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A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world.Edith Hamilton (18671963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former...

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV.Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different...

Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology...

Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging,...

Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic - and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities:...

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter...

Bestselling author Erich von Dniken explores the evidence of ancient visitors treated as gods in religious scripture and mythology. His findings shake the foundations of both science and faith.Why do nearly all the world's major religions share similar...

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, active in the last decades of the 19th century, was the only order of its time that taught practical occultism in the Western Mystery Tradition. This is the first complete and undistorted account, tracing the origins,...

"We were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive...

In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.Told through personal, national, and cultural histories,...

What drives serial killers to commit their horrific crimes? Are sex crimes really motivated by sexual desire? Why do some killers stop killing, while others escalate?The science of personality theory has advanced dramatically in recent years, shedding...

"Are you an intrepid explorer of the unknown? Do you enjoy having your mind twisted in ways you never thought possible? Are you ready to leap down the rabbit hole and emerge in undiscovered territory? Well then . . . The Convoluted Universe [series] is...

An Exploration of Imhotep-Architect of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, High Priest of Ra, and Royal Astronomer-as Well as His Influence as the True Father of African Civilization.In this groundbreaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist...

Painstakingly researched by an authority on the history of the Secret Service and based on primary, firsthand accounts from more than 80 former agents, White House aides, and family members, this is the definitive account of what went wrong with John F...

A firsthand account of how public officials and other well-connected individuals have been compromised or blackmailed by their sexual improprieties, Confessions of a D.C. Madame relates the author's time running the largest gay escort service in...

The ultimate question is no longer "who am I" or "why am I here." These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and priests. Today we live in an age of such rapid advances in technology and science that the ultimate question...

Part conspiracy theory, part popular science, Genes, Giants, Monsters and Men explores the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as has been taught in textbooks. Farrell considers how the religious stories that have often been...

This completely reworked second edition of Modern Esoteric includes new information, over a dozen additional images, and up-to-date revisions. Winner of the Best Book Design 2014, Modern Esoteric examines the flaws in modern history and looks at how...

Critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack returns in the Autumn of 2016 with a brand new excursion into the beautiful, mysterious and mythical landscapes of the world with Un-Discovered Islands. Gathered in this book are over twenty...

A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is...

People have been fascinated by merpeople since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer's Odyssey to Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid to the 1984 film Splash, myths, stories and legends of half-human half-fish creatures...

'Krivda' is an ancient Russian word that means 'deceit' with a twist - the subtler, more pernicious connotation of 'reality made crooked'. This word, and its meaning, underpins the discovery of how machineries of 'religion' operate over a long historical...

Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends that have been passed down for generations and continue to terrify us today. To research this book on the...

"Carey and Schmitt show that good, old-fashioned investigative reporting is still alive and well." -Cheryll Jones, former anchor, CNN NewsThe true nature of what actually crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 remains classified. Only a select few have...

All over the world traditional tales were told at the fireside until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down...

In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin.When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist...

Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children's brains. A divine mandate to keep Donald Trump in the White House, no matter what.This surreal combination of horror-movie shocks and fascist marching orders is...

As human beings, our limited foresight about where we derive leaves us in awe with limited knowledge about Universal Intelligence. Our different sectors and learned traditions be partly the reason for discombobulation.The simple truths are pragmatic...

The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess.Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look around. She is there. Walk through the downtown streets, look in a shop window...

Microchips, government-replaced bird drones, QAnon and vaccine tracers: these are just a few of the most common conspiracies we have heard over and over again throughout most of 2020-2021's news cycles. There are common categories of conspiracy...

"This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the true history of the founding of the most powerful nation on earth." -Scott Wolter, host of America Unearthed and author of Cryptic Code of the Templars in AmericaUsing archival and...

A beautiful and engaging rendering of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical...

There was once a set of ideas called the theory of evolution, conceived by clever people and confirmed by countless scientists. Then people discovered the electron microscope. This made it possible to make the molecules within the cell visible, and...

Discover the Lost Secrets of the Ancients and the Time When Stones Floated High over EgyptThroughout history, folklore, and mystery, tales have circulated of massive stones being moved through the air effortlessly by sound. Bizarre? Well, yes, it is...

GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK by Bruce de Torres exposes the lies that are killing us (we are poor, miserable sinners who deserve God's condemnation and school's incarceration; salvation and careers depend on doing what we are told) and the truth that sets...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the murder of JFK, many of which are large in volume and short on facts. Quite often, these works try to reinvent the wheel, attempting to cover every single area of the assassination, as well as...

Christopher Fulton's journey began with the death of Evelyn Lincoln, late secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through Lincoln, crucial evidence ended up in Christopher's hands-evidence that was going to be used to facilitate a new future for America...

On November 8, 2016, the seemingly impossible became real: Donald Trump-billionaire tycoon with fundamentally xenophobic, savage, and populist speech-won the presidency and began endangeringvalues like democracy and world peace. Author Daniel Estulin...

For more than twenty years, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt has been warning the American people of the New World Order stratagem to overthrow democratically elected school boards with public-private partnerships between the federal government and globalist...

The Cold War ushered in a time of secrecy-and willing media cooperation to keep those secrets. But even after winning that war, the vault of secrets remains firmly locked, especially surrounding John F. Kennedy's murder.Even for those who fundamentally...

In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik Krger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigationsDanish investigative author Henrik Krger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a...

"I lived in a haunted apartment." Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shifting from anecdotes to deep research to translation of ancient ghost stories, he explores the persistence...

" . . . an important and outstanding contribution." -Erich von Dniken, bestselling author of Chariots of the Gods "The Ancient Alien Question provides a captivating adventure around the world and sheds an interesting perspective on the Ancient Astronaut...

Bestselling author Erich von Dniken shares the story of a 16-year-old grave-diver who discovered a mysterious labyrinth of the old kings under one of the pyramids of Saqqara.In this book, Erich von Dniken shares the story of his friend Adel H., an...

"Exogenesis is a milestone in understanding our past." -Erich von Dniken, author of Chariots of the GodsExogenesis: the hypothesis that life originated elsewhere in the universe and was spread to Earth.Exogenesis: Hybrid Humans offers a deep dive into...

This definitive guide connects a diverse range of new and existing theories about the Anunnaki, while exploring their possible connection to humanity's past, present, and future.Over 6,000 years ago, the world's first civilization, the Sumerians, were...

Two of the world's leading investigators declare definitively that the Roswell Incident happen and present their closing arguments.For more than 70 years, the crash at Roswell and its ensuing controversies and cover-ups have been investigated and yet...

The father of the ancient alien theory with more than 65 million books sold reveals everything he has withheld for years.In all his years of service, why didn't Erich von Dniken ever doubt his theory that inhabitants of other planets had come into...