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Adventures of Robin Hoodby Roger L. Green, Roger Lancelyn Green, Arthur HallISBN 0140367004 (0-14-036700-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Robin Hood'Book summary:This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by twelfth-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. [via]
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Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Imageby Leonard ShlainISBN 0140196013 (0-14-019601-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Image'Book summary:"Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain. "Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word."
That's a pretty audacious claim, one that The Alphabet Versus the Goddess provides extensive historical and cultural correlations to support. Shlain's thesis takes readers from the evolutionary steps that distinguish the human brain from that of the primates to the development of the Internet. The very act of learning written language, he argues, exercises the human brain's left hemisphere--the half that handles linear, abstract thought--and enforces its dominance over the right hemisphere, which thinks holistically and visually. If you accept the idea that linear abstraction is a masculine trait, and that holistic visualization is feminine, the rest of the theory falls into place. The flip side is that as visual orientation returns to prominence within society through film, television, and cyberspace, the status of women increases, soon to return to the equilibrium of the earliest human cultures. Shlain wisely presents this view of history as plausible rather than definite, but whether you agree with his wide-ranging speculations or not, he provides readers eager to "understand it all" with much to consider. --Ron Hogan [via]
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American Tall Talesby Adrien Stoutenburg, Richard M. PowersISBN 0140309284 (0-14-030928-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Arabian Nights: A Companionby Robert IrwinISBN 0140098631 (0-14-009863-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Archer's Taleby Bernard CornwellISBN 0066210844 (0-06-621084-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Archer's Tale'Book summary:Following the phenomenal success of the Sharpe novels set in the Napoleonic Wars, Bernard Cornwell has turned his storytelling talents to another great moment in English history, the Hundred Years War between England and France throughout the 14th century. Harlequin is the first book in Cornwell's Grail Quest series, which chronicles the adventures of young Thomas of Hookton, "a big, bony, black-haired country boy". Thomas rejects the church in favour of the life of an archer in France after his village is brutally sacked by the French. The young Thomas fights back against the French with his bow, and "in that one instant, as the first arrow slid into the sky, he knew he wanted nothing more from life". He vows to seek revenge on the plains of France, and recover the holy relic of St. George stolen from his village by the sinister "harlequin" with whose destiny Thomas finds himself inextricably entwined. The rest of the action moves at a hectic pace across the violent and bloody battlefields of northern France, as Thomas falls for a beautiful French widow nicknamed "the Blackbird", makes a mortal enemy of the "poor, bitter and ambitious" Sir Simon Jekyll, and follows the ensign of King Edward III and his heroic son, the Black Prince. Harlequin is a fast-paced and graphic recreation of the Hundred Years War, despite a rather gratuitous fixation on rape and pillage. The action comes thick and fast, although it remains to be seen if Thomas of Hookton has the wit and flair of Cornwell's other great heroic creation, Richard Sharpe. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Bacchaeby Euripides, G.S. KirkISBN 0130552852 (0-13-055285-2)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae'Book summary:Bacchae written by legendary Athenian playwright Euripides is widely considered to be one of the top Greek tragedies of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Bacchae is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Euripides is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Bacchae would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Storiesby Angela CarterISBN 014017821X (0-14-017821-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Book of the Hopiby Frank Waters, Oswald White Bear FredericksISBN 0140045279 (0-14-004527-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Mayaby Dennis TedlockISBN 0062509012 (0-06-250901-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya'Book summary:This remarkable book lets readers hear Maya myths as they are told today in the mountains of Guatemala. First published in 1993, Breath on the Mirror is now available only from UNM Press.
"A fascinating literary and anthropological excursion into the mental universe of the modern Quiché Maya and their forebears. The stories and myths so compellingly recounted here turn our own world upside-down and remake it in the Maya image. Reading this, one can understand why and how Maya culture has survived five centuries of oppression."--Michael D. Coe, Yale University, author of The Maya
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughreanISBN 0140380531 (0-14-038053-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:[via]One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society.
The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and trickery; in The Shipmans Tale, a wife sells her favors to a monk. Others draw on courtly romance and fantasy: the Knight tells of rivals competing for the love of the same woman, and the Squire describes a princess who can speak to birds. In these twenty-four tales, Chaucer displays a dazzling range of literary styles and conjures up a wonderfully vivid picture of medieval life.
- Freshly established Middle English text with standardized spelling and punctuation and on-page glossing
- Features an introduction, a chronology of Chaucer's life and works, detailed explanatory notes, suggestions for further reading, a full glossary, and a bibliography
- Companion to the Penguin Classics original-spelling edition of Troilus and Criseyde
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Care of the Soul: How to Add Depth and Meaning to Your Everyday Lifeby Thomas MooreISBN 0067575110 (0-06-757511-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Comfort Womanby Nora Okja KellerISBN 0140263357 (0-14-026335-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comfort Woman'Book summary:Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut. Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II, and Beccah, her daughter by an American missionary. The two women are living on the edge of societyand sanityin Honolulu, plagued by Akiko's periodic encounters with the spirits of the dead, and by Beccah's struggles to reclaim her mother from her past. Slowly and painfully Akiko reveals her tragic story and the horrifying years she was forced to serve as a "comfort woman" to Japanese soldiers. As Beccah uncovers these truths, she discovers her own strength and the secret of the powers she herself possessedthe precious gifts her mother has given her.[via]
A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
In 1995, Nora Okja Keller received the Pushcart Prize for "Mother Tongue", a piece that is part of Comfort Woman.More editions of Comfort Woman:
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 014010934X (0-14-010934-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Cunning Manby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140248307 (0-14-024830-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt: An Essay on Egyptian Religion and the Frame of Timeby Jane B. SellerISBN 0140153071 (0-14-015307-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Deptford Trilogyby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140147551 (0-14-014755-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deptford Trilogy'Book summary:"Who killed Boy Staunton?"
This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders. Indeed, Staunton's death is the central event of each of the three novels, and Rashomon-style, each circles round to view it from a different perspective. In the first book, Fifth Business, Davies introduces us to Dunstan Ramsey and his "lifelong friend and enemy, Percy Boyd Staunton," both aged 10. It is a winter evening in the small Canadian village of Deptford, and Ramsey and Boy have quarreled. In a rage, Boy throws a snowball with a stone in it, misses his friend and hits the Baptist minister's pregnant wife by mistake. She becomes hysterical and later that night delivers her child prematurely, a baby with birth defects. Even worse, she loses her mind. The snowball, the stone, the deformed baby christened Paul Dempster--this is the secret guilt that will bind Ramsey and Staunton together through their long lives:
I was perfectly sure, you see, that the birth of Paul Dempster, so small, so feeble, and troublesome, was my fault. If I had not been so clever, so sly, so spiteful in hopping in front of the Dempsters just as Percy Boyd Staunton threw that snowball at me from behind, Mrs. Dempster would not have been struck. Did I never think that Percy was guilty? Indeed I did.
Boy, however, "would fight, lie, do anything rather than admit" he feels guilty, too, and so the subject remains unresolved between them right up until the night Boy's body is found in his car, in a lake, with a stone in his mouth. The second novel, The Manticore, follows Staunton's son, David, through a course of Jungian therapy in Switzerland, while World of Wonders concentrates on Magnus Eisengrim, a renowned magician and hypnotist with ties to both Ramsey and Boy Staunton.When it came to writing, three was Davies's favorite number. Before the Deptford books, he wrote The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties), and after it came The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus). Excellent as these and Davies's other novels are, The Deptford Trilogy is arguably the masterpiece for which he'll best be remembered, as the combination of magic, archetype, and good, old-fashioned human frailty at work in these novels is a world of wonders unto itself, and guarantees these three books a permanent place among the great books of our time. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Druidsby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0094724504 (0-09-472450-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earthby Elizabeth Roberts, Elias AmidonISBN 0062508881 (0-06-250888-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth'Book summary:In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection between people and the planet is heightened.
From Walt Whitman, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Black Elk, to Margaret Atwood, the Rig Veda, and the chant of a Samar fisherman, the varied voices linked here offer songs and prayers for land, sea, and air; graces for food; and invocations, poems, and passages that reveal in the common spiritual heritage of all who cherish creation. [via]
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Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and Peopleby Michael Page, Robert R. IngpenISBN 0140100083 (0-14-010008-3)
Softcover, Studio
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Fair Wind for Troyby Doris GatesISBN 014031718X (0-14-031718-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fair Wind for Troy'Book summary:Retells the events leading up to the Trojan War including Helen's capture by Paris and the sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis. [via]
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Fairy Tales from Many Landsby Arthur RackhamISBN 0140049142 (0-14-004914-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales from Many Lands'Book summary:Thirteen fairy tales from a variety of countries including Japan, Yugoslavia, Portugal, and Belgium. [via]
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Finnegans Wakeby James JoyceISBN 0140062866 (0-14-006286-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finnegans Wake'Book summary:Presented as the story of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, a Dublin tavern-keeper, this novel has as its theme a cyclical pattern of fall and resurrection. It takes the form of a dream-sequence representing the stream of Earwicker's unconscious mind through the course of one night. [via]
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Fireworks : Nine Profane Piecesby Angela CarterISBN 0140105883 (0-14-010588-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fireworks : Nine Profane Pieces'Book summary:Nine darkly inventive tales of desire, slaughter, and hideous knowledge. . . . [via]
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The Friendly Guide to Mythologyby Nancyl HathawayISBN 014024087X (0-14-024087-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The God of Impertinenceby Sten Nadolny, Breon MitchellISBN 0140254528 (0-14-025452-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
The Great Indian Novelby Shashi TharoorISBN 0140120491 (0-14-012049-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypesby Carol S. Pearson, Margaret MarkISBN 0071364153 (0-07-136415-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Historical Figure of Jesusby E. P. SandersISBN 0140144994 (0-14-014499-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historical Figure of Jesus'Book summary:"Provocative and readable...A remarkable achievement."Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale Univ.[via]"No one in our generation is more broadly and deeply prepared than Sanders to tackle the daunting array of problems confronting the historical Jesus. This book will become the standard against which future reconstruction of the historical Jesus of Nazareth will be compared."David Dungan, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"For Professor Sanders, Jesus is a well-authenticated figure about whom we know a surprisingly large amount. He is particularly succesful in unraveling the complex business of New Testament chronology. He then takes us step by step through Jesus' career, pausing to look in detail at the more notable problems, such as the miracles, Jesus' followers, his opponents, his last week in Jerusalem, his trial, execution and the Resurrection. I shall keep this valuable book handy on my shelves, and use its expertise and logic to confute irrtating sceptics." Paul Johnson in the Sunday Telegraph
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The Homeward Boundersby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0064473538 (0-06-447353-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Homeward Bounders'Book summary:If he finds the right world, Jamie can get Home again.
When Jamie stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wonder in hope of one day finding his way back to his own city.
Bit by bit, though, Jamie realizes there are rules They have to play by. He forms an alliance with two other lost Homeward Bounders -- bitter, powerful Helen and demon-hunter Joris -- and takes a desperate chance, hoping that the three wanders can find a way back to their home worlds at last.
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Imagine Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives of the North American Indiansby Christopher VecseyISBN 0062508911 (0-06-250891-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Irish Folk and Fairy Tales/Omnibus Edition/3 Volumes in 1by Michael ScottISBN 0140123261 (0-14-012326-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Peter LeviISBN 0140183515 (0-14-018351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyanaby Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 014019360X (0-14-019360-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana'Book summary:The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature.[via]Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings [translated from the Spanish]by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East IrbyISBN 0140029818 (0-14-002981-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Language of the Goddessby Marija Gimbutas, Joseph CampbellISBN 0062512439 (0-06-251243-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of the Goddess'Book summary:Marija Gimbutas' masterpiece in a new, easily affordable paperback edition: "A dramatic story of paradise lost and rediscovered."-- "New York Times" [via]
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Last and First Men, and Last Men in Londonby Olaf StapledonISBN 0140035060 (0-14-003506-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last and First Men, and Last Men in London'Book summary:[via]"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke of this masterpiece of science fiction. An imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations. A must-read for scholars of the genre.More editions of Last and First Men, and Last Men in London:
Listening to the Oracle: The Ancient Art of Finding Guidance in the Signs and Symbols All Around Usby Dianne SkafteISBN 006251444X (0-06-251444-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Little Sisterby Kara DalkeyISBN 0140386319 (0-14-038631-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Magician's Nephewby C. S. Lewis, Pauline BaynesISBN 0064405052 (0-06-440505-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magician's Nephew'Book summary:This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis's Chronicles through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.
Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes's original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Magician's Nephew: ISBN 0064471101 (0-06-447110-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Magician's Nephew: ISBN 0064405052 (0-06-440505-2)
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Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Shareby Jane Yolen, Heidi Elizabet Yolen-StempleISBN 0140298355 (0-14-029835-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman Melville, Tom QuirkISBN 0140390847 (0-14-039084-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Myths & Legends of the Celtic Raceby T. W. RollestonISBN 0094662606 (0-09-466260-6)
Hardcover, Constable
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Myths of Greece and Romeby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0140056432 (0-14-005643-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Neverending Storyby Michael EndeISBN 0140074317 (0-14-007431-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The New English Bible with the Apocryphaby Joint Committee on the New Translation of the BibleISBN 0140036814 (0-14-003681-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Roomby Paul AusterISBN 0140131558 (0-14-013155-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Oedipus the King: Uses And Abusesby Sophocles, Thomas GouldISBN 0136305091 (0-13-630509-1)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0072434236 (0-07-243423-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth M. Pope, Richard CuffariISBN 014034912X (0-14-034912-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Philosopher's Secret Fire: A History of the Imaginationby Patrick HarpurISBN 0140195904 (0-14-019590-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The Portable Cervantesby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Samuel PutnamISBN 0140150579 (0-14-015057-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Cervantes'Book summary:[via]Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exemplary Novels, 'Rinconete and Cortadillo' and 'Man of Glass'; and 'Foot in the Stirrup,' Cervantes's extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda.
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Portable Jungby Joseph Campbell, Carl Gustav JungISBN 0140150706 (0-14-015070-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Portable North American Indian Readerby Turner, Frederick W., 3rdISBN 0140150773 (0-14-015077-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Robin Hoodby R. L. GreenISBN 0140301011 (0-14-030101-1)
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greeceby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0140115129 (0-14-011512-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Search for the Giant Squidby Richard EllisISBN 0140286764 (0-14-028676-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for the Giant Squid'Book summary:The sea contains many mysteries, and among the most enduring of them are giant squids of the genus Architeuthis. About this squid, known as the "kraken" in classical mythology, we know little, except, oceanographic writer Richard Ellis notes, that "it occasionally washes ashore--and when that happens, we don't know why." Some of these odd creatures, Ellis notes, are 60 feet long, cannibalistic, and patently fierce, with the largest eyes of any animal on the planet (useful for seeing in the inky darkness of the deep sea). They're not the kind of thing you'd want to encounter on a benthic shelf, as Ian Fleming made clear in Doctor No, in which superspy James Bond had one such unpleasant meeting. But, thanks to Ellis's well-researched account, they make the perfect subject for armchair sleuthing, and he tells you just about everything you'd want to know about the giant squid, from the biologists and explorers and cryptozoologists who have hunted for it over the centuries, and much more. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Seasons of Splendour: Tales, Myths, & Legends of Indiaby Madhur Jaffrey, Michael ForemanISBN 0140346996 (0-14-034699-6)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Shaka Zuluby E.A. RitterISBN 014004826X (0-14-004826-X)
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The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddessby StarhawkISBN 0062516329 (0-06-251632-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Thief of Alwaysby Clive BarkerISBN 0064409945 (0-06-440994-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr. Hood's wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows it's darker face -- when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadows -- that he comes to doubt Mr. Hood's philanthropy.The House and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle, however. Mr. Hood has ambitious for his new guest, for Harvey's soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered in a thousand years... [via]More editions of The Thief of Always:
This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for the Magical Bodyby Ptolemy TompkinsISBN 0062508660 (0-06-250866-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobodyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0140047484 (0-14-004748-4)
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Travel Lightby Naomi MitchisonISBN 0140161740 (0-14-016174-0)
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The Twelve Wild Swansby Starhawk, Hilary ValentineISBN 0062516698 (0-06-251669-8)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twelve Wild Swans'Book summary:Starhawk and Hilary Valentine, renowned leaders in the Wicca movement, use the transformative fairy tale of The Twelve Wild Swans to teach an advanced class on magic. More significantly, this is an introduction to a mature level of Wicca called "Reclaiming"--a model of witchcraft that blends magic, personal growth and activism. The book begins with the first chapter of the fairytale, in which a foolish queen wishes to exchange her 12 sons for a daughter. An old woman "dressed all in black" overhears the queen and makes the wish come true--granting the queen a daughter but turning her sons into wild swans.
From here the coauthors launch into a back-and forth structure of telling the story and then stopping to show how it applies to a witch's initiation and transformation. For example, we all must leave the castle in order to heal our past. We all must spend some time wandering in the wilderness before finding our true home and we all must conquer some form of "wicked vows" before we can reach full maturity. These are wise leaders and strong guides--well worth following on this life-altering fairytale. --Tara West [via]
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 014003000X (0-14-003000-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Understanding Human Sexualityby Janet S. HydeISBN 0073197807 (0-07-319780-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Unicornby Iris MurdochISBN 014002476X (0-14-002476-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Unicornby Nancy HathawayISBN 0140063285 (0-14-006328-5)
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Watership Downby Richard George AdamsISBN 0140039589 (0-14-003958-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Western Way: A Practical Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition The Native Traditionby John Matthews, Caitlin MatthewsISBN 0140190686 (0-14-019068-6)
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The Western Way Omnibusby Caitlinand John MatthewsISBN 0140194622 (0-14-019462-2)
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Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0140304770 (0-14-030477-0)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of Earthsea'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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Woman Changing Woman: Feminine Psychology Re-Conceived Through Myth and Experienceby Virginia Beane RutterISBN 0062510711 (0-06-251071-1)
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The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objectsby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 0062509233 (0-06-250923-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects'Book summary:This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features: Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object 21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities' Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts, Nature, Birds, Plants, Minerals, Stones and Shells, and more Introductory essays for each section 753 entries and 636 illustrations Alphabetical index for easy reference Three-Rayed Sun The sun suspended in heaven by three powers, perhaps the Triple Goddess who gave birth to it (see Three-Way Motifs). Corn Dolly An embodiment of the harvest to be set in the center of the harvest dance, or fed to the cattle to `make them thrive year round' (see Secular-Sacred Objects). Tongue In Asia, the extended tongue was a sign of life-force as the tongue between the lips imitated the sacred lingam-yoni: male within female genital. Sticking out the tongue is still a polite sign of greeting in northern India and Tibet (see Body Parts). Cosmic Egg In ancient times the primeval universe-or the Great Mother-took the form of an egg. It carried all numbers and letters within an ellipse, to show that everything is contained within one form at the beginning (see Round and Oval Motifs). [via]
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The Women's Wheel of Life: Thirteen Archetypes of Woman at Her Fullest Powerby Elizabeth Davis, Carol LeonardISBN 014019505X (0-14-019505-X)
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Words of the World's Religions: An Anthologyby R. EnglewoodISBN 0139650040 (0-13-965004-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The World of Odysseusby M. I. FinleyISBN 014013686X (0-14-013686-X)
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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Mythby W. B. Yeats, Robert WelchISBN 014018001X (0-14-018001-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0062511408 (0-06-251140-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista / The Alchemist'Book summary:La mágica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niño pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseña la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazón, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueños.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en España en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en España y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la década.
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