“Worlds of Fear and Wonder: Living with the Supernatural, Past and Present” by Malcolm Gaskill

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "The supernatural has always been part of human experience. Divine and diabolical forces were as dangerous and mundane as rotten harvests and sweeping sicknesses. Miracles abounded. During the First World War, soldiers put faith in visions and protective charms, and Spiritualists were still believed to reach beyond the veil. When we understand the supernatural as a feeling, not an idea, we can grasp the truth behind our ancestors' fears and passions. In this thought-provoking book, Gaskill examines our haunted past from alchemical dens to witchcraft trials, and in uncanny encounters with mediums, vampires and flying nuns. Searching hearts as well as minds, he unlocks the secrets of the unseen world, opening a new ...>>

“Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life” by Maxwell Maltz

"A magnificent, deluxe edition of one of the greatest and top-selling self-help books ever written, suited to a lifetime of reading, rereading, notetaking, and display. Since 1960, Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics has sold millions of copies in dozens of editions and gained the loyalty of generations of artists, athletes, and high achievers who atrribute their success to the book's mind-conditioning program. Maltz's avowed admirers ranged from artist Salvatore Dali to first lady Nancy Reagan to actress Jane Fonda. Now -- in the only edition featuring Maltz's original, unexpuragated text — Psycho-Cybernetics joins TarcherPerigee's highly successful line of Deluxe Editions in a keepsake volume that can be treasured for a lifetime. Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition features: shrink-wrapped, vegan-leather ...>>

“Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous” edited by by Tessel M. Bauduin, Victoria Ferentinou and Daniel Zamani

"This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the specific use of occultism as a site of political and social resistance, ideological contestation, subversion and revolution. Additional focus is placed on the ways occultism was implicated in Surrealist discourses on identity, gender, sexuality, utopianism and radicalism."...>>

“The Book of Infinity” by Joel David Hamkins

"A rich, thorough exploration of infinity that combines mathematical precision with playful, accessible coverage of a fascinating variety of paradoxes and conundrums. In this rich, thorough account of all things infinite, Joel David Hamkins combines playful thought experiments with mathematically precise exposition to explore the vast, fascinating spectrum of paradoxes and conundrums of infinity. Written with equal parts wonder and rigor, the book moves from classical paradoxes (Zeno, Hilbert’s hotel, Aristotle’s wheel) to Cantor’s transfinite arithmetic, the continuum hypothesis, surreal numbers, infinitesimals, epistemic logic puzzles, and contemporary debates about potential vs. actual infinity. Twenty-five lively, self-contained chapters are enriched by extensive illustrations, diagrams, figures, and Fermi-style estimation puzzles. Highly readable and pedagogically rich, The Book ...>>

“A History of the Unexplained” by DK

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Have aliens already visited Earth? Who built Stonehenge and why? Could Bigfoot really exist? And what really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? A History of the Unexplained explores these questions and many more, providing a comprehensive and unbiased account of the world’s most enduring mysteries — from Peru’s Nazca lines and the Bermuda Triangle to out-of-body experiences and encounters with UFOs — with details of the key theories that have been proposed about each one. Fascinating and thought-provoking in equal measure, the book examines strange natural phenomena from ball lightning to creature storms, explores the potential existence of mysterious "cryptids" like the Yeti and Chupacabra, and examines a wide range of other ...>>