Search results for “[Subject: magic]”

• Author(s): R. Bottigheimer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThis book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from c...

• Author(s): J. Goodare • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThis book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in S...

• Author(s): L. Hass • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: MagicPerforming Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such a...

• Author(s): Diana Pflichthofer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralDiana Pflichthofer n�hert sich dem Thema der Psychoanalyse auf neuem Wege: Sie erl�utert die spielerischen und magischen Elemente, di...

• Author(s): Richard Perez • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from...

• Author(s): Ronald Hutton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralThis volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, a...

• Author(s): Owen Davies • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryThis book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings....

• Author(s): Brian Moeran • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Economics - TheoryFrom the Back CoverThis volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporar...

• Author(s): E. Bever • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralExploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and b...

• Author(s): Jeffrey H. Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: HistoryHistory and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and experiences, and f...

• Author(s): Alison M. Marr • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: CombinatoricsMagic squares are among the more popular mathematical recreations. Over the last 50 years, many generalizations of "magic" ideas have been app...

• Author(s): C. Winks • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanUtilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible...

• Author(s): Andrew Sneddon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: EmotionsThis is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide...

• Author(s): Martin Bača • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Graphic MethodsFrom the Back CoverMagic and antimagic labelings are among the oldest labeling schemes in graph theory. This book takes readers on a journey thro...

• Author(s): Ane Ohrvik • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: HistoryTraces conceptual ideas of knowledge in Norway from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuriesAssesses how magic and medicine were viewed as practi...

• Author(s): R. Ziegler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - FranceAn interdisciplinary study of the supernatural and the occult in fin-de-siècle France (1870-1914), the present volume examines the expl...

• Author(s): Raisa Maria Toivo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - 16th CenturyFrom the Back CoverEarly modern Finland is rarely the focus of attention in the study of European history, but it has a pla...