New in Paperback This English translation of Heraclitus' fragments combines all those generally accepted in modern scholarship. Dennis Sweet maintains the "flavor" of the Greek syntax as much as meaningful English will allow, and uses more archaic meanings over the later meanings. In the footnotes he includes, along with various textual and explanatory information, variant meanings of the most important terms so as to convey some of the semantical richness and layers of meaning which Heraclitus often utilizes.

A sidh ('shee'), or "fairy mound," has been discovered in western Ireland: the oldest artificial structure in the world. When opened, a rash of bizarre and inexplicable events occur throughout the region. A young American anthropologist and his friends try to understand the significance of these events in light of what was found in the shee...and what escaped from it. The Shee is part mystery, part adventure: an experiment in literary magical realism that brings Irish myth to life in a contemporary setting. It is the first installment of The Changeling Trilogy-the epic story of the mythic...

In the myths of nearly every society there are tales of a future conflict, wherein the fate of the world will be determined. In Norse mythology, it is Ragnarok--the great battle between the gods and their adversaries, followed by the destruction of the world. In Christian societies, it is the battle of Armageddon and the Apocalypse, the victory of good over evil. For the ancient Celts, it was the final conflict between the Tuatha De Danann, the primordial forces of order and reason, and their adversaries, the Fomhoire, the chthonic agents of destruction and chaos. In this, the second...

In the concluding installment of The Changeling Trilogy, the Great Battle between the Danaans, the forces of order, and the Fomors, the agents of chaos, is joined. In Tir na Si, the Danaan stronghold under Benbulben, Paul is initiated into the mysteries of Druidism in an effort to understand the nature of the Danaans' chief adversary, Balor, King of the Fomors. But the truth revealed to him is more terrible than his worst nightmare. Chant of Fire depicts both the conflict between the universal powers of order and destruction, and the internal conflict between reason and instinct, between...