Tobias: 1167 books
The Magus of Freemasonry
The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole--Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
A comprehensive look at the life of Elias Ashmole, who represents the historic missing link between operative and symbolic Freemasonry
• Explores the true role of occult and magical studies in the genesis of modern science
• Explains the full meaning of the term magus, which Ashmole...
Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins
An Aspect of his Prophetic Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The Gospels record that Jesus purported to forgive sins. What significance would such a claim have had for his contemporaries and what would the implications have been for his identity as a first-century popular prophet? Tobias Hägerland answers these questions and more as he investigates the forgiveness...
by Tobias Smollett
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
18th century comic novel. According to Wikipedia: " According to Wikipedia: "Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 - 17 September 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1753)." Smollett was one of David Copperfield's (Charles Dickens') favorite authors.
Formative Fictions
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias...
The Dark Heart of Italy
An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage...
by Tobias Dantzig
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
More than a history of mathematics, this lively book traces mathematical ideas and processes to their sources, stressing the methods used by the masters of the ancient world. Author Tobias Dantzig portrays the human story behind mathematics, showing how flashes of insight in the minds of certain gifted...
The Missing Family of Jesus
An Inconvenient Truth - How the Church Erased Jesus's Brothers and Sisters from History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Holy Family of Jesus as commonly depicted in religious art is a myth fabricated by the early Christian church. Explaining this assertion, Tobias Churton leads the reader on a fascinating and highly readable quest to discover all that is to be found in the historical sources about Jesus' family...
Occult Paris
The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
How fin-de-siècle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the Renaissance
• Examines the remarkable lives of occult practitioners Joséphin Peladan, Papus, Stanislas de Guaïta, Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, Jules Doinel, and others
•...
Sundays at Sinai
A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant...
Designing Stock Market Trading Systems
With and without soft computing
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
In Designing Stock Market Trading Systems Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn guide you through their tried and tested methodology for building rule-based stock market trading systems using both fundamental and technical data. This book shows the steps required to design and test a trading system until a...
A Bug Hunter's Diary
A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Seemingly simple bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compromise systems, escalate local privileges, and otherwise wreak havoc on a system.
A Bug Hunter's Diary follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tracks down and exploits bugs in some of the world's most popular...
by Tobias Heussner, Toiya Kristen Finley, Jennifer Brandes Hepler
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Learn how to create compelling game storylines.
Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create this all-inclusive guide on what it's like to work as a writer and narrative designer in the videogame industry. From concept to final...
Transform Your Training
The Metalog Method
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Tobias Voss shows you how to turn games into high-impact interventions and how to enrich Experience-Oriented Learning methods with systemic thinking and the latest research into how the brain learns. This insightful book is a treasure trove for all lovers of real learning and a must-have for METALOG® training tools enthusiasts.
A Woman of Strength and Purpose
Directing Your Strong Will to Improve Relationships, Expand Influence, and Honor God
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Your Strong Will Is God’s Will!
As a strong-willed woman, you meet the world head-on, undeterred by those who say something can’t be done. When applied in the right ways, your God-given passion produces clear-eyed purpose, deep compassion, and a bold spirit that can change the world. But...