This handsome hardback edition presents the classic Buddhist text, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, featuring silver cover embossing and gilded page-edges. Said to have its origins in the treasure texts that were supposedly hidden away by Padmasambhava, the Lotus Guru, in Tibet in the 8th century, The Tibetan Book of the Dead was traditionally read aloud to the dying or recently deceased as a guide to the afterlife. It explains how to recognize the true nature of the mind so that after death it will be possible to attain enlightenment and liberation from the suffering associated with the endless cycle of death and rebirth. ... |
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The New Science of Smell. Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until now. Smells and scents are the colour that enrich our experience of life. Ask anyone to reflect on their sense of smell, and they immediately start talking. First there are discussions about food and wine, but pretty quickly they move on to personal topics: about the smells that evoke memories of childhood, dead relatives, pregnancy, love and sex. When people talk about their ... |
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The Breakthrough Method to Open Your Heart and Transform Your Life. The inspiring holistic healing method to break down your heart wall and heal your life, from the internationally acclaimed bioenergetics expert and bestselling author of The Emotion Code. In The Heart Code: How to Release Your Emotional Barriers for Authentic Living and Loving Dr Bradley Nelson hones in on breaking down our Heart-Walls, to unlock happiness and emotional freedom. All of us have walls around our hearts - emotional barriers that prevent us from fulfilling our potential and finding our true purpose. The Heart Code offers an in-depth ... |
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This mouthwatering cookbook features 100 quick and easy one pot and one pan plant based recipes inspired by the blue zones, many made in 30 minutes or less. Inside you'll find easier than ever plant based breakfasts, dinners, snacks, and sides inspired by the blue zones, with grocery store-available ingredients and made with flavors Americans love best, including: a protein-packed Tex-Mex Breakfast Skillet; the perfect crunchy snack: Crispy Roasted Chickpeas; good-for-the-soul Creamy White Bean and Tomato Soup; a twist on a classic: a Deluxe Blue Zones Minestrone; veggie-loaded Spanakopita Pasta; crowd- ... |
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Become your best friend. Discover the power of daily self-love. This book is designed to nurture self-love and empower you to build relationships rooted in confidence, compassion and harmony. It contains practical exercises, gentle reflections, and affirmations designed to nourish your heart, elevate your spirit, and ground each day in self-respect and self-worth. Let this book be your companion in creating a life anchored in self-love. Because when you learn to love yourself, you open the door to a life filled with peace, purpose, happiness, and connection. Allow these daily reminders to guide you throughout the year ... |
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The Art of risking everything. In a world wired for chaos, these players are rewriting the rules. High-stakes, high-IQ, and often high on their own mythologies, they are driving the next era of finance, tech, and politics. But what happens when their bets go too far? Nate Silver's On The Edge reveals the hidden world of the River. It is the domain of gamblers and like-minded folks who move markets and change the fabric of society: poker legends, hedge fund titans, crypto speculators, and even those willing to bet the world's future on AI. They are obsessives with a deep hunger for volatility and an unrelenting ... |
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Every word is an accusation... and every whisper kills. This staggering graphic novel explores the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they cast more than 300 years later. 1692 is a year of terror. In Salem, Massachusetts, Giles and Martha Corey are forced to confront their troubled past when accusations of witchcraft plunge their community into a violent moral panic. Based upon true events, and set in three centuries, More Weight is a unique inquiry into the Salem witchcraft tragedy and the misunderstood city now synonymous with it. ... |
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An utterly scandalous but entirely truthful look at history under the influence. Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk, William Shakespeare was a stoner, and George Washington drank a spoonful of opium every night to staunch the pain from his fake teeth? Or how about the fact that emperor Qin Shi Huangdi ingested liquid mercury in an (ironic) attempt to live forever, or that Alexander Shulgin, inventor of no less than 230 new psychedelic drugs, was an employee of the DEA? In Human History on Drugs, historian Sam Kelly introduces us to the history we weren't taught in school, offering up irreverent ... |
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An anthology of classic poetry & stories. Step into the enchanting realm of Faeries Sprites & Malevolent Spirits, where the exquisite beauty and treacherous allure of the unseelie court come to life through classic poetry. This captivating collection immerses you in the ethereal world of fairies, where enchantress lyrics and the longings of otherworldly lovers are woven together in verses that shimmer with magic and mystery. Each poem is a spell, cast in words that evoke the haunting perfume of desire and the dark allure of fae mischief. Within these pages, you'll find timeless works such as William Wordsworth ' ... |
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Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximize shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's value pricing, we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of ... |
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You are smarter than you know. Tap into your hidden intelligence and transform your life. How are some people so much smarter than the rest of us? Where do visionary creatives and savvy decision-makers like Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, Maya Angelou, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Wayne Gretzky, Warren Buffett, and William Shakespeare get their extraordinary mental abilities? In 2021, researchers at Ohio State's Project Narrative, renowned for collaborations with NASA, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, announced they had the answer. They named it Primal Intelligence. And they published ... |
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Dive into the world of Banksy with this exclusive card deck. With the iconic works of the elusive artist, along with a booklet full of interpretations and background information, Banksy Wisdom reveals meanings behind the artist's graffiti. It's a journey through urban art like never before! Like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Banksy's graffiti artwork communicates complex messages through iconic imagery. Banksy's work invites those who come across it in the world to reflection current events, on one's role in society to observe reality with a critical eye, to ask questions about themselves and others. ... |
