Unlock the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries: A deep exploration of secret rites, psychedelic sacraments, and spiritual revelations that captivated ancient Greek society for nearly two millennia.Uncover the evocative history of The Road to Eleusis. Once held in hushed whispers, the Eleusinian Mysteries were a series of secret rituals and initiations in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. They stood as an enigmatic cornerstone ...

Since May 2026, millions of people around the world have been wanting to understand what is this new virus and is it dangerous? This book describes the basic features of this virus and gives practical answers to the questions that people have.

Addressing environmental threats to improve sustainability and alleviate poverty in Sindh, Pakistan. This book examines the environmental challenges facing Sindh Province, Pakistan, and proposes policy interventions to address them. It highlights the links between environmental degradation, poverty, and sustainable development.The book provides an assessment of environmental health risks, natural resource degradation, and vulnerability to natural disasters. It offe...

Keeping a few chickens in your back garden is becoming increasingly popular with people who have had no experience in dealing with "farmyard" animals.Unfortunately Chickens sometimes get Ill, and not everybody will be able to afford access to a vet, especially in developing economies.This guide is designed to be a no waffle, straight to the point, easy to read source of information, showing common substances & antibiotics that may be of use in treating your chickens. We have...

In this guide we will focus only on information a new keeper needs to know to get started. We will also discuss in a logical order what you need to do to prepare for getting your chickens. This guide is designed to be a no waffle, straight to the point, easy to read source of information for beginners. Jargon will be kept to a minimum, but when used it will be explained as you read alongSimple solutions to Chicken Ailments is given, as well as a schedule of products to give to avoi...

Edited collections are widely supposed to contain lesser work than scholarly journals; to be incoherent as volumes, no more than the sum of their parts; and to be less visible to potential readers once published. It is also often taken as axiomatic that those who make decisions in relation to hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding do so agree. To publish in or edit an essay collection is thought to risk being penalised for the format before even a word is read. After examining the origins ...

White Dust Black Death is primarily focused on the Baryulgil Asbestos Mine (Northern NSW) owned and operated by Asbestos Mines Pty Ltd, a former subsidiary of James Hardie Industries NV. Secondary focus is the cultural interface between the dominant 'white' Australian society and Indigenous Australian cultures. Tertiary focus is upon endemic/institutionalised racism, both black and white.This book is positioned within cross-cultural and indigenous studies, racial t...

This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the British churches in the twentieth century. They included music by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein and William Walton, visual art by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Marc Chagall, and poetry by ...

Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.The Dream on the Rock takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Iron Age. Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster argue that rock art and other ancient materials provide a glimpse of the fundamental role played by nonordinary states of consciousness in our social and ev...

During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more democratic and society more secular,as the role of the Crown and parliament in Church government was curtailed, and as the Christian foundations of secular law were weakened. Yet the increasing formal separation of Church and state was not accompanied by ecclesiastical disengagement from politics an...

Archbishop Michael Ramsey’s archiepiscopate from 1961 to 1974 saw profound renegotiations of the relationship of the Church of England with its own flock, with the nation more widely, with the Anglican church worldwide, and with the other Christian churches. Drawing from unique source material in the Lambeth Palace Library archives and reproducing many original writings of Ramsey for the first time, this book explores key questions which surround Ramsey’s tenure. How did Ramsey react to th...

An “UNEXPECTEDLY PROFOUND,” “DEEPLY STRANGE,” and “UTTERLY UNIQUE tour of the human body” (Publishers Weekly)"A must read for anyone who’s ever been amazed or aghast at what just came out." — Rachel Yoder, author of NightbitchTo live, our bodies must continuously shed materials. Stop urinating, stop defecating, stop expelling breath, and death is near. While we often think of these materials as embarrassing waste products, they serve far more complex functions. The color of...