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• 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): W. Wyporska • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - 16th CenturyThis comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a fo...

• Author(s): Jonathan Barry • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - MedievalFrom the Back CoverThis volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it ...

• Author(s): J. Goodare • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThis pioneering collection concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas ...

• 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): Lizanne Henderson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverTaking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first i...

• Author(s): Ioan Pop-Curşeu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus o...

• Author(s): Marina Montesano • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fill...

• 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): J. Barry • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryThis is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from conte...

• Author(s): Mirjam Mencej • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia....

• Author(s): Gábor Klaniczay • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Russia - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinar...

• Author(s): Louise Nyholm Kallestrup • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - MedievalFrom the Back CoverThis book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in i...

• 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): A. Rowlands • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralMen - as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed - are the focus of analysis in this collection of es...

• Author(s): Laura Patricia Stokes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryA comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and socia...

• Author(s): Catharina Raudvere • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThis books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of ...

• Author(s): Stephan Quensel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverWhy does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the pr...

• Author(s): Shai Feraro • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryThis book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton's The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the his...

• Author(s): Gordon C. Chang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIdeas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-r...

• Author(s): Knut Rio • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrom the Back CoverThis open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia--w...

• Author(s): J. Roper • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryBringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia t...

• Author(s): Michelle D. Brock • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - MedievalFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the manifold ways of knowing--and knowing about-- preternatural beings such as demons, an...

• Author(s): Willem de Blécourt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - MedievalWerewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to t...

• Author(s): Kathleen Feeley • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralGossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially si...

• Author(s): Lisa M. Rasmussen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverThis book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics...

• Author(s): Joost C. F. De Winter • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial Design - ProductFrom the Back CoverThis Brief introduces engineers to the main principles in ethics, research design, statistics, and publi...

• Author(s): Gaël Brulé • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the ...

• Author(s): Albert Fleischmann • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Information TechnologyFrom the Back CoverActivities performed in organizations are coordinated according to organizational goals via communication betwee...

• Author(s): M. Shimojo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: JapaneseJapanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book inve...

• Author(s): Jiri Benovsky • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly...

• Author(s): Bill Jordan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyFrom the Back CoverThis book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking...

• Author(s): Anne Dannerbeck • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Developmental - ChildThis title is a must-read for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the behaviours of children and adolescents. It focu...

• Author(s): Gautam Basu Thakur • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PersonalityFrom the Back CoverThis book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a...

• Author(s): Christian Stary • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Information TechnologyThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed scientific proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business ...

• Author(s): R. J. Pekala • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Clinical PsychologyThis book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, test...