The Tarot: History, Iconography, Esotericism

Self-Help

Rijnberk, Gérard Van

Personal Transformation

Antiqua Sapientia

Gaius Plinius Secundus was a first century Roman writer, known by the name Pliny the Elder to differentiate him from his nephew and adopted son Pliny the Younger. His best known work, and the only one preserved in its entirety, is Naturalis Historiæ or Natural History. 
Pliny belonged to the equestrian order and held various military and administrative positions throughout his life, combining them with studies and research on natural, ethnographic and geographical phenomena compiled in his work Natural History, which is possibly the first encyclopedia that antiquity bequeathed to us. 
Pliny's Natural History offers us a fascinating vision of the world as the Romans saw it 2000 years ago, covering a vast field ranging from cosmology, geography, zoology, botany, medicine, mineralogy to various superstitions of his time, and much more, developed in 37 books, which in Bostock and Riley's translation occupy some 3000 pages. 
This edition condenses this masterpiece into a single volume, including all the 37 Books of the original work, preserving as much as possible the 19th century English wording of its original translators, with minimal changes to improve its readability.

Natural History - An Illustrated Selection

History

The Elder, Pliny

Ancient Civilizations

Cayo Plinio Segundo fue un escritor romano del siglo I, conocido por el nombre de Plinio el Viejo para diferenciarlo de su sobrino e hijo adoptivo Plinio el Joven. Su obra más conocida, y la única que se conserva completa, es Naturalis Historiæ o Historia Natural. 
Plinio perteneció al orden ecuestre y ejerció distintos cargos militares y administrativos a lo largo de su vida, combinándolos con estudios e investigaciones de fenómenos naturales, etnográficos y geográficos, recopilados en su obra Historia natural, que posiblemente sea la primera enciclopedia que nos lega la antigüedad. 
La Historia Natural de Plinio nos ofrece una visión fascinante del mundo como lo veían los romanos hace 2000 años, cubriendo un vasto campo que abarca desde cosmología, geografía, zoología, botánica, medicina, mineralogía hasta diversas supersticiones de su tiempo, y mucho más, desarrollado en 37 libros, que en la traducción de Bostock y Riley ocupan unas 3000 páginas. 
Esta edición condensa esta obra maestra en un sólo volumen, que incluye todos los 37 libros de la obra original, añadiendo diversas ilustraciones.

Historia Natural - Una edición condensada (Spanish Edition)

El Viejo, Plinio

As a whole, this work offers a panoramic view of ancient Chinese thought, which is not a thought structured after the Western style, since the Chinese ask their Sages for subjects conducive to free meditation, not ideas, much less dogmas. It does not matter whether they classify the Master who awakens in them the play of the intellect as Taoist or Confucian; it does not matter whether the practices that prepare them for the liberation of their spirit are aimed at creating the impression of unconditioned autonomy or at creating the feeling of the sovereign dignity of man. Neither the actual purpose of the training, nor the spirit of the methods themselves differ. It is always a matter of training the whole being. Whether holiness or wisdom is sought, whether it is accomplished by sanctifying games or ennobling rites, this training is always inspired by a desire for liberation, and it is always done in a spirit of freedom. 
The first three Books-or sections-of this work aim to make known Chinese conceptions that the author considered neither possible, nor advantageous to present otherwise than as common notions, that denote certain habits of mind to which the Chinese seem to attribute imperative power. Granet reserves for the fourth and last book (Sects and Schools) those conceptions that he considered possible to study comfortably in relation to specific works that testify to certain directions of Chinese thought; these conceptions point to less constant or less profound tendencies and are remarkable precisely because of their varying fortunes; their main interest is that they can contribute to giving an idea of the orientation that Chinese thought as a whole has acquired.

Chinese Thought

Granet, Marcel

Asia

Los padres del sistema taoísta: Lao Zi (Lao Tse), Lie Zi (Lieh Tzu) y Zhuang Zhou (Chuang Tzu) (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wieger, Léon

Philosophy

Wisdom of the Daoist Masters: Lao Zi, Lie Zi and Zhuang Zhou

Dictionary of Divinatory Keywords of the Book of Thoth: (Synonymic Dictionary of the Tarot)

Religion & Spirituality

School, Etteilla's

New Age & Spirituality

Origin of playing cards. Research on naibis, tarots and other types of playing cards

Humor & Entertainment

Merlin, Romain

Puzzles & Games

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