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A Selection of Leading Cases on Real Property, Conveyancing, and the Construction of Wills and Deeds - With Notes (Paperback):... A Selection of Leading Cases on Real Property, Conveyancing, and the Construction of Wills and Deeds - With Notes (Paperback)
Owen Davies Tudor
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Statutes for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity, for the Abolition of the Office of Master, and for the Relief... The Statutes for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity, for the Abolition of the Office of Master, and for the Relief of Suitors in Chancery (Paperback)
Owen Davies Tudor
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

These Mortal Cells (Paperback): Owen Davies These Mortal Cells (Paperback)
Owen Davies
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R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These Mortal Cells is the life story of an Australian man who was sexually abused as a child. He suffers enormous trauma and social exclusion as a result. As a kind of pain killer, when puberty sets in, he drinks heavily and takes a lot of drugs. He tries to live a normal life but can't. He goes to university in Brisbane, travels a lot, does menial work and works as a teacher for ten years in various non-English speaking countries, but can't escape childhood. Wherever he goes, abuse goes too. He can never associate sex with love because of the sexual abuse he suffered. He has long drawn out obsessions with women that always end in a mess. Subsequently, in London, he murders a man, a complete stranger, who is a symbol of the world that he feels has rejected him. He goes on the run in Poland for 14 months teaching English, but eventually is arrested by Scotland Yard. He is extradited back to England where he receives a life sentence for murder. During his 16 years in jail he becomes a writer and learns how to succeed.

A Treatise On the Contract of Partnership - By Pothier; With the Civil Code and Code of Commerce Relating to That Subject, in... A Treatise On the Contract of Partnership - By Pothier; With the Civil Code and Code of Commerce Relating to That Subject, in the Same Order; Translated From the French, With Notes Referring to the Decisions of the English Courts, by Owen Davies Tudor (Hardcover)
Robert Joseph Pothier, Owen Davies Tudor
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Robocroc (DVD): Jackson Bews, Owen Davis, Lisa McAllister, Keith Duffy, Steven Hartley, Dee Wallace, Hristo Balabanov, Ivan... Robocroc (DVD)
Jackson Bews, Owen Davis, Lisa McAllister, Keith Duffy, Steven Hartley, … 1
R64 Discovery Miles 640 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Sci-fi horror. Scientist Dr Riley (Dee Wallace) launches a rocket bound for space containing top secret nanobots but disaster strikes when the craft crash-lands in a zoo and the nanobots find their way into a 25-foot Australian crocodile, turning it into a single-minded killing machine. Zookeepers Duffy (Corin Nemec) and Jane (Lisa McAllister) race against time to stop the croc as its kill count continues to rise. In their pursuit, they are shocked to discover the body of the homicidal croc is transforming into metal, making the cyber reptile an even stronger force to be reckoned with.

The Law of Charitable Trusts - With the Statutes, and the Orders, Regulations, and Instructions, Issued Pursuant Thereto: And a... The Law of Charitable Trusts - With the Statutes, and the Orders, Regulations, and Instructions, Issued Pursuant Thereto: And a Selection of Schemes (Hardcover)
Owen Davies Tudor
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bible English - Chapters on Old and Disused Expressions in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures and the Book of Common... Bible English - Chapters on Old and Disused Expressions in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer: With Illustrations From Contemporary Literature (Hardcover)
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies
R882 Discovery Miles 8 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Building Magic - Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook Building Magic - Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook
R3,493 Discovery Miles 34 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.

Art of the Grimoire - An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells: Owen Davies Art of the Grimoire - An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells
Owen Davies
R830 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R167 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks   Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but also to enact magic through spells and rituals. To understand the history of these texts is to understand the influence of the major religions, the development of early science, the cultural influence of print, the growth of literacy, the social impact of colonialism, and the expansion of esoteric cultures across the oceans.   In more than two hundred color illustrations from ancient times to the present, renowned scholar Owen Davies examines little-studied artistic qualities of grimoires, revealing a unique world of design and imagination. The book takes a global approach, considering Egyptian and Greek papyri, ancient Chinese bamboo scripts, South American pulp prints, and Japanese demon encyclopedias, among other examples.   This book will enchant readers interested in the history of magic and science, as well as in book and manuscript history.

Executing Magic in the Modern Era - Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Owen Davies,... Executing Magic in the Modern Era - Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni
R998 R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Save R73 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man's hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.

Executing Magic in the Modern Era - Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Hardcover): Francesca Matteoni, Owen... Executing Magic in the Modern Era - Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Hardcover)
Francesca Matteoni, Owen Davies
R994 Discovery Miles 9 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Haunted - A Social History of Ghosts (Hardcover): Owen Davies The Haunted - A Social History of Ghosts (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the social history of ghosts from the medieval period to the present. Belief in them has been manipulated for political and religious purposes, generated social panics and scandals, been a perennial source of literary inspiration and learned investigation. Underpinning Davies' approach is the awareness that for all the intellectual and scientific advances of the last five centuries the belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant and socially relevant. Understanding the history of ghosts helps explain why we continue to feel haunted by the people of the past.

Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies,... Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies, Cornelie Usborne
R3,068 Discovery Miles 30 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blecourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blecourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models. The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951 (Paperback): Owen Davies Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951 (Paperback)
Owen Davies
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most studies of witchcraft and magic have been concerned with the era of the witch trials, a period that officially came to an end in Britain with the passing of the Witchcraft Act of 1736. But the majority of people continued to fear witches and put their faith in magic. Owen Davies here traces the history of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951, when the passing of the Fraudulent Mediums Act finally erased the concept of witchcraft from the statute books. This original study examines the extent to which witchcraft, magic and fortune-telling continued to influence the thoughts and actions of the people of England and Wales in a period when the forces of "progress" are often thought to have vanquished such beliefs.

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1 (Hardcover): Owen Davies Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1 (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R2,882 Discovery Miles 28 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Troubled by Faith - Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum (Hardcover): Owen Davies Troubled by Faith - Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R848 R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Save R52 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time - a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 5 (Hardcover): Owen Davies Ghosts: A Social History, vol 5 (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R4,405 Discovery Miles 44 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 3 (Hardcover): Owen Davies Ghosts: A Social History, vol 3 (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R2,882 Discovery Miles 28 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 2 (Hardcover): Owen Davies Ghosts: A Social History, vol 2 (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R2,882 Discovery Miles 28 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 4 (Hardcover): Owen Davies Ghosts: A Social History, vol 4 (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R3,974 Discovery Miles 39 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Ghosts: A Social History (Hardcover): Owen Davies Ghosts: A Social History (Hardcover)
Owen Davies
R15,384 Discovery Miles 153 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

The Haunted - A Social History of Ghosts (Paperback): Owen Davies The Haunted - A Social History of Ghosts (Paperback)
Owen Davies
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Haunted "is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating.

Grimoires - A History of Magic Books (Paperback): Owen Davies Grimoires - A History of Magic Books (Paperback)
Owen Davies
R676 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R194 (29%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread across much of the Western Hemisphere and beyond over the ensuing millennia. At their most benign, they contain charms and remedies for natural and supernatural ailments and advice on contacting spirits to help find treasures and protect from evil. But at their most sinister they provide instructions on how to manipulate people for corrupt purposes and, worst of all, to call up and make a pact with the Devil. Both types have proven remarkably resilient and adaptable and retain much of their relevance and fascination to this day. But the grimoire represents much more than just magic. To understand the history of grimoires is to understand the spread of Christianity, the development of early science, the cultural influence of the print revolution, the growth of literacy, the impact of colonialism, and the expansion of western cultures across the oceans. As this book richly demonstrates, the history of grimoires illuminates many of the most important developments in European history over the last two thousand years.

A Supernatural War - Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War (Paperback): Owen Davies A Supernatural War - Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War (Paperback)
Owen Davies
R447 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R83 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious' beliefs and practices. Churches expressed concerns about the wearing of talismans and amulets, the international press paid considerable interest to the pronouncements of astrologers and prophets, and the authorities in several countries periodically clamped down on fortune tellers and mediums due to concerns over their effect on public morale. Out on the battlefields, soldiers of all nations sought to protect themselves through magical and religious rituals, and, on the home front, people sought out psychics and occult practitioners for news of the fate of their distant loved ones or communication with their spirits. Even away from concerns about the war, suspected witches continued to be abused and people continued to resort to magic and magical practitioners for personal protection, love, and success. Uncovering and examining beliefs, practices, and contemporary opinions regarding the role of the supernatural in the war years, Owen Davies explores the broader issues regarding early twentieth-century society in the West, the psychology of the supernatural during wartime, and the extent to which the war cast a spotlight on the widespread continuation of popular belief in magic.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic (Paperback): Owen Davies The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic (Paperback)
Owen Davies
R718 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R201 (28%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practices, the rise of the witch trials, and the depiction of the Devil-worshipping witch. The book also focuses on the more recent history of witchcraft and magic, from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring the rise of modern magic, the anthropology of magic around the globe, and finally the cinematic portrayal of witches and magicians, from The Wizard of Oz to Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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