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This book was originally a set of notes given to metaphysical and magickal students in the middle '90's. As a member of the Knights Templar of Aquarius from its earliest days I was interested in seeing that my many initiated students learned about where so much of the current occult knowledge originated. This book tells the amazing story of the plan that brought the Templars into being, their evolution into a mighty financial and military forc...

Sigrid Undset received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. She was the third woman to be so honored. Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken, her highly erotic, meticulously researched depictions of life in medieval Norway have been translated into almost every language. Undset probed the seemingly irreconcilable multiple roles demanded of women as individuals, wives, and mothers, and she was fervently outspoken about their need ...

Provides insight into important topics across the fifteenth century. This book discusses religion (both orthodox and heretical), politics, law, national, ethnic and political identity in the British Isles, social ranking and chivalry, and verse (a consideration of the poem Lydgate addressed to Thomas Chaucer, and the occasion of its composition).

The story of Allied victory in the Holy Land, far from the carnage of the Western Front but a crucial, morale-boosting success under the aggressive and forward-thinking General Allenby.

A detailed investigation into the mysterious group of monks, the Céli Dé, who flourished in early medieval Ireland.

While Carmen de Burgos (Almería 1867-Madrid 1932) belonged to the Generation of '98 in terms of her age, she is really too modern and progressive a figure for this categorization. A journalist, author, translator and progressive feminist intellectual, de Burgos was one of the most widely-read writers of her time. When she died she left a body of work impressive both in its quantity and quality: 12 full length and approximately 57 short novels....

For years students have been taught that haiku follow a specific pattern of lines and syllables. Five-seven-five was considered the correct formula. Today poets are aware that this Japanese pattern doesn't always translate very well into English rhythms. More and more, the haiku style is thought of as short-long-short with the idea that the thought should flow in one breath. Ohayo Haiku are first written in five-seven-five and then edited fo...

A novel that strips bare the seedy side of the Casting Coucher's game! But it also tells the story of one young lady's struggle to avoid that trap and come out ahead in her reach for ultimate stardom.

This is an "adult fairy tale" concerning an ancient document discovered in a small shop in India. Or is it an ancient document discovered in a little shop in India, here published as an "adult fairy tale"? Well, even the publisher couldn't get that one right! The Land of Speaking Walls is filled with wizards, witches, and other wonderous folk, like the Snake that Speaks, a beautiful princess, and warriors who must go out and seek TerribleR...

This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his illuminations and lettering from the finest existing example of the original. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blakes poems as he created them. This unique edition is essential for those who love Blakes work, and also offers an ideal entrance into his visionary world for those encountering him for the ...

From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. "In the Days of Our Grandmothers" is a collection of essays detailing how Aboriginal women have found their voice in Canadian society over the past three centuries. Collected in one volume for the first time, these essays critically situate Aboriginal women in the fur trade, missions, labour and the economy, the law, sexuality, and the p...

From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. "In the Days of Our Grandmothers" is a collection of essays detailing how Aboriginal women have found their voice in Canadian society over the past three centuries. Collected in one volume for the first time, these essays critically situate Aboriginal women in the fur trade, missions, labour and the economy, the law, sexuality, and the p...

Writing the Roaming Subject explores issues of identity formation, representation, and resistance in Canada and suggests that these are particularly crucial questions during a period of Canadian literary history.

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A new guide to Spain's most popular and dynamic medium, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2006.

Providing close readings of the ways in which the premodern or primitive is strategically deployed in contemporary critical writings, Li's interdisciplinary study is a timely and forceful intervention into current debates on the politics and ethics of otherness, the problems of cultural relativism, and the vicissitudes of modernity.