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Jean Baudrillard – The Conspiracy of Art
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes “War Porn,” on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. The images [...]
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Philip K Dick – Ubik
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a dystopian future of psychic powers, Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. […]
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Craig Owens – Beyond Recognition : Representation, Power, and Cu…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and […]
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Robert Longo (Rizzoli Monograph)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph covering the New York-based multi-media artist. Book is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in […]
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Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has […]
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In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLooks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]
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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]
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Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]
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Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, an…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]
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John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]
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From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]
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Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]
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The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the …
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe […]
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George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the B…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]
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Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]
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The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThough its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]
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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions […]
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Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiri…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFirst published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as “brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen [...]
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Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Co…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity…. Above all, the [...]
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Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While […]
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The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagin…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIbn al-‘Arabi is still known as “the Great Sheik” among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker […]
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Josef Albers – Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe masterworks of one of the most influential teacher-artists of the twentieth century, originally published as a limited, boxed edition in 1963, was conceived as a guide and teaching aid […]
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Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDespite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the [...]
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The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through Jung’s Mysterium Coniu…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book is a section by section commentary on Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. Alchemy is a confusing topic by itself. Jung’s interpretation of it is highly nuanced and can easily be [...]
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Carl E. Schorske – Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political […]
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Forests of The Vampire
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOf all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, […]
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The Art of the Sepik River
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDetailed and illustrated overview of the art found in the communities on the Sepik River in New Guinea This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]
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John F. Michell – The New View Over Atlantis
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe View Over Atlantis, John Michell’s unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as [...]
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Annemarie Schimmel – Mystical Dimensions of Islam
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism — Islamic mysticism — from its beginnings through the [...]
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Arthur Szyk: Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArthur Szyk (1894-1951) was considered one of the 20th century’s most important creators of political illustrations and caricatures. While largely unknown in Europe, his work is highly [...]
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Andy Goldsworthy: Varia, Refuges d’art
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRefuges d’Art* is a hiking route spanning roughly ten days, conceived by Andy Goldsworthy in the Digne region, within the protected territory of the Haute-Provence Geological Reserve. [...]
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The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North By Midwest
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe art of renowned American watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) has been described as “one of the most original phenomena in American art.” This interdisciplinary study of [...]
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition and definitive translation by Dick Davis, available in a deluxe edition by Penguin Classics. Wherever Persian [...]
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Joe McCaffree – Bible and I Ching Relationships
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExamines the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and eastern thought This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]
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Gershom Scholem – On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Co…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOn the Mystical Shape of the Basic Concepts of the Kabbalah is Gershom Scholem’s introduction to the essential terms of Jewish mysticism. His chapter on Shekhinah–the kabbalist symbol [...]
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Patrick Boylan – Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThoth, the Hermes of Egypt: A Study of Some Aspects of Theological Thought in Ancient Egypt by Patrick Boylan is a profound exploration into the religious and theological significance of […]
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Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized […]
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The Allure of Gnosticism: The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Philosophy…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This book is a concatenation of sparks of religious light…. Gnosticism is to be understood as the ongoing formulation of freshly imagined spirits, a logos of what we can know […]
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The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno’s Prelude to Contemporary…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA cosmological approach to the controversial philosopher/mystic Giordano Bruno’s ideas. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the [...]
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Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPresents the unifying world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and an Integral Theory of Everything Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy [...]
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The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnanda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians […]
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Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Co…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMagic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the “secrets of the universe,” of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking [...]
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At the Edge of the World: Caves and Late Classic Maya World View
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsReconstruction of classic period Maya beliefs about the structure of the universe based on imagery and hieroglyphic texts from lowland cities. Focuses on cosmological meanings of caves in [...]
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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico an…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe myths and beliefs of the great pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. Yet, until now, no single-volume introduction [...]
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The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWill our universe continue to expand 100 billion years from now? Does human life and all intelligence inevitably come to an end as the universe evolves? Could our present space […]
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Frithjof Schuon – The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, …
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSchuon’s perspective is that of the sophia perennis or “perennial wisdom”, which is capable of discerning the spiritual intentions behind religious doctrines, forms, and practices. The [...]
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Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTaking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caroline Jones argues that far from the countercultural stance associated with the decade, the artists she examines—including Stella, Warhol, [...]
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Joseph Goetz – Primitive and Prehistoric Religions
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOverview of pagan and the religions of early man. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]
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Stones of Adoration: Sacred Stones and Mystic Megaliths of Ireland
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSacred stones and stone monuments feature the world over and Ireland is no exception. Our landscape is dotted with them, from the Blarney Stone in Cork and the Royal Pillars […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction