Personified Mountains in Ancient Canonical Narratives

Personified Mountains in Ancient Canonical NarrativesEric J. P. Wagner identifies and analyzes personified mountains in the Epic of Gilgame, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Genesis 2 Kings. These "embodied landscapes" represent mythic thinking, inviting a re reading that traces their meaning(s) and function(s) across each corpus.

providing key context for contemporary African fashion scenes and capturing the depth and breadth of truly African fashion

demonstrating how they circulated across religious

This book explores the position of women in the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia

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A ground-breaking examination of the Attlee government's intelligence activities during the early stages of the Cold War

Martin Luther brought to issue a quandary: How exactly was Christianity to be reconciled with the pagan past

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Uses case studies to demonstrate theoretical and methodological transferability among disciplines not typically thought to be related to one another

Illustrated throughout with examples across the different library sectors

Nano is Greek for dwarf and the word nanotechnology ‘was first proposed in the early seventies by a Japanese engineer

In this book Timothy Earle argues that studying chiefdoms is essential to understanding the role of elemental powers in social evolution

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