Short History Of Myth, Paperback

The ancient roots of mythology and its contemporary legacy and centrality to the modern frame of reference are explored in this profound look at th...

Famous throughout history for their doomed stand at Thermopylae, and immortalised by contemporary Athenian writers who viewed them as the exotic ot...

Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia fro...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris inf...

Magic is a much-used term with a complex and controversial history. As a concept and a practice, it has attracted the attention of theologians, ant...

Reducere. It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history--rem...

These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their con...

Reducere. This book takes you on a short journey-a weekend cruise, if you will-through ancient Greek myth, leading you up to Homer's doorstep. It proceeds ch...

Reducere. DescriptionWith a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great...

Reducere. Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and ...

Reducere. This book is a carefully curated collection of 1, 900 of the most significant shipwrecks and marine disasters that have occurred in British Columbi...

*Includes pictures *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Had I just 10, 000 C...

Reducere. DescriptionTranslated by F. S. Copeland. Illustrated by Vladimir Kirin. Croatian Tales of Long Ago is a collection of six short stories, based on t...

DescriptionA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions...

Reducere. African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portra...

Reducere. The history of the fable likely does not originate with Aesop; however it is with him that we associate the fable's most ancient of known origins. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Joseph Carey Merrick, more popularly known as the Elephant Man, passed into the realm of legend from the moment he was firs...

Reducere. It may be America's game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable informatio...

After best-selling Rolling Stone writer Dave Marsh was invited by Pete Townshend to write a history of legendary band the Who, he spent three years...

This innovative edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or "b...

Reducere. Eating is a symbolic and magical act--a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity--but all through history, food-themed stories ...

Reducere. The author picked up his love of folk tales from his father and his uncle, Okuma Totokpuiti Gamega. In the evening, the kids and some adults sat in...