Popular Beliefs, Controversial Knowledge
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Legends of Rotorua
Oratia Books£23.99| /First published in 1958, this is the classic collection of myths relating to that cradle of Māori culture, Rotorua with relevance across New Zeal...
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Lost History of the North Shore
Schiffer£13.99| /Discover information about the first American naval battle, great escapes in the middle of the night, and many historic tidbits that don't often ap...
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Maryland Folklore
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£11.99| /This readable survey of folklore and folklife in Maryland is a fascinating guide to the kind of traditions that exist right under peoples' noses--i...
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Mas Antes
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£13.99| /In this book about long ago, the author once again ventures onto his natural habitat, the Rio Puerco, and prepares the stage for his beloved Muddy ...
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Michigan's Haunted Legends and Lore
Schiffer£18.99| /Journey across the State of Michigan, rich in history, to read over 40 tales of the strange, the unusual, and the haunted of centuries past. Discov...
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Mimbres Mythology
American Travellers Press (US)£20.99| /1000 years ago, the Mimbres painted bowls with images from their lives and from their stories. This book includes interpretations and illustrations...
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Monsters and Mythical Creatures from around the World
Red Feather£22.99| /Mythical creatures are cultural artifacts—creations of the human imagination from all around the world. From terrifying monsters to sacred mystical...
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More Ghost Stories of Alberta
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Spine-tingling, blood-curdling stories from Alberta's past and present. Features haunting tales of many well-known provincial buildings and landmar...
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Myths of Love
Linden Publishing£17.99| /Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America';s favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century relationships in her new book Myths...
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Native Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£14.99| /Embark on a journey into the spirit world of First Nations peoples with some of the most intriguing stories of ghost spirits in nature and the unde...
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Nga Waka o Nehera
Oratia Books£34.99| /Nga Waka o Nehera is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand including lists of the waka, name...
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Nonscience Returns
Curtis Press£14.95| /This unforgettable book will make you laugh as it unveils the crazy world of Nonscience, the dodgy descendant of science. It will make your toes cu...
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Numbers of the Gods
Progressive Press (US)£19.99| /A mind-boggling investigation into ancient wisdom -- and the nature of the universe. Monuments like the Pyramids or Stonehenge make us wonder: Were...
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Old Myths & New Approaches
Monash University Publishing£33.99| /Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia brings together recent research by leading experts on Southeas...
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On the Primaeval Ocean
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£71.99| /The book is an edition of an ancient Egyptian cosmology for which there is no known parallel. The cosmology was written in the demotic script and p...
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Ontario Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Barbara Smith's second collection of tales of the paranormal in Ontario. Meet the phantom who wanders the halls of a Brockville home dressed in alo...
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Osnabrücker Jahrbuch Frieden und Wissenschaft XVIII / 2011
V & R Unipress GmbH£26.99| /Our society is increasingly aware of collective risks as threats to peace. After the multiple catastrophe in Fukushima, a broad parliamentary major...
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Pagan Heart of the West Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practices from Antiquity to the Present
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£25.00| /In this second volume, Pagan Heart focuses on the veneration of nature -- flora, fauna, elements, celestial bodies -- and on rituals of the season...
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Power of Song
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£41.99| /This book shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic "Singing ...
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Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA
Progressive Press (US)£27.99| /The eagerly awaited English edition of "Bought Journalists" was suppressed for three years under the title "Journalists for Hire" -- and still got ...
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Propaganda for War
Progressive Press (US)£23.99| /"The Verdict of the VERSAILLES TREATY that Germany and her allies were responsible for the War, in view of the evidence now available, is historica...
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Rape of the Mind
Progressive Press (US)£19.99| /Since 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr Joost A M Meer...
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Raven and the First People
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£13.99| /Below the mist-shrouded mountains of the West Coast lie the stories of how we came to be. It is through the myths of the people who have lived with...
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Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £30.00Current price £27.00| /Numerous political commentators have noted the rise of the radical right worldwide. How has the radical right responded to the COVID-19 pandemic? H...
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Romantic Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Love can move mountains and overcome all obstacles. But can it survive death? As this new collection shows, love beyond the grave is often more pow...
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S-172
Empire Publications (UK)£8.99| /Over the past half century, opinion has been divided as to the role of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The rumo...
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Scary Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /A fun collection of twisted stories just perfect for reading aloud. Here are a few examples: Tempted by an alluring payoff, a teenager delivers a l...
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Seeking Balance
Caitlin Press (CA)£18.99| /Many Canadians say that British Columbia is the zaniest political province. It's too diverse, too polarised -- geographically, demographically and ...
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Seven Sisters of the Pleiades
Spinifex Press£19.95| /The seven sisters of the Pleiades are known throughout the world and appear again and again in stories from many cultures. Beginning with her grand...
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Shape-Shifters & their stories
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£12.99| /Shape-shifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. In its broadest sense, shape-shifting occurs when a being (usually human)...
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Sky Stories
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£66.99| /Ptak has woven together ancient myths and stories of modern astronomy in this book. He looks at several constellations tying to each of the old sto...
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Skywoman
Clear Light Publishers (US)£20.99| /When Skywoman falls from the upper world, the birds and animals living in the watery place below must catch her and create ground on which she can ...
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Slave Species of God
Music Masters Publishing (ZA)£14.99| /Were humans created by "God" as SLAVES? Was Abraham the first human SPY? Was Jesus an accidental MESSIAH? The author takes readers on a remarkable ...
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Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Daimon Verlag (CH)£68.99| /This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known peopl...
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St Suniti & the Dragon
Spinifex Press£10.95| /This is an extended fable. The central theme, of how to live decently and honourably in a cruel and irrational world, is explored through related t...
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Swords at Sunset
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£19.99| /This is the final book in Michael Bradley's bestselling trilogy on Holy Grail adventures in North America from 1398 to 1571, completing the saga re...
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Talking Tools
CCI Press£50.99| /Talking Tools: Faces of Aboriginal Oral Tradition in Contemporary Society explores the power of oral tradition in Aboriginal society as a foundatio...
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Target China
Progressive Press (US)£17.99| /China today has become a world economic giant in just three decades. The country's central bank holds over $3.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserv...
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Tele Screen
Progressive Press (US)£17.99| /The Telescreen is the pervasive media screen put in front of, and injected into, the eyes and ears of humans in the American electronic techno-cult...
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Temples of the African Gods
Zulu Planet Publishers (ZA)£24.00| /A scientific expose that will shatter our knowledge of ancient human history. Scholars have told us that the first civilisation on Earth emerged in...
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Terror on the Tube
Progressive Press (US)£19.99| /If 9/11 was the great pretext for the turn to fascism in the USA, London's 7/7 bombings were the enabling act for an Orwellian new reign of "anti"-...
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The Enchanted Valley
Foliate Head Press£9.99| /Driving along the only road through the Llanthony Valley is a joy; the landscape never disappoints. But to experience the Valley properly, one must...
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The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£26.99| /In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. ...
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The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£70.99| /In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. ...
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The Pagan Heart of the West
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£25.00| /The Pagan Heart of the West challenges current academic notions that paganism died when Christianization occurred; that the transition from paganis...
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The Pagan Heart of the West
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£28.00| /In this fifth and final volume, we consider the persistence and transformation of pagan traditions in philosophy and the arts. This final volume al...
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The White Snake and Her Son
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, ...
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The White Snake and Her Son
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£44.99| /A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, ...
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