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The Religions of the Hindukush 1
Jettmar, K.
This volume of Jettmar's important three volume survey of Central Asian religion focuses on the beliefs of the Kafirs of NE Afghanistan. Our knowledge of the remote and inaccesible regions of the Hindukush is as yet incomplete and only in modern times have Western scholars been able to begin to study them. Professor Jettmar's book is very important to our understanding of the religions and cultures of the remote tribes of this area. These ...
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Antonio Buero Vallejo: In the Burning Darkness
translation, introduction and notes by Philip G. Johnston
Arguably Spain's leading playwright of the twentieth century, Antonio Buero-Vallejo published thirty original plays. In the Burning Darkness was the first play he wrote. The seminal, and lasting, significance of this play was confirmed when an extract from it was read over Buero-Vallejo's grave on the day of his burial.

In the Burning Darkness describes a teaching centre for young people who are blind, where a false unity ...
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The Book of the Lover and the Beloved
by Ramon Llull, translated and edited by Mark D. Johnston
Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God. One of his lifelong ambitions was to write a book to counter the "errors of the infidels", to which end he studied Arabic and immersed himself in whatever arabic texts he could obtain. The Book of the Lover is one of the most ...
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Buero Vallejo: The Shot
by David Johnston
It was Buero's Historia de una escalera (1949) which restored serious and worthwhile drama, virtually at a stroke, to the beleaguered post-Civil War Spanish stage. Since then, Buero has premiered over twenty-five full length plays in Spain, and has seen his theatre translated into most of the world's major languages. His work has received many awards and prizes over the years, including the Premio Nacional de Literatura, but the ...
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Trademarks on Greek Vases
by A W Johnston
This work comprises a catalogue of marks designed to include all those that appear more than once on decorated Attic vases (for the partial exclusion of Attic glazed vases) as well as a complete lists of those on vases of ther fabrics. A commentary on the several types of ark discussed their interpretation, script and distribution, as well as relevant aspects of the vases on which they are cut. The introductiory chapters 'Aspects of Trademarks' ...
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Trademarks on Greek Vases: Addenda
by Alan W Johnston
More than twenty years on from the publication of Trademarks on Greek Vases, this Addenda brings up to date the evidence from finds, improving on the cataloguing of the original, and adding in newly discovered examples, many sadly having surfaced via the antiquities market. It contains a completely new catalogue of finds, and supplementary text. It is richly illustrated with line drawings of the marks and photographs of some of the ...
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elief and Unbelief in Hispanic Literature
edited with introduction and translation by Wing Helen
The number, nature and range of the contributions bears witness to the multi-faceted importance of religion in Hispanic Literature and culture and to the recognition of this in current research in Hispanic Studies. The papers show the continuing preoccupation with religion; in some works through the incorporation of religious themes and imagery which affect their form and content; in others through their embodiment and expression of ...
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Homer: Odyssey I and II
by P. V. Jones
This edition is produced with particular concern for the student coming to Homer for the first time. The text is given with facing translation and commentary, but the usual apparatus criticus at the bottom of each page is replaced by brief notes on Homeric language. This makes the text considerably more accessible for those without Homeric Greek. These notes are cross-referenced to an introduction on Homeric language for those meeting it for the ...
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British Hispanism
by William Chester Jordan
These five articles, collected from journals not widely known in the Hispanic field, deal with issues of literary and cultural theory in relation to British Hispanism. The first three items in this collection consider some basic questions of literary and cultural theory and critical practice: questions such as, what is literature? what is the nature of the criticism which supports and legitimises it? how far is the literary text a secure ...
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The Tomb and Beyond: Burial Customs of Egyptian Officials
by Naguib Kanawati
The Egyptians had very different outlooks on death and the afterlife to many other later societies, something that is reflected in the tombs that they constructed and decorated. Published in an abridged form in 1987 as The Tomb and its Significance in Ancient Egypt, this general study of Egyptian burial customs and belief systems is aimed at a non-specialist readership. Drawing on literary, architectural and artistic evidence Kanawati ...
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