The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
By: Chris Gosden
3.64
Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. …
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1. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
By: Leonora Carrington , Susan L. Aberth
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 19… read more
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- occult
- nonfiction
"If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've a…"-Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
2. Three Books of Occult Philosophy
By: Cornelius Agrippa , Donald Tyson
4.11
Format: 1024 pages, Paperback
Now you can learn from the original, most important source for magic in the Western world that has … read more
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- magic
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3. Là-Bas
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more
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4. The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
By: Ronald Hutton
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context… read more
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- magic
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- nonfiction
- witchcraft
5. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
By: Damien Lewis
3.79
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When France fell to the Nazis in the winter of 1939, Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Ancient Celts
By: None
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
The archetypal `barbarians from the north', the Celts were feared for their ferocity in battle and … read more
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- nonfiction
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7. The Occult
By: Colin Wilson
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Topics include Aleister Crowley, G.I. Gurdjieff, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive mag… read more
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- occult
- nonfiction
- religion
- history
8. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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9. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing , None , None , None
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on … read more
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10. American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries
By: Susan Fair
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Throughout history, the specter of witchcraft has both mesmerized and terrified us. But witches are… read more
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11. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
By: Timothy Morton
4.00
Format: 302 pages,
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a… read more
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12. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more
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13. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
By: Jenni Nuttall
3.82
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more
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- history
- audiobook
14. Turning Points in Medieval History
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.25
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
For an accurate picture of how the political, social, and religious structure of present-day Europe… read more
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- history
- audiobook
15. Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
By: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
3.89
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
16. Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites
By: Katy Soar
4.08
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. … read more
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- occult
17. Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine & Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft
By: Cyndi Brannen
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A guide to plant spirit ritual and witchcraft, with practical instruction on the use of botanicals … read more
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- audiobook
- magic
- occult
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- witchcraft
18. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
By: Tom Holland
3.85
Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- witchcraft
- audiobook
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
20. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
By: Thomas Williams
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
By: Chris Gosden
3.64
Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. … read more
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- audiobook
- science
- history
- magic
- occult
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- witchcraft
- anthropology
22. Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
By: Amanda Yates Garcia
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this "gorgeously written, fierce, po… read more
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- witchcraft
- nonfiction
- magic
- spirituality
"I recommend no one ever say, “I will do X, or die trying."-Amanda Yates Garcia, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
23. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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- history
- audiobook
24. Beyond the North Wind: The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North
By: Christopher McIntosh
3.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concep… read more
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- magic
- occult
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Cunning Words: a Grimoire of Tales and Magic
By: Marshall W.S.L.
4.68
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Cunning Words: a Grimoire of Tales and Magic is a book of witchcraft in three parts. Part I is a co… read more
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- spirituality
- witchcraft
26. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London
By: Alice Loxton
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more
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- history
- audiobook
27. American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic
By: J. Allen Cross
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A practical, hands-on guide to Mexican-American folk magic. American Brujeria is about the fasci… read more
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- history
- occult
- religion
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- spirituality
- witchcraft
28. A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult (DK A History of)
By: D.K. Publishing
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A lavishly illustrated history of witchcraft, magic, and the occult, from Paleolithic cave rituals … read more
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- religion
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- spirituality
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29. Strange Folk
By: Alli Dyer
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia but when a man is found dead in the … read more
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"Mugwort. Dangerous for pregnant women. Good for bad dreams and insomnia, digestion, irregular periods, bad liver."-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk
"The greatest heroines all go through trying times. Those are the moments we see what they are truly made of. It is how we know they are great."-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk
"She now recognized that like most mountain folk, she possessed a vein of fierce, magical energy inside her that could take many forms--- rage, or a stubborn intelligence, or a thick gray melancholy. …"-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk
"The nurse looked around at the jars of water in the corner, the dirt scattered on the floor, the iron and dogwood bark that Luann had brought from the cabin crowding the nightstand. She stared at the…"-Alli Dyer, Strange Folk
30. Cat + Gamer Volume 5
By: Wataru Nadatani
4.46
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Office worker Riko Kozakura supports her entire band of adventurers—including the two cats she coha… read more
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