Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife [1st ed] 9780060554750, 2009026063, 9780062002884, 0060554754

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World 9780062968838, 9780062968814

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Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics [1 ed.] 9811255466, 9789811255465, 9789811256356, 9789811255472, 9789811255489

Seduction is not just an end result, but a process — and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which t

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Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural 9781683692782, 9781683692775, 1683692780

Take a spirited tour through the supernatural history of America, from its haunted sites to its famous ghosts to its gho

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Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird 9780812201352

Exploring the presence and meanings of these birds in the art, literature, and history of Western civilization, Parrot C

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Why France? : American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination [1 ed.] 9780801464812, 9780801444142

France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French hist

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The Beauty and Fascination of Science [1st ed.] 9789811525919, 9789811525926

In this book, Professor Anatoly Buchachenko gives a brief and informative description of the most striking achievements

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Seduced By Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination Of Mathematics [1 ed.] 9811255466, 9789811255465, 9789811255489, 2022017162, 9789811256356, 9789811255472

Seduction is not just an end result, but a process — and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which t

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Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil

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The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss [1st ed.] 9783030473211, 9783030473228

This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in

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Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition 9780300265163

A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to hea

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