The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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British Books

British Books PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Law Books, 1876-1981

Law Books, 1876-1981 PDF Author: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1516

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Catalogue

Catalogue PDF Author: Montgomery Ward
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Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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The Publisher

The Publisher PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 610

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Parnassus on Wheels

Parnassus on Wheels PDF Author: Christopher Morley
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

American Fiction, 1901-1925 PDF Author: Geoffrey D. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1064

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A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

The Sacred Tree

The Sacred Tree PDF Author: Carole M. Cusack
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443830313
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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The fundamental nature of the tree as a symbol for many communities reflects the historical reality that human beings have always interacted with and depended upon trees for their survival. Trees provided one of the earliest forms of shelter, along with caves, and the bounty of trees, nuts, fruits, and berries, gave sustenance to gatherer-hunter populations. This study has concentrated on the tree as sacred and significant for a particular group of societies, living in the ancient and medieval eras in the geographical confines of Europe, and sharing a common Indo-European inheritance, but sacred trees are found throughout the world, in vastly different cultures and historical periods. Sacred trees feature in the religious frameworks of the Ghanaian Akan, Arctic Altaic shamanic communities, and in China and Japan. The power of the sacred tree as a symbol is derived from the fact that trees function as homologues of both human beings and of the cosmos. This study concentrates the tree as axis mundi (hub or centre of the world) and the tree as imago mundi (picture of the world). The Greeks and Romans in the ancient world, and the Irish, Anglo-Saxons, continental Germans and Scandinavians in the medieval world, all understood the power of the tree, and its derivative the pillar, as markers of the centre. Sacred trees and pillars dotted their landscapes, and the territory around them derived its meaning from their presence. Unfamiliar or even hostile lands could be tamed and made meaningful by the erection of a monument that replicated the sacred centre. Such monuments also linked with boundaries, and by extension with law and order, custom and tradition. The sacred tree and pillar as centre symbolized the stability of the cosmos and of society. When the Pagan peoples of Europe adopted Christianity, the sacred trees and pillars, visible signs of the presence of the gods in the landscape, were popular targets for axe-wielding saints and missionaries who desired to force the conversion of the landscape as well as the people. Yet Christianity had its own tree monument, the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, and which came to signify resurrected life and the conquest of eternal death for the devout. As European Pagans were converted to Christianity, their tree and pillar monuments were changed into Christian forms; the great standing crosses of Anglo-Saxon northern England played many of the same roles as Pagan sacred trees and pillars. Irish and Anglo-Saxons Christians often combined the image of the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden with Christ on the cross, to produce a Christian version of the tree as imago mundi.

Who's who in America

Who's who in America PDF Author: John W. Leonard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504

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Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.

The Popol Vuh

The Popol Vuh PDF Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher: New York : AMS Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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