Sentence examples for book of spirits from inspiring English sources

The 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke suggested that Dee was employed on "affairs of state" by Elizabeth I, and that Dee's "book of spirits" was in fact cryptographic.

Helon Habila's acclaimed novel Waiting for an Angel continues the tradition of political commentary, while Ben Okri's The Famished Road, a book of spirits, stillborn hopes and despair in a postcolonial state, shows Soyinka's influence in its use of myth.

A "mezcal brandy," as tequila was then sometimes called, won an award at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, according to The Complete Book of Spirits, by Anthony Dias Blue.

All children were required to spend hours learning the Ruhnama, "The Book of Spirit", his eccentric musings on Turkmen history and culture.

This book of spirit conjuration blackened the name of Agrippa at a time when the witch trials were being stoked across Europe.

Almost everyone in Turkmenistan, adults and children alike, was compelled to study Mr. Niyazov's two-volume "Book of Spirit" -- "Ruhnama" in Turkmen -- which contained his philosophical and historical ramblings.

It also gave rise to Jacques Derrida's book "Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question," which defends Heidegger by showing that the underpinnings of his philosophy — his vocabulary and his network of metaphors — were the same as those of the era's ostensibly liberal thinkers.

It also gave rise to Jacques Derrida's book "Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question," which defends Heidegger by showing that the underpinnings of his philosophy his vocabulary and his network of metaphors were the same as those of the era's ostensibly liberal thinkers.

It is a book of raw spirit, a polemic against cold industrialization buttressed by Darwin, Forster, Murakami and Neruda, Audubon, Rubens and Leonardo, among many others.

Its core is the two-volume Ruhnama, "The Book of the Spirit", a homespun collection of thoughts on Turkmen history and culture that pupils are required to spend hours studying.

His new book of photography, Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness, out Tuesday from Anthology Editions, is an electrifying snapshot of punk's halcyon days in London.