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75189 MAMMOTH BOOK OF BLACK MAGIC


edited by Mike Ashley 23 spellbinding stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Diana Wynne Jones, Marion Zimmer Bradley and more including The Witch’s Bicycle, Master of Chaos, Seven Drops of Blood, The Closed Window, Disillusioned, The Wizard of Ashes and Rain, Last Rites and more. Sorcerers and wizards have


always enthralled us with their flying, invisibility or conjuring something from nothing. Here are some of the most outstanding writers of fantasy in a showcase of stories which explore the tensions and dilemmas of dealing with magic, from a child’s first struggle to control magical powers to epic clashes between good and evil. 500 page paperback. $13.95 NOW £5


74972 MAGIC: Beginners


Guides by Robert Ralley From the supernatural practice of black arts to the razzmatazz of stage performance, magic has been called on to cast the evil eye and burn villages to the ground, as well as to conjure small rabbits from hats. Our spellbinding exploration of magic’s dark, long and controversial history blends religion, the occult, science and entertainment and takes us into a dark underworld and right up to


David Blaine’s death-defying stunts. Tricks and illusions, nature’s hidden powers, a pact with Hell, magic is analysed in this serious introduction. 176pp in paperback, illus. £9.99 NOW £4


23895 WORDSWORTH DICTIONARY OF


DREAMS by Gustavus Hindman Miller Miller’s Dictionary of Dreams first appeared in 1909, ten years after Sigmund Freud’s pioneering work The Interpretation of Dreams, and is therefore an historical work on dream analysis first published at the time of a quantum leap in human consciousness. 10,000 entries cover Bananas to Cauliflowers, Garbage to Gravy, Measles to Mustard, and Virgins to Zebras. The text is supplemented with a 40 page Preface and there is a 17 page Index. 300pp. Paperback. ONLY £3.50


59976 GHOST STORIES OF EDITH WHARTON edited by David Stuart Davies


Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine- tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl, a ghostly bell which saves a woman’s reputation, the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete, the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife and the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. 292 page paperback. ONLY £3


74653 TEACHINGS OF RUMI translated by E. H. Whinfield


Edward Henry Whinfield (1836-1922) was a translator of Persian literature and this book was first published in 1887 and is here in faithful facsimile paperback reprint. In this classic work he translates comments upon ‘The Masnavi’, Rumi’s greatest work and Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) led a quiet life of an Islamic teacher in Anatolia (modern Turkey) until the age of 37 when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabriz through whom he encountered the Divine Presence in a way that utterly transformed him. The result of this epiphany was the greatest body of mystical poetry the world has ever seen, and the establishment of a spiritual movement (Sufism) that would eventually stretch from Africa to China, enduring to our own day. 330pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.75


71175 THE LURKING FEAR: Collected Short


Stories - Volume Four by H. P. Lovecraft Only the expansive imagination of H. P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as ‘The Picture in the House’, ‘The Music of Erich Zann’ and ‘The Rats in the Walls’, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft’s earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime. 254pp in paperback. ONLY £3


74654 INNER CHAPTERS: The Classic Taoist


Text by Chuang Tzu and Solala Towler Cloth bound with silver tooling and tipped in illustration, this new luxury edition of this founding classic text of Taoism in an engaging translation captures the zaniness and philosophical verve of the original. The Chuang Tzu stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a masterpiece. The ‘Inner Chapters’ are the only section of this text believed to be the work of Tzu himself, dating to the 4th century BC. They are full of fantastic tales, of a gigantic fish that becomes a bird, a cook who never sharpens his blade though he butchers numberless oxen, a magical being who rides on cloud carts pulled by dragons. Interspersed with the stories is guidance. Beautiful illus, calligraphy and design, 176pp. £12.99 NOW £4.50


74909 WIZARDS: A History by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart In an age of scientific certainties, the idea that scientific absolutes can be breached at will by individuals asserting themselves against such laws is rather attractive. Throughout the ages the wizard, magician, sorcerer, has claimed to do just this. From Simon Magus to Merlin, Faust to Cornelius Agrippa, the Comte de St. Germain to


Aleister Crowley, the magician has been both fêted and feared. An awesome figure in real life and in literature, the wizard has retained his hold on the Western imagination in the teeth of scientific advance. No wonder Harry Potter was so popular! 226pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £4.50


74017 STAR WARS YODA FIGURINE by Michael Morris


‘When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not.’ ‘Fear is the path to the dark side... Fear leads to anger... Anger leads to hate... Hate leads to suffering.’ He may be small, but Yoda is the ultimate Jedi Master. Whether he is presiding over the Jedi Counsel on Coruscant or training the galaxy’s greatest heroes, Yoda offers guidance in times of need. Now the Force will be with you at home, work or even on the road every day with your own distinctive, hand-painted totem, along with a book of Yoda’s famous maxims and advice. Ten stickers, 48 page illustrated book, colour Yoda figurine in colour and a display stand. Ages 8 to adult. £10.99 NOW £5


62734 DEAD OF NIGHT: The


Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies


These stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character studies graced with a powerful poetic elegance. In simple terms Oliver Onions goes for the cerebral rather than the jugular. They draw you in, enmeshing you in their unnerving and disturbing


narratives. This collection contains such masterpieces as The Rosewood Door, The Ascending Dream, The Painted Face and The Beckoning Fair One, a story which both Algernon Blackwood and H. P. Lovecraft regarded as one of the most effective and subtle ghost stories in all literature. 627 page Wordsworth paperback. ONLY £3


74514 SOUL CENTRED: Transform Your Life in Eight Weeks with Meditation by Sarah McLean


Meditation connects you with the world around and helps you to refocus your mind so that problems take their place as a necessary part of your whole life. Sensitivity to your body and mind’s signals of stress will enable you to listen to your own wisdom, be kind to yourself, pay attention to others and at the same time be more honest and say what you mean. McLean’s system depends for its success on serious daily practice, including breath and body awareness, connecting to your soul, communicating honestly and looking for what matters. 199pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £3.75


73877 DEAD ROAM THE


EARTH: True Stories of the Paranormal from Around the World by Alasdair Wickham From Incubi in Sumatra to exorcism in Sudan to spirits in our own back yard, the author explores the uncanny similarity of supernatural encounters in every corner of the globe. He provides chilling encounters of real-life ghost


sightings, haunted places, poltergeists, possessions, Mothmen, demons, witchcraft, ritualistic killings and more in the realm of the unexplained. How could it be that so many people in so many places are just imagining things? A wealth of testimonials from witnesses plus later scientific attempts to make sense of the paranormal using electronic equipment. The devil is in the detail! 296pp in paperback. Apologies for remainder mark. $15 NOW £6


74645 CHINESE WISDOM: Philosophical Insight from Confucius, Mencius, Laozi,


Zhuangzi and Other Masters by Edward Shaughnessy


Cloth bound luxury edition with silver tooling and tipped in illustration on the cover, glossy pages and beautifully illustrated, the photographs by John Cleare perfectly capture the mood. Selected from classic texts such as Confucius’s Analects and from Laozi’s Dao De Jing, as well as more recently excavated manuscripts, the volume is an anthology of 250 profound philosophical and spiritual aphorisms from the golden age of Chinese thought. Chapters cover family, education, warfare, the Dao, government, sagehood and death. Satin bookmark. £12.99 NOW £4.50


74723 RUNNING PRESS CYCLOPEDIA DREAMS by David Lohss


More than 350 symbols and interpretations in one simple, compact and precise encyclopedia. Learn about the meaning of dreams. Learn the meaning of these common dream symbols including keys, luggage, doctors, the moon and God. In the Science of Dreams you will learn where dreams come from and how they are influenced by the four stages of sleep and discover the significance of recurring dreams, lucid dreaming, insomnia, premonitions, déjà vu, alpha-wave and more. In the Psychology of Dreams you will begin to understand theories of Freud, Jung, Adler, Castaneda and others and the teachings of various world religions and cultures. Plus an inspiring collection of dream quotes. Beautifully designed small softback, 640pp. £7.99 NOW £3


RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY


You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.


- Gautama Buddha 75683 THE GUTENBERG


BIBLE: Landmark in Learning by James Thorpe


The Gutenberg Bible appeared about 1455 and has long been taken to represent the invention of printing in the Western world from moveable metal type which led to a radical change in the whole world of the intellect. The illuminated initial ‘A’ illustrates Daniel in the lions’ den. There are marginal


decorations beginning with the Book of Proverbs, Old Testament, the illuminated initial ‘P’ illustrating St Paul from the New Testament, Book of Romans, the initial ‘O’ beginning the Book of Malachi, Old Testament and ‘C’ beginning of the Book of II Chronicles. In all, 20 initials and quality reproductions in close up detail in colour are reproduced together with other woodcut illus and examples of early italic and Roman type in this Henry E. Huntington’s Library and Art Gallery 48 page beautifully produced hardback. £8.95 NOW £4.50


75207 ALLAH: A Christian


Response by Miroslav Volf Do Muslims and Christians worship the same god? That is the vital question posed by a professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, who is widely known for the much- publicised course in faith and globalisation that he co-teaches with Tony Blair. Three and a half billion people - the majority of the world’s population - profess either


Christianity or Islam. But renowned scholar Miroslav Volf’s controversial proposal is that they do in fact worship the same god - the only God - failing to recognise that they are seeing him in partly different ways. Writing from a Christian perspective, but in dialogue with leading Muslim scholars and leaders, the author reveals surprising points of intersection. For example: What the Qur’an denies about God as the Holy Trinity has also been denied by every great teacher of the church in the past and ought to be denied by Christians today. A person can be both a practising Muslim and one hundred per cent Christian without denying core convictions of belief and practice. In this thought-provoking volume, Volf offers a constructive way forward, by which two faiths, worshipping the same God, can work towards the common good under a single government. 325 pages. £18.99 NOW £6


75218 HOW TO BE COMPASSIONATE: A Handbook for Creating Inner


Peace and a Happier World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama


The author is a Buddhist scholar who has known the Dalai Lama for some 40 years and who served for a decade as his interpreter. In his brief book, he explains how he has gathered together the teachings of


the world-renowned leader, whose message - that compassion is essential for individuals and for the world - is as renowned as the bearer himself. Here, His Holiness reveals basic mistakes of attitude that lead us to inner turmoil. He demonstrates precisely how opening our hearts and minds to other people is the best way to overcome the misguided ideas that are at the root of all our problems, and shows us how compassion can be a continuous wellspring of happiness in our own lives. As we become more compassionate human beings, our friends, family, neighbours, loved ones - and even our enemies - will find themselves less frequently in the thrall of destructive emotions like anger, jealousy and fear, prompting them to become more warm- hearted and kind. Using simple language and startling clarity, His Holiness makes it evident as never before that the path to global harmony begins in the hearts of individual women and men. 147 pocket sized pages with review of the exercises and selected readings. $20 NOW £5


75213 CELTIC MYSTERIES:


The Ancient Religion by John Sharkey


The last tribal culture in Europe was that of the Celtic Lands, whose traditions hold echoes of the ancient religion of nature and its symbols of death and rebirth. The answers to the secrets of those elusive ceremonial rituals begin in the frenzy of battle, where the hero is


transfigured and the god appears. Mystic presences hover in the towering circles of giant stones left by an unknown people. Believers have seen them in the centre of the Celtic cross, or in the stone heads of Gaul and Ireland, which face both ways. They can also appear to those who worship them in the elusive, in- between place of mist and twilight. In this chilling, ghostly book, the author weaves together many strands of oral history, myth and traditional folk lore to recapture the magic of ancient times. Here are a host of mysterious places and artefacts such as megalithic monuments like Stonehenge, a crude sandstone head with curved horns for ears, grotesque effigies of the


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Sheela-na-gig, the blatantly erotic Celtic goddess of creation and destruction, phallic symbols, hollow stones widely believed to have healing power, and images which demonstrate the ancient beliefs that human sacrifice is necessary to promote fertility. Each image has an informative accompanying text. 96 paperback pages 28cm x 20 cm with 117 illus, 24 of them in colour. ONLY £6


73926 ABSOLUTE


MONARCHS: A History of the Papacy


by John Julius Norwich The story of some of history’s most revered and reviled figures, men who still today cast light and shadows on the Vatican and the world. Here are such brave incumbents as Innocent I, who in the 5th century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, and


Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and probably paid off) Attila the Hun. Here, too, are Pope Joan, the mythic woman said to have been elected in 855, and the infamous ‘pornocracy’ - the five libertines. Not forgotten are reformers such as Pope Paul II ‘the greatest pontiff of the 16th century, who reinterpreted the Church’s teaching and discipline’, and John XXIII who, in five short years opened up the Church to the 20th century. The tale is brought right up to date with Benedict XVI, who has been coping with a global priest sex scandal. Unputdownable. 512 roughcut pages with plates in colour and b/w, list of popes and antipopes and maps. $30 NOW £8.50


75032 TWELVE STEPS TO A


COMPASSIONATE LIFE by Karen Armstrong By one of our best living writers on religion, this is a passionately written journey through religion. Ranging from the spiritualities of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience, she argues that compassion is hardwired into our brains yet is constantly restrained by our more primitive instincts for selfishness and survival. All faiths insist that the Golden Rule is the test of true spirituality - ‘Always treat others as you wish to be treated yourself.’ She demonstrates 12 practical steps which reveal both the inadequacies of our knowledge of ourselves and others and enable us to unlock our potential for understanding that can be translated into acts of kindness and charity. Love your enemy and make a difference in the world and lead a happier and more fulfilled life. 216pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £5


75080 THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU THINK:


Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean by Alain Stephen


Enlightening for the amateur philosopher as well as for the more experienced practitioner, this book is for anyone who is interested in the pursuit of wisdom. Examining the best-known quotes of the world’s most highly regarded philosophers, the author explains the theories behind the thoughts, clarifying such statements as: ‘No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience’... ‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him’... and ‘Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent’. Here are such luminaries as Socrates, Plato, Locke, Kant, Marx and a host of others, and the ways in which they contributed to the development of philosophy. 224 pages. £12.99 NOW £4.75


74414 SOLOMON’S TEMPLE: Myth and History


by William Hamblin and David Seely The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built over 3,000 years ago was a real place which was destroyed more than once, the last time by the Romans in AD70. A small royal cultic centre in a Near Eastern kingdom of limited wealth and similar in size, form and splendour to the surrounding Canaanite temples, it was unremarkable and a rather humble affair compared to the temples of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Since its destruction the Temple has been symbolically recreated in such edifices as the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the headquarters of the Templars, many medieval cathedrals and even the Freemasons, and its site remains one of the most sacred places on earth for nearly half of mankind - Jews, Christians and Muslims. Yet infamously, it is also the site of the first murder, where Cain slew his brother, Abel, according to biblical legend. 202 illustrations, mostly in colour. Draws upon holy texts and mystic writings, works of art and architecture, modern reconstructions and photos. 224pp. £19.95 NOW £7


74240 YORKSHIRE CHURCHES THROUGH TIME by Alan Whitworth


An impressive collection of images both old and new to form the basis of his affectionate and often humorous tour of Yorkshire’s religious institutions. From the magnificent 180 foot spire of All Saints, Rotherham, the cruciform splendour of the Abbey Church at Selby and the unique octagonal crenelated tower and horseshoe altar rail of St Michael’s at Coxwold, to the cliff-top isolation of St Stephen’s at Robin Hood’s Bay and the tiny undedicated chapel at Lead, which served as a final resting place for many soldiers killed at the Battle of Towton, here are almost 200 colour and b/w images. 96pp softback. £14.99 NOW £4.75


74646 CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE by St. Augustine of Hippo


With an introduction by Revd. Canon Dr. Philip Nobel and translated by Edward Pusey, the text was first published in 1904 and this is the beautifully designed Sacred Text edition. St. Augustine of Hippo (354- 430AD) was an exceptional Christian Father and theologian who lived in the last days of the Roman Empire. As a young man he was a Manichaean Gnostic, but while living in Milan, the oratory of Bishop Ambrose led the conversion to the Christian church in 386. He settled at Hippo in North Africa where he founded a community and became its bishop. His Confessions vividly recount his intimate spiritual experiences in the search for Truth which led to his conversion. Here is one of the most valued books in the whole of Christian literature. 472pp. £6.99 NOW £2.75


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