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  • The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

    The Conflict Between Word and Image

    Series series Compass
    This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sex, Time, and Power

    How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

    As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from.Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leonardo's Brain

    Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

    Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

    The Conflict Between Word and Image

    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 5 min

    Who changed the sex of God?This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Sex, Time, and Power

    How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 30 min

    As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain's provocative new book promises to change the way listeners view themselves and where they came from.Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Leonardo's Brain

    Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius

    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    Bestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy (yes), and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Da Vinci's Ghost

    Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image

    by Toby Lester ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo daVinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and asquare. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeurof art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the humanspirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffeecups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • God and Empire

    Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

    The bestselling author and prominent New Testament scholar draws parallels between 1st–century Roman Empire and 21st–century United States, showing how the radical messages of Jesus and Paul can lead us to peace today.Using the tools of expert biblical scholarship and a keen eye for current events, bestselling author John Dominic Crossan deftly presents the tensions exhibited in the Bible between ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Revelations

    Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation

    by Elaine Pagels ...
    A profound exploration of the Bible's most controversial book—from the bestselling author of Beyond Belief and The Gnostic GospelsThe strangest book of the New Testament, filled with visions of the Rapture, the whore of Babylon, and apocalyptic writing of the end of times, the Book of Revelation has fascinated readers for more than two thousand years, but where did it come from? And what are the ... Read more

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  • The Magus (Illustrated Edition)

    Francis Barrett (born probably in London circa 1770-1780) was an English occultist. Barrett claimed himself to be a student of chemistry, metaphysics, and natural occult philosophy. He was known to be an extreme eccentric who gave lessons in the magical arts in his apartment and fastidiously translated Kabbalistic and other ancient texts into English. He was very enthusiastic about reviving ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Babylonian and Egyptian Astrology

    by M.E. Brines ...
    Explains the origin of astrology, explains the basic principles and provides an illustrated list of the planets, their influences and the alchemical metal associated with them. Discusses transits, what they are and how they are used with quadrants and progressions to calculate horoscopes. Traces the melding of Vedic and Babylonian of astrology by the 3rd century BC Alexandrian Greeks and the ... Read more

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