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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
by Stuart A. Vyse

ISBN 0195136349 (0-19-513634-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Wade Boggs is one of the best hitters baseball has ever known; at the plate he's a master technician. He also believes that eating chicken gives him good luck, so he's eaten chicken every day for years. Starting with the superstitions of ballplayers, Stuart Vyse, a psychology professor at Connecticut College, embarks on a fascinating exploration of superstitious thoughts in Believing In Magic. Employing scientific techniques and utilizing hard facts, Vyse shows how silly superstition really is. Yet he also admits that some people do perform better when they follow their superstitious rituals. This is a highly informative book, dealing with everything from chain letters to lucky charms to lottery systems. [via]
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Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions
by David Pickering

ISBN 0304365610 (0-304-36561-0)
Softcover, Cassell P L C

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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel

ISBN 8439702469 (84-397-0246-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.

From the Paperback edition. [via]
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan

ISBN 0345409469 (0-345-40946-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues. [via]
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Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions
by Philippa Waring

ISBN 1850510091 (1-85051-009-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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A Dictionary of Superstitions
by Iona Archibald Opie, Moira Tatem

ISBN 0192829165 (0-19-282916-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Is it good or bad luck to mention a pig to a fisherman? What does it portend when you break a double-yolked egg? How many frogs do you need to cure whooping cough?
Ranging from the familiar to the bizarre, and including everything from spells and omens to rituals and taboos, this delightfully informative dictionary covers a wide array of popular superstitions, touching on virtually every aspect of human culture. They embrace family life and the lore of farmers, sailors, miners, and actors; offer advice on the signs to observe when contemplating a journey or a marriage; reveal the significance of animals, plants, stones, colors, food and drink, the elements, and heavenly bodies; and outline the precautions to be taken after a death in the house or during a thunderstorm. Each entry is arranged alphabetically according to its central idea or object, and illustrated with a selection of chronologically ordered quotations that indicate the history and development of each belief.
Superstitions have never before been treated in such depth or on such a scale. An entertaining volume for anyone curious about the beliefs of the past, A Dictionary of Superstitions also makes a valuable contribution to the study of folklore, providing the first systematic account of beliefs that form an integral part of our social life. [via]
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Dictionary of Superstitions
by David Pickering

ISBN 0304345350 (0-304-34535-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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An A-Z guide to the origins and meaning of superstitions. Find a wealth of fascinating facts and a number of fun "spells" to try -- including a rhyme to say to the new moon for revealing the identity of your true love. For those who believe in "breaking a leg", or for anyone interested in folklore and popular culture, this is sure to be an entertaining read as well as an invaluable reference. [via]
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A Dictionary of Superstitions
by Moira Tatem, Iona Archibald Opie

ISBN 0192806645 (0-19-280664-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Is it good or bad luck to mention a pig to a fisherman? What does it portend when you break a double-yolked egg? Or when you witness a headless shadow? How many frogs do you need to cure whooping cough? And what's all this about black cats?
Ranging from the familiar to the bizarre, and including everything from spells and omens to rituals and taboos, this delightfully informative dictionary covers a wide array of popular superstitions, touching on virtually every aspect of human culture. They embrace family life and the lore of farmers, sailors, miners, and actors; offer advice on the signs to observe when contemplating a journey or a marriage; reveal the significance of animals, plants, stones, colors, food and drink, the elements, and heavenly bodies; outline the precautions to be taken after a death in the house or during a thunderstorm; and disclose the motives behind seasonal customs at New Year, in May, at Halloween, and Christmas. Each entry is arranged alphabetically according to its central idea or object, and illustrated with a selection of chronologically ordered quotations that indicate the history and development of each belief. And a thematic index helps the reader discover surprisingly coherent patterns in these mysterious and often misunderstood methods of comprehending the world and overcomingits perils, and shows the strong underlying connections with witchcraft and pagan religions.
Superstitions have never before been treated in such depth or on such a scale. An entertaining volume for anyone curious about the beliefs of the past, A Dictionary of Superstitions also makes a valuable contribution to the study of folklore, providing the first systematic account of beliefs that form an integral part of our social life. [via]
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Die Satanischen Verse
by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 3426606488 (3-426-60648-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Dracula
by Bram Stoker

ISBN 185326086X (1-85326-086-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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What starts as a simple errand to Transylvania to bring information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London, Jonathan Harker soon learns there is more to the Count than he first expects. Back in England, Harker's wife-to-be, Mina, is visiting her friend Lucy. When Dracula makes his way to England in search of fresh blood, Lucy becomes his next victim, and when Dr. Seward cannot save her, he enlists the aid of his mentor, Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing quickly realizes Lucy's fate and what she has become, and so brings together Jonathan, Mina, Dr. Seward and others to hunt down the Count and destroy him forever. If they can catch him. [via]
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El Salon De Ambar
by Matilde Asensi

ISBN 8408068563 (84-08-06856-3)
Softcover, Booket

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay, Norman Stone

ISBN 1853263494 (1-85326-349-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.

In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. [via]
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Don Miguel Ruiz

ISBN 1878424505 (1-878424-50-5)
Hardcover, Amber-Allen Pub

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Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering. --P. Randall Cohan [via]
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom a Toltec Wisdom Book
by Don Miguel Ruiz

ISBN 1878424319 (1-878424-31-9)
Softcover, Amber-Allen Pub

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Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering. --P. Randall Cohan [via]
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins

ISBN 0618680004 (0-618-68000-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.
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Golden Bough
by James G Fraser

ISBN 0020955707 (0-02-095570-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos fo ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. the third edition of this monumental study of folklore, magic, and religion was abridged by the authour into this single volume in 1922.
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
by James George Frazer

ISBN 1853263109 (1-85326-310-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which, to later thought, opens out between them. Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself. -from "Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods" In 1890, James George Frazer began publishing The Golden Bough, his monumental study of myth, ritual, and religion, which would, by 1936, run to 13 volumes and establish him as a pioneer in the study of religion as an aspect of culture. This abridged edition, assembled in 1922, condenses this fundamental work to one readable volume that is still a source for modern anthropology, thanks to its expansive discussions ancient cultish practices and their connections to the rites of modern Christianity. In eloquent prose, Frazer discusses legends of the woods, sympathetic magic, magicians as kings, the worship of trees, the concept of the sacred marriage, the links between priestly and royal power, ritual royal sacrifices, the concept of "eating the god," the myths of Osiris, Adonis, Isis, and other ancient deities, and much more. Lovers of mythology will be enraptured by this book, which draws all of human belief under one unifying umbrella, celebrating myth and ritual as part of the basis of all human culture. Scottish anthropologist SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) also wrote Man, God, and Immortality (1927) and Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies (1935). [via]
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Golden Bough a Study in Magic and Religion 1927
by James George Frazer

ISBN 0766158128 (0-7661-5812-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. With the instances of customs illustrated in this volume, it is no longer possible to regard the rule of succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia as exceptional; it clearly exemplifies a widespread institution, of which the most numerous and the most similar cases have thus far been found in Africa. [via]
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The Golden Bough : The Collected Works of J. G. Frazer
by J. G. Frazer

ISBN 0700714480 (0-7007-1448-0)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group

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The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folklore
by James George Frazer

ISBN 0517336332 (0-517-33633-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The only unabridged, illustrated edition of the classic exploration of the world of myth, folklore, and primitive customs is an inspiration to poets, students, and readers in general. [via]
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The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
by James George Frazer, Robert K.G. Temple

ISBN 0684818507 (0-684-81850-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Kama Sutra
by Vatsyayana, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 185326606X (1-85326-606-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Written over 2000 years ago, the Kama Sutra's relevance is perennial, since, all of life's expressions, sexual gratification remains one of the most fundamental. Brilliantly illustrated with rare minatures, gouache and tantric paintings, and sculptures on ivory panels, the book imbibes the magic of the Kama Sutra and examines the life force or prana of which the physical and the spiritual are equally potent aspects.
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The Kama Sutra: The Hindu Art of Love
by Moti Chandra, S. C. Upadhyaya

ISBN 1842930656 (1-84293-065-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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This is the only truly authentic translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra from the ancient Sanskrit. [via]
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The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan

ISBN 1560549483 (1-56054-948-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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Tan follows up the success of The Joy Luck Club with this moving story of two women who have kept each other's secrets for 40 years. 12 cassettes. [via]
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LA Esposa Del Dios Del Fuego
by Amy Tan

ISBN 8484507637 (84-8450-763-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1853260355 (1-85326-035-5)
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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies
by John Hogue, Michel Nostradamus

ISBN 1852309598 (1-85230-959-8)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element

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Religion and the Decline of Magic
by Keith Thomas

ISBN 0684145421 (0-684-14542-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this belief in magic and the supernatural. As Keith Thomas shows, England during these years resembled in many ways today's "underdeveloped areas." The English population was exceedingly liable to pain, sickness, and premature death; many were illiterate; epidemics such as the bubonic plague plowed through English towns, at times cutting the number of London's inhabitants by a sixth; fire was a constant threat; the food supply was precarious; and for most diseases there was no effective medical remedy.
In this fascinating and detailed book, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for misfortune and a means of redress in times of adversity. The supernatural thus had its own practical utility in daily life. Some forms of magic were challenged by the Protestant Reformation, but only with the increased search for scientific explanation of the universe did the English people begin to abandon their recourse to the supernatural.
Science and technology have made us less vulnerable to some of the hazards which confronted the people of the past. Yet Religion and the Decline of Magic concludes that "if magic is defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognize that no society will ever be free from it." [via]
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
by Keith Thomas

ISBN 0195213602 (0-19-521360-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
by Jules Michelet, A.R. Allinson

ISBN 080650059X (0-8065-0059-X)
Softcover, Citadel Pr

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Product Description Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public's attention to one of the truly great sociological works of modern times. Michelet brilliantly recreates the Europe of the Middle Ages, the centuries of fierce religious intolerance, the Inquisition and the auto-da-fe. He depicts the feudal barons, the great manors, the fiefs and serfs... and the witches, hobgoblins and wizards of whom the masses lived in mortal fear. Michelet draws flaming word pictures of the witch hunts, the Black Masses, the reign of Satan, and the weird rites of the damned. Here is the age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagination and squalor beyond endurance. Here is the time when a girl might be accused of witchcraft merely if she were young and pretty and did not survive the test of immersion in water or boiling oil. Here is the day of beatings, floggings, tortures and summary decapitations. Encyclopedia Britannica called the book, "The most important work on medieval superstition yet written." It is indeed one of the great works on the Age of Darkness. [via]
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Strange Highways
by Jerry D. Coleman

ISBN 189252337X (1-892523-37-X)
Softcover, Whitechapel Productions

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Strange Superstitions and Curious Customs of the Ancient World
by Alicia Chrysostomou, Matheos Chrysostomou

ISBN 1856354946 (1-85635-494-6)
Softcover, Mercier Pr Ltd

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Symbolic and Mythological Animals
by J. C. Cooper

ISBN 1855381184 (1-85538-118-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
by Slavoj Zizek

ISBN 1859842917 (1-85984-291-7)
Softcover, Verso Books

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A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
The Ticklish Subject confronts Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heideggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists by unearthing a subversive core to this elusive spectre, and finding in this core the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics. [via]
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Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1847027490 (1-84702-749-0)
Softcover, Echo Library

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This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB. [via]
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Why People Believe Weird Things
by Michael Shermer

ISBN 1567313590 (1-56731-359-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer

ISBN 0805070893 (0-8050-7089-3)
Softcover, Owl Books

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Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Witchcraft, Sorcery and Superstition
by Jules Michelet, A.R. Allinson

ISBN 0806516860 (0-8065-1686-0)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate
by Not Available

ISBN 9706907483 (970-690-748-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.

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Diario/ Diary: Una Novela/ a Novel
by Chuk Palahniuk

ISBN 849793637X (84-9793-637-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Guaminiquinaje
by Pedro Peglez Gonzalez

ISBN 9592094276 (959-209-427-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Union

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La Historiadora / The Historian
by Eduardo G. Murillo, Elizabeth Kostova

ISBN 8495618877 (84-95618-87-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Elizabeth Kostova; La Historiadora: This edition published by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company (Inc.), New York, New York, USA. [via]
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Macbeth y Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Juan Alarcon Benito

ISBN 8484034216 (84-8403-421-6)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros

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Oracion Por Owen / A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving

ISBN 8472231267 (84-7223-126-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Devils of Loudon Libretto
by Krzysztof Penderecki

ISBN 3795736463 (3-7957-3646-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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