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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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Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Conscious…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA neuroscientist and Zen practitioner interweaves the latest research on the brain with his personal narrative of Zen. Aldous Huxley called humankind’s basic trend toward spiritual growth [...]
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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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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultura…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTraces the development of the concept of postmodernism, explains its differences with modernism, and discusses political and social influences This book is in Good readable condition. It has been [...]
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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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction