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The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in The Asian Heartland
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen Charles de Gaulle learned that France’s former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, “They are the dust of empire.” But as [...]
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The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Can we rely on the discoveries that scientists make about one or another part, or aspect, of the world as a basis for drawing conclusions abou the Universe as a […]
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Contin…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest – 10 million square […]
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George E. Marcus – The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and An…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and [...]
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Lewis Hyde – The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Proper…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsStarting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the […]
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Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative Religion
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According [...]
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Tzvetan Todorov – Theories of the Symbol
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFocusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied in the works of classical rhetoric to an […]
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Peter Marshall – The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astr…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRudolf II―Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the Romans―is one of history’s great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign [...]
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Suzanna Walters – Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultu…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMadonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter’s brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. [...]
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Alexander Eliot – The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, …
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMyth is universal – a common heritage to all humanity. But it is by no means confined to primitive and pagan lore, and this work proves it to be a […]
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‘Key’ of Jacob Boehme
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe second edition of a volume in the ‘Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks’ series introducing the ideas and spiritual philosophy of a seventeenth-century Christian mystic. As a young [...]
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Digging the Days of the Dead: A Reading of Mexicos Dias De Muerte
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDias de muertos — Days of the Dead — is celebrated in Mexico each year in late October and early November. It is a family reunion in which the dead […]
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William T. Gorski – Yeats and Alchemy
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book traces the development of alchemical discourse in the work of W. B. Yeats. His early essays and Golden Dawn transcripts demonstrate that for the poet, the alchemist was […]
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Rodney Collin – The Mirror Of Light
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWritten in 1955, by a mystic who fully understood The Fourth Way. The contents of this book was way ahead Wayne Dyer and Eckhart Tolle and only now is it […]
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Atlas of Prehistoric Britain (as-is, no dustjacket)
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMegalithic cairns, ancient earthworks, Bronze Age burial chambers, Stonehenge–these mysterious, awe-inspiring monuments in their remote British settings have long exercised a powerful hold [...]
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Robert Klein – Form and Meaning: Writings on the Renaissance and…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the differing ways that the Renaissance masters and modern artists depict form in their work This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show […]
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Robert & Ellen Kaplan – The Art Of The Infinite
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this delightful new book, Robert Kaplan, writing together with his wife Ellen Kaplan, once again takes us on a witty, literate, and accessible tour of the world of mathematics. […]
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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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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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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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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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