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Oracle of the Hekatean Path
Kenn Payne, Christopher Butler
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R633
R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
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Marie-Anne Lenormand was the greatest celebrity fortune teller of
the Napoleonic Era. Among her famous consultants were Frances, Lady
Shelley, Robespierre, and the Empress Josephine, with whom she
formed a lifelong bond of friendship. Since the mid-nineteenth
century, the enigmatic fortune telling deck contained in this box
has been associated with her secret techniques of cartomancy and
fortune telling. Discover for yourself this long revered tradition
through the comprehensive guidebook and a traditional Lenormand
deck, freshly re-illustrated for the modern age. You will be guided
on a card-by-card journey, and, when you've finished, you'll have
the skills to perform readings both simple and complex. Take your
cards and, in the words of the great lady herself, "coupez!" The
spell cast by the "Sybil of the Salons" has never been
stronger.Includes cards and book.
Designed for the needs of gay men, this 78-art card Tarot deck and
accompanying guidebook employ the wisdom needed to travel the path
to unique masculine spirituality, celebrating life as a gay man and
placing the reader in that wonderfully diverse collective we call
the gay community. It's about coming out with pride, but it's also
about entering into who you really are. Get to know yourself
through these astounding self-realization cards. Each inspirational
image represents an aspect of gay male living. Whether you use them
singly for meditation or as part of a Tarot spread for divination,
this deck will be a gateway to your higher self or an exciting path
for exploring the spirituality so many gay men crave, free from the
prejudices of established or formal religion. Created by a gay man,
for gay men, The Son Tarot celebrates who we are and all the
richness that entails.Includes cards and book.
How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of
artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward
Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure and the Arts
offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements
with literature, music, and painting. The arts direct us to
intimate and particularized relationships - with the people
represented in the works, or with those we imagine produced them.
When we listen to music or look at a purely abstract painting, or
when we drink a glass of wine, can we enjoy the experience without
verbalizing our response? Do our interpretative assumptions, our
awareness of technique, and our attitudes to fantasy, get in the
way of our appreciation of art, or enhance it? As the book examines
these questions and more, we discover how curiosity drives us to
enjoy narratives, ordinary jokes, metaphors, and modernist
epiphanies, and how narrative in all the arts can order and provoke
intense enjoyment. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the
Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of
artistic expression.
Postmodernism has been a buzzword of contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music.
Early Modernism is a uniquely integrated introduction to the great avant-garde movements in European literature, music, and painting at the beginning of this century, from the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada. Accessible and wide-ranging, the book is lavishly illustrated with over 60 illustrations, many in colour.
Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art
and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of
James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel
Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled
in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a
work of art? Shouldn't a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an
end--or at least a story? In this Very Short Introduction,
Christopher Butler provides a coherent account of Modernism across
various aesthetic and cultural fields. Butler examines how and why
Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how virtually
all aspects of 20th and 21st century life have been influenced by
its aesthetic legacy. Butler considers several aspects of
modernism, including some classic modernist works, movements and
notions of the avant garde, and the idea of "progress" in art.
Finally, Butler sheds light on modernist ideas of the self,
subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and the political
dimensions of modernism as a whole.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and
style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of
life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the
newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about
the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from
philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
The updated guide to the Australian and New Zealand College of
Anaesthetists final fellowship examination
The format of the Australian and New Zealand College of
Anaesthetists (ANZCA) final examination has evolved in recent
years. This updated exam guide keeps pace with these developments
and assists anaesthetic trainees in preparation for the exam.
"Examination Anaesthesia, 2nd Edition" is a comprehensive study
guide that focuses solely on the anaesthetic exam, eliminating
confusion between this and the intensive care exams.
This invaluable medical text itemises all requirements of the
Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
(FANZCA) training scheme.
Components of the final examination are also detailed, including
a breakdown of the marking scheme and recent results.
Helpful resources outlined in "Examination Anaesthesia, 2nd
Edition" include new developments on the ANZCA website, textbooks,
journals and exam courses along with a broad list of anaesthesia
reference and review articles.
Trainees will also benefit from separate chapters based on the
major components of the written and clinical ANZCA examinations,
plus practical strategies for restructuring life around exam
preparation.
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The Ambassadors (Paperback)
Henry James; Edited by Christopher Butler
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R321
R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
Save R56 (17%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The second of James's three late masterpieces, was, in its author's
opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions."
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular
achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire
of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his
august patron, Mrs. Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is
keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to
bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the
influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring
advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the 'vast bright
Babylon' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Linguists honor Michael Halliday, with papers organized in relation
to sections of his An Introduction to Functional Grammar, applying
his principles to languages other than English. Part I contains
sections on textual, interpersonal, and experiential meaning and
form. Part II looks at time and ten
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