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Ah Pook Is Here!by William S. BurroughsISBN 0714538590 (0-7145-3859-0)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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All Colour Book of Roman Mythologyby Peter CroftISBN 0706402758 (0-7064-0275-8)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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The Ancient Olympic Gamesby Judith SwaddlingISBN 0714120022 (0-7141-2002-2)
Softcover, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications
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The Arabian Nights : A Companionby Robert IrwinISBN 0713991054 (0-7139-9105-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights : A Companion'Book summary:Widely held in contempt in the Middle East for their frivolity and occasional obscenity, "The Arabian Nights" have nevertheless had a major influence on European and American culture, to the extent that the story collection must be considered as a key work in Western literature. This book guides the reader into this labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories, their translation and the ways in which they have been added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, it uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counter-culture of the medieval Near East. The author also wrote "The Limits of Vision", "The Arabian Nightmare", "The Mysteries of Algiers" and "The Middle East in the Middle Ages". [via]
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Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the Symbol's of Humankindby Anthony StevensISBN 0691086613 (0-691-08661-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the Symbol's of Humankind'Book summary:Symbolism is the most powerful and ancient means of communication available to humankind. For centuries people have expressed their preoccupations and concerns through symbolism in the form of myths, stories, religions, and dreams. The meaning of symbols has long been debated among philosophers, antiquarians, theologians, and, more recently, anthropologists and psychologists. In Ariadne's Clue, distinguished analyst and psychiatrist Anthony Stevens explores the nature of symbols and explains how and why we create the symbols we do.
The book is divided into two parts: an interpretive section that concerns symbols in general and a "dictionary" that lists hundreds of symbols and explains their origins, their resemblances to other symbols, and the belief systems behind them. In the first section, Stevens takes the ideas of C. G. Jung a stage further, asserting not only that we possess an innate symbol-forming propensity that exists as a creative and integral part of our psychic make-up, but also that the human mind evolved this capacity as a result of selection pressures encountered by our species in the course of its evolutionary history. Stevens argues that symbol formation has an adaptive function: it promotes our grasp on reality and in dreams often corrects deficient modes of psychological functioning. In the second section, Stevens examines symbols under four headings: "The Physical Environment," "Culture and Psyche," "People, Animals, and Plants," and "The Body." Many of the symbols are illustrated in the book's rich variety of woodcuts. From the ancient symbol of the serpent to the archetypal masculine and feminine, from the earth to the stars, from the primordial landscape of the savannah to the mysterious depths of the sea, Stevens traces a host of common symbols back through time to reveal their psychodynamic functioning and looks at their deep-rooted effects on the lives of modern men, women, and children.
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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 071265545X (0-7126-5545-X)
Softcover, Pimlico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Memory'Book summary:In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.[via]More editions of The Art of Memory:
Atlantis: From Legend to Discoveryby Andrew TomasISBN 0709133758 (0-7091-3375-8)
Hardcover, Hale
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The Basic Writings of C.G. Jungby C. G. Jung, Violet S. De Laszlo, R. F. C. HullISBN 0691019029 (0-691-01902-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung'Book summary:In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C. G. Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the spirit. The excerpts here illuminate the concept of the unconscious, the central pillar of his work, and display ample evidence of the spontaneous spiritual and religious activities of the human mind. This compact volume will serve as an ideal introduction to Jung's basic concepts.
Part I of this book, "On the Nature and Functioning of the Psyche," contains material from four works: "Symbols of Transformation," "On the Nature of the Psyche," "The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious," and "Psychological Types." Also included in Part I are "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious" and "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype." Part II, "On Pathology and Therapy," includes "On the Nature of Dreams," "On the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia," and selections from "Psychology of the Transference." In Part III appear "Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy" and two sections of "Psychology and Religion." Part IV, called "On Human Development," consists of the essay "Marriage as a Psychological Relationship."
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Black Ships Before Troyby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0711215227 (0-7112-1522-7)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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British Dragonsby Jacqueline SimpsonISBN 0713425598 (0-7134-2559-8)
Hardcover, Batsford
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill CoghillISBN 0713910046 (0-7139-1004-6)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
The Celtic Book of Daysby Caitlin MatthewsISBN 071712326X (0-7171-2326-X)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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The Celtic Dragon Mythby George Henderson, J. F. CampbellISBN 0710310862 (0-7103-1086-2)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins and Mothersby Miranda GreenISBN 071412303X (0-7141-2303-X)
Hardcover, British Museum Pubns Ltd
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Classic Celtic Fairy Talesby John Matthews, Ian DanielISBN 0713727837 (0-7137-2783-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Conference of the Birdsby Farid-Ud-Din AttarISBN 0710078218 (0-7100-7821-8)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 069101910X (0-691-01910-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedy II Vol. 1 : Purgatorio: Textby Charles S. Singleton, Dante AlighieriISBN 0691019096 (0-691-01909-6)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy II Vol. 1 : Purgatorio: Text'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Door in the Hedgeby Robin McKinleyISBN 0698119606 (0-698-11960-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fictionby James S. RommISBN 0691037884 (0-691-03788-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Elektra: A Playby Ezra Pound, Richard Reid, Rudd FlemingISBN 0691067783 (0-691-06778-3)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Iceby A. S. ByattISBN 0701168234 (0-7011-6823-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice'Book summary:A.S. Byatt's stories simmer with a sensuality and passion that, like topiary trees in a formal garden, are pruned and trained into cultivated shapes while retaining the wild scent of the orchard. In "Crocodile Tears" a woman walks away from a personal tragedy, deserting those she loves to try to reconcile herself to a death for which she feels horribly responsible. Thrown together in Nîmes with another exiled mourner, a Norwegian full of northern folktales, she ricochets between a numbed calm and a reckless urge for self-destruction. Together they begin to assemble some kind of personal solace out of fragments of European history, fiction, and myth, and so come to terms with their guilt. "A Lamia in the Cevennes" is also set in France, where another isolated English exile struggles for self-knowledge amid the shards of history and folktale. "Cold" is itself a kind of latter-day fairy story of ice princesses and sighing suitors. These are stories steeped in light and color, full of glowing landscapes and sensuous delights. Their intricately woven skeins of literary allusion and keenly observed locations bewitch the reader. Yet the figures in Byatt's landscapes seem powerless to derive pleasure or solace from their surroundings, picking their lonely way through the brilliance, carrying with them burdens of painful memories they cannot shake off. --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughterby Karl Kerenyi, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691019150 (0-691-01915-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Emperor and the Kiteby Jane Yolen, Ed YoungISBN 0698116445 (0-698-11644-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Myth and Legend: An Inspirational Source Book of Magic Vision and Loreby John Matthews, Caitlin MatthewsISBN 0712612181 (0-7126-1218-1)
Hardcover, Rider
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Epics of Early Civilization: Myths of the Ancient Near EastISBN 0705435539 (0-7054-3553-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Faust I & IIby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart AtkinsISBN 069103656X (0-691-03656-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust I & II'Book summary:Green Spain, as Northern Spain is often known, offers the visitor a great variety of landscapes: lush forests, deep-green valleys, soaring high mountain scenery, and exquisite beaches. For those looking for more than sun and sand, cultural highlights such as Santiago de Compostela, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are contrasted with the wonderful national parks that can be found in the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. But the best beaches and most charming villages are not neglected. Everything is depicted in the glorious visual style for which Eyewitness Travel Guides are known. [via]
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Faust:Parts 1 & 2by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard TaylorISBN 0722179049 (0-7221-7904-9)
Hardcover, Sphere
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Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony KerriganISBN 0714540838 (0-7145-4083-8)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fictions'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Folklore of the Scottish Highlandsby Anne RossISBN 0713454474 (0-7134-5447-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folklore of the Scottish Highlands'Book summary:The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Dr Anne Ross, a Gaelic-speaking Celtic scholar and archaeologist, has lived and worked in crofting communities, enabling her to collect information at first hand and to assess the veracity of material already published. She portrays the beliefs and customs of Scottish Gaelic society in the light of Celtic and more recent Scottish history, including: seasonal customs deriving from Celtic festivals; the famous waulking songs; the Highland tradition of seers and second sight; omens and taboos, both good and bad; chilling experiences of witchcraft and the Evil Eye; rituals associated with life and death. Dr Anne Ross, formerly Lecturer in the Extramural Department of the University of Southampton, where she taught Iron Age and general Celtic topics, now lives near Aberystwyth and teaches part time at the University. She is the author of several books including Roman Celtic Britain and of the Pagan Celts, as well as numerous papers and teaches part time. [via]
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Folktales of Englandby Katharine Mary Briggs, Ruth L. TongueISBN 0710066805 (0-7100-6680-5)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Mythby Lillian E. DohertyISBN 0715630423 (0-7156-3042-3)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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Grandfather Twilightby Barbara BergerISBN 0698113942 (0-698-11394-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Great Themes of the World: Myth & Mankindby Time-Life Books EditorsISBN 0705436837 (0-7054-3683-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Talesby Maria TatarISBN 0691114692 (0-691-11469-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales'Book summary:"Tatar's main concern is with the enduring hold of the tales on children's imaginations. Why should they enjoy stories about other children sent out to die in a wood, or being victimized by cruel stepmothers, or given impossible tasks to perform, and (if female) forced to marry frogs or bears? . . . The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales--related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon--is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader." --Janet Adam Smith, New York Review of Books "For scholars, students, and general readers, Tatar's book is a balanced, sensitive, and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms' fairy tales." --Merle Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor " . . . intelligently eclectic and refreshingly commonsensical, a thoughtful ramble through the dark childhood woods that haunt our adult dreams."--Carl Maves, San Francisco Chronicle [via]
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The Heart of the Hunterby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0701003928 (0-7010-0392-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiaryby Christian DelacampagneISBN 069111689X (0-691-11689-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Historical Figure of Jesusby E. P. SandersISBN 0713990597 (0-7139-9059-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The History of King Learby William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, James BlackISBN 071315862X (0-7131-5862-X)
Softcover, Edward Arnold
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Homer's Secret Iliad: The Epic of the Night Skies Decodedby Kenneth Wood, Florence WoodISBN 0719557801 (0-7195-5780-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Journeys Through Dreamtimeby the Editor's of Time-Life BooksISBN 0705436233 (0-7054-3623-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Kama Sutra: The Arts of Loveby Zek Halu, Misha Halu, Jane Graham-MawISBN 0722532377 (0-7225-3237-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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King Arthur and the Grail Questby John MatthewsISBN 0713725877 (0-7137-2587-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Language and Imagery of the Bibleby G. B. CairdISBN 0715615793 (0-7156-1579-3)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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The Last Templarby Raymond KhouryISBN 0715634410 (0-7156-3441-0)
Softcover, Duckworth
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Legends of Chivalry: Medieval Mythby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Clifford Bishop, Duncan Baird Publishers, Time-Life BooksISBN 070543673X (0-7054-3673-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Lost Realms of Gold: South American Mythby the Editor's of Time-Life BooksISBN 0705435830 (0-7054-3583-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Irelandby Eddie Lenihan, Carolyn Eve GreenISBN 0717136590 (0-7171-3659-0)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with The Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.More editions of Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland:
Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentlemanby Catherine RobsonISBN 0691115265 (0-691-11526-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Mother Earth, Father Sky: Native American Mythby Piers Vitebsky, Tom Lowenstein, Duncan Baird Publishers, Time-Life BooksISBN 0705435237 (0-7054-3523-7)
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The Mouth of the Nightby J. F. Campbell, Iris MacfarlaneISBN 0701150351 (0-7011-5035-1)
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Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhsby John ColarussoISBN 0691026475 (0-691-02647-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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On the Track of Unknown Animalsby Bernard Heuvelmans, Richard Garnett, Alika Lindbergh, Gerald DurrellISBN 0710304986 (0-7103-0498-6)
Hardcover, Kegan Paul International, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Track of Unknown Animals'Book summary:This is the most scientifically rigorous and complete books on recently discovered large animals -- such as the Pleistocene Peccary (the largest of all hogs, believed to have been extinct since the last age but recently discovered in Paraguay) -- to various possibly soon-to-be discovered megafauna such as Yetis, Sasquatchs -- and maybe even Mammoths.
If sensationalized and cheap TV shows about "mysterious animals" nauseate you, but nonetheless leave you with a nagging feeling that there might be a large critter lurking beneath the copious serving of tripe, this is definitely the book for you. Or if (like me) you've done eight years of fieldwork in zoology, it will make you want to accompany Dr. Heuvelmans on his next expedition. Highly Recommended. [via]
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The Oracles of the Ancient World: A Comprehensive Guideby Trevor CurnowISBN 0715631942 (0-7156-3194-2)
Hardcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Orpheus and Greek Religion: A Study of the Orphic Movementby W.K.C. GuthrieISBN 0691024995 (0-691-02499-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orpheus and Greek Religion: A Study of the Orphic Movement'Book summary:The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time.
W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.
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The Outlaws of Sherwoodby Robin McKinleyISBN 0698119592 (0-698-11959-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0708980724 (0-7089-8072-4)
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The Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691098875 (0-691-09887-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Realm of the Rising Sunby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Michael Kerrigan, Duncan Baird PublishersISBN 0705436632 (0-7054-3663-2)
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The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indiansby Paul RadinISBN 0691019169 (0-691-01916-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Sacred World of the Celts: An Illustrated Guide to Celtic Spirituality and Mythologyby Nigel PennickISBN 0722535120 (0-7225-3512-0)
Hardcover, Thorsons
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Secret Camelotby John Matthews, Gary AndrewsISBN 0713726466 (0-7137-2646-6)
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Secrets of Ancient and Sacred Places: The World's Mysterious Heritageby Paul DevereuxISBN 0713725931 (0-7137-2593-1)
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Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdomby Rachel PollackISBN 0722535724 (0-7225-3572-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainuby Donald L. PhilippiISBN 0691063842 (0-691-06384-2)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Spindle's Endby Robin McKinleyISBN 0698119509 (0-698-11950-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spindle's End'Book summary:Renowned fantasy writer Robin McKinley, author of the lush "Beauty and the Beast" retellings Beauty and Rose Daughter, has produced another re-mastered fairy tale, this time about the dreamy Sleeping Beauty. Much like in the original story, the infant princess, here named Rosie, is cursed by an evil fairy to die on her 21st birthday by pricking her finger on a spindle. That same day, Rosie is whisked away into hiding by a peasant fairy who raises her and conceals her royal identity. From that point on, McKinley's plot and characterization become wildly inventive. She imagines Rosie growing up into a strapping young woman who despises her golden hair, prefers leather breeches to ball gowns, and can communicate with animals. And on that fateful birthday, with no help from a prince, Rosie saves herself and her entire sleeping village from destruction, although she pays a realistic price. In a final master stroke, McKinley cleverly takes creative license when the spell-breaking kiss (made famous in "Sleeping Beauty") comes from a surprising source and is bestowed upon the character least expected.
Although the entire novel is well written, McKinley's characterization of Rosie's animal friends is exceptionally fine. Observations such as "...foxes generally wanted to talk about butterflies and grasses and weather for a long time while they sized you up," will spark reader's imaginations. It won't be hard to persuade readers of any age to become lost in this marvelous tale; the difficult part will be convincing them to come back from McKinley's country, where "the magic... was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk dust...." Highly recommended. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.by Carl Gustav JungISBN 0691097739 (0-691-09773-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.'Book summary:Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures.
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Spirits of the Snow: Arctic Mythby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Michael Kerrigan, Time-Life BooksISBN 0705436535 (0-7054-3653-5)
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Symbols of Transformationby C. G. JungISBN 0691097755 (0-691-09775-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Tales of the Celtic Otherworldby Ian Daniels, John MatthewsISBN 0713726563 (0-7137-2656-3)
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticismby Fritjof CapraISBN 0704501422 (0-7045-0142-2)
Hardcover, Wildwood House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism'Book summary:First published in 1975, The Tao of Physics rode the wave of fascination in exotic East Asian philosophies. Decades later, it still stands up to scrutiny, explicating not only Eastern philosophies but also how modern physics forces us into conceptions that have remarkable parallels. Covering over 3,000 years of widely divergent traditions across Asia, Capra can't help but blur lines in his generalizations. But the big picture is enough to see the value in them of experiential knowledge, the limits of objectivity, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics. Those approaching Eastern thought from a background of Western science will find reliable introductions here to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism and learn how commonalities among these systems of thought can offer a sort of philosophical underpinning for modern science. And those approaching modern physics from a background in Eastern mysticism will find precise yet comprehensible descriptions of a Western science that may reinvigorate a hope in the positive potential of scientific knowledge. Whatever your background, The Tao of Physics is a brilliant essay on the meeting of East and West, and on the invaluable possibilities that such a union promises. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead (English Title): The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States (Tibetan Title)by Graham Coleman, Padmasambhava, Thupten Jinpa, Karma-Glin-Pa, Gyurme DorjeISBN 0713994142 (0-7139-9414-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead (English Title): The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States (Tibetan Title)'Book summary:One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but strangely all of these have been partial abridgements. Now, in one of the year's most important publishing events, the entire text has not only been made available in English but in a translation of quite remarkable clarity and beauty. A comprehensive guide to living and dying The Tibetan Book of the Dead contains exquisitely written guidance and practices related to transforming our experience in the daily life, on the processes of dying and the after-death state, and on how to help those who are dying. As originally intended this is as much a work for the living, as it is for those who wish to think beyond a mere conventional lifetime to a vastly greater and grander cycle. [via]
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The Titans and Olympians : Greek and Roman Mythby Time-Life Books EditorsISBN 070543513X (0-7054-3513-X)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Tree Wisdomby Jacqueline M. PatersonISBN 0722534086 (0-7225-3408-6)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Triumph of the HeroISBN 0705435733 (0-7054-3573-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
Find This BookBook summary:Text and illustrations provide an introduction to the myths and legends of the Greeks and Romans. [via]
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Turner's Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaningby Kathleen Dukeley NicholsonISBN 069104080X (0-691-04080-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreamsby C. G. Jung, R. F. C. HullISBN 0691018944 (0-691-01894-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Together for the first time in one paperback volume are two of Jung's major late works, in the version published in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, as rendered by Jung's official translator. "The Undiscovered Self" (1957) integrates many of Jung's lifelong social and psychological concerns and addresses the uneasy relation between the individual and mass society. The survival of civilization, he maintains, depends on individual awareness of both the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human psyche. The exploration of the unconscious, in particular, leads to self-knowledge and with it recognition of the duality of human natureits potential for evil as well as for good. Jung believes that it is this self-knowledge that enables the individual to resist the collective power of mass society and the state and to cope with their possible threats. Jung's reflections on self-knowledge and the exploration of the unconscious carry over into his essay "Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams, " completed shortly before his death in 1961. (It is the original version of his introduction to the symposium Man and His Symbols, conceived as a popular presentation of Jungian ideas.) Describing dreams as communications from the unconscious--as expressions of aspects of the individual that have been neglected or unrealized--Jung explains how the symbols that occur in dreams compensate for repressed emotions and intuitions. In a world dehumanized, in Jung's view, by scientific "progress" and the loss of emotional participation in natural events, symbols recall our original nature, its instincts and peculiar way of thinking. This essay brings together Jung's fully evolved thoughts on the analysis ofdreams and the healing of the rift between consciousness and the unconscious, in the context of his system of psychology. [via]
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The Vanishing People ; a Study of Traditional Fairy Beliefsby Katharine Mary BriggsISBN 0713412402 (0-7134-1240-2)
Hardcover, Batsford
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Voices of the Ancestors: African Mythby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Fergus Fleming, Time-Life BooksISBN 0705436438 (0-7054-3643-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Wandering Unicornby Manuel Mujica LainezISBN 0701126868 (0-7011-2686-8)
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The Wanderings of Odysseusby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 071120862X (0-7112-0862-X)
Hardcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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The Wisdom of the Serpentby Joseph L. Henderson, Maud OakesISBN 0691020647 (0-691-02064-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of the Serpent'Book summary:The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations.
"This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
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Wise Lord of the Skyby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Michael Kerrigan, Duncan Baird PublishersISBN 0705436330 (0-7054-3633-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Womblesby Elisabeth Beresford, Margaret GordonISBN 0696877376 (0-696-87737-6)
Hardcover, Meredith Press
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The World of Odysseusby M. I. FinleyISBN 0701122447 (0-7011-2244-7)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World of Odysseus'Book summary:Are the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" just charming poetic fantasies? Or do they give a more or less accurate picture of the Mycenaean period, the early Dark Age of Homer's own era? Do archaeological discoveries like Schliemann's excavations at Troy bear out Homer's account of the Trojan war? The author offers an analysis of Homer's depiction of kinship and community, Helen and Hector, morals and values, Paris, Priam and the gods. [via]
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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