Folktro & Konspirationer

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote...

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Connecting neuropsychology and cognitive science with Freudian theory and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, this text aims to show that there is an empirical connection between what neuroscience tells us about the brain/behaviour, and...

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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of...

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2016 blev Häxans trädgård läkeväxter förr och nu en av årets mest sålda trädgårdsböcker. Uppföljaren Häxans hus handbok för ett giftfritt liv kom året därpå och nominerades till Publishingpriset för sin formgivning. Och nu är det dags för den tred...

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2015 Reprint of 1954 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In his handling of science, magic, and religion, Malinowski essentially accepted the traditional Western conception of a dual r...

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The Earth Chronicles series, with millions of copies sold worldwide, represents the culmination of Zecharia Sitchin's 30 years of intensive research into the history and prehistory of Earth and humankind as recorded by the ancient civilizations of...

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Saxo, a twelfth-century canon at Lund Cathedral, was commissioned by his Archbishop to write a history of Denmark with a strong Christian bias. Volume II contains books 11-16 of Saxo's Grammaticus, mainly dealing with the history of the first Dani...

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I bondesamhällets muntliga diktning är det folksägnerna som säger mest om hur folk trodde och tänkte förr. De handlar ofta om tillvarons övernaturliga, fantastiska sidor, om människors möten med näck, skogsrå, vittror och troll. Bengt af Klintberg...

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This newly redesigned edition of Campbell's seminal 1949 work combines the insights of modern psychology with the author's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. Illustrated.

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Reveals the occult wisdom and multidimensional layers of meaning hidden in the Nordic Rune stones Uncovering the dark side of the Nordic rune stones hidden beneath their traditional interpretation, Swedish scholar and runologist Thomas Karlsson ex...

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This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yu...

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A truly seminal and original thesis, this is a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two. In this classic work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, the authors track world myths to a c...

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I den här boken får vi stifta bekantskap med över hundra hemsökta platser. Slott, kyrkor och herrgårdar, men lika ofta lägenheter, villor, sommarstugor, skolor och fabriker, ja till och med stenar, skogsbackar och sjöar om vilka det sägs att allt ...

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»Dick Harrison varvar, med imponerande sakkunskap och stil, det viktiga källkritiska perspektivet med roande kuriosa.« BTJ Legenden berättar om hur världens mäktigaste örike, Atlantis, drabbades av en fruktansvärd katastrof. Den välbärgade befolkn...

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Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able-and who in some instances thought themselves able-to manipulate the world around them thro...

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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily Mail Was an advance...

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Joseph Campbells klassiska studie Hjälten med tusen ansikten (1949) skildrar den mytologiske hjältens äventyrliga resa och frilägger det standardmönster som återfinns i myter från alla tider och kulturer. Äventyret består av tre faser: avfärd, inv...

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Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for ...

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From the first millennium BC onwards, Greek myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. Nowadays they can be found in film, television and computer games. This book combines a retelling of Greek myths w...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry gloriously retells the epic myths of the Greek heroes - which will be loved by young and old alike. 'An odyssey through Greek mythology. Brilliant . . . all hail ...

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There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Stephen Fry's glorious retelling of their fascinating stories will be loved by young and old alike. NOW THE INSPIRATION FOR STEPHEN FRY'S MAJOR UK TOUR 'MYTHOS: A TRILOGY - GODS. HEROES. MEN.' __...

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A Jungian analyst explores the feminine psyche through stories of "wild women"--the mythological archetype of the strong, primitive woman.

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The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's mos...

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De är de största och äldsta levande organismer vi känner. Tusenåriga ekar lever mitt ibland oss, och på hemliga platser i svenska fjällen växer granar som varit med om när inlandsisen smälte. Med sina långa liv länkar träden både till det förflutn...

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Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness', the question has never been more pressing. After years o...

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More than 700 `utopian' novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias - meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history - do not set out merely to titillate; instead they express very real Russian anxi...

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Svartkonstböcker  is a fully revised edition of Dr Johnson’s 2010 PhD Thesis  Tidebast och Vändelrot: Magical Representations in the Swedish Black Art Book Tradition , featuring a thorough, path-breaking study of the blac...

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The much-anticipated first book in a brand-new duology by New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war - and he intends t...

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The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualiz...

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