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  • Slayers and Their Vampires

    A Cultural History of Killing the Dead

    by Bruce McClelland ...
    The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer“A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations.”—Adam Morton, author of On Evil“From the Balkan Mountains to Beverly Hills, Bruce has mapped the vampire’s migration. There’s no better guide for the trek.”—Jan L. Perkowski, Professor, Slavic Department, University of Virginia, and author of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Harry Potter and History

    by Nancy Reagin ...
    Series Book 3 - Wiley Pop Culture and History Series
    A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter--just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to life in the form of werewolves, witches, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Vampire Forensics

    Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend

    by Mark Collins Jenkins ...
    Mark Jenkins's engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Harry Potter and International Relations

    by Brian Folker, Maia A. Gemmill, Martin Hall, Torbjørn L. Knutsen, Bahar Rumelili, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Ann Towns, David Long, Patricia M. Goff, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Peter Mandaville ...
    Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own? In this timely yet otherworldly volume, more than a dozen scholars of international relations join hands to demonstrate how this well-loved artifact of popular culture reflects and shapes our own lifeworld. A wide range of historical and sociological sources shows how Harry's world contains aspects of our own. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Secret History of Vampires

    Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes

    by Claude Lecouteux ...
    A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics• Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi• Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial recordsOf all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Divine Fury

    A History of Genius

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today, rock stars, football coaches, and entrepreneurs are labeled 'geniuses,' and the word is applied so widely that it has obscured the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires

    Fascinating Vampire Lore from Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Middle East

    by Jay Stevenson ...
    Vampires are the hottest topic in popular culture today. From the now classic novels of Anne Rice, to the mega-selling series by Stephanie Meyer to the hit HBO series True Blood based on the bestselling novels of Charlaine Harris, the undead are certainly not dead in terms of books sales.Now, those curious about the history and lore of these creatures can get up to speed in the refreshed edition ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions

    Essays in Comparative Religion

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture and the Death of God

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Haunted

    On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

    by Leo Braudy ...
    An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created themLeo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity.Continuing his interest in the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Marx On Religion

    by John Raines ...
    "Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions."Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Monster Theory

    Reading Culture

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to Monster ... Read more

    $16.99 USD