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Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Etcetra in Ancient Egypt
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArchaeologies of Social Life is a fascinating new perspective on everyday life in ancient Egypt. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt : The One and the Many
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA work of extraordinary distinction, Hornung’s book will appeal to anyone interested in ancient Egypt, in ancient religion, and in the history of religion, as well as students and scholars […]
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Michael Slavin – The Book of Tara
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Book of Tara is written by local and respected historian, Michael Slavin, and examines the many aspects and beliefs associated to the sacred Hill of Tara itself and why […]
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Lucian Krukowski – Art and Concept: A Philosophical Study
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAddressing the important and timely question of what it is to know something as an artwork, this volume explores the relationship between works of art and the concepts, evaluations, descriptions, [...]
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Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work [...]
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Bruce Mau – Massive Change
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMassive Change is a modern, illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. This book is part of a broader research project […]
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Moshe Idel – Messianic Mystics
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this stimulating book one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound [...]
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The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe amazing surprise New York Times bestseller, filled with “breathtaking glimpses into worlds that heretofore have been little explored” (Foreward) They say that history is written [...]
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D’Arcy Thompson – On Growth and Form
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic of biology and modern science sets forth seminal “theory of transformation” that one species evolves into another not by successive minor changes in individual body parts [...]
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Frances Colpitt – Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThese essays on abstract painting by eleven of its most incisive critics trace the development of such critical issues as hard-edge painting, deductive and serial structure, monochrome [...]
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David F. Greenberg – The Construction of Homosexuality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg’s [...]
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The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole–S…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsElias Ashmole (1617-1692) was the first to record a personal account of initiation into Accepted Freemasonry. His writings help solve the debate between operative and “speculative” origins of [...]
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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods. In these pages, [...]
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Micea Eliade – Images and Symbols : Studies in Religious Symboli…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMircea Eliade–one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic–shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before [...]
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Mircea Eliade – The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and Histo…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making [...]
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Charles Simic – Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting […]
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Crop Circles: A Beginner’s Guide
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCrop circles are mysterious markings that have been found on farmland worldwide, ranging from simple circles to elaborate formations. This Beginner’s Guide explores the history of crop [...]
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Calvin Tomkins – Lives of the Artists
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor more than four decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In [...]
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Francette Pacteau – The Symptom of Beauty
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. […]
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Write…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne [...]
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Jean Houston – The Passion of Isis and Osiris
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Passion of Isis and Osiris, Jean Houston, internationally renowned philosopher, psychologist, and explorer of world myth, takes us deep into the mysteries of Egypt, land of the ancient [...]
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Sacred Places: A Journey into the Holiest Lands
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTakes readers on a tour of the world’s most sacred sights while tracing the earliest religious rituals and traditions of each area, including Stonehenge, the Kali Temple in Calcutta, and [...]
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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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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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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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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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography