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  • DIVINATION AND ORACLES
    MICHAEL LOEWE / CARMEN BLACKER
    First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day. Divination and the consultation of oracles formed part of the religious practice of the ancient world and are part of the living folklore of the contemporary soc...

    $859.00

  • MEMORY, THE CITY AND THE LEGACY OF WORLD WAR II IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE
    UILLEAM BLACKER
    After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going alo...

    $1,099.00

  • SHAKESPEARE IN THREE DIMENSIONS
    ROBERT BLACKER
    In Shakespeare in Three Dimensions, Robert Blacker asks us to set aside what we think we know about Shakespeare and rediscover his plays on the page, and as Shakespeare intended, in the rehearsal room and in performance. That process includes stripping away false traditions that have obscured his observations about people and social institutions that are still vital to our live...

    $499.00

  • PEOPLE RISK MANAGEMENT
    KEITH BLACKER / PATRICK MCCONNELL
    People Risk Management provides unique depth to a topic that has garnered intense interest in recent years. Based on the latest thinking in corporate governance, behavioural economics, human resources and operational risk, people risk can be defined as the risk that people do not follow the organization's procedures, practices and/or rules, thus deviating from expected behaviou...

    $929.00

  • THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
    IAN BELLANY / COIT D. BLACKER / JOSEPH GALLACHER
    This study looks at the interpretations and effects of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and offers readings of its possible future effects. ...

    $1,179.00

  • COLLECTED WRITINGS OF CARMEN BLACKER
    CARMEN BLACKER
    This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore. ...

    $1,199.00

  • THE CATALPA BOW
    CARMEN BLACKER
    This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend. ...

    $1,339.00

  • HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YET?
    JOHN BLACKER
    The story of an infantry officer on the Western Front, of the Fourth Battalion of the Coldstream Guards who was awarded the MC. At first he had a relatively safe posting but this preyed on his conscience and asked for front-line duty. This he experiencced in large meaure and his account is hugely well worth reading. The book ends with a moving description of the liberation of F...

    $149.00

  • ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE IN THE 1980S
    IAN BELLANY / COIT D BLACKER
    This book, first published in 1983, analyses the technical and political developments in the two decades after the 1972 Soviet-American ABM treaty. It signposts the route for discussion of the antiballistic missile question – with its shared tacit assumption that nuclear war is for deterring and not fighting – and examines the dangerous tendency to conduct the ABM debate of the...

    $899.00

  • THE ADVENTURES AND INVENTIONS OF STEWART BLACKER
    BARNABY BLACKER
    Stewart Blacker was a remarkable figure. His inventions were used with significant effect both in WW1 and WW2. Most notable of these was the synchronised machine gun, attached to fighter planes that could fire through the propeller. He also designed the PIAT anti tank weapon which was used with dramatic effect during WW2, from Normandy until the end of the war. The book argues ...

    $119.00

  • CAMBIA DE PADRES GRAN ANGULAR
    BLACKER
    Agotado

    $130.00

  • EL FUGITIVO ZONA LIBRE
    BLACKER
    Agotado

    $125.00