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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 [...]
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNow 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 [...]
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Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHerman 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 […]
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Graham Hancock – The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 […]
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Graham Hancock – Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark o…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 […]
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Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest For Earth&#…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCould 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 [...]
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The Art of Private Devotion: Retablo Painting of Mexico
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBeautifully 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 […]
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David Rothenberg – Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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 [...]
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Ajanta and Ellora
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 […]
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James William Gibson – A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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, [...]
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Forbidden Asia
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince 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 […]
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Colin Wilson – Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThroughout 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 [...]
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Animal Spirits: An Illustrated Guide
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplores 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 […]
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American, African, and Old European Mythologies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMythologies 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 […]
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Ellen Handler Spitz – Art and Psyche : A Study in Psychoanalysis…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 [...]
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Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dance…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsStudy 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 […]
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Giza: The Truth: The People, Politics, and History Behind the World…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 [...]
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Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContemporary 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 […]
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Lyle Campbell – Historic Linguistics: An Introduction
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 [...]
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Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEdgard 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 […]
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Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAccompanying 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 [...]
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Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion And The Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow 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 […]
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Annette Messager. Comédie tragédie 1971-1989 (french language/as-is)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph 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 […]
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Rethinking Imagination: Culture And Creativity
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses 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 [...]
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Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebir…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArt 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 [...]
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Lanier Graham – Goddesses in Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 [...]
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Philip Hanson: The Subtle Diagram
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCatalog 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 […]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSoma 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 [...]
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Gauguin: Artist As Alchemist
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPaul 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, [...]
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John Willats – Art and Representation : New Principles in the An…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Art and Representation, John Willats presents a radically new theory of pictures. To do this, he has developed a precise vocabulary for describing the representational systems in pictures: the [...]
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The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley’s ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, […]
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Mythical Beasts: Traditions and Tales of Favorite Fabled Creatures
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMost of the mythical monsters and beasts that live in our literature and lore — some wild and dangerous, others noble and gentle — were born in the fertile crescent […]
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Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNo building was more anticipated than Frank Gehry’s stunning new museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Philip Johnson, the dean of American [...]
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W.J.T Mitchell – Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the nature of images, examines the connection between images and words, and analyzes the ideological meaning of images This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Pat Steir: Paintings
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing the paintings of the widely acclaimed and widely exhibited artist, this book contains the reflections of the author on Steir’s position in the art world and the art tradition […]
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Reading Blake’s Designs (as-is, no dustjacket)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this innovative study, Christopher Heppner constructs a new assessment and interpretation of William Blake as an illustrator of texts that were not his own. Ranging over topics such as […]
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the 21st century, perhaps the most interesting feature of the Levant (in Arabic, Bilad al-Sham), in the midst of an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab world, is […]
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The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetic Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students of Ancient History and early Christianity, to Qabalists and modern magicians. Extensive notes and citations from […]
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Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and […]
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Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By A.D. 1050 the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was […]
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Andrea Aromatico – Alchemy: The Great Secret
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMedieval alchemists, forerunners of today’s chemists, sought to transmute base metals into gold. This lively illustrated history explores intriguing aspects of this mix of science, [...]
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Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNew painting and drawing is the subject of Remote Viewing, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all [...]
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Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an [...]
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Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGathers studies and interpretative sketches of famous paintings and sculptures by other artists, and discusses how each artist responded to his source This book is in Good readable condition. It [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled Vol II
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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Polly Schaafsma – The Rock Art Of Utah
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver many centuries, the prehistoric Fremont and Anasazi peoples of present-day Utah left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. From the Uinta Mountains through [...]
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Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World : Ancient American Sour…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUntil this trailblazing 1993 book, now reissued in paperback, much attention had been given to the connection between modern art and indigenous African forms, while pre-Columbian sources of [...]
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Jacques Ranciere – Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime o…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsComposed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction