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Divining the Etruscan World
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Jean MacIntosh Turfa |
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The firs… |
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The Illustrated Book of Signs and Symbols
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Miranda Bruce-Mitford |
Decipers the meanings of more than two thousand images from around the world, exploring their origins, meanings, and cultural context. |
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The endless beach
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Jenny Colgan |
When Flora MacKenzie traded her glum career in London for the remote Scottish island of Mure, she never dreamed that Joel--her difficult, adorable boss--would follow. Yet now, not only has Flora been… |
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Babylonian Liver Omens
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Ulla Susanne Koch |
The canonical version of the Babylonian omen series concerned with barutu: extispicy (divination from entrails of sheep), consisted of ten chapters or sub-series, and are among the first intellectual… |
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