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Mysticism and Kingship in China : The Heart of Chinese Wisdom

By: Ching, Julia

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 026864

ISBN: 0521462932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xxi, 302p. Dark Blue Boards. Internally fine copy. Front board is bent down the middle, causing bowing . This is a quite serviceable copy. n this book, Julia Ching offers a survey of over 4,000 years of Chinese civilization through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of trance states and communication with spirits. Over time, the sage-king myth became a model for the actual ruler. As a paradigm, it was also appropriated by private individuals who st...
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The Truth about Rudolf Hess. Foreword By Lord Bulloch

By: Douglas-Hamilton, James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 018937

ISBN: 1851585389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

256p. A very good copy, with moderate bumps to the lower forecorners of the covers, in a very good d.j. which has a near one-inch tear at the top of the front panel. This copy is signed by the author and inscribed by Eugene Pogatch who newly translated some of Albrecht Haushofer poems which are in this book. Laid-in the book is a photocopy of a letter from Lord Bullock to Dr. Pugatch. The inscription reads: "For John Waters / "Good Friend" / with warmest regards / Eugene Pugatch / Summer, 1993."
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Churchill, Winston S.: Finest Hour v.6 (Vol 6)

By: Gilbert, Martin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Houghton Mifflin Company: 1983

Seller ID: 025300

ISBN: 0395344026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1,308pgs. Blue and beige boards. photos. as new. This volume starts with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In it, Martin Gilbert reveals not only how each decision was reached, but what influences lay behind it, whether of individuals or of information reaching Churchill from the most secret source of British Intelligence.
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Winston S. Winston S. Churchill the Stricken World 1916-1922

By: Gilbert, Martin

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin: 1971

Seller ID: 028745

ISBN: 0395131537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

967pgs. Blue and Beige covers. Black and white photographs. light mottling on the endpapers, foreedge, otherwise as new. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear, otherwise fine. This is Volume four of the eight volume set, his recovery from the fall at Gallipoli, defeating the Germans in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, a treaty with Ireland, and the consolidation of the Jewish National home in Palestine.
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Category: Historical

Mysticism and Kingship in China : The Heart of Chinese Wisdom

The Truth about Rudolf Hess. Foreword By Lord Bulloch

Churchill, Winston S.: Finest Hour v.6 (Vol 6)

Winston S. Winston S. Churchill the Stricken World 1916-1922