Identity And The Quartered Circle

Author : Dorothy Louise Abrams
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780992808

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Identity and the Quartered Circle by Dorothy Louise Abrams Pdf

Identity and The Quartered Circle is an eclectic Wiccan discussion of the search for identity through the power of a cast circle and the four directions. The book defines the Circle as a container for magic. A chapter on psychological identity follows. From casting a circle to meeting the Elementals and winged spirits of faerie, the author leads the reader on a personal journey in consciousness. At its conclusion we can speak intelligently of merger with the Gods and Oneness and the reader can answer the big four questions: Who Am I, Why am I here, Where did I come from and Where am I going? ,

Author : Trevor Greenfield
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785352416

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iPagan by Trevor Greenfield Pdf

With fifty-nine contributions from over forty authors, iPagan is an anthology that covers Druidry, Shamanism, Witchcraft, Goddess Spirituality and a range of contemporary issues that affect Pagans across the globe. The book is an ideal introduction to the writing of each of the authors as well as an essential primer for anyone interested in modern Paganism and for those wishing to engage in current Pagan thinking.

Author : Trevor Greenfield
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781789044546

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mePagan by Trevor Greenfield Pdf

In 2017 a number of Moon Books authors decided to publish, iPagan, a collection of essays in the form of a low cost ebook complete with links to further resources allowing the reader to explore the topic further if they wanted to. It proved to be extremely popular and fulfilled its mission by introducing authors to new readers and offering genuine value for money. Inevitably, the question raised by a number of people was, will there be a follow-up title? Happily, the answer is yes... so, welcome to mePagan, a new collection of essays from your favourite Moon Books authors.

Author : Trevor Greenfield
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781782791676

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Witchcraft Today - 60 Years On by Trevor Greenfield Pdf

In the sixty years following the publication of Gerald Gardner’s Witchcraft Today, new paths have appeared, and older ones emerged out of the shadow of repression and illegality, to express with a new and more confident voice their beliefs and practice, and share, with a steadily growing audience, their knowledge, their certainties, their questions and their vision. This book is a celebration of some of the many paths that Witchcraft/Wicca has taken and of the journeys that people have embarked upon.

Author : Michael Z. Spivey
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781351215817

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The Art of Proving Binomial Identities by Michael Z. Spivey Pdf

The Art of Proving Binomial Identities accomplishes two goals: (1) It provides a unified treatment of the binomial coefficients, and (2) Brings together much of the undergraduate mathematics curriculum via one theme (the binomial coefficients). The binomial coefficients arise in a variety of areas of mathematics: combinatorics, of course, but also basic algebra (binomial theorem), infinite series (Newton’s binomial series), differentiation (Leibniz’s generalized product rule), special functions (the beta and gamma functions), probability, statistics, number theory, finite difference calculus, algorithm analysis, and even statistical mechanics. The book is very suitable for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students and includes various exercises asking them to prove identities. Students will find that the text and notes at the end of the chapters encourages them to look at binomial coefficients from different angles. With this learning experience, students will be able to understand binomial coefficients in a new way. Features: Provides a unified treatment of many of the techniques for proving binomial coefficient identities. Ties together several of the courses in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum via a single theme. A textbook for a capstone or senior seminar course in mathematics. Contains several results by the author on proof techniques for binomial coefficients that are not well-known. Ideal for self-study, it contains a large number of exercises at the end of each chapter, with hints or solutions for every exercise at the end of the book.

Author : Kathryn Rountree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317158684

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Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society by Kathryn Rountree Pdf

Contemporary western Paganism is now a global religious phenomenon with Pagans in many parts of the world sharing much in common - from a nature-revering worldview and lifestyle to a host of chants, invocations, ritual tools and magical practices. But there are also locally-specific differences. Local religious contexts, landscapes, histories, traditions, politics, values and norms all impact on local Paganisms. This is nowhere more evident than in a strongly Catholic society, where religion and culture are deeply entwined. Taking the Mediterranean society of Malta as a case study, this book invites readers inside the world of a small, hidden sub-culture. Showing what it is like being Pagan in a society where the vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic, and Catholicism permeates every sphere of public and domestic, social and political life, Rountree reveals that Paganism here is a unique brew of indigenous and global influences. Pagans employ both creativity and borrowing in constructing identities within a cultural context characterized by antagonism as well as continuity. This book explores the intersections of religious and cultural identity, the global and local, Paganism and Christianity, with insights grounded in rich ethnographic detail based on long-term fieldwork. Rountree makes invaluable comparisons with other studies of modern Pagans and their various worlds.

Author : Irena Ragaišienė,Adelheid Rundholz
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847016151

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(Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature by Irena Ragaišienė,Adelheid Rundholz Pdf

This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a nation and its writers' works do not exist in isolation from their history. Stressing migration and (inter)cultural dialogue, authors explore how the characters in the texts establish a sense of belonging both within the context of migrations and within the context of Lithuania since its independence. The final series of essays in this book discusses Lithuanian literature abroad that is in translation.

Author : Black Duck
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780982947708

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Shipwrecks of the Dominican Republic and A Guide to Shipwreck Identification Through Recovered Artifacts by Black Duck Pdf

This book is for the young and the old, for the novice and the expert. It is based on research and fact. It will serve as a guide and a reference for anyone with an interest in shipwrecks, artifacts, and treasures of all kinds.

Author : Emily Rolfe Grosholz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319982311

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Great Circles by Emily Rolfe Grosholz Pdf

This volume explores the interaction of poetry and mathematics by looking at analogies that link them. The form that distinguishes poetry from prose has mathematical structure (lifting language above the flow of time), as do the thoughtful ways in which poets bring the infinite into relation with the finite. The history of mathematics exhibits a dramatic narrative inspired by a kind of troping, as metaphor opens, metonymy and synecdoche elaborate, and irony closes off or shifts the growth of mathematical knowledge. The first part of the book is autobiographical, following the author through her discovery of these analogies, revealed by music, architecture, science fiction, philosophy, and the study of mathematics and poetry. The second part focuses on geometry, the circle and square, launching us from Shakespeare to Housman, from Euclid to Leibniz. The third part explores the study of dynamics, inertial motion and transcendental functions, from Descartes to Newton, and in 20th c. poetry. The final part contemplates infinity, as it emerges in modern set theory and topology, and in contemporary poems, including narrative poems about modern cosmology.

Author : Jacqueline Aiello
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315299662

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Negotiating Englishes and English-speaking Identities by Jacqueline Aiello Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Identities and Englishes -- 3 English in Italy -- 4 Attitudes, motivations and proficiencies -- 5 Facilitators and constraints -- 6 Power and paradox: proficiency, accents and selves -- 7 Positioning the researcher -- 8 Reconceptualizing Englishes and English-speaking identities -- 9 Educating English learners today -- Appendix: transcription conventions -- Index

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1557533539

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Nation and National Identity by Hanspeter Kriesi Pdf

"The nation-state is challenged all over the world today. Regional movements, the reunification of separate territorial parts, the differentiation of formerly homogenous ethnic identities, the sequels of war, and the country-specific historical legacies present many different challenges for national identities and nationhood. The contributions in this volume constitute an attempt to put the many facets of the contemporary European experience into perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Harry Eilenstein
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783753474298

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Crop Circles for Beginners by Harry Eilenstein Pdf

Since about 1985, crop circles have become a more well-known phenomenon. In the meantime, about 10,000 crop circles have appeared in more than 50 countries. However, well over half of them come from southern England in the area of Stonehenge, Woodhenge, Silbury Hill, White Horse and other prehistoric monuments. Some of them can be proved to have been made by humans, but others just as certainly have not been made by humans - this is not the starting situation one would wish for as a researcher ... In the present book 300 of these crop circles are examined more closely. It turns out that they contain approx. 100 elements which appear in many crop circles. Their geometrical form has an easily recognizable meaning. Therefore, with the help of these "words", the crop circles composed of them can be read like "sentences". The meaning is almost always the same: a representation of how individuality unfolds. Therefore, there are many similarities with astrology or the chakra system, for example. This analytical approach is complemented by 50 dream journeys into individual crop circles, which makes the picture that arises from the analytical observation of the crop circles even more rounded. Thereby a first impression can be gained of the language of the collective subconsciousness - which words and which grammar it uses: It is a "music of geometry".

Author : Jesper Lützen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Mathematical analysis
ISBN : 9780192867391

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A History of Mathematical Impossibility by Jesper Lützen Pdf

Many of the most famous results in mathematics are impossibility theorems stating that something cannot be done. Good examples include the quadrature of the circle by ruler and compass, the solution of the quintic equation by radicals, Fermat's last theorem, and the impossibility of proving the parallel postulate from the other axioms of Euclidean geometry. This book tells the history of these and many other impossibility theorems starting with the ancient Greek proof of the incommensurability of the side and the diagonal in a square. Lützen argues that the role of impossibility results have changed over time. At first, they were considered rather unimportant meta-statements concerning mathematics but gradually they obtained the role of important proper mathematical results that can and should be proved. While mathematical impossibility proofs are more rigorous than impossibility arguments in other areas of life, mathematicians have employed great ingenuity to circumvent impossibilities by changing the rules of the game. For example, complex numbers were invented in order to make impossible equations solvable. In this way, impossibilities have been a strong creative force in the development of mathematics, mathematical physics, and social science.

Author : Horst Schubert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Topology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031261238

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Topology by Horst Schubert Pdf

Author : Yvonne Aburrow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244967390

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Dark Mirror: the inner work of witchcraft by Yvonne Aburrow Pdf

Inner work is a name commonly given to the inner processes that happen in ritual. It can also mean the transformation of the psyche that comes about through engaging in religious ritual. However, the best kind of inner work also has an effect outside the individual and outside the circle. When rituals are focused only on self-development, they tend to be a bit too introspective. Ritual is about creating and maintaining relationships and connections - between body, mind, and spirit; with the Earth, Nature, the land, the spirit world, the community, and friends. It is about making meaning, weaving a web of symbolism, story, mythology, meaning, community, and love. Creating a community that welcomes and celebrates diversity. Creating strong and authentic identity to resist the pressures of consumerism and commercialism and capitalism. Weaving relationship with other beings: humans, animals, birds, spirits, deities.