Erik Davis: 20 books
Nomad Codes
Adventures in Modern Esoterica
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes-spiritual, cultural, and embodied-that people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world. These include Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods, Western occult and esoteric lore,...
by Erik Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots-and leaves the reader...
TechGnosis
Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in...
Deathpower
Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Share Christ
Inviting Others into Friendship with Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
“We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman.” - Pope Benedict XVI
Should Catholics evangelize?
How would I start?
What would I say?
Evangelization isn’t just for evangelical...
by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...
Social Class and Stratification
Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The second edition of this strong collection brings together classical statements on social stratification with current and original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for students in courses on social stratification,...
Seed Krackers
The Legend of Hushma
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Up, up, and away! Pani and Omo are off to a new adventure to seek out new life forms and most importantly, new food. When the starving pelican and seagull discover a colony of seed krackers, they had no idea how much their life would change. If they had not stopped on the small seed kracker island,...
Darwin
A Galapagos Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
For Sancho the penguin and Paolo the lava lizard, life on the Galapagos island is filled with one lazy day after the next. Sancho wants more, and when he finds an egg on the beach, he is ready to claim it as his own. The prospect of being an “uncle” fills him with excitement he can’t contain,...
by Erik Daniel Shein, Melissa Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Courage has no bounds….
A great tusker is in trouble, and destiny calls Thunder again.
When a great tusker is captured by the uprights, Tusker’s mate, Thandi, seeks out the legendary Thunder to save her mate.
Thunder and Razor are on a rescue mission, and time isn’t on their...
by Erik Daniel Shein, Melissa Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
A story of perseverance and courage…
Thunder is on the ultimate quest to fulfill his destiny. Tasked with finding Hope Haven, Thunder sets out to discover the mystery of Hope Haven with his friends Razor, a solitary lion; Dash, a spotted genet; and Archie, a black banded monitor lizard. When...
Kona
A Dolphin's Quest
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A tale of love and compassion.
Kona loved everything about the ocean. The dolphin’s world was filled with interesting creatures and amazing colors that filled up every inch of space around her. When Kona was stolen from the only home she knows, she finds herself trapped inside four walls...
Aurora
Spirit Bear of the North
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Magic and wonder fill our world in ways we can never comprehend. Sometimes it brings together the most unlikely of friends. This is one of those stories.
One young cub and one teenage girl are about to learn that our differences are what make us special. Every so often, a Spirit Bear is born...
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