Pearce: 510 books
Museums, Objects, and Collections
A Cultural Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as souvenirs, as fetishes, and as systematic assemblages. She...
Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness
The Bond of Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2003
Explains the phenomenon of shaktipat, the spiritual transmission of power from a teacher to a devotee
• Shows how technology has eroded personal power and how insight and awareness can play a higher role in our lives
• Reveals how insight is the vehicle for profound self-transformation
Shakti...
Insight Out
A Physiotherapist's Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Christa Pearce's book, Insight Out, is the story of her work as a spiritual healer in West London and details the startling encounters with people whose lives had taken them to the brink of desperation, until they made contact with her. The subject matter ranges from regression to out of body experiences,...
From Magical Child to Magical Teen
A Guide to Adolescent Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2003
A groundbreaking perspective on Nature's plan for full human creativity and intelligence during the teen years
• Shows what is at the core of today's serious social and psychological problems
• Explores the sexual and spiritual stage of adolescent development
• Details the...
Where Heaven Meets You
A Message for Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The sacred moments we experience can turn locations in our lives into special places where heaven meets earth. In this 2016 Mother's Day booklet, author Virginia Pearce describes how the experiences we have with the Lord and His angels in these "thin places" stay with us throughout life.Sister...
San Spirituality
Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations_from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New...
Reaching for the Moon
a girl's guide to her cycles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Reaching for the Moon is the girls’ version of Lucy H. Pearce’s Amazon bestselling book Moon Time: harness the ever-changing energy of your menstrual cycle for girls aged 9-14 as they anticipate and experience their body’s changes.
Beginning with an imaginary journey into the red tent,...
The Biology of Transcendence
A Blueprint of the Human Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Uses new research about the brain to explore how we can transcend our current physical and cultural limitations
• Reveals that transcendence of current modes of existence requires the dynamic interaction of our fourth and fifth brains (intellect and intelligence)
• Explores the idea...
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among...
Merrie England
A Journey Through the Shire
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Join Joseph Pearce on a journey into the real Shire—a voyage into the mysterious presence of an England which is more real than the one you are accustomed to seeing, the one which seems to be in terminal decline. The England Pearce wants us to know is an enchanted and unchanging place, full of ghosts...
by Jonathan MS Pearce, Andrew Copson, Dale McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
There is often thought, by theists, to be a void in humanist and atheist lives; a god-shaped hole. For many atheists, though, that void is amply filled with meaning and purpose, nobly and morally built up out of philosophy and living a fulfilled life. This volume helps to document that through a wide...
by Lucy Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Moods of Motherhood traces the life of a mother: her tenderness, joy, anger, love, frustration, grief and gratitude. Compiled from posts written for her popular blog, Dreaming Aloud, her best-loved columns from JUNO magazine and many new pieces. This is a book full of Lucy Pearce's trademark searing...
Prevail
The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-?1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean...
Badger Behaviour, Conservation & Rehabilitation
70 Years of Getting to Know Badgers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A fascinating insight into the badger’s world. Badger biology, life in the sett, rescue & rehabilitation, consultancy, badgers & farming, and badger-watching with George Pearce – an expert on badgers. George has surveyed over 700 sites, visited 1,500 setts, been consulted as an expert in 120 animal...