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Bosonic construction of vertex operator para-algebras from symplectic affine Kac-Moody algebras
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ISSN: 00659266 ISBN: 0821808664 Year: 1998 Publisher: Providence (R.I.): American Mathematical Society

Arab-Byzantine relations in early Islamic times
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ISBN: 0860787168 Year: 2004 Volume: 8


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The Oxford encyclopedia of the books of the Bible
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ISBN: 9780195377378 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Violence in the home
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ISBN: 0566001292 9780566001291 Year: 1979 Publisher: Farnborough Saxon House

West Semitic personal names in the Murasu documents
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ISBN: 0891300198 9004387781 9780891300199 9789004387782 Year: 1976 Volume: 7 Publisher: Missoula Scholars press


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Joining the CAP : the agricultural negotiations for British accession to the European Economic Community, 1961-1973
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ISBN: 9783034301640 3034301642 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang,


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War and rank among nations
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ISBN: 0669851914 Year: 1973 Publisher: Lexington Heath


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A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry
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ISBN: 0914098020 0914098004 0914098039 0914098047 0914098012 9780914098003 9780914098034 9780914098027 9780914098041 Year: 1970 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : Publish or Perish,

Magic and superstition in Europe : a concise history from antiquity to the present.
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ISBN: 9780742533868 0742533867 9780742533875 0742533875 Year: 2007 Publisher: Lanham Rowman & Littlefield Pub.

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"This compelling book traces the history of magic, witchcraft, and superstitious practices such as popular spells or charms from antiquity to the present day. Focusing especially on Europe in the medieval and early modern eras, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems?particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca?from Europe to the United States. He examines how magic and superstition have been defined in various historical eras and how these constructions have changed over time. He considers the ways in which specific categories of magic have been condemned, and how those identified as magicians or witches have been persecuted and prosecuted in various societies. Although conceptions of magic have changed over time, the author shows how magic has almost always served as a boundary marker separating socially acceptable actions from illicit ones, and more generally the known and understood from the unknown and occult"--Publisher website (August 2007).

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