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The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the Myth of the Mad Genius by Judith Schlesinger 9780983698241
$41.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983698241Author Judith SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shrinktunes MediaPublisher Shrinktunes MediaWeight(grams) 327g -
Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East by David Leeming 9780195182521
$43.06Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization. Leeming begins with... -
Superstitions and Folk Remedies by Charles Raymond Dillon 9780595179558
RRP: $27.28$19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595179558Author Charles Raymond DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Celtic Lore and Legend: Meet the Gods Heroes Kings Fairies Monsters and Ghosts of Yore by Bob Curran 9781564147868
RRP: $31.18$26.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564147868Author Bob CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 17mm -
Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook by Donald R. Hill 9780313336058
$113.41Accessible to students and general readers, this book is a concise but thorough introduction to Caribbean folklore. Included are chapters on the many different types of folklore, a selection of examples and texts, a survey of scholarship and criticism,... -
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger 9780231111713
$64.80At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions... -
Native American Mythology by Hartley Burr Alexander 9780486444154
RRP: $33.13$26.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486444154Author Hartley Burr AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 361Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Through the Water Curtain and other Tales from Around the World by Cornelia Funke
RRP: $19.48$13.71International bestselling children's author Cornelia Funke has long been inspired and fascinated by fairy tales. This wonderful anthology is Funke's personal selection of fairy tales from all around the world - not just from her native Germany but from... -
Tell It By Heart: Women and the Healing Power of Story by Erica Helm Meade 9780812693027
RRP: $42.88$32.49'Tell It by Heart' is a collection of stories about contemporary women of various ages and ethnic backgrounds who have one thing in common: each embraces a pertinent myth as her guide through a difficult passage. Narrated by therapist Erica Helm Meade,... -
In Search of Ogopogo: Sacred Creature of the Okanagan by Arlene Gaal 9780888394828
RRP: $31.18$20.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888394828Author Arlene GaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Folk Tales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages by A. K. Ramanujan
RRP: $38.98$31.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679748328Author A.K. RamanujanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Aboriginal Myths, Legends & Fables by A. W. Reed 9781876334291 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876334291Author A. W. ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 446g -
Celtic Myths and Legends by Charles L. Squire 9780878770304 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.55$5.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878770304Author Charles L. SquireFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Newcastle Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Newcastle Publishing Co Inc.,U.S... -
Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South by John A. Burrison 9780820312675
$66.26Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse as the tellers... -
Winged Serpent by MARGOT ASTROV 9780807081051
$39.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807081051Author MARGOT ASTROVFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Dark Emerald Tales by Anne Massey O'Regan 9780995778436
RRP: $39.00$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995778436Author Anne Massey O'ReganFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Beul Aithris PublishingPublisher Beul Aithris PublishingWeight(grams) 340g -
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (16pt Large Print Edition) by Joseph Campbell 9780369304346
RRP: $58.48$52.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369304346Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 626g -
Nez Perce Coyote Tales: The Myth Cycle by Deward E. Walker 9780806130323
RRP: $36.95$26.29An incorrigible trickster, a clever thief, a rogue, sometimes a magnanimous hero, often a vengeful loser, but always a survivor, Coyote is the most complex character in the Nez Perce cycle of traditional myths. Nez Perce Coyote Tales, a collection of... -
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance by Sandra Muse Isaacs 9780806163505
$66.20"Throughout our Cherokee history," writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, "our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are." These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts... -
True Myth: C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity by James W. Menzies 9780718893767
RRP: $50.70$49.08True Myth examines the meaning and significance of myth as understood by C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell and its place in the Christian faith in a technological society. C.S. Lewis defined Christianity, and being truly human, as a relationship between the... -
Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal by William S. Sax 9780195139143
$209.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Chicken Book by Page Smith 9780820322131
RRP: $56.45$52.51Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the... -
Great Smoky Mountains Folklife by Michael Ann Williams 9780878057924
RRP: $48.65$43.64The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife... -
Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen 9780299303440
RRP: $77.90$60.29Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity, focused on diaspora/homeland understandings of each other in Ukraine and in Ukrainian ethnic communities around the globe. Exploring a rich array of folk songs, poetry and... -
German Fairy Tales by Helmut Brackert 9780826402899
$62.9558 of the most familiar Grimm fairy tales, and three fairy tales by Ludwig Bechstein and one anti-fairy tale by Iring Fetscher.Book InformationISBN 9780826402899Author Helmut BrackertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Continuum International... -
Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the World: An Anthology of International Retellings by Sandra L. Beckett 9780814334799
RRP: $72.05$65.56Across various time periods, audiences, aesthetics, and cultural landscapes, Little Red Riding Hood is a universal icon, and her story is one of the world's most retold tales. In Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of International... -
Myth: A Handbook by William G. Doty 9780313326967
$125.62A type of folklore, myth is central to all cultures. Myths convey serious truths learned over generations and provide practical advice for living within a society. And while many myths go back to antiquity, they are also an important part of popular... -
Campus Legends: A Handbook by Elizabeth Tucker 9780313332852
$117.68Since the earliest days of universities, students have told stories about their daily lives, often emphasizing extraordinary, surprising, and baffling events. This book examines the fascinating world of college and university legends. While it primarily... -
Fairy Haunts of Ireland: A guide to magical, uplifting and supernatural sites for accessing the ancient spiritual heritage of Ireland and participating in her ever-luminous Otherworld continuum by Alanna Moore 9780645285437
RRP: $35.10$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645285437Author Alanna MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Python PressPublisher Python PressWeight(grams) 213g -
Being Continued by Paul Khera 9780956645050
$29.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956645050Author Paul KheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Affram BooksPublisher Affram BooksWeight(grams) 203g -
Cashibo Folklore and Culture: Prose, Poetry, and Historical Background by Lila Wistrand Robinson 9781556710483
RRP: $58.40$42.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556710483Author Lila Wistrand RobinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global... -
Old Age in Myth and Symbol: A Cultural Dictionary by Jennifer McLerran 9780313278457
$117.68Designed as a resource for artists, writers, and behavioral scientists, this compilation of the myths and symbols of old age lists more than 400 entries ranging from Abraham and acacia through Zorya and Zurvan. Coverage includes traditional mythical... -
Tom Thumb by Margaret Read MacDonald 9780897747288
$81.30The famous tale from the Brothers Grimm included in this book is only one of the stories from around the world about a very diminutive but resourceful character trying to earn his or her place in the world. This international collection of stories... -
Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait by Larisa Fialkova 9780814331699
RRP: $103.35$92.22In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an unprecedented rate, bringing about profound changes in Israeli society and the way immigrants understood their own identity. In this volume ex-Soviets in... -
The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale by Tamar Alexander-Frizer 9780814329719
RRP: $130.65$121.08Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these... -
Religion among the Folk in Egypt by Hasan M. El-Shamy 9780275979485
$163.10Religion among the Folk in Egypt seeks to structure the entire field of supernatural beliefs and related practices in the folk communities of Egypt. These beliefs constitute a cognitive system on the one hand and represent behavioral experiences felt,... -
Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook by Graham Anderson 9780313335754
$113.41The Greek and Roman world is often noted for the rationalism of a few outstanding thinkers. This book is about the traditional superstitions, beliefs, taboos, folk-remedies, ghost stories, and folk tales that haunted the rest. Along the way it considers... -
Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians by John Reed Swanton 9780806127842
$37.28First published in 1929, John R. Swanton's Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore. During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in... -
Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia by Sam D. Gill 9780195115888
RRP: $156.00$114.37This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practised by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill's purpose is to get as close as possible to the perceptions and... -
Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions: Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia by James Dow 9780299316501
RRP: $156.00$147.44German scholars were early pioneers in folklore and historical linguistics. As the Nazis rose to power, however, these disciplines were distorted into racist pseudoscience. Under the direction of Heinrich Himmler's SS-Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Inheritance),...