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  • Sea Monsters

    A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map

    by Joseph Nigg ...
    The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina.In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Phoenix

    An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

    by Joseph Nigg ...
    An "insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird" from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal).The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map

    by Joseph Nigg ...
    Olaus Magnus’s 1539 Carta Marina can be considered the major source of Renaissance sea monster iconography and lore. The map and its voluminous commentary, History of the Northern Peoples, established Olaus as the innovative historian of the sea serpent, the giant squid and sea monsters in general.Sea Monsters is structured around Olaus’s map – which is reproduced as a beautiful fold-out on the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    by Loren Coleman ...
    From the serpentine "Champie" of Lake Champlain to the venerable "Nessie" of Loch Ness, extraordinary-and un-explained-creatures of the deep have been reported in sightings throughout the twentieth century. Now, two of the world's leading cryptozoological investigators provide a globetrotting field guide to when, where, and what kind of mysterious aquatic beasts have gripped the public—and ... Read more

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  • The Illuminati

    by Mark Naples ...
    Whether or not The Illuminati – an elite body claiming an ancient pedigree – does exist, it is important that growing numbers of people nonetheless do believe it exists. So does it exist? If so, is it a force for evil or a force for good - or, as some would have it, a conspiracy aimed at making us believe there is a conspiracy? Was the Bavarian Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt the true inheritor of ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

    by Will Durant ...
    A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time—listed in accessible and succinct form—by one of the world's greatest scholars.From the “Hundred Best Books” to the “Ten Greatest Thinkers” to the “Ten Greatest Poets,” here is a concise collection of the world’s most significant knowledge. For the better part of a century, Will Durant dwelled upon ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

    The Story That Created Us

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **“Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read.” —Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyDaring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.**The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians

    The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society

    by Tobias Churton ...
    The first complete historical and philosophical investigation into the “invisible fraternity” of the Rosicrucians• Contains the latest research on the origins of the Rosicrucian movement• Presents the ties between Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the Templars• Written by a “perfected” Knight of the Rose Croix and the Pelican (18th degree, Ancient and Accepted Rite)For nearly 400 years, incredible ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Creative Mythology

    by Joseph Campbell ...
    Series Book 4 - The Masks of God™
    Explore the power of myth as it exploded from medieval Europe into the modern worldIn this fourth volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology — the pre-eminent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it developed in Europe beginning in the twelfth century A.D. up through the modernist art of the twentieth century.The Masks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Satan: A Biography

    A Biography

    by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    The Devil, like the poor, is always with us. Evil has been personified in every religion and culture, and Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of him from its earliest period. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, sometimes seductively helpful, sometimes comical, Satan has played a variety of roles in human existence.Feared and frightening adversary ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Secret History of the World

    by Mark Booth ...
    This New York Times bestselling work reimagines world history though the belief systems of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Kabbalists, and others.They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history as we know it written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and controversial work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling ... Read more

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  • The Golden Builders

    Alchemists, Rosicrucians, and the First Freemasons

    by Tobias Churton ...
    A leading scholar of esoteric spirituality uncovers the history of Gnostic alchemy from Hellenistic Alexandria to the Renaissance.In The Golden Builders, Tobias Churton eschews myth and pseudohistory to trace 1,600 years of Hermetic spiritual and philosophical development. In a breathtaking span of detailed research, he sheds light on the origins of Gnostic alchemy, pre-Grand Lodge Freemasonry, ... Read more

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