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Pages: 397
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day
Living Without the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 397
Authors: Piers Vitebsky
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To the underworld with Ononti the shamaness -- Leopard power and police power, the jungle and the state -- What the living and the dead have to say to each othe
How the Dead Live
Language: en
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Authors: Will Self
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-03 - Publisher: A&C Black

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It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of
If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!
Language: en
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Heimel has been described by the "Chicago Tribune" as "perhaps our funniest war correspondent on the war between the sexes." Her new book shows Heimel at her wi
Teaching the Dead Bird to Sing
Language: en
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Authors: Paul Jones
Categories: Religion
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W. Paul Jones was in the prime of a successful academic career when he felt the call to embrace solitude by becoming a hermit in the Ozark Hills. In this candid