Big Idea

    by J. Robert Kirk J.D. ...
    This book distills twenty-five-plus years of personal study done by a Harvard Law-trained trial attorney to determine whether Darwin’s big idea—the notion that more complex species evolved from more simple ancestors—is supported by the scientific evidence. Spoiler alert: it is not. Yet most Americans have been taught to believe that Darwin’s theory has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Robots, Zombies and Us

    Understanding Consciousness

    by Robert Kirk ...
    Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them.He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism – the idea that consciousness requires ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Mind and Body

    by Robert Kirk ...
    A great deal of work in philosophy today is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book is an introduction to it. It is a readable, lucid and accessible guide that provides readers with authoritative exposition, and a solid and reliable framework which can be built on as needed. The first chapter briefly introduces the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD