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Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are        frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife. Since        most OBE/NDE follow severe curtailments of cerebral circulation with loss of        consciousness, the agonal brain supposedly permits 'mind', 'soul' or...

A Guide to Observing the Great OutdoorsNo mere field guide, The Nature Handbook invites readers to see the natural world        in a new way, with an emphasis on patterns rather than on species. Approximately 500        color photographs help make the more than 200 patterns apparent and recognizable for        readers, and each pattern is...

Irving Berlin's songs have been the soundtrack of America for a century, but his most profound contribution to the nation is to Broadway. Award-winning music historian Jeffrey Magee's chronicle of Berlin's theatrical career is the first book to fully consider the songwriter's immeasurable influence on the Great White Way. Tracing Berlin's humble...

How do mixtures of differently sized and shaped molecules form the plastic solids known as waxes? Firstly, the book considers the characteristic crystalline assemblies of important wax ingredients; secondly, it looks at assemblies of two separate components and finally, based on the rules derived from the first two studies, it shows how plausible...

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America's Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold WarThis fascinating volume argues that American leaders in the early Cold War considered the conflict to be profoundly religious, that they saw Communism not as godless but as a religion fighting faith with faith. As a result, they deliberately used religious beliefs and institutions as...