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The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination gives students a fresh look at how Americans view the afterlife, helping readers understand how it's depicted in popular culture. What happens to us when we die? The book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by more than 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entry topics include novels, film, television shows, plays, work...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of women wrote to psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, MD, to thank him for pulling them through difficult patches of their lives with his ground-breaking and best-selling self-help book, The Road Less Traveled. Yet Peck's own life was in turmoil. While his readers, and those who attended his spiritual workshops and talks, told him how his words had helped them make decisions about their marriages, careers, insecurities and self-doubts, in 1992 one woman told Life magazine that after one spiritual group session she had been seduced by Peck.M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled began with the words, "Life is difficult." He made it difficult for his family, so difficu...
From the authors of the bestselling ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR, THE APPLE SOURCE BOOK is the definitive celebration of the great British apple.