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Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
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Cronus liked to eat babies.
Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate.
Odin got construction discounts with bestiality.
Isis had bad taste in jewelry.
Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy.
And Abraham was totally...
by Matt Mogk
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The most comprehensive zombie handbook ever published—with a foreword by Max Brooks! In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead.*
Q. How can I increase my chances of survival?
A. One simple step is to keep...
Curiosities of Hampton Roads
Ghostly Colonists, Hidden Crypts, the Black Swan of Westover, and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Facts and photos highlighting the haunting side of Virginia’s Tidewater . . .
The history of Hampton Roads is as deep as the waters that surround it. From some of the first settlers in the New World to the formation of the nation, Virginia’s Tidewater is rich in curious tales of legends...
by Stephen P. Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes. All the familiar narratives are here, along with some less familiar characters and motifs. In addition to the tales, the book explains key issues arising from the...
Mythology
Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The 75th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller. This stunningly illustrated, hardcover edition will be beloved by fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology of all ages.
Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Learn more about Greek and Roman Mythology with this comprehensive and fully illustrated book.Audience:Intended for everyone interested Greek and Roman Mythology. Written in plain English.FEATURES:- Fully illustrated with maps, art, and photographs - Search for the words or phrases - Navigate from Table...
The World of Myth
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1991
Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing...
Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll...
Debunked!
Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers-and then tears the theory apart with his bare hands....
by Peter Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Developed from an early oral storytelling tradition dating back to the dawn of European culture, this is one of the oldest and most vibrant of Europe's mythologies. From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and
Breton - Peter Berresford Ellishas included popular myths and legends,...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories just as he first heard or read them: as bona fide personal experiences or as events witnessed by...
The Woman Warrior
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
“A Classic, for a reason” – Celeste Ng via Twitter
In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become...
by Lynn Michelsohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Beware the Shrieking Droll!
Meet the restless spirit of a young boy lost forever to a fierce marsh creature. Now he haunts the maze of Murrells Inlet marshes as a "droll," the unhappy ghost of a child who has died an unnatural death.
Then enjoy the antics of friendlier animal...
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Joseph Campbell taught Mythology to students at Sarah Lawrence College, just north of New York City, for thirty-eight years. Late in his tenure, he made a proposal to use his introductory course as the basis for the then-new field of cross-cultural studies. The proposal gives a wonderful glimpse into...