This is a thematic guide to the work of the Presocratics. It provides an accessible introduction to the principles which paved the way to modern theories. The Presocratics were not scientists in the modern sense of the word but existed long before Archimedes and his cry of "Eureka". They were the pioneers of European philosophy and science - Democritus...more details Format:Paperback
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Waterfield
ISBN:9780933999725
Phanes (fa-nays) means "manifester" or "revealer", and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth". Phanes Press was founded in 1985 to publish quality books on the spiritual...more details Format:Paperback Pages:136
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780465090648
In this engaging and readable narrative, noted classicist and author Robin Waterfield traces the life and history of the city of Athens, with an emphasis on the classical period when...more details Format:Paperback Pages:362
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780333989913
This history of Athens centres mainly on the classical period, but also tells the city's story up to the 21st century....more details Format:Hardback Pages:524
Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad is a story in verse and short fiction; spare and authentic renderings of two musicians living life on the fringes. Red-blooded and gutsy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:124
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WATERFIELD GILES & FRENCH ANNE
ISBN:9781855145092
"Below Stairs" is a study of servant portraiture in Britain and is illustrated with works by Hogarth, Gainsborough and Stubbs. Continuing the examination of traditional domestic life explored in the films "Gosford Park" and "Remains of the Day"...more details Format:Paperback Pages:212
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780199573929
The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world....more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780195395235
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure...more details Format:Hardback Pages:273
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Polly Waterfield
ISBN:9781899171194
In whatever form dragons appear, in fiction, legend or the unconcious, they are always powerful. Seen as aspects of ourselves they can represent depths of power...more details Format:Cards
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WATERFIELD PATRICK
ISBN:9781861267795
The age of cheap energy is over and energy costs will increase relentlessly in the future as demand outstrips supply. Energy-saving measures in the home will...more details Format:Hardback Pages:176
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WATERFIELD
ISBN:9780192824547
The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder...more details Format:Paperback
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Margaret H Waterfield
ISBN:9781144575203
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors...more details Format:Paperback Pages:492
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Margaret H Waterfield
ISBN:9781178311792
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:490
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Margaret H Waterfield
ISBN:9781178003079
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Margaret H Waterfield
ISBN:9781177617970
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:324
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Margaret H Waterfield
ISBN:9781142892111
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:316
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Margaret Waterfield
ISBN:9780857926043
This is a facsimile reprint of the original book by Margaret Waterfield, rebuilt using the latest technology. There are no poor, missing or blurred pages and all photographic images have been professionally restored...more details Format:Paperback Pages:252
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Margaret H Ed Waterfield
ISBN:9781178308549
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Margaret H Waterfield
ISBN:9781150554452
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Dent Subjects: Gardening Gardens Architecture / Landscape Gardening / General Gardening / Flowers / General Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Landscape Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original...more details Format:Paperback Pages:124
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780415947916
Controversy has always surrounded the world of hypnosis. The outlandish claims that over-zealous believers make are matched in intensity only by the howls of derision that they provoke from sceptics. Robin Wakefield's careful analysis casts light on several millennia of debate...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:464
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780415947923
Controversy has always surrounded the world of hypnosis. The outlandish claims that over-zealous believers make are matched in intensity only by the howls of derision that they provoke from sceptics. Robin Wakefield's careful analysis casts light on several millennia of debate...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780330492515
Hypnotism exists on the periphery of the scientific community, much as it has from its inception, and Robin Waterfield approaches the issues which surround it with an open mind...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
From its origins as animal magnetism, as practised by Franz Anton Mesmer, to its modern day use as a health cure and a form of entertainment...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
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Leslie Waterfield Shakespear
ISBN:9781176371286
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:308
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Leslie Waterfield Shakespear
ISBN:9781178115130
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Leslie Waterfield Shakespear
ISBN:9780217492881
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: army...more details Format:Paperback Pages:106
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Leslie Waterfield Shakespear
ISBN:9781143067310
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780747265412
'The action of THE HOUND IN THE LEFT-HAND CORNER is contained within a single midsummer's day at the former Museum of English History, an impressive Edwardian pile near Waterloo...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780747268857
BRIT, the Museum of British History, tries hard to combine tradition with modernity. Tonight there's to be an extravagant banquet to celebrate the opening of its much touted exhibition ELEGANCE: guests will dine on Lobster House of Stuart...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781406712681
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable...more details Format:Paperback Pages:312
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W Waterfield
ISBN:9781417967704
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks...more details Format:Paperback Pages:316
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781117453095
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781117453101
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781150449932
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder and co. Subjects: History / Native American Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781143124570
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:326
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781172862603
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:164
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781144167453
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William Waterfield
ISBN:9781151179432
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:154
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9781556433573
As a cobbler in Gorlitz, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) came into contact with many great thinkers who sought refuge from the Roman Church and Reformation groups in post-Luther Germany...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Michael Waterfield;Janet Ross
ISBN:9781904943624
Leaves from our Tuscan Kitchen was first published in 1899 and became a classic both in its own time, and from the many later printings, a classic to generations of cooks after. It was a pioneer in the field of cookery books and appeared at a time when vegetables were considered merely as an adjunct to the main course...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:185
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780747268482
Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a life of ease...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780747272359
Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian Civil Service due to ill health. The dream-like Villa Lou Paradou enchants them. Carefully they build a life of comfort...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
LUCIE DUFF GORDON IN ENGLAND, SOUTH AFRICA AND EGYPT GORDON WATERHELD With Illustrations E. P. DUTTON CO., INC. Copyright 1937 E. P. DUTTpN CO....more details Format:Paperback Pages:388
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780755329700
Servants know everything. Never trust them. Never fall in love.Ellen, a young maid in the 1840s, enters service at the declining Markham Thorpe: a house where the relationship between masters and servants is not quite it should be. There's one main reason for this...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780755329694
Servants know everything. Never trust them. Never fall in love.Ellen, a young maid in the 1840s, enters service at the declining Markham Thorpe: a house where the relationship between masters and servants is not quite it should be. There s one main reason for this...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
Servants know everything. Never trust them. Never fall in love.Ellen, a young maid in the 1840s, enters service at the declining Markham Thorpe: a house where the relationship between masters and servants is not quite it should be. There s one main reason for this...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780140195620
In this biography, Robin Waterfield traces the influences that have shaped Gibran, from the decadence of the fin-de-seicle Boston to the vigour of Greenwich Village in its heyday before World War I...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
In this biography, Robin Waterfield traces the influences that have shaped Gibran, from the decadence of the fin-de-seicle Boston to the vigour of Greenwich Village in its heyday before World War I...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384
Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:175
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9781597310192
Ren Gunon (1886-1951) is undoubtedly one of the luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of recent philosophies...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:164
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780900588877
The first English-language biography of the well-known traditionalist metaphysican Ren Gunon, including a separate section assessing the impact of his work in the Western world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:164
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Waterfield Robin (ed)
ISBN:9780140377880
Mysterious, mythic, fabulous -- this diverse collection of fifteen poems is a wonderful introduction to the world of narrative verse. From the much-loved The Lady of Shalott and The Pied Piper of Hamelin to the less familiar The Raven and Sohrab and Rustum...more details
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780955406331
This book is first published to accompany the major exhibition at Compton Verney, a great Adam-designed country house in Warwickshire. This rarely studied subject is covered in expert essays based upon new research from the late-sixteenth century to the present day...more details Format:Paperback Pages:103
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Patrick Waterfield
ISBN:9781847972590
Reducing energy consumption and costs is an issue of ever-increasing importance and European and national legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions is tightening up minimum energy standards for new buildings and those being extended or renovated...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Luc Benoist;Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9781597310130
Traditional esoterism, though capable of the highest degree of elaboration, is based on a few first principles - Absolute Reality, hierarchical manifestation...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:148
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Luc Benoist;Robiin Waterfield
ISBN:9780900588044
Traditional esoterism, though capable of the highest degree of elaboration, is based on a few first principles - Absolute Reality, hierarchical manifestation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:148
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WATERFIELD
ISBN:9780199539093
Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through...more details Format:Paperback Pages:354
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Kristin Waterfield Duisberg
ISBN:9780312326074
Darien is a young woman who seems to have everything: a successful job, an adoring husband, and a bright future. She also has a tendency towards violent...more details Format:Paperback Pages:328
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Waterfield John Waterfield
ISBN:9781440143434
Shakespeare has traditionally been viewed as Queen Elizabeth's 'poet laureate', and as the official mouthpiece of the Elizabethan age. But the Elizabethan world was torn apart by the religious divisions initiated by the Reformation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:684
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Giles Waterfield
ISBN:9780743475532
In this brilliantly witty satire -- a bestseller in the UK -- a prestigious British museum launches an ambitious new exhibit...which quickly becomes a seasonal nightmare. Think that a day in the life of a London museum director is cold...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Plato;Robin H Waterfield Robin AWaterfield
ISBN:9780140444506
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Waterfield Robin
ISBN:9780571235506
Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy. But an icon...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Waterfield Robin
ISBN:9780571235513
The real story behind one of the great philosophical scandals of history - Socrates' trial and condemnation....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780393065275
Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. In 399 BCE, the great philosopher stood before an Athenian jury on serious charges: impiety and "subverting the young men of the city." The picture we have of it-created by his immediate followers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:253
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780571223831
It is 401 BC. In battle at Cunaxa on the River Euphrates, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeats a challenge to his throne by his brother Cyrus the Younger. Among the slain Cyrus's troops are a contingent of Greek mercenaries...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780571223848
It is 401 BC. In battle at Cunaxa on the River Euphrates, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeats a challenge to his throne by his brother Cyrus the Younger. Among the slain Cyrus's troops are a contingent of Greek mercenaries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780674023567
In "The Expedition of Cyrus," the Western world's first eyewitness account of a military campaign, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne of the mighty Persian empire from his brother...more details Format:Hardback Pages:248
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Robin Waterfield
ISBN:9780674030732
In "The Expedition of Cyrus," the Western world's first eyewitness account of a military campaign, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne of the mighty Persian empire from his brother...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:248