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  • Philosophical Dictionary

    by Francois Voltaire ...
    Translated by Theodore Besterman ...
    Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged ... Read more

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  • Revival: Dress, Drinks and Drums (1931)

    Further Studies of Savages and Sex

    by Ernest Crawley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    'Studies of Savages and Sex' are brought together by nine shorter essays. In the present Volume are assembled three longer studies, the first of which, indeed, is long and important enough to have made a volume itself. It speaks of the origins, forms and psychology of dress (with special emphasis on the sexual psychology). The psychology of drinks and drums and all three combined. ... Read more

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  • Revival: Studies of Savages and Sex (1929)

    by Alfred Ernest Crawley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The success of my revised edition of Mr Crawley's The Mystic Rose has encouraged me to bring together in the present volume some of his papers previously unpublished in book-form, on subjects akin to those of his great work.Mr Crawley's treatment of these problems of sexual anthropology, especially on the psychological side, was, in the years in which he was most actively at work, too ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Mrs Annie Besant

    A Modern Prophet

    by Theodore Besterman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Having already published a bibliography on Annie Besant, Theodore Besterman in this book continued with the story of her life. She was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator who lived between 1847 and 1933.Originally published in 1934, this work is fascinating for anyone with an interest in Annie Besant's life specifically or in any of the areas in which she ... Read more

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    by Edward Clodd ...
    A brilliant work about animism and its connection to various fields of religion. This ebook is not a cheap scanned version of the original but has been completely revised, including an interactive table-of-contents. CONTENTS: 1. Pre-Human Elements In Religion 2. Brain In Animal And Man 3. Man In The Making 4. Animal And Human Psychology 5. Naturalism; Or Conception Of Power Everywhere 6. Animism; ... Read more

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  • Folklore and Mythology

    by Andrew Lang ...
    After the heavy rain of a thunderstorm has washed the soil, it sometimes happens that a child, or a rustic, finds a wedge-shaped piece of metal or a few triangular flints in a field or near a road. There was no such piece of metal, there were no such flints, lying there yesterday, and the finder is puzzled about the origin of the objects on which he has lighted. He carries them home, and the ... Read more

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  • Animism or, Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples

    by George William Gilmore ...
    THE result of recent historical studies, whether on anthropological, sociological, archeological, or religious lines, has brought into ever clearer vision as the substratum of all civilizations that stage of culture from which this book takes its title. One consequence is: general recognition of animism as a life factor, the power of which is not yet exhausted, the study of which fascinates ... Read more

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  • Animism, the Seed of Religion

    by Edward Clodd ...
    “Animism, the Seed of Religion” is a 1905 treatise on the subject of animism by English writer Edward Clodd. Animism is the religious belief that creatures, objects, and even places have an innate spiritual essence, and can even arguably be considered to be alive. This fascinating volume explores the history and development of this theory while linking it to the origins of religions the world over ... Read more

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  • Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk

    by Edward Carpenter ...
    In the book, Carpenter explores the concept of gender and sexuality among various indigenous cultures from around the world. He argues that there are "intermediate types" of gender and sexuality that exist in these cultures, which do not conform to the typical Western binary of male and female.Carpenter's research draws on examples from many cultures, including the Berdache of North America, the ... Read more

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  • The Life-Giving Myth

    by A. M. Hocart ...
    Myths are the expression of a form of knowledge essential to life. Including mainly previously unpublished work by A.M. Hocart the book examines such issues as: Why a queen should not have been married before; why a guest is sacred; why people are believed to have been turned into stone; how money originated. These issues are considered as part of a socio-religious complex embraced in many parts ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Voltaire

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    by Voltaire, Virgil, François-Marie Arouet ...
    This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 9148 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Candide • Micromegas • 's Philosophical Dictionary • Zadig • Romances • Lettres sur les Anglais • A Philosophical Dictionary • The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia • Socrate • Correspondance de avec le roi de Prusse ... Read more

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  • Crowds and Power

    by Elias Canetti ...
    Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature: A "massive, provocative, brilliant" study of the nature of humankind and the manifestations of that nature ( Time )."Critics have compared Crowds and Power to the intellectually revolutionary works of Marx, Freud, and Frazer. . . . Canetti writes more lucidly and readably than those explorers of ideas." — <stron... ... Read more

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