Discounted Books & Textbooks for Kids, College Students, Professionals
One of the most astonishing and intimate accounts of spiritual transformation ever written, this is the true story of an African’s shaman’s initiation–a remarkable sharing of living African traditions, offered with compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of spirit..
Written in the mid-1960s, this is Maslow’s classic treatise on transcendent states of being and their essential value in human life..
The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power of the myths that influence our lives and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present..
The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology..
Campbell offers a systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world. ‘The high function of Occidental myth and ritual . . . is to establish a means of relationship–of God to Man and Man to God’.–Joseph Campbell..
Now recognized as the standard translation of one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people, The Life of Milarepa is both a portrait of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist saint and folk hero and a profoundly detailed guidebook to the search for consciousness..
In this bestseller, Jolan Chang explains how the ancient philosophy of Taoism can be applied to modern sex techniques..
This encyclopedic and easily comprehended work, whose range extends from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia Hypothesis, is a grand synthesis of art, mythology, literature, and psychology. ‘A wonderfully readable synthesis . . . packed with riveting illustrations’.–Publishers Weekly..
Bringing the history of cosmology–from the Babylonians to Newton–to life in a masterly synthesis, Koestler shows how the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century..
First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: a manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision for change..