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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Publisher Comments "A deeply spiritual book...She honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women. She venerates the female soul." --The Washington Post Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity,... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G Walker Staff Pick "One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure troves — dip in anywhere, let chance take you, lead... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by Jeffrey Gantz Synopsis Eleven stories of ancient Welsh origin combine myth, history, and folk legend in their accounts of heroes, quests, battles, and the triumphs of Arthur's knights.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Tain by Thomas Kinsella Publisher Comments The T�in B� Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's nearest approach to a great epic. It tells the story of a giant cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-499) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. 1 by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Volume 1 of a two-volume set by one of the foremost Egyptologists contains 16 chapters including The Gods of Egypt, Primitive Gods and Nome-Gods, Hell and the Damned, Ra the Sun-God and His Forms, Hathor and the Hathor-Goddesses, The Horus Gods, and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Le Morte Darthur Volume 1 by Thomas Malory Publisher Comments An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living by Diane K. Osbon Publisher Comments Celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell shares his intimate and inspiring reflections on the art of living in this beautifully packaged book, part of a new series to be based on his unpublished writings.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World Mythology: An Anthology of Great Myths and Epics by Donna Rosenberg Publisher Comments World Mythology is a compilation of over 50 great myths and epics. Your students will gain an appreciation and understanding of ancient and modern cultures through myths and epics from the Middle East, Greece and Rome, the Far East and Pacific islands... (read more) List Price $41.90 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan Publisher Comments With evocative description and careful scholarship, Patricia Monaghan takes readers on a journey through the countryside of Ireland. She discovers an abundance of sacred pools, half-forgotten caves, petroglyphs etched on stone walls, and wells built on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 deitiesthe White... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics) by James Cable Publisher Comments ‘Lancelot has brought me such great shame as to dishonour me through my wife, I shall never rest till they are caught together’ Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When God Was a Woman (Harvest/HBJ Book) by Merlin Stone Publisher Comments Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, womens roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Once and Future Goddess: A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Reemergence in the Cult by Elinor W Gadon Publisher Comments A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gumbo YA-YA: Folk Tales of Louisiana by Lyle Saxon Publisher Comments The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic Gumbo Ya-Ya. Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs, Gumbo Ya-Ya chronicles the stories and legends that have emergedfrom the bayou country... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nordic Gods and Heroes (96 Edition) by Padraic Colum Publisher Comments Rich selection of age-old legends concerning the gods and goddesses who dwell in Asgard, their problems with the mischievous Loki, the exploits of Odin and Thor, the story of Sigurd, the winning of Brynhild, the twilight of the gods and more. Enhanced... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine by David Leeming Publisher Comments The authors gather some 75 of the most potent and meaningful tales of the Female Divine in an extraordinarily rich and readable introduction of this figure. Told as a biography, this work follows Goddess from her first Ice Age appearance to her re... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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