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  • A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1

    From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series Book 1 - A History of Religious Ideas
    "Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book ReviewThis extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind's earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2

    From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    The second volume of the extraordinary history that "should be an essential resource for generations to come" ( Parabola).In volume two of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words

    by Joan of Arc ...
    Translated by Willard Trask ...
    Series series Joan Books
    The only available source for the exact words of Joan of Arc, compiled from the transcript of her trials and rearranged as an autobiography by Willard Trask. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Shamanism

    Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    The foundational work on shamanism from an influential historian of religionShamanism is an essential account of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the shamanic tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Case of Comrade Tulayev

    by Victor Serge ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Eternal Return

    Cosmos and History

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Myth of the Eternal Return

    Cosmos and History

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A landmark work in the history of religions from a pioneer in the fieldFirst published in English in 1954, this founding work in the historical study of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Referring to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sound and Symbol, Volume 1

    Music and the External World

    by Victor Zuckerkandl ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music. ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Yoga

    Immortality and Freedom

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth centuryIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Mission

    A True Story

    by David W. Brown ...
    "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." — NatureA "magnificent" ( Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar systemIn the spirit of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee, The Mission is an exuberant master class of creative ... Read more

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  • Two Trains Leave Paris

    Number Problems for Word People

    by Taylor Frey, Mike Wesolowski ...
    Entertaining word problems that let verbal types master the language of math!Math is a universal language, but it's also the least understood and most undervalued subject taught in school. Two Trains Leave Paris: Number Problems for Word People offers an opportunity to experience math like never before.You must use the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out how far apart two ex-lovers are when they ... Read more

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