Social sciences

"[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing." Publishers Weekly Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans,

Step inside a woodland world of faeries and let your imagination wander through the hidden dimension of faeries as you keep track of important dates throughout the year.

Call on Snow White to find love. Get help with dream divination from Sleeping Beauty. Ask Cinderella to make your wishes come true.

Ever Wondered If You're Psychic? Discover Your Intuitive Abilities Now! Recognize and enhance your natural intuitive talents with this essential guide, which is specially designed to strengthen your psychic edge in daily life. With an easy, conversational tone, professional intuitive Melissa Alvarez helps you find where your skills and interests lie within the psychic and metaphysical worlds

Discover how to work magick with faeries and elemental spirits From the world of the wee folk to the history and lore of faeries, you’ll explore all things fey in this easy-to-use, essential guide. The spirits of earth, water, fire, and air-as well as golems and goblins, boggarts and brownies, orcs and ogres-help us tune into the cycles of nature and work with the amazing magick around us.

Achieve psychic mastery in one year with this daily guide. Learn meditation, trance techniques, and divination in an easy-to-use, page-a-day format. Beginning with simple observation skills and advancing to more demanding techniques such as reading for others, 365 Ways to Develop Your Psychic Abilities lets you absorb information and stretch your psychic muscles at your own pace. Let Alexandra Cha

Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten’s masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush, in close consul

“May this very important and enticing book find its way into the hearts of readers near and far so that it can perform its mysterious and healing alchemy for the benefit of all.” —John Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School The Transformative Power of Mindfulness Alchemists sought to transform lead into g

Over a million copies sold! Discover the significance of your birthday with this wholly unique combination of astrology, numerology, and pure psychic intuition that reveals your strengths and weaknesses while providing practical advice and spiritual guidance. Many have suspected that your birthday affects your personality and how you relate to others. A perennial bestseller, The Secret Language

This indispensable astrological text addresses the question we all ask at some point during the course of our lives: "What is the purpose of my life?" It identifies, based on birthdate, what, on a soul level, someone came into this lifetime to achieve, in other words, their karmic signature. Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers take the reader on a spiritual quest around the astrological galaxy th

A groundbreaking book about personal growth that presents a uniquely effective set of five tools that bring about dynamic change by using problems as levers that access the power of the unconscious and propel them into action.

With the same narrative fecundity and imaginative sympathy he brought to his acclaimed retelling of the Greek myths, Roberto Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg Veda, the oldest of India's sacred texts, known by a secret name--"Ka," or Who?

The perennial bestseller that you MUST READ in order to fully understand the interplay between electric energy and living organisms The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the field of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He foun

In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modem physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life -- our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings of the subatomic realm to create a new model of human consciousness, the author addresses enduring philosophical questions. Does the new physics

A parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena.

From the inspirational leader and author of the international bestsellers Your Sacred Self and Your Erroneous Zones comes this mind-awakening guidebook for making your desires reality. Wayne Dyer is an extraordinary sensor of what people want and he moves with the ever-changing times. He focused on the heart of the spiritual with Real Magic and embraced individual sacre

Each of us is capable of detecting the subtle emanations and vibrations that surround us. The Diviner's Handbook helps you develop your own, individual talent and technique for dowsing as a key to greater knowledge and the time-honored art of divination.Move beyond theory to the actual practice of dowsing with the techniquesand exercises included here.

There is another order of evolution running parallel to and blending with our own. Clairvoyant, Geoffrey Hodson, captures the vast variety of etheric forms working with nature, stimulating growth, bringing colour to the flowers, brooding over nature's beauty, dancing in the wind and sunlight. Meet the magical miniature world of green, transparent sea spirits, the entrancingly beautiful undine, the

A remarkable tour de force by a world-renown neuroscientist explains that human beings were never born to read; this invention changed the very organization of man's brain and altered the intellectual evolution of the species.

This engaging contemplation of maturity addresses the long neglected topic of what it means to grow up, and provides a hands-on guide for skilfully navigating the demands of our adult lives.