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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell  Publisher Comments Despite their infinite variety of incident, setting, and costume, the myths of the world offer only a limited number of responses to the riddle of life. In this best-selling volume, Joseph Campbell presents the composite hero. Through Campbell's eyes, we...
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The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell Publisher Comments "The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the...
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The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987 (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
by Joseph Campbell Publisher Comments Provocative and personal writings on mythology, culture, and modern life by our century's foremost interpreter and teacher of myth.Gathered together here for the first time are twelve eclectic,far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its...
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments MONSTERS, MORTALS, GODS, AND WARRIORS<P>For over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god...
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
by Robert Graves Publisher Comments "The White Goddess" is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities-- the...
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The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia
by Ronald M. Berndt Publisher Comments MYTHOLOGY / ABORIGINAL CULTUREThe 195 stories collected in this first anthology of Aboriginal myth were told to anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, who spent nearly fifty years working among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. The Berndts...
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The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell Publisher Comments "A glittering explanation of a literary world of the spirit...Scintillating conversation and provocative ideology are rampant in this book". -- Pasadena Star...
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Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (94 Edition)
by Jean Chevalier Publisher Comments A bestseller in France, where it was originally published, this supremely erudite book draws together folkloric, literary, and artistic sources and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every color, number, sound, gesture, expression, or character trait...
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Celtic Myths and Legends (90 Edition)
by T. W. Rolleston Publisher Comments Masterful retelling of Irish and Welsh stories and tales, including Cuchulain, King Arthur, Deirdre, the Grail, and many more. First paperback edition. 58 full-page illustrations and 18 figures....
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Dictionary of Ancient Deities
by Patricia Turner Publisher Comments Nothing reveals more about a civilization than the gods and goddesses it worshipped. For thousands of years humans have fashioned stories about divine beings to explain their most mysterious, terrifying, and exalted experiences. Today the names of many...
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Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
by Marina Warner Publisher Comments Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our...
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Encyclopedia of gods :over 2,500 deities of the world
by Michael Jordan Publisher Comments Encyclopedia of Gods offers concise information on more than 2,500 deities worshipped around the world and throughout history, from the most ancient gods of polytheistic societies -- to the most contemporary gods of the major monotheistic religions. Each...
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Bulfinchs Mythology Illustrated Edition
by Thomas Bulfinch Publisher Comments For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known. <BR>...
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World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide
by Roy Willis Publisher Comments The great myths of the world create meaning out of the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, the cycle of the seasons. They speak to us of life itself in voices still intelligible, yet compellingly strange...
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Short History of Myth (05 Edition)
by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments The author of The History of God and In the Beginning: A New Reading of Genesis offers a useful, well-written introduction to mythology from the Paleolithic period to the "Great Western Transformation" that used science to discredit myth. Reprint....
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Bollingen Series #84: Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen
by J J Bachofen Publisher Comments A pioneer of the idea of a transcendental mythical content present in all societies, Bachofen was deeply concerned with the inner life and how it is expressed in symbolic terms....
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Mythology
by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture — the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from...
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A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
by Diane K Osbon Publisher Comments Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will...
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An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols
by J C Cooper Synopsis Explains the meanings associated with objects, plants, animals, myths, religious symbols, and images in art....
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Library of Greek Mythology (97 Edition)
by Apollodorus Publisher Comments A new translation of an important text for Greek mythology used as a source book by classicists from antiquity to Robert Graves, The Library of Greek Mythology is a complete summary of early Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of...
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