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Against the Grain: (A Reboursby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 0486221903 (0-486-22190-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain: (A Rebours'Book summary:Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and grotesque in human affairs, the protagonist of this masterpiece of decadence has estranged himself from society and savors the most bizarre aspects of human existence in his quest for novelty. This landmark novel is filled with weird images and biting wit. Introduction by Havelock Ellis.[via]More editions of Against the Grain: (A Rebours:
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Apollinaireby Guillaume AppollinaireISBN 0460882112 (0-460-88211-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollinaire'Book summary:A new translation of poems by the avant garde writer who attempted to synthesize poetry and visual arts. [via]
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guineaby Bron MalinowskiISBN 0415090946 (0-415-09094-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea'Book summary:First published in 1922, this classic text examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand Islanders. While the main theme is economics and social organization, the power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined. [via]
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Aspects of the Feminineby C. G. JungISBN 0415307708 (0-415-30770-8)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Aspects of the Masculineby John Beebe, C. G. JungISBN 0415307694 (0-415-30769-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aspects of the Masculine'Book summary:The concept of masculinity was crucial not only to Jung's revolutionary theories of the human psyche, but also to his own personal development. If, as Jung believed, "modern man is already so darkened that nothing beyond the light of his own intellect illuminates his world," then it is essential to show every man the limits of his understanding and how to overcome them. In Aspects of the Masculine Jung does this by revealing his most significant insights concerning the nature and motivations of masculinity, both conscious and unconscious, and explaining how this affects the development of the personality. Offering a unique perspective on the masculine, based upon both his personal and clinical experiences, Jung asks questions that remain as insistent as ever. He offers answers that--whether they surprise, shock or edify--challenge us to re-examine our contemporary understanding of masculinity. [via]
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more than twelve centuries.MASS MARKET PAPER [via]
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Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Jobby William BlakeISBN 0486287653 (0-486-28765-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job'Book summary:Among Blake's finest works: 21 watercolors interpreting the great biblical book and its theme of unmerited suffering. Also presented here are 11 additional watercolors, plus 28 black-and-white illustrations, including 21 extraordinary engravings based on the watercolors. All reproduced from a rare, limited facsimile edition published by The Pierpont Morgan Library. New introductory essay. 60 illustrations.[via]More editions of Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job:
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The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museumby Budge E. A. WallisISBN 048621866X (0-486-21866-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum'Book summary:The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of the soul after death: one of the most important books in Egyptian history. Includes full hieroglyphic text along with a transliteration of sounds, word-for-word translation, and a separate smooth translation.[via]More editions of The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum:
The Butterfly Alphabetby Kjell B. SandvedISBN 0439079470 (0-439-07947-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Allen TateISBN 0452005485 (0-452-00548-5)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0451526406 (0-451-52640-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dream Dictionary: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiencesby Tony CrispISBN 0440208610 (0-440-20861-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream Dictionary: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences'Book summary:The ultimate Guide To Your Inner Self. Let dream therapist Tony Crisp be your guide on one of the most enlightened journeys you will ever take: into the world of your own subconcious mind. Based on material from thousands of dreams gathered during 22 years of research, Dream Dictionary is alphabetically organized to give you instant reference to:
Dream Symbols and their meaning.
Recurring dreams and their significance.
Nightmares -- what they reveal and how to banish them.
Sex, money, and color in your dreams.
Health and your dreams.
Dream archetypes -- what they mean and how to work with them. Problem solving -- how to unlock the extraordinary creative potential of your dreams, and much more!
From Abandoned To Zoo, here is the unique encyclopedia handbook that provides an authoritative history of dreams and dream research as well as original insight and essential information that will allow you to understand and use the rich material of your dreams. [via]More editions of Dream Dictionary: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences:
The Encyclopedia of Symbolismby Kevin J. TodeschiISBN 0399521844 (0-399-52184-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Faith of Tarotby Piers AnthonyISBN 0441225659 (0-441-22565-9)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faith of Tarot'Book summary:Third in the series-the miracle planet is revealed.
On far Tarot dreams come true-and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all...Hell. [via]More editions of Faith of Tarot:
Far Tortugaby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0394756673 (0-394-75667-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far Tortuga'Book summary:An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. [via]
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Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs Du Mal Et Oeuvres Choisies: A Dual-Language Bookby Charles Baudelaire, Wallace FowlieISBN 0486270920 (0-486-27092-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs Du Mal Et Oeuvres Choisies: A Dual-Language Book'Book summary:Controversial book of verse, first published in 1857, presented in a handsome dual-language edition, together with superb selection of great French poet's other works: prose poems from "Spleen of Paris," critical essays on art, music, and literature, as well as personal letters. Line-by-line English translation, with original French text on facing page.[via]More editions of Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs Du Mal Et Oeuvres Choisies: A Dual-Language Book:
God of Tarotby Piers AnthonyISBN 0441294707 (0-441-29470-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0486424928 (0-486-42492-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:An expert in myth and religion, the author spent over a quarter-century assembling this study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity. Frazer's definitions of "magic," "religion," and "science" were useful to his successors in social anthropology, and his explications of ancient legends influenced generations of writers and poets.[via]More editions of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion:
Handbook of Pictorial Symbols: 3,250 Examples from International Sourcesby William R. Myers, Rudolf and ModleyISBN 048623357X (0-486-23357-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Holy Bible: Open Bible, King James Version, Brown Genuine LeatherISBN 0452010624 (0-452-01062-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Holy Blood, Holy Grailby Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry LincolnISBN 0440136482 (0-440-13648-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail'Book summary:Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller [via]
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In the Time of the Butterfliesby Julia AlvarezISBN 0452274427 (0-452-27442-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Time of the Butterflies'Book summary:From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as "las mariposas," or "the butterflies," in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.
Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as "the butterflies" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.
In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. [via]
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Inside-Outsideby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0425040410 (0-425-04041-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund FreudISBN 046503411X (0-465-03411-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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Jung and the Jungians on Mythby Steven WalkerISBN 0415936314 (0-415-93631-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Koranby John Medows RodwellISBN 0486445690 (0-486-44569-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Koran'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0425099601 (0-425-09960-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, E. L. EpsteinISBN 0399501487 (0-399-50148-7)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Magic Flute, Masonic Opera: An Interpretation of the Libretto and the Musicby Jacques ChailleyISBN 0394434528 (0-394-43452-8)
Hardcover, A. A. Knopf
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The Magic Mountainby Thomas MannISBN 0394434587 (0-394-43458-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Mountain'Book summary:Though surrounded by the beauty of the Swiss Alps, Hans Castorp is an unwitting captive in a tuberculosis sanitarium, under sentence of impending death. Originally admitted for a three week respite, he is betrayed by an X-ray which finds a small, dark patch on his lung. Thus begins a seven-year recuperation. Struck by the many other patients who seem to have resigned themselves, Castorp begins to question his purpose. As he listens to the stories and advice of other inmates and considers his own course of evolution, he realizes that here, in the midst of the dying, he has found life. [via]
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hellby William BlakeISBN 0486281221 (0-486-28122-1)
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The Master and Margaritaby Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovISBN 0452008999 (0-452-00899-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master and Margarita'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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Mastering the Tarot: Basic Lessons in an Ancient Mystic Artby Eden GrayISBN 0451167813 (0-451-16781-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Developmentby William Henry MatthewsISBN 048622614X (0-486-22614-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expressionby Vincent Foster HopperISBN 0486414302 (0-486-41430-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Memories, Dreams, Reflectionsby C. G. Jung, Aniela Jaffe, Richard Winston, Clara WinstonISBN 039443580X (0-394-43580-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections'Book summary:UK hardback second impression. The book is VG+, in Good jacket, unclipped with a touch of spine fade and some rubbing to edges. Collins - Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963. [via]
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Monday or Tuesdayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0486294536 (0-486-29453-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Mysticismby Evelyn UnderhillISBN 0452008409 (0-452-00840-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousnessby Evelyn UnderhillISBN 0486422380 (0-486-42238-0)
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Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliadeby Douglas AllenISBN 0415939399 (0-415-93939-9)
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The Myths We Live byby Mary MidgleyISBN 0415340772 (0-415-34077-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myths We Live by'Book summary:The Myths We Live By, by moral philosopher Mary Midgley, is a collection of articles dealing with the importance of symbolism in all our thought and the subsequent need to take our imaginative life seriously. Myths are not lies, she claims, they are not diverting stories, nor do they contrast with something apparently more solid such as "objective scientific truth". Myths and symbols are more like the things we think with. They suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.
Those familiar with Midgely's excellent Science and Poetry will recognise a continuing interest in how some of our most powerful myths (the myth of the social contract, of social atomism, of progress) are understood via the metaphorical light of recent technologies-the telescope, the microscope, the computer-in ways that are no longer useful to our present needs. The familiar contrastive ways of thinking (hard/soft, higher/lower, mind/body, inside/outside, heaven/earth, appearance/reality, objective/subjective, science/poetry) useful as they have been, can also be the prison-houses of thought, keeping us bound to one of the most powerful and misleading myths of all--the myth of science as omnicompetent method.
When thinking about Mary Midgley it pays to compare her with Richard Dawkins. Dawkins approaches his subject with something like cosmic awe. He is the poet-priest of science who writes with an irresistibly powerful appreciation of the wonder and poetic beauty of nature. But Midgeley takes issue with just the sort of scientist-as-priest he might be: the sort of person who thinks that "science is the only way to know the real world", that evidence-based beliefs are the only ones worth having, that religious beliefs are cowardly and irrational and that science is the "hard" king of the disciplines.
Midgley, by contrast, maps culture in an entirely different way. She shows us that there are different ways of looking at the world, different sources of knowledge that all have their place depending on what it is we want to know. Midgley shows us a way to end the contest of the faculties without giving the victory to one discipline or another and this makes her one of the most important thinker-about-thinking philosophers in the country. In Midgley's map of the intellectual landscape there are no priests and the world looks a more interesting place because of it. Try comparing Dawkins' discussion of science and romantic poetry (Unweaving the Rainbow) with any of Midgley's recent offerings. --Larry Brown [via]
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 0446357200 (0-446-35720-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterfliesby Robert Michael PyleISBN 0394519140 (0-394-51914-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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New Model of the Universeby P. D. UspenskiiISBN 0486297012 (0-486-29701-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insectby Sharman Apt RussellISBN 0465071600 (0-465-07160-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect'Book summary:Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary collectors and dedicated scientists who have obsessively catalogued new species of Lepidoptera. A luminous journey through an exotic world of passion and strange beauty, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever experienced the enchantment of butterflies.[via]More editions of An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect:
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Obsidian Butterflyby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0441007813 (0-441-00781-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obsidian Butterfly'Book summary:Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero. [via]
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The Occult: A Historyby Colin WilsonISBN 0394718135 (0-394-71813-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ozark Magic and Folkloreby Vance RandolphISBN 0486211819 (0-486-21181-9)
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Patterns in Comparative Religionby Mircea EliadeISBN 0452009057 (0-452-00905-7)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0451528336 (0-451-52833-6)
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Primitive Art.by F. BoasISBN 0486200256 (0-486-20025-6)
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The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folkloreby Hilda M. RansomeISBN 048643494X (0-486-43494-X)
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Season in Hell: The Illuminationsby Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0460879847 (0-460-87984-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Season in Hell: The Illuminations'Book summary:Rimbaud's vagrant and dissolute life in Paris and England with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, which ended with a shooting drama in Brussels, is the stuff of legend and led to Rimbaud's being mythologized and idolized, particularly by the French surrealists. His poetry - visionary, unnerving, idiosyncratic, disorientating - has had a profound influence on modern writing. A Season in Hell (1873) reviews his visionary claims for poetry - his ideal of the poet as seer, through the systematic disordering of the senses, of poetry as part of life and of action. His is an agonized, divided voice, pulled in all directions by instabilities of emotion and belief. Illuminations (pub. 1886), an extended prose poem, is both a series of visual images - landscapes, cityscapes, clowns, circuses, interiors - and of mood pictures, with no one voice or identity. Fragmented, hallucinatory, decentred, the poet, in a series of shifting roles, explores pluralistic notions of the self. [via]
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Signs, Symbols and Ornamentsby Rene SmeetsISBN 0442278497 (0-442-27849-7)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby Burton RaffelISBN 0451528182 (0-451-52818-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal to Chaucers masterworks and to the great Old English poems, Beowulf included. A green-skinned knight offers the Knights of the Round Table a simple but deadly challengea challenge taken on by the brave Sir Gawain. A challenge that will force him to choose between his honor and his life...
@GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right?
The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
This goblin fellow is totally dead.
All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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Something Happenedby Joseph HellerISBN 044018133X (0-440-18133-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22. [via]
Story of the Eyeby George BatailleISBN 0425051714 (0-425-05171-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Structural Anthropologyby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 046509516X (0-465-09516-X)
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John Champlin GardnerISBN 039447144X (0-394-47144-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunlight Dialogues'Book summary:[via]John Gardners sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York townOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word LOVE across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical periodand culminates in an unforgettable ending.Beautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardners most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in postWorld War II America.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.More editions of The Sunlight Dialogues:
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John GardnerISBN 0394743946 (0-394-74394-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Symbol and the Symbolic: Egypt, Science, and the Evolution of Consciousnessby R.A. Schwaller De LubiczISBN 0394735137 (0-394-73513-7)
Hardcover, Autumn Press
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Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbolsby Henry DreyfussISBN 0471288721 (0-471-28872-1)
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The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbersby P.D. OuspenskyISBN 0486232913 (0-486-23291-3)
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Symbols Around Usby Sven AchenISBN 0442282613 (0-442-28261-3)
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Symbols: Their Migration and Universalityby Eugene Goblet D'Alviella, George BirdwoodISBN 048641437X (0-486-41437-X)
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Tarot Classicby Stuart R. KaplanISBN 0448012235 (0-448-01223-5)
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The Theory and Practice of the Mandala: With Special Reference to the Modern Psychology of the Unconsciousby Giuseppe Tucci, Alan Houghton BrodrickISBN 0486416070 (0-486-41607-0)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Sandra KempISBN 0415016630 (0-415-01663-0)
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Vision of Tarotby Piers AnthonyISBN 0441864619 (0-441-86461-9)
Softcover, Ace Books
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W. H. Auden Collected Poemsby Edward Mendelson, W. H. AudenISBN 0394408950 (0-394-40895-0)
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Michael NorthISBN 0393974995 (0-393-97499-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. T.S. Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic. Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete. @DeadFlowers Note From Ezra Pound: Maybe cut 75%? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
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In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Watchmenby Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsISBN 0446386898 (0-446-38689-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watchmen'Book summary:Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to gather praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite
A Q&A with Dave Gibbons on the Making of Watchmen
Question: You were tasked with drawing new illustrations of key shots from the new Watchmen film. Was it a difficult challenge to re-imagine your work in this movie format?
Dave Gibbons: I dont think that I actually did many key shots from the film. I had to actually imagine them rather than exactly recreate what was going to be in the movie. But as far as the drawings I did for the licensing purposes, accuracy was the real key so that they looked exactly like the movie. Whereas doing the graphic novel was creating stuff afresh and being very creative, this was more the case of interpreting something that already existed. So it was rather more a commercial art job than a creative thing.
Q: How many scenes from the original graphic novel did you redraw in the new "movie" format?
DG: I kind of did them piecemeal, these licensing drawings. I did do a section of storyboarding for Zack Snyder. There is a part of the movie that isnt in the graphic novel and he wanted to see how I would have drawn it, if it had been in the graphic novel. So I redid the storyboards as three pages of comic on the nine-panel grid, also getting it coloured by John Higgins so it looked authentic. But I think there were probably only 3 or 4 scenes that I drew, which were from the movie.
Q: What was your working method for producing these new illustrations from the film? And how has it changed from when you originally illustrated Watchmen?
DG: When youre producing things from existing material, you have to look at and assemble the references... you know, keep looking backwards and forwards to make sure what youre drawing is accurate to whats in the photos. I did have lots of photos from the movie and in some cases I had more or less the illustration I was going to do in photo form, which made it a lot easier. On others I had to construct it from various references: really just the usual illustrators job of drawing something to reference. And on the original illustrations of Watchmen, I was free to come up with exactly the angles and exactly the costumes and everything that I wanted to. When youve designed a costume and drawn it a few times, you actually internalize it and you find you can draw it without having to refer to reference at all. So in some ways its more creative and in some ways its easier!
Q: In Watchmen: The Art of the Film, there are concept designs by other artists of their visions of your iconic characters. What do you think of their versions and did you offer any guidance while they were working on these?
DG: Its always really interesting to see versions of your characters drawn by other artists. You tend to see things in them that you hadnt noticed before. So I really enjoyed looking at those. I certainly didnt offer them any guidance. The purpose of getting those kinds of drawings done is to get a fresh perspective on what exists. I noticed actually that they really stuck more closely to my original designs than those, but I really enjoyed seeing them.
Q: Watchmen: Portraits is Clay Enoss stunning black and white collection of photos of each character from the Watchmen movie. What was it like looking through this book at all the characters you had conceived years ago now being brought to life by actors?
DG: Its rather interesting; you know if you look at the Watching the Watchmen book you can see these characters as fairly sketchy rough conceptual versions. Then when you look at Clays book you can actually see them right down to counting the number of pores on the skin on the end of their noses! Its incredible high focus! Its like zooming in through space and time to look at the surface of some moon of Saturn or something. I thoroughly enjoyed his book... it had a real artistic quality to it that was really so good. And of course to see these actors who so much are the embodiment of what I drew, that its a tremendous thrill to see them made flesh!
Q: Watchmen: The Film Companion features some stills from the animated version of The Black Freighter. What do you think of the look and design of this animated feature?
DG: It looks really interesting! Although I drew my version in the comic book in a kind of horror-comic style, these are very much in a savage manga style. I think they work really well... theyve got the kind of manic intensity, which I think that work should have and I really cant wait to see the whole feature. Ive seen the trailer for it and that looks great and again theyve used a lot of the compositions that I came up with but just translated them to this kind of very modern drawn animation.
Q: How much time did you spend on the set of Watchmen? Was it a surreal experience to see your work recreated like this?
DG: I was on the set of Watchmen for a couple of days and it really was surreal to walk through a door and then suddenly be in the presence of all these people in living breathing flesh! I was there for what you would call the Crimebusters meeting where they were all there in costume in the same room, which was incredible. They had obviously planned that so I would get to see everyone. It was surreal though quite a wonderful experience to see it come to life.
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Golding's Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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En el Tiempo de las Mariposasby Julia Alvarez, Rolando Costa PicazoISBN 0452279968 (0-452-27996-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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En El Tiempo De Las Mariposasby Rolando Costa Picazo, Julia Alvarez, Antonio AlfauISBN 0452286867 (0-452-28686-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas'Book summary:On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice, beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas. This inspired portrait of four women is a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression, and is destined to take its place alongside Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Allende's The House of the Spirits as one of the great 20th-century Latin American novels. [via]
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