Understanding Man's Place in Time
These books describe connections between and patterns among humans across time and space.
Early Human Civilizations
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline, Princeton University Press, 2014
The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Illiad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth, Felice Vinci, Inner Traditions, 2006
Early Humans and their World, Bo Graslund, Routledge, 2005
The Emergence of Agriculture, Bruce D. Smith, Scientific American Library, 1998
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, David W. Anthony, Princeton University Press, 2007
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and
Myth, J.P. Mallory, Thames and Hudson, 1989
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, Brian Fagan, Basic Books, 2004
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, Svante Paabo, Basic Books, 2014
Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History, William Ryan and Walter Pitman, Simon & Schuster, 1998
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet, Robert M. Hazen, Penguin Books, 2012
Interconnectedness of Human Societies
1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies, Harper Collins Publisher, 2003
The Basque History of the World, Mark Kurlansky, Walker & Company, 1999
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, David Keys, Ballantine Publishing Group, 1999
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurkansky, Penguin Books, 1997
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Brian Fagan, Bloomsbury Press, 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond, W.W. Norton & Company, 1997
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300 – 1850, Brian Fagan, Basic Books, 2000
Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky, Walker Publishing, 2002
Seeds of Change, Henry Hobhouse, Penguin Books, 2005
Seeds of Wealth, Henry Hobhouse, Coounterpoint, 2003
Interconnectedness of Human Experience
The Akashic Experience, Ervin Llaszlo, Inner Traditions, 2009
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, Princeton University Press, 1973
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion, Joseph Campbell, New World Library, 1986
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Penguin Books, 1976
The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Penguin Books, 1976
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Penguin Books, 1976
The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Penguin Books, 1976
The Mythic Image, Joseph Campbell, Princeton University Press, 1981
Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell, Penguin Compass, 1972
Mythos: The Complete Series (DVD), Joseph Campbell, Athena, 2007
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, Doubleday, 1988
The Power of Myth 25th Anniversary Edition (DVD), Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, Athena, 2013
Reflections on the Art of Living, by Joseph Campbell, Diane K. Osborn, Editor, Harper Perennial, 1995
Science and the Akashic Field, Ervin Laszlo, Inner Traditions, 2004
SOURCE MATERIAL FOR COMMON CULTURAL MYTHS
American Indian Myths and Legends, Selected and edited by
Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz, Pantheon Books, 1984
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
Creation Myths of Primitive America, Jeremiah Curtain, Bracken Books, 1995
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Lady Augusta Gregory, Colin Smythe Limited, 1970
Gods and Fighting Men, Lady Augusta Gregory, Colin Smythe Limited, 1970
The Greek Myths, Volumes 1 and 2, Robert Graves, Penguin Books, 1955
The Language of the Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, Harper Row, 1989
Mahabharata: Retold by William Buck, William Buck, University of California Press, 1981
The Norse Myths, Kevin Crosley-Holland, Random House, 1980
Popul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya, translated by Allen J. Christenson, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
Poems of the Elder Edda, Patricia Perry translator, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1990
Ramayana: Retold by William Buck, William Buck, University of California Press, 1978
The Saga of the Volsungs, Translated by Jesse L. Byock, Penguin Books, 1990
