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Jungian Archetypes

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:51:05 PST

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Beowulf and Grendel

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:49:17 PST

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The legend of Beowulf and Grendel is one of the founding works of modern Western literature. It tells the story of the monster-slaying hero, Beowulf, who frees the feasting hall of a Danish king from the 12-year tyranny of the hideous creature Grendel. For decades, scholars have assumed that the warrior Beowulf was based on an actual historic person, but that Grendel was the work of imagination. ...

The Visionary Window

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:31:45 PST

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A thrilling synthesis of science and mysticism by a quantum physicist reared in the Hindu tradition with a thorough knowledge of Indian sacred literature. Goswami offers solid, scientific explanations for the concept of universal consciousness and the existence of mind beyond the function of the brain. Thoughtful readers will love his ingenious mix of data and ideas from Eastern philosophy, tra ...

The Handbook of Ancient Wisdom

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:21:24 PST

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"Veruschka"

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:49:21 PST

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Stories from Welsh History

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:49:21 PST

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The Enigma of Stonehenge

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:49:21 PST

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Celtic Book of Days

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:48:31 PST

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In Celtic tradition, spirituality is woven into and through the rhythms of daily life. Because the way we observe the unfolding year shapes the way we live, many have adopted the Celtic calendar--strongly linked to natural elements and the seasons--as a means of personal and spiritual discovery. The diverse writings and vibrant illustrations in this book have been carefully chosen to inspire ...

The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:48:31 PST

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Aimed at regaining the soul's inner meaning through the complexities of modern day life. This book of soul cleansing offers ways of regaining the soul in a positive, caring manner, in today's disenchanted world.

The Patriarchal Voice

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:48:31 PST

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The Art Of Celtia

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:48:31 PST

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Rich, full-color plates depict the sacred symbols of Christianity that have endured for thousands of years. The author’s lyrical style complements these dazzling showpieces, while the insightful text treats themes relevant to today’s world.

Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:48:26 PST

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World Religions

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:46:17 PST

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THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF MAGIC

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:46:16 PST

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Illustrated Bede

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:45:12 PST

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Renowned as the most learned man in eighth-century Europe and the author of the first English history to be written by an Englishman, the Venerable Bede was the personification of the golden age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. Here are specially commissioned translations from his Life of Cuthbert, his Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English Pe ...

The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:45:12 PST

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The 20th century is the century of communism and fascism, of debt and prosperity, of the United Nations and nationalistic fervour, of mass demonstrations and individual defiance; and also of the aircraft and the submarine, of the conveyor belt and the computer, of miracle cures and new diseases, and of radio and television. Above all, it is the global century. Never before in human history have s ...

Irish Fairytales

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:45:12 PST

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The World of the Pharaohs

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:45:12 PST

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All of the Women of The Bible

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 7:45:04 PST

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All the women of the Bible offers a rich biographical perspective on evey female figure in scripture -- including the famous, the little-known, and even the unnamed. In more that 300 engaging and insightful portraits, Edith Deen brings alive the saints and sorceresses, queens and servants, mothers and daughters, wives and widows whose profound influence is felt through-out the Bible. "You can al ...

Mythology of Sex

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:25:08 PST

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The Herbal Medicine Chest

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:45 PST

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Cornerstones of Health

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:35 PST

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Chakras

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:28 PST

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Visions of the Ascended Masters

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:22 PST

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Numerology

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:15 PST

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See it, know it, Watch it go...

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:09 PST

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The Magician's Way

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:14:46 PST

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Sg T/a Psychology 4e

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:41 PST

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Psychology and Life

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:41 PST

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This classic book is built around the central theme of presenting psychology as a science and applying that science to our daily lives. Psychology and Life continues to provide a rigorous, research-based presentation that demonstrates that this research has immediate in daily life. For Intro Psychology students, or anyone with an interest in the subject.

An Interactive Approach to Writing Essays and Research Reports in Psychology

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:41 PST

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This writing guide helps undergraduate psychology students master the conventions of essay and report writing in psychology as defined by the American Psychological Association Guide 5th Edition. The accompanying CD-ROM offers a user-friendly approach to learning APA style, allowing students to check their own referencing before submitting assignments.

How to Write Psychology Lab Re Findlay

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:41 PST

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Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:36 PST

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Psychology, Fourth Edition

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:36 PST

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Physiology of Behavior

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:35 PST

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The latest discoveries in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology are all incorporated in The Ninth Edition of Physiology of Behavior. This classic text continues its tradition as the most comprehensive, current, and teachable text for physiological psychology.

Beneath the Mask

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:51:35 PST

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This theorist-by-theorist approach to personality theories explores how the personal histories, conflicts, and intentions of each theorist contributed to his or her portraits of people. The Seventh Edition has involved a significant revision including rewriting and updating of most of the chapters, the addition of a chapter on evolutionary psychology, and the recasting or change in emphasis of a ...

The Holistic Inspirations of Physics

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:44 PST

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Introduction to Logic

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:44 PST

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Freud and the Passions

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:44 PST

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Man and His Symbols

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:40 PST

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The Principles of Learning and Behavior

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:40 PST

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This active learning edition includes a new, built-in workbook that provides examples and exercises to help students practice and remember what they read in the text. In addition, students read graphs and make their own interpretations of what the information yields about behavior. Each exercise begins with a short lesson, and then has short assignments that range from 1 minute to 30 minutes wort ...

Statistical Methods for Psychology

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:40 PST

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STATISTICAL METHODS FOR PSYCHOLOGY surveys the statistical techniques commonly used in the behavioral and social sciences, especially psychology and education. To help students gain a better understanding of the specific statistical hypothesis tests that are covered throughout the text, author David Howell emphasize conceptual understanding. Along with a significantly updated discussion of effect ...

Philosophy of Mind and Cognition

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:40 PST

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This is a fully revised and updated edition of David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson 's popular and respected introduction to philosophy of mind and cognition. The revisions are designed to make the volume even more useful for teachers and students, and to keep it current, ensuring that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are brought together into a coh ...

Pragmatism

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:40 PST

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Russell Goodman examines the curious reemergence of pragmatism in a field dominated in the past decades by phenomenology, logic, positivism, and deconstruction. With contributions from major contemporary and classical thinkers such as Cornel West, Richard Rorty, Nancy Fraser, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ralph Waldo Emerson Russell has gathered an impressive chorus of philosophical voices that ree ...

Logic

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:34 PST

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The methods of logic are essential to an understanding of philosophy and are crucial in the study of mathematics, computing, linguistics and many other subjects. Introducing the major concepts and techniques involved in the study of logic, this authoritative book explores both formal and philosophical logic, and the ways in which we can achieve good reasoning. Individual chapters include: Proposi ...

Beyond Experience

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:34 PST

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The Place of Emotion in Argument

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:34 PST

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Practical Ethics

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:30 PST

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Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix describing some of the deep misunderstanding of a ...

On Liberty

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:30 PST

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An enquiry into Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:30 PST

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Includes Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo. The speeches and teachings of Socrates at the time of his trial, and the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.

Critique of Pure Reason

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:30 PST

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One of the cornerstone books of Western philosophy, here is Kant's seminal treatise, where he seeks to define the nature of reason itself and builds his own unique system of philosophical thought with an approach known as transcendental idealism. He argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception.

On the Social Contract

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:30 PST

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"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher proposes an alternative system for the development of self-governing, self-disciplined citizens.

In Defense of the Accidental (Apologie des Zufalligen)

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:32 PST

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The seven essays collected in this book address the history of modern ideas and contemporary cultural issues. The first is the discourse of Marquard's acceptance of the Sigmund Freud prize; the second addresses the equivalence of modernity and the theodicee; the third confronts the idea of "meaning"; the fourth considers the notion of world history; the fifth addresses world alienation; the sixt ...

Measures of Science

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:32 PST

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Causing Death and Saving Lives

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:27 PST

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This title explains the moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, war and other life-or-death choices.

Phenomenology of Spirit

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:27 PST

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This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Hegel's works.

Language, Truth and Logic

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:27 PST

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If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foun ...

A History of Philosophy, Volume 1

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:27 PST

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Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled ...

The Will to Believe, Human Immortality

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:27 PST

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Two books bound together, from religious period of one of the most renowned and representative thinkers. Written for laymen, thus easy to understand, it is penetrating and brilliant as well. Illuminations of age-old religious questions from a pragmatic perspective, written in a luminous style.

A History of Philosophy, Volume 2

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:27 PST

Osho Zen Tarot

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:16 PST

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When Life seems to be full of doubt and uncertainty we tend to look for a source of inspiration: what will be in the future? what about my health, the children? what will happen if I make this decision and not that one? This is how the traditional tarot is often used, to satisfy a longing to know about the past and future. This Osho Zen Tarot focuses instead on gaining an understanding of the her ...

Selected Writings

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:16 PST

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Contributed three new ideas to the development of philosophy: that goodness consists not in helping friends and harming enemies, but in not harming anybody at all; that goodness and knowledge are one and the same thing; and that for progress to be made in argument, there must be step-by-step agreement between those arguing.

The Prince

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:13 PST

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"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent ...

The Republic

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:13 PST

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Plato's "Republic" is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? "The Republic" also addresses ...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:13 PST

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Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity ...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:13 PST

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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, ...

The Metaphysics

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:13 PST

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Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, "The Metaphysics" is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought, translated from the with an introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred in "Penguin Classics". "The Metaphysics" presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality an ...

Ladder of Lights

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:37:13 PST

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Sociology

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:34:14 PST

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Sociology has established itself as the leading textbook in the field. The book has been acclaimed across the world for its lucidity, comprehensiveness and accessibility. The second edition of the text has been extensively revised and contains much new material. Throughout the book an effort has been made to secure the very latest empirical data and to present it in an attractive and involving wa ...

A Sociology of Australian Society

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:30 PST

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With rewritten chapters using the most recent data available, this new edition also contains two new chapters on rural Australia and higher education. It is a comprehensive introduction to the study of Australian society. The introductory chapter has been expanded for the beginner reader. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the major structural divisions of society are consider ...

Society and Change

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:30 PST

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Introduction to Australian Society

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:30 PST

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Updated and revised, this introductory text includes recent research and statistics, and deals with key issues affecting Australian society in the 1990s. Features include: an informal style; new chapters on technology, leisure, ageing, demography, health and religion; more applied emphasis for students interested in the human service professions such as education, healthcare and social work; and ...

Celtic Magic

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:19 PST

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Celtic magic. These words conjure up images of Druids and mystical oak groves, daring Irish warriors, fairies, elves, and ancient deities who took an active part in the lives of the people who worshipped them. Practical and easy to understand, Celtic Magic offers important features that distinguish it from other books written about the Celts: --An in-depth discussion of Celtic culture and custom ...

Studying Culture

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:33:19 PST

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This reader traces the history of cultural studies, from its early formation to its subsequent international development. It registers a series of critical interventions and includes examples of current work. Classic statements of the culturalist, semiological and post-modernist perspectives contrast with seminal material, some of which is less well-known, illustrating the impact of feminism, the ...

Sun Men of the Americas

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:57 PST

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A description of our ancient American Indian brethren, by White Eagle. He describes how the art of healing was taught by touch, by manipulation, by the juices of herbs and flowers, and by the reception into consciousness of the Great White Light.

The Mystical Chorus

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:57 PST

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Jungian analysis of the spiritual and religious components of the human psyche. Includes an analysis of major religions, as well as Aboriginal and Native American beliefs and mysticism.

The Occult Christ

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:57 PST

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Great mystical secrets lie hidden within the teachings of Christianity -- secrets to the laws of the universe and their application in our lives. The Occult Christ reveals this hidden knowledge within Biblical Scripture and presents Christianity as a modern Mystery School. Learn how to unfold the Divine Feminine within your life through means of the Christ Mysteries.

Llewellyn Tarot

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:50 PST

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Over a century ago, a young boy left Wales and journeyed to America, where he started a small press, now known as Llewellyn Publications. Llewellyn George's adventurous spirit and Welsh heritage embodies The Llewellyn Tarot, which also celebrates the publisher's enduring legacy. From the creator of the popular Legend: The Arthurian Tarot Kit, this lavishly illustrated deck offers universal appea ...

Practical Guide to Astral Projection

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:50 PST

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Angels A to Z

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:50 PST

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Amid the veritable choirs of popular angel books, this is the only one that offers factual information on every facet of angel lore. Here at last is a detailed reference for anyone who wants to finally get the straight dope on all aspects of angel arcana. 40 photos.

Do What Thou Wilt

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:50 PST

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Aleister Crowley was a blustery coward, an arrogant, misogynistic racist with fascist leanings, and a callous user, as often threatened by his sexuality as he claimed to be liberated by it. But he was also a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary and cultural legacies extend far beyond the limits of his reputation. This controversial individual, a frightening mixture of ...

In Search of Superstrings

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:50 PST

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Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" - one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature - has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the most extraordinary ideas in the history of science. One of the world's foremost popular science authors, John Gribbin provides a brief, succinct, accessible overview of the ...

The death of forever

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:13 PST

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The Laws of Spirit

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:13 PST

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The Laws of Spirit is a parable by Dan Millman, best-selling author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, that explores the mystery of existence and the spiritual laws that shape the direction, meaning, and path of each person's life. While on a mountain hike, Dan Millman encounters a woman of great wisdom who takes him on an odyssey of spiritual discovery. Through stories, tests and experiences ...

Dracula

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:08 PST

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A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.

Hyperspace

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:08 PST

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Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of ...

The Elegant Universe

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:08 PST

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"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the l ...

Yoga of Time Travel

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:08 PST

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Fred Alan Wolf theoretical physicist uses an ancient Hindu meditative technique, that draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind.

Fearless Girls

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:08 PST

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Ayurveda and the Mind

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:27:08 PST

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AYURVEDA AND THE MIND is perhaps the first book published in the West that explores specifically the psychological aspect of this great system. The book explores how to heal our minds on all levels from the subconscious to the superconscious, along with the role of diet, impressions, mantra, meditation, yoga and many other methods to create wholeness. "Opens the doors to a new energetic psycholo ...

The Quantum Society

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:41 PST

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This work goes to the heart of contemporary moral and political dilemmas arising from the challenges of pluralism and rapid change, the inability of traditional society to cope with these, and the need to get beyond the stale conflict between selfish individualism and stifling collectivism. Drawing on the many uncanny analogies between quantum reality and the dynamics of self and society, Zohar a ...

The Physics of Immortality

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:41 PST

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This work is written for both layman and scientist. Is there a higher power in the universe? What happens to us when we die? Is there a heaven? For modern scientists the answer has been that there is no proof, no indication that the universe is anything other than a cold, unknowing place, that human beings are accidents of evolution and that when we die, our consciousness disappears into oblivion ...

Molecules Of Emotion

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:37 PST

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Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for ce ...

Shadows of the Mind

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:37 PST

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Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is. In this illuminating book Penrose provides powerful arguments to support hi ...

The Holy Grail

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:37 PST

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The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are as current in today's culture as they have ever been. And yet the Grail has no real religious meaning and is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. What is the truth behind this elusive symbol? Here, Barber traces the history of the st ...

The Last Three Minutes

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:37 PST

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The last three minutes of the universe has been the subject of much scientific and lay speculation for many years. Now, Paul Davies clearly and concisely sets out the arguments for three possible outcomes: 1) the universe will go on expanding indefinitely 2) it will slow down and eventually collapse into a zero space, the reverse of the Big Bang 3) it will reach a steady state neither expanding ...

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:37 PST

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New in paperback by Laurence Gardner, the bestselling author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail. From the tombs of pharaonic Egypt, to the laboratories of modern science, comes the extraordinary account of gravity defiance and teleportation in the ancient world, and amazing revelations about the past power and future significance of the sacred Ark. * The sacred Ark of the Covenant, created from a leg ...

Einstein's Heroes

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:21:37 PST

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Imagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a language so powerful it can accurately describe things you cannot see or even imagine. Einstein's Heroes takes you on a journey of discovery about just such a miraculous language--the language of mathematics--one of humanity's most amazing accomplishments. Blending science, history, and biography, this remarkable book reveals the ...

Cave in the Snow

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:18:40 PST

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Not Happy, John

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:18:40 PST

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The Joy of Pi

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:18:37 PST

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For 4000 years we have struggled with pi - the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. This book tells the story of pi, from Archimedes to da Vinci, and from Newton to the Chudnovsky brothers, who are calculating pi to billions of places with a homemade supercomputer.