Awards search:Notable Books List

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

by Bruno Bettelheim
Hardcover, 1976
Tags
Folklore, Fairy Tales, Bibliography, Oedipal Conflict, Brothers Grimm, Psychoanalysis, Animal Folklore, Children
Collection
Gifts

Seven Arrows

by Hyemeyohsts Storm
Paperback, 1978
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, Plains Tribes, Sioux, Medicine Wheel, Pipe Ceremonies, Sun Dance, Shields, Native American Religion, Lakota, Coyote — 1 more, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

American Indian Design and Decoration

by Le Roy H. Appleton
Paperback, 1971
Tags
Native North American Crafts, Illustrated, Bibliography, Native North American Mythology, Pacific Northwest, Mexico and Central America, Pottery, Beadwork, Weaving, Birds Depicted in Art
Collection
Gifts

Autumn Across America: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Autumn (American Seasons)

by Edwin Teale
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Phenology, Nature Writing, Seasons, North America, Indigenous Peoples, Environment
Collection
Anna

The Crusades (Phoenix Press)

by Zoé Oldenbourg
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Crusades and Orders Militant, History, Knights Templar
Collections
Don, In Storage

The Crusades

by Zoé Oldenbourg
Paper Book, 1966
Tags
Crusades and Orders Militant, Crusades, Islam, Harran, Knights Templar
Collection
Don

The Holy Bible. Revised standard version, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues; being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901, compared with the most ancient authorities, and revised A.D. 1952

Paper Book, 1952
Tags
Bibles, Christian Reference Works
Collection
Gifts

The Aztec treasure house : selected essays

by Evan S. Connell
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
History, Prehistory Archaeology, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Aztecs, Atlantis, Prestor John, Crusades, Columbus, El Dorado — 4 more, Alchemists, Mesa Verde, Spanish Conquest, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Under God: religion and American politics

by Garry Wills
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Politics & the Law, Church and State, First Amendment
Collection
Gus

Seven arrows

by Hyemeyohsts Storm
Paper Book, 1972
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, Plains Tribes, Sioux, Medicine Wheel, Pipe Ceremonies, Sun Dance, Shields, Native American Religion, Lakota, Coyote
Collection
Gifts

The secret of the Hittites; the discovery of an ancient empire

by C. W. Ceram
Paper Book, 1955
Tags
Hittites, Turkey
Collection
Glenn

Origins: What new discoveries reveal about the emergence of our species and its possible future

by Richard E. Leakey
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
Anthropology, Illustrated, Bibliography, Africa, Human Evolution, Hominids, Primates, ZZZ
Collection
Don

Ishi in Two Worlds A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

by Theodora Kroeber
Paperback, 2011
Tags
California and Pacific Northwest, North America, Indigenous Peoples, Yahi Tribe
Collection
Gifts

Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharoah

by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt
Hardcover, 1963
Tags
Tutankhamun, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Tutankhamen: life and death of a pharaoh

by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt
Paper Book, 1963
Tags
Tutankhamun, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, In Storage
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

Tutankhamen: life and death of a Pharaoh

by Christiane Desroches- noblecourt
Paper Book, 1965
Tags
Tutankhamun, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Cannibals and kings: The origins of cultures

by Marvin Harris
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
Anthropology, Prehistory
Collection
Gifts

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

by Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Counterculture, Chicago Eight, Anti-war Movement, Black Panthers, Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Drug Culture, Yippie Movement, Women's Issues, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The secret of the Hittites : the discovery of an ancient empire

by C. W. Ceram
Paper Book, 1956
Tags
Hittites, Turkey, Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Turkish Archaeology
Collections
Rowan, In Storage

The secret of the Hittites; the discovery of an ancient empire

by C. W. Ceram
Paper Book, 1955
Tags
Hittites, Turkey, Archaeology
Collection
In Storage

In Exile From The Land of Snows

by John Avedon
Paperback, 1985
Tags
Tibet, Chinese Occupation, Tibetan Exile, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Medicine, Imprisonment of Tibetans, State Oracle, Dharamsala, Tibetan Government In Exile, Tibetan Diaspora, Tibetan Refugees
Collection
Anna

Beowulf

by Burton Raffel Translator
Paperback, 1963
Tags
Beowulf, Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Mythology, Anglo-Saxon Language, Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Collection
Gifts

The Overstory

by Richard Powers
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Fiction, Ecophilosophy, Trees, Deep Ecology
Collection
Gifts

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Graeco-Roman Philosophy, Graeco-Roman World, Lucretius, Renaissance
Collection
Gifts

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

by Mark Adams
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Inca and the Andes, Bibliography, Glossary, Chronology, Machu Picchu, South America
Collection
Gifts

The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
South America, Amazonia, Exploration, P.H. Fawcett, Lost City of Z, Lost Civilizations
Collection
Gifts

This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Death and Dying, Folklore, Funerary Rituals, American Civil War, Sanitary Commissions
Collection
Don

Beowulf

by Stephen Mitchell Translator
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Beowulf, Anglo-Saxons
Collection
Gifts

Beowulf: a dual-language edition

by Howell D. Chickering
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Beowulf, Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon Language, Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Collection
Gifts

Beowulf

by Burton Raffel Translator
Paperback, 1963
Tags
Beowulf, Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Mythology, Anglo-Saxon Language, Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Collection
Greg

People of the Reeds

by Gavin Maxwell
Paperback, 1957
Tags
Mandaeans, Islam, Christianity, Marsh-Arabs, Iraq, MENA Ethnographies
Collection
Gifts

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

by Seamus Heaney Translator
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Beowulf, Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Mythology, Anglo-Saxon Language, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Norse Studies, Teutonic Studies, Germanic Studies, Poetry — 3 more, Monsters, Dragons, Dual Language
Collection
Anna

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Extinction, Mayan Civilization, Environmental Crisis, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The Great Hunger

by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
Ireland, British Isles, Eire, History, Potato Famine, Immigration
Collection
Anna

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics, Easter Island, Anasazi, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Greenland — 1 more, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics
Collections
Gus, In Storage

North with the Spring : a naturalist's record of a 17,000-mile journey with the North AmericanSpring

by Edwin Way Teale
Paper Book, 1951
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Phenology, Nature Writing, Seasons, North America, Indigenous Peoples
Collection
Anna

Journey into Summer: A Naturalist's Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Summer (American Seasons)

by Edwin Way Teale
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Phenology, Nature Writing, Seasons, North America, Indigenous Peoples, Environment
Collection
Anna

Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter (American Seasons)

by Edwin Way Teale
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Phenology, Nature Writing, Seasons, North America, Indigenous Peoples
Collection
Anna

Lucy: the Beginnings of Humankind

by Donald Johanson
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
Anthropology, Human Evolution, ZZZ
Collection
Don

In Exile from the Land of Snows

by John F. Avedon
Paper Book, 1984
Tags
Tibetan Religions, Dalai Lama, History, Tibet, State Oracle, Chinese Oppression
Collection
Anna

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert Pirsig
Paperback, 1975
Tags
Philosophy, Zen, Values
Collection
Don

The King Must Die (Theseus Myth vol.1)

by Renault
Paperback, 1960
Tags
Fiction, Ancient Greece, Mycenean, Minoan, Theseus
Collection
Rowan

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

by Elaine Pagels
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Christianity, Gnosticism, Sexuality, Eve, Genesis, Early Christianity, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Adam, Eve, and the serpent

by Elaine H. Pagels
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Christianity, Gnosticism, Sexuality, Eve, Genesis, Early Christianity
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

Adam, Eve, and the serpent

by Elaine H. Pagels
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
Christianity, Gnosticism, Sexuality, Eve, Genesis, Early Christianity
Collection
Don

The Divine Comedy 1: Hell

by Dante Alighieri
Paperback, 1978
Tags
Satan & Satanism, Satan, Satanism, Evil, Dante, Hell
Collection
Don

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Environmentalism, Pesticides, Toxicology
Collection
Gifts

Gods, Graves, & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology. Second, revised and substantially enlarged edition

by C.W. Ceram
Hardcover, 1967
Tags
Archaeology, Stories, Schliemann, Troy, Mycenae, Carter, Tutankhamun, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Mesopotamia — 5 more, Central America, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Aztecs
Collection
Gifts

Plagues and peoples

by William Hardy McNeill
Ebook, 1998
Tags
Anthropology, Pandemics, Plagues, Ebola, AIDS
Collection
Gifts
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