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Oya: In Praise of the Goddess
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplores how the goddess Oya is worshipped by the Yoruba people of Africa and discusses the meaning of Oya for Westerners This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]
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Diane Purkiss – At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of F…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account […]
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Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultura…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAvant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of “primitive” imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is [...]
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Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe noble idea of the Christian Kabbalah is not so much the worship of Jesus Christ, but rather a conscious evolution toward a divine or super-humanity. In this regard, Christian […]
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Strange Familiar: The Work of Georg Gudni
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGeorg Gudni has said of his work, inspired by his native Icelandic landscapes, “You go past the materials and into the painting itself.” The transparent, ethereal quality achieved in [...]
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Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis catalogue accompanies a major exhibition devoted to Vasily Kandinsky. It explores the evolution of his work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus years. During this period, Kandinsky [...]
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Mexican Masks: Their Uses and Symbolism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the techniques of Mexican Indians for making masks and analyzes the symbolism, religious functions, and social uses of these masks This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]
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Hilary Gatti – Essays on Giordano Bruno
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world’s leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these [...]
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Carl Kerenyi – Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and […]
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Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore “magical” practices in Greek religion. [...]
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Damien Hirst: New Religion
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublished in 2006 following Damien Hirst’s first major print exhibition at the Paul Stolper Gallery in London in 2005, New Religion explores Hirst’s central themes: ”I was [...]
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The Poems of Ossian and Related Works
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is the first modern edition of all Macpherson’s Ossianic poetry, including Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Fingal and Temora – as well as his accompanying prefaces and [...]
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Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTeeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore [...]
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Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient Tribal Art
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe American art historian, Carl Schuster (1904-1969), discovered a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. They tattooed and painted such [...]
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James Castle: A Retrospective
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJames Castle (1899-1977) never learned to speak, read, or writeand left his native state of Idaho only onceand yet he created a wide range of extraordinary works that resonate with […]
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Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epi…
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring the same period that Surrealism originated and flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field of physics. This book offers the first full history, analysis […]
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David Goddard – The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the G…
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Tower of Alchemy is the first book published in the West to openly reveal the teachings and practice of the Hermetic Art in plain language. In this advanced manual, […]
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An Illustrated Map of the Sheela-na-Gigs of Britain and Ireland
$100.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineA comprehensive guide to and map of the Sheela-na-Gig statues, an ancient feminine icon known for an exaggerate vulva, of Great Britain and Ireland. Bandia Publishing, 2009 edition. Large scale [...]
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Alchemy and Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the […]
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Jean-Pierre Vernant – Myth And Thought Among The Greeks
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, […]
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Interrogation Machine: Laibach And NSK
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first English-language study of NSK—one of the contemporary art world’s most radical forces—with particular focus on the performances and productions of NSK’s musical and [...]
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Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
$48.00 | Book, PrintThe use of sacred herbs for driving away evil spirits is as old as the written record, and common to pre-Christian religions in Europe. Cleansing and cathartic plants formed the […]
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The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness …
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAttempts to unify a variety of supernatural phenomena with leading physicists’ understandings of the universe This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some [...]
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The Hindu Vision: Forms of the Formless
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTo the Hindu, the entire universe is a living being, and through the visual arts – ritualistic, compelling, often stunningly beautiful – that holistic awareness is made available to [...]
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David Beth – Atua: Voices from La Société Voudon Gnostique
$200.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEdited by David Beth, ATUA is the public vehicle through which the members of the S.V.G. make selected manifestations of their magico-gnostic research and experience available to an informed [...]
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Jesse Bransford – A Book of Staves
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn A Book of Staves, New York–based artist Jesse Bransford (born 1972) offers a series of delicate drawings that find inspiration in the wild landscapes, folk magic and medieval poetic […]
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David Tibet – Sing Omega [1st edition]
$375.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This volume brings together a collection of the major part of the words that I have written, or which have been written through me, for my dream channel Current 93, […]
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Ayis Lertas – 72
$200.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 72 demons, devils and monstrous beasts constrained within this ‘book without words’ by Ayis Lertas are iconic of all the vices, ills, impure appetites and perverse passions that thrive […]
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Peter Hamilton-Giles – The Baron Citadel; The Book of the Four W…
$110.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs the governor of the Dead and the burial ground, the Baron Samedi is one of the most distinctive and potent loa of Haitian Vodou. An imposing figure in black […]
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Frater Acher – Trustmezzer – A Blade of Two Ways
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThree Hands Press is pleased to announce the release of Trutmezzer: A Blade of Two Ways by Frater Acher, known for his previous occult works such as Ingenium and Goêtic Atavisms. The book [...]
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The Postmodern History Reader
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Postmodern History Reader is the most comprehensive collection of influential texts on historiography and postmodernism yet compiled. Keith Jenkins expertly selects from the books and journal [...]
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Michael Allen Gillespie – Nihilism Before Nietzsche
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, [...]
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Myth and Method
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood? [...]
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Marc Sageman – Understanding Terror Networks
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor decades, a new type of terrorism has been quietly gathering ranks in the world. America’s ability to remain oblivious to these new movements ended on September 11, 2001. The […]
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A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is the first specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. Interest in the subject has grown significantly among professional archaeologists and informed lay persons [...]
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James Hillman – Insearch : Psychology and Religion
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsInsearch has become one of the few enduring descriptions of Jungian therapy in its relation with religion. With this book Hillman returns psychotherapy to its basic calling: the care of […]
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The Contemporary Sublime: Sensibilities of Transcendence and Shock
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContains: – Paul Crowther, The Postmodern Sublime — Cliff McMahon The Sublime is How: Philip Taaffe and Will Barnet — Mojca Oblak, Kant and Malevich — Richard Hooker, [...]
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The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe spiral is the natural form of growth, and has become, in every culture and in every age, man’s symbol of the progress of the soul towards eternal life. As […]
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Peter Ackroyd – Blake: A Biography
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn his latest work, noted novelist and biographer Ackroyd writes on the life and influences of 18th-century poet and engraver William Blake. His biography explores in extensive detail the [...]
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The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in The Asian Heartland
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen Charles de Gaulle learned that France’s former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, “They are the dust of empire.” But as [...]
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The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Can we rely on the discoveries that scientists make about one or another part, or aspect, of the world as a basis for drawing conclusions abou the Universe as a […]
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Contin…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest – 10 million square […]
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George E. Marcus – The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and An…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and [...]
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Lewis Hyde – The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Proper…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsStarting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the […]
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Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative Religion
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According [...]
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Tzvetan Todorov – Theories of the Symbol
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFocusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied in the works of classical rhetoric to an […]
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Peter Marshall – The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astr…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRudolf II―Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the Romans―is one of history’s great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign [...]
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Suzanna Walters – Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultu…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMadonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter’s brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. [...]
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Alexander Eliot – The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, …
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMyth is universal – a common heritage to all humanity. But it is by no means confined to primitive and pagan lore, and this work proves it to be a […]
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‘Key’ of Jacob Boehme
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe second edition of a volume in the ‘Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks’ series introducing the ideas and spiritual philosophy of a seventeenth-century Christian mystic. As a young [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction