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  • Andy Goldsworthy: Varia, Refuges d’art
    Andy Goldsworthy: Varia, Refuges d’art
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    Refuges 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. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North By Midwest
    The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North By Midwest
    $25.00 | , ,

    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
    Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
    $15.00 | , ,

    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joe McCaffree – Bible and I Ching Relationships
    Joe McCaffree – Bible and I Ching Relationships
    $15.00 | , ,

    Examines 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, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Co…
    $10.00 | , ,

    On 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patrick Boylan – Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt
    Patrick Boylan – Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt
    $15.00 | , ,

    Thoth, 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Allure of Gnosticism: The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
    The Allure of Gnosticism: The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Philosophy…
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno’s Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology
    The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno’s Prelude to Contemporary…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
    Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
    $8.00 | , ,

    Presents 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
    The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
    $15.00 | , ,

    Ananda 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts
    Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Co…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Magic, 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • At the Edge of the World: Caves and Late Classic Maya World View
    At the Edge of the World: Caves and Late Classic Maya World View
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    Reconstruction 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
    An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico an…
    $10.00 | , ,

    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective
    The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective
    $15.00 | , ,

    Will 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frithjof Schuon – The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Spiritual Life
    Frithjof Schuon – The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, …
    $15.00 | , ,

    Schuon’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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist
    Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist
    $16.00 | , ,

    Taking 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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joseph Goetz – Primitive and Prehistoric Religions
    Joseph Goetz – Primitive and Prehistoric Religions
    $16.00 | , ,

    Overview 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, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stones of Adoration: Sacred Stones and Mystic Megaliths of Ireland
    Stones of Adoration: Sacred Stones and Mystic Megaliths of Ireland
    $18.00 | , ,

    Sacred 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
  • Wolfgang Behringer – Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
    Wolfgang Behringer – Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
    $18.00 | , ,

    In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Oya: In Praise of the Goddess
    Oya: In Praise of the Goddess
    $18.00 | , ,

    Explores 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Purkiss – At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
    Diane Purkiss – At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of F…
    $20.00 | , ,

    At 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultural Primitivism
    Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultura…
    $20.00 | , ,

    Avant-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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah
    Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah
    $20.00 | , ,

    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Strange Familiar: The Work of Georg Gudni
    Strange Familiar: The Work of Georg Gudni
    $20.00 | , ,

    Georg 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925
    Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925
    $20.00 | , ,

    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hilary Gatti – Essays on Giordano Bruno
    Hilary Gatti – Essays on Giordano Bruno
    $22.00 | , ,

    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carl Kerenyi – Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
    Carl Kerenyi – Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
    $25.00 | , ,

    No 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Damien Hirst: New Religion
    Damien Hirst: New Religion
    $25.00 | , ,

    Published 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Poems of Ossian and Related Works
    The Poems of Ossian and Related Works
    $25.00 | , ,

    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
    Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
    $40.00 | , ,

    Teeming 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient Tribal Art
    Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient Tribal Art
    $40.00 | , ,

    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James Castle: A Retrospective
    James Castle: A Retrospective
    $45.00 | , ,

    James Castle (1899-–1977) never learned to speak, read, or write—and left his native state of Idaho only once—and yet he created a wide range of extraordinary works that resonate with […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology
    Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epi…
    $50.00 | , ,

    During 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David Goddard – The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the Great Work
    David Goddard – The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the G…
    $75.00 | , ,

    The 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, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Illustrated Map of the Sheela-na-Gigs of Britain and Ireland
    An Illustrated Map of the Sheela-na-Gigs of Britain and Ireland
    $100.00 | , ,

    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Interrogation Machine: Laibach And NSK
    Interrogation Machine: Laibach And NSK
    $40.00 | , ,

    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
    Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
    $48.00 | ,

    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Hindu Vision: Forms of the Formless
    The Hindu Vision: Forms of the Formless
    $7.00 | , ,

    To 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David Beth – Atua: Voices from La Société Voudon Gnostique
    David Beth – Atua: Voices from La Société Voudon Gnostique
    $200.00 | , ,

    Edited 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Jesse Bransford – A Book of Staves
    Jesse Bransford – A Book of Staves
    $50.00 | , ,

    In 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Tibet – Sing Omega [1st edition]
    David Tibet – Sing Omega [1st edition]
    $375.00 | , ,

    “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, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ayis Lertas – 72
    Ayis Lertas – 72
    $200.00 | , ,

    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Peter Hamilton-Giles – The Baron Citadel; The Book of the Four Ways
    Peter Hamilton-Giles – The Baron Citadel; The Book of the Four W…
    $110.00 | , ,

    As 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frater Acher – Trustmezzer – A Blade of Two Ways
    Frater Acher – Trustmezzer – A Blade of Two Ways
    $50.00 | , ,

    Three 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Myth and Method
    Myth and Method
    $7.00 | , ,

    In 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? [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marc Sageman – Understanding Terror Networks
    Marc Sageman – Understanding Terror Networks
    $7.00 | , ,

    For 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest
    A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest
    $7.00 | , ,

    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • James Hillman – Insearch : Psychology and Religion
    James Hillman – Insearch : Psychology and Religion
    $7.00 | , ,

    Insearch 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul
    The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul
    $7.00 | , ,

    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Ackroyd – Blake: A Biography
    Peter Ackroyd – Blake: A Biography
    $7.00 | , ,

    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction