The Hebrew goddess [[electronic resource] /] / Raphael Patai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465721303321
• Autore: Patai Raphael <1910-1996.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Detroit, Mich., : Wayne State University Press, c1990
• ISBN: 0-8143-3821-6
• Edizione: [3rd enl. ed. /]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Collana: Jewish folklore and anthropology
• Disciplina: 296.3/11
• Soggetti: Myth in the Old Testament; Jewish mythology; Mother goddesses - Palestine; Cabala - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-349) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by William G. Dever ""; ""Preface to the Third Enlarged Edition ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1 The Ubiquitous Goddess ""; ""2 ""Church""-less Judaism ""; ""3 The Masculine Godhead ""; ""4 The Genius of Idolatry ""; ""5 The Hebrew Goddess ""; ""I The Goddess Asherah """"1 The Problem ""; ""2 The Canaanite Asherah ""; ""3 What Was the Hebrew Asherah? ""; ""4 Solomonic Idolatry ""; ""5 Asherah in Israel ""; ""6 Asherah in Judah ""; ""7 Ezekiel's ""Image of Jealousy"" ""; ""8 Conclusion ""; ""9 Addendum: New Discoveries ""; ""II Astarte-Anath """"1 The Canaanite Astarte ""; ""2 Astarte in the Bible ""; ""3 The Archaeological Evidence ""; ""4 The Ugaritic Myth of Anath ""; ""5 Anath in the Bible ""; ""III The Cherubim ""; ""1 The Ivory Cherubim ""; ""2 The Cherubim of the Desert Tabernacle ""; ""3 The Cherubim of Solomon's Temple """"4 The Cherubim as Yahweh's Mounts ""; ""5 Philo's Cherubim ""; ""6 Josephus on the Cherubim ""; ""7 The Cherubim in Embrace ""; ""8 The Provenance of the Cherubim-in-Embrace ""; ""9 The Cherubim in the Middle Ages ""; ""10 Conclusion ""; ""IV The Shekhina ""; ""1 The ""Dwelling"" of God """"2 Hokhmaâ€?Wisdom ""; ""3 The Early Shekhina ""; ""4 Personification ""; ""5 The Shekhina Confronts God ""; ""6 The Feminine Shekhina ""; ""7 Conclusion ""; ""V The Kabbalistic Tetrad ""; ""1 TheKabbala ""; ""2 The Tetragrammaton ""; ""3 Ancient Tetrads ""; ""4 The Father and the Mother ""

The soul of design [[electronic resource] ] : harnessing the power of plot to create extraordinary products / / Lee Devin and Robert D. Austin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462190303321
• Autore: Devin Lee <1938->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California, : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8047-8496-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AustinRobert D <1962-> (Robert Daniel)
• Disciplina: 658.5/752; 658.5752
• Soggetti: Product design; New products - Management; Product management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One: Non-Ordinary Products (and Services); Part Two: The Component Parts of Form; Part Three:Qualities ; of the Soul (of Design) and Their Consequences; Part Four:Makers and Creativity: Toward Commercial Success with Special Things; Part Five:Closure; Glossary; Cases Examined; Research Approach; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What makes the Apple iPhone cool? Bang & Olufsen and Samsung's televisions beautiful? Any of a wide variety of products and services special? The answer is not simply functionality or technology, for competitors' products are often as good. The Soul of Design explores the uncanny power of some products to grab and hold attention-to create desire. To understand what sets a product apart in this way, authors Lee Devin and Robert Austin push past personal taste and individual response to adopt a more conceptual approach. They carefully explore the hypothe