Tobias: 1167 books
by Tobias Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
The story of Jesus and the Beloved Disciple is a beautiful and intriguing love story, well worth being treated as serious literature and appearing between covers of its own. For this version of the story, editor Tobias Skinner has chosen to believe, for reasons set forth in the preface, that it was...
The Hypothetical Species
Variables of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2019
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant...
Gnostic Mysteries of Sex
Sophia the Wild One and Erotic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
An exploration of the sexual practices and doctrinal secrets of Gnosticism
• Reconstructs the lost world of Gnostic spiritual-erotic experience through examination of every surviving text written by heresiologists
• Investigates the sexual gnosis practices of the Barbelo Gnostics...
This Side of Silence
Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about...
Impostures in early modern England
Representations and perceptions of fraudulent identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first full-scale analysis of an important and multifaceted phenomenon. Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of...
The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties
The Magic, Myth, and Music of the Decade That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Unveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960s
• Investigates the spiritual principles that informed everything from the civil rights and anti-war movements, to the hippies’ rejection of materialist culture, to the rise of feminism,...
Caribbean-English Passages
Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience.
Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative...
by Tobias Gavran
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Paris, de nos jours. Au cœur du Milieu, Olivier, un adolescent sans histoire, découvre les affres de l'assassinat. Une histoire qui n'aurait pu être qu'un fait divers, une tâche en fin de papelard, mais les choses vont de mal en pis. On se rebiffe, on se rebelle, on cafte, on dézingue, on pulvérise....
Million Dollar Blues
Girls Who Dish, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Take one 75 million dollar lottery win. Toss in a struggling restaurant and a weasel of an ex-husband. Spice heavily with one true love. Is it a recipe for disaster or the recipe of Temple’s dreams?
Winning the lottery will help Temple turn her restaurant, GIRLS WHO DISH, into a world-class...
Soviet Internationalism after Stalin
Interaction and Exchange between the USSR and Latin America during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The Soviet Union is often presented as a largely isolated and idiosyncratic state. Soviet Internationalism after Stalin challenges this view by telling the story of Soviet and Latin American intellectuals, students, political figures and artists, and their encounters with the 'other' from the 1950s...
Mathematics of Planet Earth
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) was started and continues to be consolidated as a collaboration of mathematical science organisations around the world. These organisations work together to tackle global environmental, social and economic problems using mathematics.
This textbook introduces...
The Animal Claim
Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like Martin’s Act of 1822, which provided protections...
Augmented Reality
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Today’s Comprehensive and Authoritative Guide to Augmented Reality
By overlaying computer-generated information on the real world, augmented reality (AR) amplifies human perception and cognition in remarkable ways. Working in this fast-growing field requires knowledge of multiple disciplines,...
'Gleichschaltung' and where it failed
What kind of resistance against this policy occurred within the German people, and where did the Nazis fail to reach their goal of total coordination?
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A (originality!), La Trobe University Melbourne, course: Nazi Germany and Europe, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The 'marriage' of the party and the Volk (people)...