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Richard Kearney – The Wake of the Imagination
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWith his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody – plotting the various models […]
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The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWho were the Maya? How were these ancient astronomers able to precisely measure time over thousands of years? What happened to the Mayan civilization? Gilbert and Cotterell, both scientists and [...]
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Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSteven Z. Levine provides a new understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical reception of Monet […]
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Slavoj Zizek – On Belief
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all [...]
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William Gibson – Zero History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry’s face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia [...]
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Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBehind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature […]
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Milton Meltzer – Slavery: A World History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSlavery is not and has never been a “peculiar institution,” but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some […]
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Theme & Improvisation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsVassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a seminal figure in the art and thought of the twentieth century. His paintings and theories about art delved into spirituality and music, all the while […]
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The Body (Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts)
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Journal Of Philosophy and the Visual Arts issue on The Body and its representations in art throughout the ages. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been […]
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Konstantinos – Summoning Spirits : The Art of Magical Evocation
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLearn how to evoke and communicate with 50 spirit entities and make use of their abilities, when you get Summoning Spirits by Konstantinos. Evoking spirits is one of the most […]
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Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Art and Society
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this succinct and innovative book, Mario Perniola, one of Italy’s most influential philosophers and critics, argues that our society is living through an “Egyptian moment”—a postmodern era [...]
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Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWilliam Doty’s popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured, the new edition provides further depth and [...]
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Michel Foucault – The History Of Sexuality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMichel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to […]
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H.P. Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine: Commentaries on Her Contributi…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn in-depth reading of H.P Blavatsky’s work and philosophies. 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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Robert C Morgan – The End of the Art World
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe most significant change in the art world over the past two decades has not been the evolution of a new style or movement but in how art is promoted […]
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Louisa Gilder – The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Wa…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA brilliantly original and richly illuminating exploration of entanglement, the seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particles—one of the fundamental concepts of quantum [...]
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The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist’s studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass […]
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Brian Morris – Western Conceptions of the Individual
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on [...]
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Sacred Causes : The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBeginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of […]
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Tantra : Rites of Love
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing roughly 93 pages of text and beautiful, full-color plates that explore the esoteric, philosophical, and erotic dimensions of Tantric traditions. This book is in Good readable condition. [...]
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William Gibson – Spook Country
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn’t exist yet, which is fine, she’s used to that, but it seems to be actively […]
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Rita Carter – Mapping the Mind
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsToday a brain scan reveals our thoughts and moods as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person’s brain registering a joke or experiencing a […]
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Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays discuss the ways contemporary artists are using and redefining the book format and examine specific works This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may […]
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Harold Bloom – Agon
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the culmination of a series that began with The Anxiety of Influence and A Map or Misreading, Harold Bloom expands upon his controversial theory of revisionism, which he views […]
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Sybaris: Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExhibition catalog for SYBARIS : Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial, 2001. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the […]
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Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey – Fragonard
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLittle is known about the life of Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), and among an oeuvre of some 400 paintings, only around 15 can be dated exactly and fewer than 20 bear […]
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The Essential Steiner: Basic Writings of Rudolf Steiner
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Essential Steiner offers a compact, accessible, and illuminating introduction to essential writings of Rudolf Steiner, the great modern spiritual teacher who has had an immense influence on [...]
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Marianna Torgovnick – Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, [...]
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Bill Viola (as-is, no dustjacket)
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOverview 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 […]
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Neil Postman – Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technolog…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 [...]
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The Artist Outsider : Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThough “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 […]
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Betsy Caprio – Experiments in Prayer
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 […]
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Andrew Hartman – A War for the Soul of America: A History of the…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen 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 […]
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Thomas M. Disch – The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 […]
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Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study Of History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMr. 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 [...]
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Wendy Doniger – Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Anc…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHindu 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 […]
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Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, & the Artists of Optical Illu…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRings 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 […]
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Richard H. Davis – Lives of Indian Images
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor 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 […]
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James Elkins – Stories of Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsStories 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 […]
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Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty – Other People’s Myths: The…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOther 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 [...]
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Art As Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner’s Contribution to the …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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 […]
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Robert L. Van De Castle – Our Dreaming Mind
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 [...]
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Ronald Hayman – A Life of Jung
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCarl 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 [...]
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Robert K.G. Temple – The Sirius Mystery
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublication 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 [...]
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Bernard McGinn – The Foundations of Mysticism; Origins to the Fi…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 [...]
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Adrian Snodgrass – The Symbolism of the Stupa
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 […]
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The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHere 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 […]
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A Blue Fire: The Essential Introduction to James Hillman’s Arche…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 [...]
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Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOur 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 […]
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Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNoel 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