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  • Live to Tell: Six Award-WInning Tales

    by Brandon Spars ...
    Live to Tell explores the art and craft of storytelling in such a way that readers can explore the dynamic between the written page and the live stage. The scripts for six award-winning tales are anthologized in this collection, with links to live performances from storytelling competitions, including The Moth StorySLAM.Additionally, Live to Tell brings storytelling into the ESL, high school, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Setting a Plot

    by Brandon Spars ...
    Setting a Plot: The Impact of Geography on Culture, Myth, and Storytelling is a sourcebook for storytellers as well as teachers and students in the classroom. Epics and myths from India, Indonesia, Australia, and Tibet, which include The Ramayana, The Calonarang, The Wauwalak Sisters (a Songline Epic), The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava, and many others form the basis for an engaging ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Live to Tell Again: Tales of Self-Discovery and Healing

    by Brandon Spars ...
    Live to Tell Again is the second book in this series that explores the art and craft of storytelling. This volume explores storytelling as a means to discover meaning and purpose in one's life, using moments in which difficult decisions are made as material for generating powerful personal stories.One story even highlights the potential for storytelling to aid in the process of healing after a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rangda: The Legendary Goddess of Bali

    by Brandon Spars ...
    Rangda: The Legendary Goddess of Bali examines the layered origins of this premier Southeast Asian goddess. As prominent as Pele of the Polynesian Islands, Rangda is perhaps the most familiar, most feared, and most revered deity, regularly represented by her unique and horrifying mask in the temples of Bali while also adorning the tourist pamphlets and t-shirts of Kuta Beach. Even though prominent ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Bowl of Light

    Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman

    In 1996, a revered Hawaiian elder befriended an American anthropologist, and from their rare and intimate rapport, something miraculous emerged. Through the words and teachings of the kahuna wisdom-keeper Hale Makua, Dr. Hank Wesselman was gifted with an enhanced perspective into the sacred knowledge of ancient Hawaii.Before his passing, elder Makua encouraged Dr. Wesselman to convey much of what ... Read more

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  • Pilgrim in the Palace of Words

    A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

    by Glenn Dixon ...
    Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. Some six thousand languages are still spoken on the planet, and author Glenn Dixon – an expert is socio-linguistics and a tireless adventurer – travels to the Earth’s four corners to explore the way these languages create and mould societies.As one philosopher said, languages are Houses of ... Read more

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  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... Read more

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  • Metaphor Island

    Patterns for Survival from the Nilgiri Highlands

    The Ecological and social crises that engulf the planet are intensifying. As we deny the consequences of the disruptions we cause, and promote inadequate solutions, we lose grip on the extent of change needed globally. Perhaps we will only listen if a voice from nature speaks out explicitly.Based on seven years of in-depth research, Godwin Vasanth Bosco finds that a remarkable mountainous ... Read more

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    Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

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  • Way of the Bushman

    Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

    The first comprehensive presentation of the core teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen as told by the Tribal Elders• Reveals how the Bushmen are able to receive direct transmissions of God’s love for healing and spiritual transformation• Explores tribal legends and teaching tales, the importance of dreams and animals, and the origins of their dances, rituals, and ceremoniesStep into the imaginative ... Read more

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  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    by Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... Read more

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