Journeying Between the Worlds shares ancient American shamanic teachings in a way that is easily understood by people from any culture. This book is filled with practices that will open the door to dynamic, ever evolving relationships with the great spirit, your sacred self, and your ancestors. With simple exercises that help you build your skills and knowledge, this powerful guide teaches lessons based on Native American spiritual concepts, including shamanic journeying, the medicine wheel, dreams and visions, symbols, power animals, the elements, shamanic tools, the three realms, and much more. Written for beginner and intermediate shamanic practitioners, Journeying Between the Worlds shows you how to use shamanism to make sacred connections with the natural world, divine beings, and your own soul. Views: 203
"The share auto I squeeze into next seems unusually vulnerable after a night in the truck - too compact, too low down. Perhaps, these are the usual side effects of prolonged riding with the king of the road, I think to myself. But it is only when I fill in 'truck' as my mode of transportation in the hotel ledger at Udaipur does the utter ludicrousness of my endeavour truly hit home" Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind. But what are their lives on the road actually like? In Truck De India!, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way, he makes unexpected friendships; listens to highway ghost stories; discovers the near-fatal consequences of overloading trucks; documents the fascinating tradition of truck art in Punjab; travels alongside nomadic shepherds in Kashmir; encounters... Views: 203
The author of The Two-Week Promise presents a funny, romantic tale of friendships, flirtations, and being true to who you are . . . Back in high school, Millicent mercilessly teased her brother and his friends, especially Luke, for their nerdy devotion to Dungeons & Dragons. When she and Luke are reunited as adults, working together at his photography studio, she wants to make it up to him. After all, as a bisexual woman, she knows how it feels to struggle with being accepted. When a client requests boudoir photos, Luke is so flustered that Millicent offers to pose for a practice session so he can calm his nerves. She books an appointment with the best hair and makeup stylist in town—who happens to be a girl Millicent kissed in high school, but was ultimately rejected by. Meanwhile, Luke has his own troubles with a resentful ex. As old feelings are stirred up—and new feelings take Millicent by surprise—it becomes clear that... Views: 203
"[Murmur] is as bracingly intelligent as it is brave. . . . [Eaves] knows that Turing's theories of consciousness have implications for fiction, and that fiction can operate at the frontiers of what we know about the workings of our minds." —Guardian"Murmur is a fully achieved literary experiment, digging deep into all the dimensions of human consciousness." —Goldsmiths Prize judge's citation"[Murmur] is masterful—compassionate, principled, and moving. It is deeply wise, with the aching loneliness of both human indignity and dignity, despair and courage." —Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and All We Saw"A really extraordinary book, unlike any other." —Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with FeathersIn Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan... Views: 203
If you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise...When Scarlet left that morning to visit her sick grandmother she was on her guard for trouble on the road - they don't call them "The Whispering Woods" for nothing, after all.Raised on stories on the dangers of the fae, Scarlet knows it pays to be armed and ready - but what she doesn't know may prove more threatening still.When secrets are revealed, and no one - strangers, friends or family - are truly what they seem, how do you know what is true? What path do you choose?One thing is for sure - Scarlet's life is about to change in ways she never expected. Views: 203
A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans, peoples of Italy, western Greeks, and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus’ western campaign in the early third century BCE.
The war occurred nearly a century before the first historical writings in Rome, resulting in a malleable narrative that emphasized the moral virtues of the Romans, transformed Pyrrhus into a figure that resembled Alexander the Great, disparaged the degeneracy of the Greeks, and demonstrated the malicious intent of the Carthaginians. Kent demonstrates the way events were shaped by later Roman generations to transform the complex geopolitical realities of the Pyrrhic War into a one-dimensional duel between themselves and Pyrrhus that anticipated their rise to greatness. This book analyzes the Pyrrhic War through consideration of geopolitical context as well as how later Roman writers remembered the conflict. The focus of the war is taken off Pyrrhus as an individual and shifted towards evaluating the multifaceted interactions of the peoples of Italy and Sicily.
A History of the Pyrrhic War is a fundamental resource for academic and learned general readers who have an interest in the interaction of developing imperial powers with their neighbors and how those events shaped the perceptions of later generations. It will be of interest not only to students of Roman history, but also to anyone working on historiography in any period. Views: 203
