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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsZeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more […]
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Burren Archaeology: A Tour Guide
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Burren in County Clare contains one of the more dense concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it was first settled […]
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An Assemblage of Spirits : Idea and Image in New Ireland
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the daily life and culture in Papua New Guinea, and shows examples of carved architectural panels, masks, dance ornaments, figures, friezes, and poles This book is in Good readable […]
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Paradise: A History of the Idea that Rules the World
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare sucidide bombers, there is always someone promsing a better tomorrow, if only we do what they say. Although […]
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language, Theory, Mythology, …
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and [...]
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Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Ex…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGoodman reexamines our notions of the nature of reality by studying the ritual postures of native art assumed by her subjects during trance states. For readers desiring to discover this […]
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Jolande Jacobi – Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs an associate of C. G. Jung for many years, Jolande Jacobi is in a unique position to provide an interpretation of his work. In this volume, Dr. Jacobi presents […]
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America, the Sorcerer’s New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Sham…
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsReincarnation, Eastern mysticism, channeling, psychic phenomena. Is America at the threshold of a glorious new age of enlightenment? Or have we, in our search for higher levels of human [...]
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Julius Evola – The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe’s greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so [...]
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Walter Burkert – Greek Religion
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in […]
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Henry Corbin – Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), [...]
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Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists and writers reconsider the relationship between the body and electronic technology in the twenty-first century through essays, artworks, and an encyclopedic “Abecedarius of the New [...]
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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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Henri Focillon – The Life of Forms in Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881–1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is [...]
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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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Warren Neidich – Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history [...]
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Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings Behind the Classic Text
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Gnostic Faustus, Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation. Nearly every element of […]
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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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Jose Guadalupe Posada And the Mexican Broadside
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJosé Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913), one of Mexico’s most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually [...]
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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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Dane Rudhyar – Occult Preparations for a New Age
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIntriguing work by the French astrologer/spiritualist. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear […]
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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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Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn extensive examination of the history of gnosticism and how its philosophy has influenced the Western esoteric tradition. Gnosticism was a contemporary of early Christianity, and its demise can [...]
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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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What May Come: The Taller de Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEstablished in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Art Workshop) sought to create prints, posters, and illustrated publications that were popular and affordable, [...]
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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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Mircea Eliade – The Sacred & The Profane
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected [...]
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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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David Toop – Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imag…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDavid Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, […]
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Sarah Davachi – Papers
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In addition to the music she creates, Sarah Davachi is also immersed in the theoretical issues that surround her practice. This twin engagement began in her youth in Canada, studying […]
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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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Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction