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Books & Articles

Reading material inspires new perspectives.

Understanding Man's Place In Time.

Matthew Berean

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