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  • Bill Viola (as-is, no dustjacket)
    Bill Viola (as-is, no dustjacket)
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    Overview of the underrated & pioneering video/multi-media artist. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Neil Postman – Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    Neil Postman – Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technolog…
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    The story of our society’s transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Artist Outsider : Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture
    The Artist Outsider : Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture
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    Though “Outsider Art” has its roots in the Romantic Movement in 19th-century Europe, the term itself was coined 20 years ago to refer to works created by the insane; it […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Betsy Caprio – Experiments in Prayer
    Betsy Caprio – Experiments in Prayer
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    A workbook that simultaneously applies to prayer, meditation and creative rituals. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Andrew Hartman – A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
    Andrew Hartman – A War for the Soul of America: A History of the…
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    When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, “There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country,” his audience […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas M. Disch – The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
    Thomas M. Disch – The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and…
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    A collection of essays and commentary about poetry provides reviews of a range of American and English poets, including Kenneth Koch, Jon Ashbery, and Ogden Nash, and offers insight into […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study Of History
    Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study Of History
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    Mr. Toynbee’s analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as an achievement without parallel in modern scholarship. This book is in Good readable condition. It has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wendy Doniger – Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
    Wendy Doniger – Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Anc…
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    Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, & the Artists of Optical Illusion
    Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, & the Artists of Optical Illu…
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    Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard H. Davis – Lives of Indian Images
    Richard H. Davis – Lives of Indian Images
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    For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • James Elkins – Stories of Art
    James Elkins – Stories of Art
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    Stories of Art is James Elkins’s intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty – Other People’s Myths: The Cave of Echoes
    Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty – Other People’s Myths: The…
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    Other People’s Myths celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Art As Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner’s Contribution to the Visual Arts
    Art As Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner’s Contribution to the …
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    “Through the introduction by Michael Howard and Steiner’s ten lectures, this volume offers an account of the sources and purposes of art, as well as a particularly helpful approach to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert L. Van De Castle – Our Dreaming Mind
    Robert L. Van De Castle – Our Dreaming Mind
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    In this brilliantly researched and thorough study, internationally recognized dream authority Robert L. Van de Castle examines the vital role that dreams have played throughout history, from the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ronald Hayman – A Life of Jung
    Ronald Hayman – A Life of Jung
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    Carl Jung was one of the world’s most influential psychoanalysts. With the exception of Freud, who chose him as the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, no [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert K.G. Temple – The Sirius Mystery
    Robert K.G. Temple – The Sirius Mystery
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    Publication of The Sirius Mystery in 1976 set the world abuzz with talk of an extraterrestrial origin to human civilization and triggered a 15-year persecution campaign against Robert Temple by [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bernard McGinn – The Foundations of Mysticism; Origins to the Fifth Century
    Bernard McGinn – The Foundations of Mysticism; Origins to the Fi…
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    In this first volume of the highly-acclaimed Presence of God series, Bernard McGinn explores the origins of Christian mysticism, from early Jewish apocalyptic writings to pre-Christian Greek [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Adrian Snodgrass – The Symbolism of the Stupa
    Adrian Snodgrass – The Symbolism of the Stupa
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    In his preface to The Symbolism of the Stupa Prof. Craig Reynolds writes ”The stupa is a symbolic form that pullulates throughout South Southeast and East Asia. In its Indian […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism
    The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism
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    Here is a stunning visual introduction to the artistic and spiritual heart of Tibetan Buddhism. According to the monks who create it, the Kalachakra Sand Mandala, also known as the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Blue Fire: The Essential Introduction to James Hillman’s Archetypal Psychology and Original Theories
    A Blue Fire: The Essential Introduction to James Hillman’s Arche…
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    A vitally important introduction to the theories of one of the most original thinkers in psychology today, A Blue Fire gathers selected passages from many of Hillman’s seminal essays on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
    Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
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    Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale too small to be seen by even the most powerful optical microscopes. Devices measured in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion
    Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion
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    Noel presents “a compelling analysis of one of this century’s great teachers” (Spiritual Studies Center Book News)–“a welcome academic response to the tremendous [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
    The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
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    Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization. This book is in Good [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History
    Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History
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    Herman Sinaiko is renowned for his gifts as a guide to exploring and appreciating the humanities. This book brings to general readers Sinaiko’s thoughts on, and invitations to read or […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Graham Hancock – The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
    Graham Hancock – The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between…
    $8.00 | , ,

    An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Graham Hancock – Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
    Graham Hancock – Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark o…
    $6.00 | , ,

    The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest For Earth’s Lost Civilization
    Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest For Earth&#…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed?  Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths.  Graham Hancock presents a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Art of Private Devotion: Retablo Painting of Mexico
    The Art of Private Devotion: Retablo Painting of Mexico
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    Beautifully illustrated study of the sacred iconography paintings of Mexico This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Rothenberg – Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution
    David Rothenberg – Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and …
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    “The peacock’s tail,” said Charles Darwin, “makes me sick.” That’s because the theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ajanta and Ellora
    Ajanta and Ellora
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    The Cave-temples at Ajanta and Ellora are without doubt one of the most remarkable sights in India. Excavated from solid rock, each temple took years to complete. The energy of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James William Gibson – A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature
    James William Gibson – A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New …
    $9.00 | , ,

    A surprising and enlightening investigation of how modern society is making nature sacred once again. For more than two centuries, Western cultures, as they became ever more industrialized, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Forbidden Asia
    Forbidden Asia
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    Since The Turkish Bath (1863) by the French painter Ingres, the Far Eastern woman has to many been a symbol of pleasures out of reach or forbidden. Seafaring explorers, military […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Colin Wilson – Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors
    Colin Wilson – Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors
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    Throughout history, Western culture has been bedeviled by false prophets, charlatans, and self-appointed messianic figures. Their appetites for destruction and depravity have led to broken lives [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Animal Spirits: An Illustrated Guide
    Animal Spirits: An Illustrated Guide
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    Explores how animals, in the past and present, have been seen as repositories of spiritual energy, and discusses animal myths and symbols, and beliefs about animal intelligence and the soul […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • American, African, and Old European Mythologies
    American, African, and Old European Mythologies
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    Mythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ellen Handler Spitz – Art and Psyche : A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
    Ellen Handler Spitz – Art and Psyche : A Study in Psychoanalysis…
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    In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dance (as-is, no dustjacket)
    Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dance…
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    Study of the ceremonies and rituals of various indigenous north american tribes. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giza: The Truth: The People, Politics, and History Behind the World’s Most Famous Archaeological Site
    Giza: The Truth: The People, Politics, and History Behind the World…
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    The first responsible assessment of the entire range of theories behind Giza, this exhaustively researched book plunges into the history of recent explorations of the legendary site. Essential [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art
    Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art
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    Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lyle Campbell – Historic Linguistics: An Introduction
    Lyle Campbell – Historic Linguistics: An Introduction
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    This accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to thinkabout the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
    Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
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    Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse; 22 December 1883 – 2 November 6 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
    Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
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    Accompanying a nationally touring exhibition, this critical history of American art of the 1920s provides a fresh perspective on the strikingly original modernist imagery of the Jazz Age. Youth [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion And The Visual Arts
    Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion And The Visual Arts
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    How do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annette Messager. Comédie tragédie 1971-1989 (french language/as-is)
    Annette Messager. Comédie tragédie 1971-1989 (french language/as-is)
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    Monograph covering the mid-period work of the French multi-media artist, Annette Messager This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rethinking Imagination: Culture And Creativity
    Rethinking Imagination: Culture And Creativity
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    Discusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the role of imagination in the creation and management of Modernity. This [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth
    Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebir…
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    Art and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Lanier Graham – Goddesses in Art
    Lanier Graham – Goddesses in Art
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    An extraordinary range of images, from prehistory to the 1990s, representing female deities of all types and temperaments from a worldwide array of cultures, showing the goddess as the ultimate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Philip Hanson: The Subtle Diagram
    Philip Hanson: The Subtle Diagram
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    Catalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey September 10 – October 16, 2010 This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
    Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
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    Soma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gauguin: Artist As Alchemist
    Gauguin: Artist As Alchemist
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    Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spanning experiments in different media and formats—clay, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography