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Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590171776

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"The Secret Commonwealth is a guide to fairies, doppelgängers, wraiths, and other beings that its author Robert Kirk, an unusually inquisitive seventeenth-century Scottish minister, identifies as being ?of a middle nature betwixt man and angel.? Circulated in manuscript by its author, whose religious and scientific interests drew him at some genuine personal risk to investigate the hidden realities of the spiritual world, this short work was first published by Sir Walter Scott and then again in the late nineteenth century in an edition prepared by the famous collector of fairy tales, Andrew Lang, and dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson. Nonetheless, Kirk’s work, which is a fine example of English prose, an important document in the history of ideas, and an enchanting introduction to fairy lore has remained a rarity"--Publisher description.

Author : Robert Kirkwood
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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ROBERT KIRK (KIRKWOOD), an enlisted man, served with the 42nd and 77th Highland Regiments in North America. He covered 5000 miles by foot, canoe, whaleboat, and transport ship. He was wounded, captured by Shawnees, and nearly scalped, but he lived to write his memoirs, which are published here for the first time since 1775. This book constitutes a superb team effort with paintings by renowned artist, Robert Griffing; an excellent and insightful introduction by best-selling British historian, Stephen Brumwell; and annotations, biographical notes, and essays by historians, Lt. Col. Ian McCulloch and Timothy Todish.

Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0199229805

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Zombies would be physically and behaviorally just like us, but not conscious--a strange idea which is currently highly influential in the philosophy of mind. In this clear, readable, and entertaining book Robert Kirk argues that the zombie idea reflects a fundamentally mistaken way of thinking about consciousness. He sets out both to show why there couldn't be zombies, and to present a strikingly original new argument about the true nature of conscious experience.

Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415208173

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Is reality independent of our thinking, or does it depend on our point of view? Robert Kirk provides a clear account of this debate from the Greek philosophers to Wittgenstein and Rorty.

Author : R. J. Stewart
Publisher : R J Stewart Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780979140242

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This new edition in modern English includes a detailed commentary. Comparisons are made between the ancient rites and powers of fairy tradition and second sight, and those of shamanism, Native American tradition, Celtic myth and legend, and perennial magical arts.

Author : Robert G. W. Kirk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1780230680

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Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.

Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : Godsfield Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Elves
ISBN : 9781841812489

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Welcome to the magical world of Faery! This book takes readers along on the journeys of the Reverend Robert Kirk, a seventeenth-century vicar of the parish of Aberfoyle, Scotland, into the heart of the faery world.

Author : Robert F. Kirk
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Phantom II (Jet fighter plane)
ISBN : 1456756761

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As the ground war struggled for success in Vietnam, it became intensely clear that the skies had to be owned by the allies for victory to have a chance. It was the F-4 and its pilots that made that possible. The author, a Phantom pilot himself, details intense stories of undaunted and valiant American pilots with their legendary fierce Phantom. These are personal stories of intrepid courage and self-sacrifice to get the mission done - whatever the cost. Fierce, unflinching battles to save friendlies and destroy a ruthless enemy are all recorded 40 years later. True tales of war at 500 knots!

Author : Robert W. Kirk
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786493845

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The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808, when American sealing vessel Topaz stopped at the island, John Adams was the only mutineer alive. He, however, headed what was soon discovered to be a utopianlike Christian society. Beginning with a background look at the circumstances surrounding the mutiny, this volume contains a detailed history of the Pitcairn Islanders from the original settlement through the opening years of the 21st century. The island's isolation is contrasted with the international attention garnered from its captivating history, making the society a one-of-a-kind historical conundrum. Helpful maps and photographs enhance the reader's experience.

Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199669414

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How are truths about physical and mental states related? Robert Kirk articulates and defends 'redescriptive physicalism'—a fresh approach to the connection between the physical and the mental, which answers the problems that mental causation has traditionally raised for other non-reductive views.