Social sciences

Something happened in early 2011 that hasn't happened in decades, perhaps centuries-and we didn't even notice it. That is, we didn't see it for what it was. Massive unrest from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya rocked the Arab world and threw the globe into political crisis.

· Shows how thousands of giant skeletons have been found, particularly in the Mississippi Valley, as well as the ruins of the giants' cities· Explores 400 years of giant finds, including newspaper articles, first person accounts, state historical records and illustrated field reports· Reveals the Stonehenge-era megalithic burial complex on Catalina Island with over 4,000 giant skeletons, including

One of the most enigmatic figures in world history, King Arthur has been the subject of many fantastical tales over the past 1500 years, leading many scholars to regard him and his fabled city of Camelot simply as myth. But, as Graham Phillips shows through a wealth of literary and scientific evidence, King Arthur was a real man, Camelot a real place and the legendary Excalibur a real sword - and

Since 1993 Robert Bauval has been embroiled in the many controversies involving the search for the lost treasures of the pyramid builders and the quest for the legendary Hall of Records of Atlantis. The strange but true story that he unfolds implicates American business moguls, the prestigious National Geographic Society, several Ivy League universities, the Edgar Cayce Foundation, the Freemasons,

Among the many significant discoveries excavated from Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's royal library in Nineveh were tablets documenting the development of Mesopotamian astrology, now recognised as the earliest astrological science. Drawing upon translations of the Nineveh library tablets as well as many other ancient sources, Michael Baigent reveals the roots of modern astrology in the Babylonian sci

Wild animals avoid contact with humans, but wild dolphins seek us out to play and socialise, even going so far as to voluntarily rescue people from drowning. What explains this remarkable natural affinity? Revealing the evolutionary basis for our special relationship with dolphins, Frank Joseph explains how we are both descendants of the same ancient branch of humanity. Building upon the aquatic a

· Includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series as well as never-before-published letters, articles, and lectures· Each piece includes an introduction, offering context and insight into Sitchin's passionate work and revealing the man behind the theories· Explains the genesis of The 12th Planet, the Anunnaki influences on the Sumerian civilization, the extraterrestrial origi

In each culture the origins of civilisation can be tied to the arising of one concept in the human mind: straight lines. Straight and perpendicular lines are not found in nature, so where did they come from? What shift in consciousness occurred around the globe that triggered the start of rectangular building methods and linear organisation as well as written language, pyramid construction, mathem

Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world. Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago. Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture.

The legend of Atlantis is one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time. Disproving many well-known Atlantis theories and providing a new hypothesis, the evidence for which continues to build, Andrew Collins shows that what Plato recounts is the memory of a major cataclysm at the end of the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, when a comet devastated the island of Cuba and submerged part of the Baham

· Explains the quantum physics behind the Waves of the Mayan Calendar system and how their holograms shape the human mind · Shows how throughout history each revolution in human consciousness has been driven by the activation of one of the Nine Waves of Creation · Reveals how we can consciously work to deactivate the negative patterns of the Sixth Wave and manifest the unity consciousness of the N

Stonehenge is just one of thousands of stone circles erected throughout Britain and Ireland over three millennia from 3,000 BC on. How did this building tradition survive for so long, over such a large area and with such complexity and uniformity, when the people of the British Isles lived in separate, isolated communities and left no evidence of a central leadership or obvious communication netwo

During the last two centuries, thousands of ancient documents from different sites in the Middle East have been uncovered. However, no archaeological discovery speaks of King David or Solomon, his son and successor, directly or indirectly. Was King David a real person or a legend like King Arthur? Proposing that David was a genuine historical figure, Ahmed Osman explores how his identity may be ra

The animals we attract in our lives reflect us in many ways. Our connections with them run deeply, down to the soul level. Just like us, they are, also, on a journey to evolve their soul through their relationships and experiences and each has deeply spiritual messages for us and intentions for our personal growth. In this book, Tammy Billups invites you to explore and deepen this profound relatio

Cuneiform texts found on clay plates in Mesopotamia tell us about an extraterrestrial race, called the Anunnaki, who came from space to exploit our planet. Through genetic manipulation, they created modern humans from existing earthly life forms to serve them as slaves. They physically left our planet millennia ago, but as Jan Erik Sigdell reveals, their influence and control over humanity is stil

Exploring the essential tools and practices of Mesoamerican shamans and curanderos, specifically the ancient Yukatek Maya and Mexica (Aztec), Erika Buenaflor, provides a step-by-step guide for conducting the most common practice within curanderismo - limpias. These practical and incredibly effective shamanic cleanses heal, purify and revitalise people and spaces with herbs, flowers, eggs, feathers

Looking for companionship after a near-fatal car crash, Elena Mannes, an award-winning television journalist and producer, decided to get her first dog. But what she found with her dog, Brio, shook the foundations of her physical and spiritual worlds, sending her on a quest to discover the nature of his spiritual origins and to contemplate and seek out the possibility of interspecies communication

Although close encounters with alien space craft are reported as far back as the reign of Pharaoh Thutmosis III in Egypt, it wasn't until the 20th century that UFO sightings and extraterrestrial encounters were truly documented, due to advances in technology and record-keeping, as well as the vast increase in incidents, particularly with military forces. Revealing his extensive research and the ve

Myths of a Golden Age, a paradise at the beginning of human existence, are nearly universal in all cultures. But where was this “Eden” located? Refuting the traditional assumption that the cultures of the Middle East and Mycenae filtered northward into Europe and North Asia, noted historian, Geoffrey Ashe, instead identifies the northern Altai mountain range and Lake Baikal region of southern Sibe

A sacred priestess of the ancient Womb Rites, Mary Magdalene was at the centre of a great and enduring Mystery tradition, one that touched on a stream of perennial spiritual wisdom as old as humanity. Worshipped as the human embodiment of the Goddess, the earthly Sophia, her womb was the spiritual luminatrix that anointed and empowered Jesus, transforming him into the Christ. As a priestess of the