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Understanding your previous incarnations can turn into a fascinating journey of self-discovery and healing. You can gain insight into destructive habits that may have begun in a past life -- and then create a more positive and creative new life. In "Astrology and Your Past Lives" astrologer and regression therapist Jeanne Avery provides a simple yet profound way to understand one''s blocks and blessings. By focusing on the meaning of one planet -- Saturn, the planet of limitations -- Avery shows how we "pick our own type of gravity" that connects this life to our previous incarnations.

There had been rumors in the air, for some months, of a strangely mysterious organization, said to be spreading over the Southern States, which added to the usual intangibility of the secret society an element of the grotesque superstition unmatched in the history of any other.... Here and there throughout the South, by a sort of sporadic instinct, bands of ghostly horsemen, in quaint and horrible guise, appeared, and admonished the lazy and trifling of the African race... -from "Chapter XXVII: A New Institution" Subtitled "A Novel of the South During Reconstruction," this 1879 bestseller, by a participant in that great social experiment, is the barely fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North Carolina after the Civil War. A champion of the poor and landless of any race, and a keen observer of the dilemmas facing uneducated Negroes in the postwar period, Tourgée offers us an important eyewitness account of one of the most tumultuous eras of American history, one that continues to influence the course of the American experiences of race and class to this day.

This classic elucidation of the gospel and call to faith, by one of the most renowned preachers of the 19th century, includes: To You, What Are We At?, God Justifieth The Ungodly, It Is God That Justifieth, Just and the Justifier, Concerning Deliverance from Sinning, By Grace Through Faith, and more. Every person of faith will want to read Spurgeon''s inspiring words, through which his great and abiding love of Christ shines.

Grattan begins his history of the Netherlands in 50BC, describing the harsh landscape and the industrious people who lived on it. He takes the reader on a journey through time, from the invasion of the French and Spanish through the formation of Holland and the establishment of the Dutch monarchy. The history continues in detail through the many wars fought by the Dutch, ending in the joining of Holland and Belgium into a single country. History buffs will enjoy this detailed retelling of the making of a nation.

From the days of farmer''s bartering for bushels of corn to establishing the concept of credit, this practical guide gets at the root of the subject of money: why it exists and, more importantly, what money really is. THE ABC OF MONEY is an undiscovered gem offering a wealth of knowledge and Carnegie''s shrewd philosophies on the subject - a fascinating look at the history of "debased coin" and "greenbacks," and the value of currency from one of the great American industrialists.

Dit prentenboekje, een replica van Sint Nicolaas en zijn knecht van Jan Schenkman uit 1907, geeft een mooi en traditioneel beeld van het kinderfeest van Sinterklaas aan het begin van de 20e eeuw. Het bestaat uit zestien verhalende versjes, waaronder het sinterklaasliedje “Zie, ginds komt de stoomboot – uit Spanje weer aan” met zestien gekleurde prenten van illustrator Petrus van Geldrop (1872-1939).Onderwijzer, auteur en dichter Jan Schenkman (1806-1863) wordt wel als de inspirator beschouwd van de moderne viering van het sinterklaasfeest. In de eerste editie van dit boekje in 1850 verwerkte hij bekende elementen als Sint’s komst uit Spanje, het paard, het rijden over de daken en het schenken van cadeaus via de schoorsteen, maar ook voor het eerst een dienaar van Sint Nicolaas, voorloper van onze Zwarte Piet. In latere edities, zoals deze, komen nieuwe elementen naar voren zoals de aankomst per stoomboot, de bezoeken aan een boekwinkel en aan een school en het vertrek per trein. Een mooi prentenboekje voor kinderen en liefhebbers van Nederlandse traditie en folklore. Zoals Schenkman zei: “Een boek met prentjes geeft nog jaren lang pret”, ook in de 21e eeuw.

In 1969, Paul Breiter was among the throngs of disaffected youth who traveled to the exotic East, seeking to escape the cultural and spiritual upheavals at home. He traveled first to India, thinking that indulging the senses would be his means of finding God. Instead, he found himself at a monastery in Thailand, taking the precepts of a Buddhist monk. He would spend the next seven years in robes, not indulging the senses, but depriving them. One Monk, Many Masters: The Wanderings of a Simple Buddhist Traveler is an account of Breiter’s life as a monk and his ongoing search for enlightenment after leaving the monastic robes. Breiter’s spiritual wanderings weave through the Theravada, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions under such great teachers as Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Sumedho, Kobun Chino, Lama Gonpo, and the 16th Karmapa.

Mothman: Evil Incarnate, by cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, is a brand new companion title to the late John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies (1975), which investigated the sightings of a winged creature called Mothman and became popularized in the 2002 movie of the same name starring Richard Gere.With new material by Loren Coleman, extensive annotations on each chapter of The Mothman Prophecies, a detailed Mothman death list, and a gallery of images, Mothman: Evil Incarnate comprises the most up-to-date information on Mothman phenomena. In addition to providing context to John Keel’s cult classic, Coleman expands on missing details from the movie, explores the deaths that followed the West Virginia incident, describes the recent Chicago Mothman sightings, and delves into the life of John Keel. This companion book should find its place on every Mothman aficionado and cryptozoology fan’s bookshelf. The mystery continues…LOREN COLEMAN is one of the world''s leading crypozoologists. In 1960 he started his fieldwork, and after years pursuing cryptozoological mysteries, he began writing. He is the author of numerous books on cryptozoology, including Bigfoot: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. Coleman is the founder and director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine (www.cryptozoologymuseum.com). Loren Coleman can be followed on Twitter at @CryptoLoren and on his blog, www.cryptozoonews.com.