This is a vivid, richly illustrated exploration of the symbolism and significance of sacred architectural forms from spires and minarets to pyramids and temples.

Sacred Architecture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

PIERS VITEBSKY

Caroline Humphrey

Exercise & Fitness

Thorsons Pub.

Reverence for animals and the earth is a common theme that runs through the myths of Native Americans. Many creation myths, for instance, attribute the earth's beginning to varied animals as the turtle, the waterbeetle, and the muskrat. The reverence for animals and the earth is one of many themes explored in this exciting new volume from Time-Life Books. Hundreds of photographs with descriptive text help the reader on this journey to Mother Earth, Father Sky.

Mother Earth, Father Sky: Native American Myth (Myth & Mankind , Vol 4, No 20)

History

tom-lowenstein

Americas

TIME/LIFE

From the series of THREATENED CULTURES, an introduction to the Saami of Lapland, an ancient people who are divided between those who herd reindeer in the icy wastes of North Lapland and those who live along the coastal fiords. Illustrated with colour photographs and 1 map. Suitable for the National Curriculum Geography Key Stage 3.

Threatened Cultures: The Saami of Lapland (Threatened Cultures)

World

Hodder Wayland

A richly illustrated guide to the world of shamanism, this book looks at both its historic and its present-day manifestations, from the snowscapes of Siberia to the jungles of the Amazon

The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul: Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Duncan Baird Publishers

Living Wisdom Shaman Duncan Baird

Duncan Baird

Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

HarperCollins India

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