World Mythology
10 best books like World Mythology (Roy Willis): Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, Dwarfs, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World, The Lore of Love, Giants and Ogres, What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile: Egypt, 3050-30 BC, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist, The Ascent of Everest
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0375702679 |
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374223017 |
No Go the Bogeyman considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age. Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented...
| Author | Tim Appenzeller |
| ISBN | 0809452243 |
This book is similar in appearance, style, and presentation to other volumes in the Time-Life Enchanted World series, but contains content focusing on yet another creature of myth and fantasy: the dwarf. As with other Enchanted World volumes, "Dwarfs" contains numerous color illustrations that...
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| ISBN | 0681617349 |
The book is oversize and has over 1,000 entries over hundreds of pages. It's bulky, but it's lavishly illustrated which makes the full size worthwhile, if you're into those kinds of things.
I think the Goodreads summary can give as good a feel as anything for this book: "An authoritative A to...
| Author | Ellen Galford |
| ISBN | 0809452812 |
My review for all of these books in this series is the same.
Time-Life has once again done an outstanding job putting together a series. From cover to cover they are thoughtful, beautiful books. I'm starting to sound generic, but it's true.
I'm a DK fan, I like white backgrounds and side notes...
| Author | Tristram Potter Coffin |
| ISBN | 0809452383 |
A series from Time Life Books on myth, superstitions, and legend, brought to life with beautiful illustrations, and written in a fluid like prose that brings to mind a storyteller sitting by a crackling fire sharing his tales.
I remember reading some of the books in this series when I was younger....
| Author | Denise Dersin |
| ISBN | 0809493780 |
The dazzling ancient Egyptian civilization, which was born by the river Nile and flourished for more than 3,000 years, captures our imagination as no other culture before or since. Their magnificent pyramids, colossal temples, and brooding Sphinx never fail to awe and astound us. But even more amazing...
| Author | Robert Audi |
| ISBN | 0521637228 |
Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary available in English (and now with translations into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Italian, and Spanish underway) this second edition offers an even richer, more comprehensive, and more up-to-date survey of ideas and...
| Author | John Brockman |
| ISBN | 1400076862 |
What makes a child decide to become a scientist?
•For Robert Sapolsky–Stanford professor of biology–it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.
•Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein’s work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak.
•Mihaly...
| Author | John Hunt |
| ISBN | 0898863619 |
The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt
The story of a team of resolute men who conquered a mountain…
“What is the problem of Everest? What were the weapons with which the mountain had so long succeeded in holding at bay so many resolute men?” –John Hunt
Expedition leader John Hunt asked...
The Oxford Companion to the Bible
| Author | Bruce M. Metzger |
| ISBN | 0195046455 |
The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. It is one of the great wellsprings of Western religious, ethical, and philosophical traditions. It has been an endless source of inspiration to artists, from classic works such as Michaelangelo's...
Tales of the Elders of Ireland
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0192839187 |
Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senorach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian stories and poetry, intermingling the contemporary...
Anthology of Classical Myth
| Author | Stephen M. Trzaskoma |
| ISBN | 0872207218 |
This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks.
In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this collection...
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
| Author | David A. Leeming |
| ISBN | 0195156692 |
Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology, or myth-logic, in history and determines...
| Author | Brendan Lehane |
| ISBN | 0809452057 |
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I learned about this Time Life Enchanted World Series after Stacy and I did an interview with Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale. The author had mentioned reading these when...
| Author | Time-Life Books |
| ISBN | 0809452774 |
A collection of thirteen tales about ghosts, goblins, hauntings, and black magic, gathered from places as far apart as Arabia and Norway.
Stories: Walking dead of Brittany -- Implacable army -- In the body of the beast -- Harvest of horrors -- Goblin's guest -- Unfinished death -- Furies of...
The Book of the Dead: The Hieroglyphic Transcript and Translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus of Ani
| Author | E.A. Wallis Budge |
| ISBN | 0517122839 |
The book got the star rating it did because of two things: one, the formatting of the text (it was bogged down in footnotes), and two, Budge's less-than-subtle Christian slant. As much as I enjoy a good book on comparative religion, this really wasn't the time or place. As such, I side-eyed a lot of the talk...
| Author | Ruth Westheimer |
| ISBN | 0762407506 |
Eğer 18 yaşında olsaydım bu kitap bana hediye edilebilecek en iyi şey olurdu.
Seks, hiç tartışmasız insan hayatındaki en önemli konulardan biri. Temel bilgileri edinmenin zorunluluğu bir yana, kitapta da vurgulandığı gibi bilmek ya da şüpheden kurtulmak daha büyük...
