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by Jack Tresidder  Publisher Comments Pleasingly chunky and vibrantly colorful, this pocket-sized compendium covers iconography from around the world and is perfect for travel and museum outings. Author Jack Tresidder examines common imagery in art, religion, and literature, revealing hidden... (read more)  List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ernest Drake 
Powells.com Staff Pick I originally picked up this beautiful book, published by Candlewick Press, just to look at it, thinking I might buy one at a later time. But I soon realized that I needed to have a copy in my possession immediately! Laden with attractive illustrations... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship one God? What's a Canaanite demoness doing at a rock concert? Since the beginning of time, people have been insatiably curious. They've... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ananda Coomaraswamy Publisher Comments Great stories of the epics; deeds of Krishna, Shiva, taken from puranas, Vedas, folk tales, more. 32 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zsuzsanna Budapest Publisher Comments In The Grandmother of Time, Zsuzsanna Budapest teaches both beginners and experieced practioners how to intergrate wiccan spirtuality into their everyday lives. Here are new approaches to today's rituals, from birthdays and dedications of newborn babies... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T W Rolleston Publisher Comments Masterful retelling of Irish and Welsh stories and tales of the Ultonian and Ossianic cycles, the voyage of Maeldun, and the myths and tales of the Cymry (Welsh). Favorite and familiar stories of Cuchulain, King Arthur, Deirdre, the Grail, many more... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Hope Publisher Comments The soul is the ultimate human unknown. The Secret Language of the Soul is a visual directory of the ways that cultures worldwide, both ancient and modern, have attempted to answer its mysteries. The scope is vast, from Zen Buddhism to Catholicism, and... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacob Grimm Publisher Comments For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, “I’ve chosen to give the telling of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Graves Publisher Comments Endymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion — we recognize the names, but what are the stories behind these and other familiar gods from the Greek pantheon — names that recur throughout the history of European culture? Drawing on an enormous range... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Froud Publisher Comments "Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc...." In the long-awaited... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Telesco Publisher Comments Goddess wisdom for every day of the year Bring life-affirming magic and empowerment into every day of your life with this unique and useful guise to the goddess. Through the ages, people have celebrated the role of goddesses in maintaining the flow of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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