Author: John Gregory Bourke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336892608X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Scatalogic Rites of All Nations
Author: John Gregory Bourke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336892608X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336892608X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Scatalogic Rites of All Nations; A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters
Author: John Gregory Bourke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387096771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387096771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Entheogens and the Development of Culture
Author: John A. Rush
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583946241
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Entheogens and the Development of Culture makes the radical proposition that mind-altering substances have played a major part not only in cultural development but also in human brain development. Researchers suggest that we have purposely enhanced receptor sites in the brain, especially those for dopamine and serotonin, through the use of plants and fungi over a long period of time. The trade-off for lowered functioning and potential drug abuse has been more creative thinking--or a leap in consciousness. Experiments in entheogen use led to the development of primitive medicine, in which certain mind-altering plants and fungi were imbibed to still fatigue, pain, or depression, while others were taken to promote hunger and libido. Our ancestors selected for our neural hardware, and our propensity for seeking altered forms of consciousness as a survival strategy may be intimately bound to our decision-making processes going back to the dawn of time. Fourteen essays by a wide range of contributors—including founding president of the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology of Religion section Michael Winkelman, PhD; Carl A. P. Ruck, PhD, Boston University professor of classics and an authority on the ecstatic rituals of the god Dionysus; and world-renowned botanist Dr. Gaston Guzma, member of the Colombian National Academy of Sciences and expert on hallucinogenic mushrooms—demonstrate that altering consciousness continues to be an important part of human experience today. Anthropologists, cultural historians, and anyone interested in the effects of mind-altering substances on the human mind and soul will find this book deeply informative and inspiring.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583946241
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Entheogens and the Development of Culture makes the radical proposition that mind-altering substances have played a major part not only in cultural development but also in human brain development. Researchers suggest that we have purposely enhanced receptor sites in the brain, especially those for dopamine and serotonin, through the use of plants and fungi over a long period of time. The trade-off for lowered functioning and potential drug abuse has been more creative thinking--or a leap in consciousness. Experiments in entheogen use led to the development of primitive medicine, in which certain mind-altering plants and fungi were imbibed to still fatigue, pain, or depression, while others were taken to promote hunger and libido. Our ancestors selected for our neural hardware, and our propensity for seeking altered forms of consciousness as a survival strategy may be intimately bound to our decision-making processes going back to the dawn of time. Fourteen essays by a wide range of contributors—including founding president of the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology of Religion section Michael Winkelman, PhD; Carl A. P. Ruck, PhD, Boston University professor of classics and an authority on the ecstatic rituals of the god Dionysus; and world-renowned botanist Dr. Gaston Guzma, member of the Colombian National Academy of Sciences and expert on hallucinogenic mushrooms—demonstrate that altering consciousness continues to be an important part of human experience today. Anthropologists, cultural historians, and anyone interested in the effects of mind-altering substances on the human mind and soul will find this book deeply informative and inspiring.
Maledicta
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ISBN:
Category : Invective
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Invective
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Oxford English Dictionary
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In addition to current definitions, provides an historical treatment to words and idioms included.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In addition to current definitions, provides an historical treatment to words and idioms included.
Freud's Requiem
Author: Matthew von Unwerth
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826480322
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This absorbing, thoughtful narrative, explores Sigmund Freud's provocative ideas on creativity and mortality and their roots in his history, while searching for broader lessons about love, memory, mourning, and creativity. Written in 1915 during winter and wartime, Freud's little-known essay On Transience records an afternoon conversation with 'a young but already famous poet' and his 'taciturn friend' about mortality, eternity, and the 'sense' of life. In Freud's Requiem, the philosophical disagreement between Freud and his companions-who may have been the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his muse and former lover Lou Andreas-Salome-becomes a prism through which to consider Freud's creativity as a response to his own experiences, from his passionately curious, love struck teenage years to his death after a long struggle with cancer in 1939. Drawing on a variety of literary and historical sources-Homer, Goethe, as well as Freud's own writings, including his letters-Freud's Requiem is both an intimate personal drama and a spirited intellectual inquiry. By tracing connections among Freud's ideas, his personality, and the world he lived in, Matthew von Unwerth examines the links that Freud made between art and memory. Freud's Requiem contemplates how, in mourning, we tell stories about our lives that give form and meaning to the events and feelings that threaten to overwhelm us. In recounting our stories, especially our darkest moments, we make sense of them and reclaim lost aspects of our lives, just as Freud did in his account of an afternoon walk with a poet and a taciturn companion.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826480322
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This absorbing, thoughtful narrative, explores Sigmund Freud's provocative ideas on creativity and mortality and their roots in his history, while searching for broader lessons about love, memory, mourning, and creativity. Written in 1915 during winter and wartime, Freud's little-known essay On Transience records an afternoon conversation with 'a young but already famous poet' and his 'taciturn friend' about mortality, eternity, and the 'sense' of life. In Freud's Requiem, the philosophical disagreement between Freud and his companions-who may have been the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his muse and former lover Lou Andreas-Salome-becomes a prism through which to consider Freud's creativity as a response to his own experiences, from his passionately curious, love struck teenage years to his death after a long struggle with cancer in 1939. Drawing on a variety of literary and historical sources-Homer, Goethe, as well as Freud's own writings, including his letters-Freud's Requiem is both an intimate personal drama and a spirited intellectual inquiry. By tracing connections among Freud's ideas, his personality, and the world he lived in, Matthew von Unwerth examines the links that Freud made between art and memory. Freud's Requiem contemplates how, in mourning, we tell stories about our lives that give form and meaning to the events and feelings that threaten to overwhelm us. In recounting our stories, especially our darkest moments, we make sense of them and reclaim lost aspects of our lives, just as Freud did in his account of an afternoon walk with a poet and a taciturn companion.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Military in America
Author: Peter M. Karsten
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this completely revised second edition, new essays explore Napoleonic warfare, the American Civil War, the Plains Wars in the West, the War against Japan, the nuclear arms race, and the War on Terror. The book, while not avoiding the nature of battle, goes beyond tactics and strategy to include the enormous social and political impact of America's wars.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this completely revised second edition, new essays explore Napoleonic warfare, the American Civil War, the Plains Wars in the West, the War against Japan, the nuclear arms race, and the War on Terror. The book, while not avoiding the nature of battle, goes beyond tactics and strategy to include the enormous social and political impact of America's wars.
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Blow the candle out
Author: Vance Randolph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore
Blow the Candle Out (c)
Author:
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610750769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610750769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore