General Collection
Main Topics
Hero’s Journey
> The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work (Works) by Joseph Campbell
> The Writer’s Journey: Hero’s Journey
> Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction: Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
Heroine’s Journey
> The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock
> Mythcreants: Using the Heroine’s Journey
The study of physical evidence (pre-history) and recorded knowledge of mankind.
> A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
> Atlas of World History by Kate Santon
> World History For Dummies by Peter Haugen
An organization or established practice founded for a religious, educational, social, or governmental purpose.
> Five Basic Institution Structures and Institutional Economics by Shaorong Sun
> How Institutions Think by Mary Douglas
> Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Social Institutions
A shared system of beliefs, rituals, and practices used to connect to a higher spiritual plane, often used as a means to explain the unknown.
> Encyclopedia of the World’s Religions by R.C. Zaehner
> The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
> BBC: Religions
> Beliefnet
The systematic study of the physical universe and its nature.
> Science by Robert Dinwiddie
> The Science Book: Everything You Need to Know About the World and How It Works by National Geographic
> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Subtopics
African American History
- > Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
African History
- > Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
- > South Africa: History in an Hour by Anthony Holmes
- Lonely Planet: History of Africa
Astronomy
- The study of celestial objects and phenomena in space, and of the physical universe as a whole
- > Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- > Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Biology
- The scientific study of living organisms.
- > Biology by Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece
- > Essential Cell Biology by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis
- > Encyclopaedia Britannica: Biology
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Economics
- The scientific study of production, distribution, and consumption of commodities, and the spread of wealth.
- > Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
- > Udemyblog: The 4 Types of Economic Systems Explained
European History
- > Europe by Norman Davies
- > Ancient History Encyclopedia: Europe
Family Structure
- The categories of family organized by the roles and hierarchy arrangement of its members.
- > Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction by A.F. Robertson
- > The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives by Monica McGoldrick, Betty Carter, Nydia Garcia-Preto
- > NCBI: The Family and Family Structure Classification Redefined for the Current Times
Government
- A system of people, laws, and process that exercises control and leadership of the maintenance of its community
- > Common Sense (Annotated): The Origin and Design of Government by Thomas Paine
- > The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, et al
- > Scholastic: Forms of Government
Greek Mythology
- > Greek Mythology by K. Servi
- >The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
- > Theoi Greek Mythology
Hindu Mythology
- > Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik
- > Mythencyclopedia: Hinduism and Mythology
- > Sacred Texts: Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic
Hindu Religion
- >A Survey of Hinduism by Klaus K. Klostermaier
- > Hinduism by Kshiti Mohan Sen
- > Encyclopaedia Britannica: Hinduism
History, African
- > Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
- > South Africa: History in an Hour by Anthony Holmes
- Lonely Planet: History of Africa
History, African American
- > Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
History, European
- > Europe by Norman Davies
- > Ancient History Encyclopedia: Europe
History, Native American
- > 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- > An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- > National Museum of the American Indian
History, US
- > 1776 by David McCullough
- > A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- > The National Museum of American History
- > National Archives
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Mythology
- The beliefs of a culture or religion, often used as a means to explain the unknown. May also refer to the study of said beliefs.
- > The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- World Mythology by Roy Willis
- > Ancient Mythology
Mythology, Greek
- > Greek Mythology by K. Servi
- >The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
- > Theoi Greek Mythology
Mythology, Norse
- >Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs by John Lindow
- > Norse Mythology for Smart People
Native American History
- > 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- > An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- > National Museum of the American Indian
Norse Mythology
- >Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs by John Lindow
- > Norse Mythology for Smart People
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Religion, Hinduism
- >A Survey of Hinduism by Klaus K. Klostermaier
- > Hinduism by Kshiti Mohan Sen
- > Encyclopaedia Britannica: Hinduism
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US History
- > 1776 by David McCullough
- > A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- > National Archives
- > The National Museum of American History
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