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Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451616538
Size: 80.43 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-03-19
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF The Modern Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.

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Author: Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896238111
Size: 34.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2011
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF The New Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The New Book of the Dead is written specifically for Westerners. It is a detailed guide for dealing with death and bereavement in all its forms: natural and violent, children and old people. It describes rites of preparation - such as the ritual cutting of the silver cord, and the blessing and license to depart, saying goodbye and letting go of the physical realm. This is not a book of sorrow and foreboding, but teaches us how to accept and even welcome death, as a great teacher, the last great mystery and culminating experience of life.

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Author: Barry Kemp
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847087515
Size: 35.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2012-09-06
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF How To Read The Egyptian Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful and inescapable that controlling one's destiny within it was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld, along with the divine gods who controlled the universe. The Book of the Dead empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods who governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the Book offered them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern world.

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Author: John Phillips
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555953157
Size: 71.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009
Category: Book of the dead
Language: en
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Download PDF John Ransom Phillips eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. John Ransom Phillips: A Contemporary Book of the Dead is an artist's monograph of watercolors on papyryus that

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Book Detail:
Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145161652X
Size: 26.65 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012-02-14
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Modern Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Part memoir, part history of ideas of the afterlife, and part road map to what might truly await each of us when we leave our bodies behind, The Modern Book of the Dead is a wise and courageous book that approaches the question of the afterlife in a refreshingly intimate manner. Weaving together philosophy, science, stories of near-death experiences, and theology, the author comes to one amazing and uplifting truth: that somehow, human consciousness lives on after death. Both inspiring and intimate, this is a modern meditation that allows the reader to think about death in an all-new way."--Jacket.

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Book Detail:
Author: Eva Von Dassow
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811864893
Size: 45.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2008-06-02
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Egyptian Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.

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Author: Stephen Hodge
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9780806964317
Size: 22.74 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1999
Category: Buddhism
Language: en
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Download PDF The Illustrated Tibetan Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Uniquely blending poetry and prose, this magnificently illustrated modern adaptation of the Buddhist “reference manual to the soul” offers spiritual teachings that are practical for today’s world. Adapted from a version written by one of Tibet’s great spiritual leaders in the 8th century. “A new translation and commentary...features lively poetry and prose accompanied by lavish full-color illustrations.”—Publishers Weekly.

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Author: William McDonald
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316395463
Size: 31.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-10-18
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The New York Times Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking book includes 300 of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced on our world. William McDonald, The Times' obituary editor who was recently featured in the award-winning documentary Obit, selected 320 of the most important and influential obits from the newspaper's archives. In chapters like "Stage and Screen," "Titans of Business," "The Notorious," "Scientists and Healers," "Athletes," and "American Leaders," the entries include a wide variety of newsmakers from the last century and a half, including Annie Oakley, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Marilyn Monroe, Coco Chanel, Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson and Prince.

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Author: John H. Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674057500
Size: 64.72 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2010
Category: Book of the dead
Language: en
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Download PDF Journey Through The Afterlife eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.

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Author: Bear F. Braumoeller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190849533
Size: 63.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019
Category: POLITICAL SCIENCE
Language: en
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Download PDF Only The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker. He argues that the key to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of humanitarian values, but rather in the formation of international orders--sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done in the postwar Western liberal order. With a nod toward the American sociologist Charles Tilly, who argued that "war made the state and the state made war," Braumoeller shows argues that the same is true of international orders: while they reduce conflict within their borders, they can also clash violently with one another, as the Western and communist orders did throughout the Cold War. Both highly readable and rigorous, Only the Dead offers a realistic assessment of humanity's quest to abolish warfare. While pessimists have been too quick to discount the successes of our attempts to reduce international conflict, optimists are prone to put too much faith in human nature. Reality lies somewhere in between: While the aspirations of humankind to govern its behavior with reason and justice have had shocking success in moderating the harsh dictates of realpolitik, the institutions that we have created to prevent war are unlikely to achieve anything like total success--as evidenced by the multitude of conflicts in recent decades. As the old adage advises us, only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Book Detail:
Author: Anne Geraghty
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1782797084
Size: 20.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-11-28
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF Death The Last God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Anne Geraghty was a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist when her son, Tim Guest, author of My Life in Orange died suddenly. Her old life ended. She went on a search for her lost son. Where was he? What was he? Did he live on in some other realm? Or had he fallen into the darkness of oblivion? Her search for Tim became an exploration into the nature of death itself. We die as we have lived. Our lives are not like those of a C12th Tibetan, a C15th Cardinal or a Zen monk; we cannot, therefore, simply turn to old maps and myths of what happens when we die. We need a new narrative of death that embraces our modern understandings of our humanity and the workings of the universe. This book is the story of a grieving mother looking for her dead son, an investigation into death in our modern world, and an exploration of our struggles to live well in the ever-present shadow of death. It is not a book with answers; it is an invitation to look at death differently. This book offers fresh and original ideas about death and dying. And it will radically change your understanding of what death is.

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Author: Michael Costa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781475258073
Size: 32.32 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-04-25
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF How To Create Your Own Egyptian Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Ancient Egyptians believed in a life after bodily death, as did many other cultures in pre-history. Their sophisticated knowledge of the afterlife compelled them to create houses for the departed souls with enough furnishings to last forever. The basic concept was in book form, and this was copied into pictures and tomb murals that decorated these underground palaces. Since papyrus paper was expensive the tombs were made of stone or mud bricks, and tomb interiors were painted to match the contents of the funerary texts. So if you have such a book, you do not necessarily need a tomb; the dead souls would create their own housing and habitation in the Otherworld by reading about it. If you did not have this book, a tomb would be your home so that your eternal soul would not haunt the living, or demand food and drink offerings from living relatives.With Archaeologists excavating in Egypt for the past 200+ years, numerous tombs have been found there. Some were haunted by the awakened souls detecting the movement of their remains. Some souls returned to Earth in new bodies as people or animals as they did for many centuries. The ancient expression, "To call one's name is to cause them to live again," means "to live again upon being awoken." Life extends beyond bodily activity. Your soul is shaped by your body, and continues to exist long after the body is no longer here. Some souls such as Tutankhamon are hostile to being disturbed, and so every time his remains are moved or touched, bad reactions occur in the world (this is the so-called "Curse" concept).Now you can create your own Egyptian Book of the Dead and be prepared for Eternal Life with style. This guide book will show you a few ways to prepare for your future existence. You do not need to adopt the Egyptian Mythology or religion, as pre-historical people believed in an afterlife long before the invention of bread. All you need to do is follow these ideas correctly. Modern cultures in Asia already have similar ideas as the ancients had, and can find common concepts.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 72.36 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1901
Category: Book of the dead
Language: en
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Download PDF The Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Elizabeth Daly
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1937384233
Size: 65.76 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-12-15
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A copy of Shakespeare’s The Tempest pulls a bookseller into a murder case in this mystery by Agatha Christie’s favorite American author. The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw’s battered old edition of The Tempest—and happens to pass that book on to Henry Gamadge. Gamadge, of course, is not only an expert in solving pesky problems but also an expert in rare books, and his two sets of expertise combine to uncover the extraordinary puzzle of Mr. Crenshaw, which began in California and ended on the other side of the country, at a chilly New England rendezvous. “An absorbing yarn that holds up to the end.” —New York Times “Beautifully plotted, with believable characters and ample thrills” —Saturday Review of Books

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Book Detail:
Author: Foy Scalf
Publisher: Oriental Institute Press
ISBN: 9781614910381
Size: 59.66 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017
Category: Book of the dead
Language: en
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Download PDF Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Bunch
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 145973808X
Size: 58.53 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-09-16
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Toronto Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.

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Book Detail:
Author: Marion Winik
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640092544
Size: 12.93 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-09-17
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Big Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Marion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of the Dead, have been carefully combined in their proper chronological order, revealing more clearly than ever before the character hidden throughout these stories: Winik herself. Featuring twelve additional vignettes along with a brand–new introduction, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathetic, witty chronicler of life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sara E. Cole
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065513
Size: 67.50 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2018-04-17
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Beyond The Nile eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt’s history, however, that Beyond the Nile uncovers. Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the constantly evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egyptians and Greeks—during the Bronze Age, then the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, and finally Ptolemaic Egypt—and later, when Egypt passed to Roman rule with the defeat of Cleopatra. Beyond the Nile, a milestone publication issued on the occasion of a major international exhibition, will become an indispensable contribution to the field. With gorgeous photographs of more than two hundred rare objects, including frescoes, statues, obelisks, jewelry, papyri, pottery, and coins, this volume offers an essential and inter-disciplinary approach to the rich world of artistic cross-pollination during antiquity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas W. Laqueur
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691180938
Size: 65.86 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018-05-08
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Work Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030745133X
Size: 37.89 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2011-06-07
Category: Pets
Language: en
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Download PDF The Divine Life Of Animals eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls? Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely when they leave this world behind? Both scientists and religious authorities have long scoffed at the idea of animals in heaven. Yet the question endures. In this wise, immensely readable book, Ptolemy Tompkins embarks on a quest for the answer—taking us on a top-speed tour of the history of the animal soul. Equally at home with mainstream and alternative spiritual philosophies, Tompkins takes us from the savannas of Africa to the earth’s first cities to the early days of the great faith traditions of both East and West. Along the way, he shows that, despite what many of us have been taught, the world’s various spiritual traditions all have profoundly meaningful things to say about the animal soul, if we simply know where to look. Rescuing these ancient insights and blending them with vivid stories about animals today—from a dwarf rabbit named Angus to a manatee named Moose to a black bear named Little Bit—The Divine Life of Animals paints a gloriously inclusive picture of the cosmos as a place made up of both matter and spirit, in which animals are every bit as important, spiritually speaking, as the humans with whom they share the world. Though it is startlingly original, The Divine Life of Animals also feels strangely and instantly familiar, for it reveals truths that many of us have held in our hearts already, waiting only for someone to give fresh voice to one of the oldest and most trustworthy intuitions we possess. The Divine Life of Animals offers a compelling and timeless vision of the relationship between humans and animals that will have you looking at the animals in your life with new eyes.

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