Overview :James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon--Go Tell It on a Mounta... Read More
Overview :With her repulsive face and head full of living, venomous snakes, Medusa is petrifying--quite literally, since looking directly at her turne... Read More
Overview :He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; ... Read More
Overview :First published in 1998, Leeming's landmark biography of Beauford Delaney returns to printLong out of print, this new edition of David Leemi... Read More
Overview :Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, The World of Myth, Third Edition, offers a uniquely comprehensive collection o... Read More
Overview :Meet the supreme Gautama Buddha, the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesa, and Chang O--the Lunar Toad who is Chinese goddess of the Moon. Journ... Read More
Overview :Exploring classic works such as the Song of Songs, the Tao Te Ching, the Rg Veda, the New Testament, and the Indonesian myth of Hainuwele, M... Read More
Overview :"God made Heaven, and then, after measuring the space underneath with a ball of thread, he began to form the earth. A mole asked to help, an... Read More
Overview :Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to f... Read More
Overview :Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, The World of Myth, Fourth Edition, offers a uniquely comprehensive collection o... Read More