Social sciences

FIELD COMMAND is a first of its kind: a full-length tactical science textbook focused specifically on crisis situations faced by the law enforcement community. Expanding on the groundbreaking work done in Charles "Sid" Heal's Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer, the concepts and principles are taken from tactical texts and military field manuals and are presented as close to how they are used in rea

Why should one go vegan? Is veganism the positive change the world needs? VEGAN VOICES is a comprehensive collection of compelling testimonials about how our food choices are deeply connected to the pressing challenges and issues of our time. Areas covered include personal and global health; the devastation of animal agriculture to the environment; society's collective loss of compassion and conne

Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now. In fourteen c

Systems of oppression function by exploiting the most vulnerable amongst us. Where these oppressive systems overlap, the victims are pitted against one another. Slaughterhouses provide a particularly brutal example, wherein speciesism, capitalism, and carcerality intersect at the expense of their collective victims.In a dozen compelling essays from around the world, VEGAN ENTANGLEMENTS examines th

Oral tradition in Polynesia recounts the story of Lemuria, a vast kingdom of islands and archipelagoes that once sprawled across the Pacific Ocean, but was destroyed by a mighty "warrior wave"--a tsunami. Frank Joseph offers a compelling picture of this motherland of humanity, which he suggests was the original Garden of Eden.

Provides easy-to-use format for determining what signs and numbers rule the day of your birth and what influence they have on your destiny and includes a traditional Cherokee ephemeris through December 21, 2012An essential aspect of Cherokee religion is the belief that everything on Earth is the reflection of a star. This includes, not only people and animals, but, also, trees, rivers, stones and

When Rima Morrell first went to Hawai‘i as a young anthropology student from Cambridge University, she was surprised to find a lighter brighter world where trees talked to her in ancient temples and magic regularly happened. She found the system of ancient Hawaiian wisdom known as Huna, a system that teaches us how to focus the light of our own being to make magic. Following her Higher Self-

CRUSADE AGAINST THE GRAIL is the book that popularised the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933 and drew upon Rahn's account of his thrilling explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect took refuge during the 13th century. Over the years the book has been translated into many languages and exerted a large influence on, for e

In The Science of the Dogon, Laird Scranton demonstrated that the cosmological structure described in the myths and drawings of the Dogon runs parallel to modern science - atomic theory, quantum theory and string theory - their drawings often taking the same form as accurate scientific diagrams that relate to the formation of matter. Scranton, also, pointed to the close resemblance between the key

Freemasonry, as a fraternal order of scientists and philosophers, emerged in the 17th century and represented something new--an amalgam of alchemy and science that allowed the creative genius of Isaac Newton and his contemporaries to flourish. In Isaac Newton’s Freemasonry, Alain Bauer presents the swirl of historical, sociological, and religious influences that sparked the spiritual ferment and t

Thousands of years before the first written records, humans were turning to the night sky as a source of meaning for existence and their place within it. The conclusions drawn from these observations are embodied in stories from across the world known as Creation Myths. Contrary to the popular belief that these myths were meant to explain the origins of the universe, Pete Stewart shows that they w

For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space - spiritual seekers, shamans and psychoactive drug users - have returned from their inner imaginal travels reporting encounters with alien intelligences. INNER PATHS TO OUTER SPACE presents an innovative examination of how we can reach these other dimensions of existence and contact otherworldly beings. Based on their more than 60 combined years of r

Banned after promising research in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, the use of psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts is now being rediscovered at prestigious medical schools, such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, NYU and UCLA. Through clinical trials to assess their use, entheogens have been found to ease anxiety in the dying, interrupt the hold of addictive drugs, cure post-traumatic stress disorder and treat

Atlantis has held a perennial place in the collective imagination of humanity from ancient Greece onward. Many of the great minds of the occult and esoteric world wrote at length on their theories of Atlantis - about its high culture, its possible location, its ultimate demise and their predictions of a return to Atlantean enlightenment or the downfall of modern society.Beginning with a review of

Shri Mahant Swami Ganeshanand Saraswati Giri (ca. 1895–1988) was known to all who loved and studied with him simply as Ganesh Baba. At the age of four, he was brought back from death through an initiation by Lahiri Mahasaya and through this initiation descends from the same Kriya Yoga lineage as Paramahansa Yogananda. He became a swami under his guru Sivananda and later went on to run the Anandama

The underground realm of Agarttha was first introduced to the Western world in 1886 by the French esoteric philosopher Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre with his book Mission de l'Inde, translated here for the first time into English. Saint-Yves's book maintained that deep below the Himalayas were enormous underground cities, which were under the rule of a sovereign pontiff known as the Brahâtma. Th

Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into the non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche. His research was the impetus behind a vastly expanded cartography of the unconscious, including two new realms still unacknowledged by official academic circles – the perinatal domain, which holds memories of the v

Exploring the role of cannabis in medicine, politics, history and society, THE POT BOOK offers a compendium of the most up-to-date information and scientific research on marijuana from leading experts, including Lester Grinspoon, Rick Doblin, Paul Armentano (NORML) and Raphael Mechoulam. Also included are interviews with Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil and Tommy Chong as well as a pot dealer and a far

Great thinkers and researchers such as Carl Jung have acknowledged the many broad similarities that exist between the myths and symbols of ancient cultures. One largely unexplored explanation for these similarities lies in the possibility that these systems of myth all descended from one common cosmological plan. Outlining the most significant aspects of cosmology found among the Dogon, ancient Eg

· Demonstrates, based on the 12,000-year-old megalithic complex of Göbekli Tepe, that advanced civilisation extends thousands of years further back than generally acknowledged· Examines the catastrophic solar outbursts that ended the last ice age, wiping out antediluvian civilisation and incinerating much of the evidence of that period· Reveals data that show solar outbursts powerful enough to dev