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Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection

10 best books like Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection (Clifford A. Pickover): Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, Complete Ghost Stories, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, What are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists—Fully Explicated, Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future, The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca, Shaking Hands with Death, Dr Weiss sista uppdrag, Versuch über die Jukebox, Ingen panik ångest

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
AuthorBess Lovejoy
ISBN1451654987
IN THE LONG RUN, WE’RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure.

The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth,...
Complete Ghost Stories
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN1853267341
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits.
His natural inclinations toward drama...
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0802128106
In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing...
What are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists—Fully Explicated
AuthorPeter D'Epiro
ISBN0385490623
Can you name... Newton's 3 laws of motion? The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse? The 5 pillars of Islam? The 6 wives of Henry VIII? The 7 kinds of plane triangles? The 8 Beatitudes? If you're not sure about the answers to the above, this is the book for you. A compendium of 101 culturally significant particulars...
Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
AuthorDonald R. Prothero
ISBN0253010292
The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country--all are reaching a fevered pitch. Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts to misrepresent...
The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca
AuthorJohn Michael Greer
ISBN1454925779
Explore the occult from ancient times to the modern day with one of its most respected scholars and practitioners.
Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from around the world. John Michael Greer...
Shaking Hands with Death
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552172774
Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for

‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’

When...
Dr Weiss sista uppdrag
AuthorLars Gustafsson
Dr Weiss sista uppdrag
"Det rådde inget tvivel längre. Jag var fri. Fri att gå genom en svagt uppåtlutande korridor, vars väggar såg ut som ett på något mirakulöst sätt lodrätt stillastående vatten. Jag hoppades verkligen att den nyvunna friheten förr eller senare skulle visa sig...
Versuch über die Jukebox
AuthorPeter Handke
ISBN3518402889
Tagebuch halt. Ein dummer Germanistikstudent hat in meinem Buch alles angestrichen, was irgendwie mit "Zeit" oder "Ort" zu tun hat. Oft denkt man sich, das habe ich auch schon gedacht oder erlebt, zum Beispiel einziger Gast im China-Restaurant. Aus reinem Trotz habe ich auch irgendwas angestrichen....
Ingen panik ångest
AuthorPer Englund
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Historia secreta del Perú
AuthorFred Rohner
"Feliz el pueblo cuya historia se lee con aburrimiento", dijo Montesquieu. Los peruanos canjeamos cada día un poco de felicidad por esa epopeya llamada Perú. Desde el primer inca hasta nuestro último presidente siempre hemos parecido el súmmun del mundo entero. Una grandiosa antología.

Si...
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
AuthorJohn Hands
ISBN1468312448
Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?

John Hands’s extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge...
Skärmhjärnan
AuthorAnders Hansen
Den psykiska ohälsan håller på att ta över som det stora hälsohotet i vår tid. Ett högt tempo, konstant stress och en digital livsstil med ständig uppkoppling börjar få konsekvenser för vår hjärna. För hur mycket du än gillar att kolla bildflödet på instagram, nyheterna i mobilen...
The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave (Collectors Library)
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1907360328
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children given into her charge by their uncle at his grand country house. The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious...
The Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything
AuthorWilliam Hartston
ISBN0857896229
A playful and diverting, yet always scientifically rigorous look at those simple mysteries that are yet to be solved

Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight?...
The Dumb House
AuthorJohn Burnside
ISBN0099582716
In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or acquired. As the year passed and the children grew into their silent and difficult world, this palace became known as the Gang...
Ett kilo socker: Farmor glömmer aldrig priset på sitt liv
AuthorHelena Trus
"Ta av dig den där. Det som händer där ute påminner om 30-talet i Polen."

Farmor pekar på Davidsstjärnan som hänger runt min hals och fortsätter:

"Du kan råka illa ut."

Vi sitter som vanligt i köket, platsen där hon till slut började berätta. Om då, hur hon överlevde....
Ik moet nog even kijken of ik kan
AuthorLiesbeth Smit
Introvert zijn: ineens was het er. Niet voor de introverten; zij wisten allang dat ze bestonden. Maar voor de rest van de wereld stond het onderwerp plotseling op de kaart. En dat is broodnodig, als je beseft dat de mensheid zeker voor een derde uit introverte mensen bestaat. Hoog tijd dus dat we serieus...
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