Search Results: Titles starting with K from Chilton Books

Birmingham: Kabbalah Society, 2009 .. As New. 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.5" pp.200 . Illustrated hard cover and numerous illustrations and diagrams within the text. ** The Kabbalistic Tree of Life sets out to introduce the principles of the Tree in metaphysical, symbolic and practical terms to illustrate the essence of this key diagram of Kabbalah. Originally, this was the first book by Halevi in the series of Kabbalah. It has now been updated to include a wider scheme of the kabbalistic Tradition in ancient, medieval and modern ways, with added insights given by new illustrations making it relevant to the present time. This book is a study of the metaphysical scheme known as the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, based upon ancient, medieval and modern views of its principles. The structure and dynamic of existence are described in great detail, for instance in the workings of economics, the course of a love affair and the progression of evolution. Such examples reveal how cosmic laws operate throughout the four… Read More

Amsterdam: Adolf M.Hakkert, 1979.. 1st edition. "What relationship, if any, do the stories preserved in ancient Greek legendary traditions have to real events and circumstances of the periods and places to which they ostensibly refer?...The present book set out to study the development and interpretation of a substantial group of Greek legends associated with one well-known figure, who was said to have originated in the East. It is intended that it should be of interest to oriental specialists as well as to classicists, prehistorians and students of mythology." Based on the author's Ph.D thesis (Greek Legends and the Mycenaean Age, 1968). Pp.xiv/265, 3 maps, signed by the author "With many thanks for your help, & every good wish. Ruth" to half-title page, very clean throughout. Paperback, fading to spine and spine edges. Scarce. VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1970.. Offers an outline of Kant's system, one of its chief aims being to show that his problems and solutions are not merely of historical interest, but that they concern everybody who makes statements of fact and judgement of value". Pp 230, owner's name and date to inside front cover, toning to pages. Paperback, scuffing to spine. G+.

London: Tyndale Press. 1967.. 1st ed. "An attempt to get inside Barth's mind; to see the main issues as he sees them; to try to bring into critical focus Barth's approach to the Christian message and to find out what can be learnt from it". Pp 163, discreet owners inkstamp to verso front cover. P/b. VG.

London: SCM, 1971.. 1st ed. Both an introduction to Barth for those unfamiliar with him and a critical comment on his lasting significance. Pp.8/119, owner's name to front free endpaper. Pbk. VG.

Tring: Lion. 1979.. 1st ed. "...not only a biography: it is also an analysis of Marx' ideas from a Christian viewpoint." Pp 192. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

London: SPCK. 1965.. The first thing to be done is to take a bird's-eye view of the background against which Marxism has developed". Pp 26. P/b. G+.

London: Burns & Oates,1980.. 1st ed. "Karl Rahner has been called the single most important living influence on contemporary theologians. During the 1950's his books and articles had an important influence on the new course taken by Roman Catholicism at the second Vatican council, and his importance for Catholic (and Protestant) theology is expected to be felt well into the twenty-first century." Pp.8/200. Blue cloth, portrait d/w. VG/VG.

London: St Pauls, 2001.. Life of Pope John Paul II told in strip-cartoon form. 27cms x 20.5cms. Pp.71, colour strip-cartoon with important dates in his life and accompanying photos to end. Illustrated laminated boards. VG.

London/ New York: Clink Street Publishing, 2016.. First edition. A new paperback, in fine condition. Clean throughout. [4pp.]/pp.221. ** Excerpt from cover: "On 31st October 1517 Martin Luther pinned ninety-five theses on the Castle Church door, Wittenberg, criticizing the Church of Rome; they were printed and published by Lucas Cranach and caused a storm. Nine young nuns, intoxicated by Luther's subversive writings, became restless and longed to leave their convent. On Good Friday 1523 a haulier smuggled them out hidden in empty herring barrels. Five of them settled in Wittenberg, the very eye of the storm, and one of them - Katharina von Bora - scandalised the world by marrying the revolutionary former monk (Martin Luther). Following a near miscarriage, she is confined to her bed to await the birth of their first child; during this time, she sets down her own story... **2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, when Martin Luther pinned his �Ninety-five… Read More

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,2002.. Complete Edition. "Katherine Mansfield published three collections of short stories during her tragically short life and was acclaimed as one of modernism's most daring and original writers.Margaret Scott's transcription of material bequeathed to Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murry presents an unexpurgated edition of Mansfield's private writings and letters. 24cms x 17cms x 3.8cms. Pp.xxvi/310/xviii/355. Paperback, small rubbed patch to front. A heavy volume which may cost extra to ship oversea. VG.

London: Heinemann, 1958.. 1st ed. by Heinemann. "Roeder speaks with the quiet voice of one who has seen and suffered his subject - and has survived it to write this informative and important study". Pp. 36/271. Inscrip. to fep. Brown cloth, d/w with slight tears to edges. G+/G.

London: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1910 .. Deluxe half leather binding. First edition. 30cm x 23.0cm x 3.3cm. Matching black leather spine and corners over green buckram covered bords. Each spine 5 raised bands, gilt volume number and original red leather title label: "Keartons' Nature Pictures". Vol. I. : pp.6./pp.96 . Vol. II. :10pp./pp.97-192 . With a coloured frontis to each volume, plus a further 94 plates. A very good matching set. ** "Richard Kearton FZS, FRPS (2 January 1862 � 8 February 1928) and Cherry Kearton (8 July 1871 � 27 September 1940), brothers, were a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed innovative methods to photograph animals in the wild and in 1895 published the first natural history book to be entirely illustrated by wild photographs. Richard was a made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Royal Photographic Society. Cherry later became a wildlife and news filmmaker, and friend to Theodore… Read More

London:Christopher Johnson,1949.. 1st ed. Published on behalf of the Keats Shelley Memorial Associatiion. Pp.76,10 plates,spotting to endpapers. Brown cloth, gilt title to front, top of spine slightly rubbed. G+.

Canterbury: Gibbs and Sons, 1933.. Short biographies of key figures in the Oxford Movement of the nineteenth century, John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude and John Henry Newman. Pp.70, inscribed by the author to top of title page. Fawn stiff card cover has uneven browning, yapped edges and spine slightly rubbed. Plus card booklet with poem "The Passing of Our Lady" by R.D.Middleton (published by The Society of SS. Peter & Paul) slightly toned, loosely enclosed. G+.

Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd., 1990.. 1st ed. "... set against the dramatic events of a World War the letters portray the indomitable increase of mutual respect and affection which was to culminate in a life-long loving marriage." Pp. 266, 1 b/w photograph, 17 drawings + 1 map,gift inscrip. to fep. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press. 1985.. Rep. "Understanding the spirit is a crucial task for Christian theology at all times; honouring the spirit is a crucial task in Christian discipleship today". Pp 301. P/b, minor creasing to spine. G+.

London: Scripture Union, 1993.. 1st ed. "A practical guide to church communications - from winning coverage in the media to arranging ourdoor events - public speaking to leaflets and magazines - brightening up noticeboards to carrying out a full survey of how information reaches your congregation." Pp. 160. P/b. VG.

Bury St. Edmunds: Kevin Mayhew. 1993.. 1st ed. "The specimen services in these pages aren't meant to be rigidly adhered to, but to be used to enrich and enliven all-age worship". 25cms x 17.5cms. Pp 123, crease to corner of pages 61 and 72, name to verso front cover. P/b, slight crease to front cover, illustrated cover. G+.

London: Christian Action Publications Ltd., 1967.. 1st Christian Action ed. "Miss Morrison offers a series of little pictures of the disciples, partly historical, partly traditional and legendary". Pp. 49, 17 illustns. Small tear to last page. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustd. d/w. G+/G+.