Search results for “[Subject: magic]”

• Author(s): L. Hass • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismPerforming Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking mag...

• Author(s): Sofie LaChapelle • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - FranceConjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of ma...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): D. Jones • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceThis fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant vis...

• Author(s): Ralph Pütz | Ton Serné • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: AutomotiveThis book gives a very clear description of the calculation of the magic numbers regarding roll, roll resistance, load transfer and total w...

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

• 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): Ronald Hutton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, ...

• 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): Andrew Sneddon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - IrelandThis is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based o...

• 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): 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): Deborah Youdell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformLooking across national contexts and drawing on ethnographic studies of schools in the UK and Australia, the book explores th...

• Author(s): David B. Resnik • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, David B. Resnik, PhD/JD, develops and defends an approach to thinking about ethi...

• Author(s): Deborah Youdell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherFrom the Back CoverThis book looks inside the school to examine how every-day, school-level processes act to place particular stude...

• Author(s): Miguel García-Valdecasas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverSome may consider that the language and concepts of philosophy will eventually be superseded by those of neuroscience. ...

• 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): H. a. Olson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralIn this preface I will include explanations of three factors: the intended audience of this book, the structure of th...

• Author(s): H. A. Olson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralIn this preface I will include explanations of three factors: the intended audience of this book, the structure of th...

• Author(s): Tithi Bhatnagar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementFrom the Back CoverThis book offers an understanding of subjective well-being (SWB) in the Indian context across a...

• Author(s): Jana S. Rosker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GlobalizationFrom the Back CoverThis book introduces into the current global ethics debate models of humanism developed in classical Chinese traditions, whic...

• Author(s): Susan Rothstein • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsPredicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predica...

• Author(s): C. Lotz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Movements - PhenomenologyShows that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept, subjectivity, is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as s...

• Author(s): Jana S. Rosker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GlobalizationFrom the Back CoverThis book introduces into the current global ethics debate models of humanism developed in classical Chinese traditions, whic...

• 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): Neil Cocks • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryQuestioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand's works and ...

• Author(s): C. Lotz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Movements - PhenomenologyShows that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept, subjectivity, is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as s...