Kyle Maynard is a speaker, author, and mixed martial arts athlete, known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetics. He is also founder of the No Excuses Crossfit gym.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Since its release in 1949, , has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell???s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero???s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world???s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.,As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation???s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.,As relevant today as when it was first published, , continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists???including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers???and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.
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The Stranger
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.