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Stephen A. Mitchell
The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in…
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Lao Tzu
Newly illustrated throughout with classical Japanese art.
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Stephen Mitchell
The Bhagavad Gita is an episode in the Mahabharata, the Indian epic whose main story involves a war between two royal families. However, the essence of the Gita is concerned…
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A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece
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Erin Mitchell, Stephen Mitchell
"Decode the 13 conflicts that derail many couples' communication after kids-like what you're really saying when you fight about discipline or diapers, and how to work through tough issues together-from…
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Erin Mitchell, Dr Stephen Mitchell
The essential research-packed toolbox for parents and couples who want to fight better and grow stronger. Perfect for fans of Gary Chapman and Esther Perel.
Some fights can make you…
In this volume, experts from different disciplines, using a variety of methods and approaches, aim to transcend the present fragmentation of knowledge and create a new level of understanding of…
Gaius Valerius Catullus
A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries
Pansy
Stephen Mitchell’s Journey is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel…
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Homer
A new translation of Homer’s work of one-eyed man-eating giants; irresistibly seductive sirens; shipwrecks and narrow escapes; princesses and monsters; ghosts sipping blood at the Underworld’s portal, desperate for a…
This magnificent new translation sets the highest standards for beauty, accuracy, and aliveness. Thanks to his scholarship and poetic power, which recreates the energy, simplicity, speed, grace, and continual thrust…
Rainer Maria Rilke
This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced, (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.
Stephen Tallman, Mitchell P. Koza
This Element explores both the macro-political, economic, technological, and social forces impacting international business and the strategic management adaptations that leading companies have deployed to respond to these challenges, a…
Growing awareness of real-world shocks including market downturns, health surprises, and labor market readjustment is calling into question the ability of global retirement systems to remain healthy and sustain future…
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The love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today from what it was a century ago, when Freud was…
Perfect has lost nearly all meaning. A way of life, faith and theology without perfection.
This text is the result of intensive field work on a near-virgin site. Cremna reveals much about civilian life in an important Graeco-Roman city, and allows a detailed reconstruction of…
Reconciles the traditional theological understanding of God with modern thinking. This work aims to give confidence to those who have given up on the fundamentalist expressions of faith that dominate…
Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing…
Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, a renowned scholar and translator delivers a 21st-century form of ancient wisdom into the modern world.
The acclaimed author of The Gospel According to Jesus has adapted and translated 50 of the most powerful and popular biblical psalms to create this modern, spiritually satisfying collection of…
A ground-breaking study of early Christian society and history in Asia Minor from the second to the eleventh century, based on a comprehensive evaluation of the inscriptions and archaeological remains…
In the tradition of The Alchemist, acclaimed writer Stehen Mitchell retells the tale of Joseph as a story of transcendent love and forgiveness
This comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity charts Anatolian history from the time of Alexander the Great to the heyday of the Byzantine Empire. This particular…
Beginning with such early sacred masterpieces as the Upanishads , the Book of Psalms and the Bhagavad Gita , this anthology contains the poetry of various religous faiths.
A collection of discourses, sermons, essays and aphorisms that cover the essential teachings of great religious traditions from around the world. Included are Hindu texts, Jewish and Confucian scriptures, the…
Stephen Mitchell’s much praised translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, with its message of balance and harmony in living, is accompanied by a selection of ancient Chinese paintings.
This book presents a historical study of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity from the accession of the emperor Diocletian 284 to the death of the emperor Heraclius in 641.
Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time
The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged to be one of the world’s literary and spiritual masterpieces. Stephen Mitchell surpasses all previous editions of this classic Indian work, conveying for the…
I love The First Christmas. What a charming way Stephen Mitchell has found to tell my favorite story of all, the Nativity, character by character (I love the donkey and…
A verse translation of the exemplar of human suffering, The Book of Job , in which the moral energy, outrage and spiritual insight of the original shine through. Mitchell’s previous…
In a widely praised translation, Stephen Mitchell provides an accessible understanding of a classic guide for living, now in an attractive, pocket-size trim designed to fit in a purse, briefcase…
In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia.
This book expresses Mitchell’s vision for the theory of Relational Psychoanalysis, providing his most-developed expression of its foundations. Now republished in this Classic Edition, Mitchell’s ideas are brought back to…
Within the psychoanalytic literature, the past several decades have witnessed an explosion of new data, concepts, and theories bearing on the myriad ways in which people relate to, interact with…
In an effort to illuminate the interactive processes between analysand and analyst, Mitchell examines the therapeutic action of analysis, anachronistic ideas like anonymity and neutrality, the nature of analytic knowledge…
Stephen A. Mitchell offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia, drawing on extensive sources ranging from the Icelandic sagas to those much less familiar to the…
"These volumes outline critical elements learned from Scandinavian philology, folkloristics, archaeology, memory studies, and ethnography that provide not only an overview of the medieval Scandinavian world but also original arguments…
