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Book Synopsis Very Superstitious by : Shannon Delany
Download or read book Very Superstitious written by Shannon Delany and published by Month9Books, LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As told by some of today's most admired young adult authors—and a few newbies—this charity anthology boasts stories that will make readers scream, laugh, and tremble with fear, and all for a good cause! Proceeds from the sale of the first 5,000 copies will be donated to the SPCA International. Based on stories long-told by the campfire, superstitions passed down through the generations, creatures who exist in legend, literature, and film, and those myths that raise the hairs on the back of our necks, these tales are sure keep readers up late at night with lamps lit and covers over their heads.
Book Synopsis Superstition: A Very Short Introduction by : Stuart Vyse
Download or read book Superstition: A Very Short Introduction written by Stuart Vyse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis Superstition: A Very Short Introduction by : Stuart Vyse
Download or read book Superstition: A Very Short Introduction written by Stuart Vyse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles by : Stephen Roud
Download or read book A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles written by Stephen Roud and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major new book on British superstitions and their history in over a generation, this survey not only explains what people have believed and why, but when superstitions arose, which parts of the country adopted them, how they evolved and what people believe today. Drawing extensively on literary sources from medieval times to the present, the book settles many arguments, debunks many myths and provides in the process a fascinating sideways view of social customs and beliefs over the centuries.
Download or read book 13 written by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13 If thirteen people sit down at a table, will one die within a year? Why did five U.S. presidents join the Thirteen Club? What is the only major New York hotel that has a thirteenth floor? In 13, a fascinating cultural history-cum-detective story, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer gets to the root of how one superstition—the fear of the number 13—developed among wildly divergent societies. A book about mythmaking, 13 explores why people believe what they believe, and the real reason Friday the 13th is the most unlucky day in the world.
Book Synopsis Very Superstitious by : Amanda Chambers
Download or read book Very Superstitious written by Amanda Chambers and published by Divine Legacy Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever had your grandma tell you to hang up that phone and cut those lights out while it's storming, you know that Black folks are famous for our superstitions. Each page of this coloring book illustrates a different superstition that exists in the Black community. Some you'll get right away; some you may need to phone a friend . . . or an old school grandma . . . to get. So, grab your crayons, markers, or colored pencils, relax, and laugh as you color your way through all of our superstitions. Who knows, you might even learn something new.
Download or read book Superstitious written by R.L. Stine and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the small Pennsylvania college campus Liam O'Connor cuts a dashing, romantic figure. The Irish-born professor of folklore has good looks, a sweet charm, and a host of Old World superstitions - all of which dazzle beautiful graduate student Sara Morgan. Plunging headlong into a sudden love affair, Sara barely has time to notice the dark drama unfolding on the campus. Four murders have been committed, each more gruesomely horrifying than the one before it, each committed by someone, or something, with terrible fury and strength. Suddenly Sara is receiving crank phone calls, warning her to stay away from Liam ... fearing her ex-boyfriend Chip's next angry outburst ... wondering why Liam's unmarried sister, Margaret, is so suffocatingly close to them ... and trying to escape the lecherous stares of her boss, Milton Cohn, the dean of students and the owner of a murderous-looking knife collection. When Liam proposes marriage, Sara accepts, making love by the light of sixteen candles, one of Liam's superstitions. Somehow, that final step seals her fate. The police begin to close in on a killer, the death toll mounts, and Sara is caught in an ever-tightening web. At its center, behind the most innocent superstitions, waits the greatest terror of all...
Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits by : Stevie Wonder
Download or read book Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits written by Stevie Wonder and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (E-Z Play Today). 26 of Stevie Wonder's best songs arranged in our world-famous, easy-to-play notation that features large notes with the note names in the note heads. Includes: For Once in My Life * Higher Ground * I Just Called to Say I Love You * My Cherie Amour * Overjoyed * Part Time Lover * Ribbon in the Sky * Send One Your Love * Sir Duke * Superstition * That Girl * more.
Book Synopsis Superstition and Education by : Fletcher Bascom Dresslar
Download or read book Superstition and Education written by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA by : Edgar Thurston
Download or read book OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA written by Edgar Thurston and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin. Edgar Thurston CIE (1855-1935) was a superintendent at the Madras Government Museum who contributed to studies in the zoology, ethnology and botany of India and published works related to his work at the museum. Thurston was educated in medicine and lectured in anatomy at the Madras Medical College while also holding his position at the museum. His early works were on numismatics and geology and this was followed later by his researches in anthropology and ethnography.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopædia of Face and Form Reading by : Mary Olmstead Stanton
Download or read book The Encyclopædia of Face and Form Reading written by Mary Olmstead Stanton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Believing in Magic by : Stuart A. Vyse
Download or read book Believing in Magic written by Stuart A. Vyse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully updated edition of Believing in Magic, renowned superstition expert Stuart Vyse investigates our tendency towards these irrational beliefs.
Book Synopsis Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal by :
Download or read book Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts by :
Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Most Dangerous Superstition (Second Edition) by : Larken Rose
Download or read book The Most Dangerous Superstition (Second Edition) written by Larken Rose and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negri on Negri written by Antonio Negri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political philosopher, convicted activist, leftist intellectual and coauthor of the bestselling Empire, Antonio Negri is one of the most controversial thinkers at work today. In this booklength conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle, Negri offers thoughtful responses to twenty-six terms, alphabetically arranged, that have had special significance for his life and work. Negri speaks openly here of his involvement with political movements, his exile, his return to Italy and years there in prison, and his life since. But beyond the biographical there is much here to explain Negri's ideas on globalization, the future of social change, and the history of political thought. The book's subjects - fascism, Heidegger, the Red Brigades, Wittgenstein, empire, Kant, the unconscious, and many others - are often thresholds from which Negri shares his views on still larger topics. Negri on Negri provides a fascinating glimpse into his mind and life. Perhaps nowhere else can one engage so readily the ideas of this major contemporary thinker.
