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Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Relates facts and information about a host of ordinary things ranging from safety pins to negligees.
Sacred Origins of Profound Things
A study of the roots of the symbols, practices, rituals, holidays, customs, devotions, saints and leaders of the world's religions, from the Ten Commandments and Traditions of Muhammad to the Stations of the Cross and visions of the Virgin.
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Relates facts and information about a host of ordinary things ranging from safety pins to negligees
Sexy Origins and Intimate Things
Where did the word love come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to the scientific and the scholarly, this engaging and eye-opening compendium of little known facts about sex is both informative and endlessly entertaining.
Words to Live by
America's favorite expert on origins focuses on the roots and history of folk wisdom, using his detective skills to track these gems to their source. Illustrations throughout.
Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody
A compendium of facts and anecdotes about the demise of (practically) everthing and everybody.
Panati's Parade of Fads, Follies, and Manias
A look at the last one hundred years of American pop culture includes discussions of pop songs, books, and media
Spring Chicken
We’ve been tantalised by the idea of eternal youth since time immemorial. We’re always asking how we can live longer, and better. Or, to put it another way, why can’t we all be like Madame Calment who cycled till she was 100, smoked till she was 117 and died at the wonderfully old age of 122? Join veteran reporter Bill Gifford for a rip-roaring ride along the trail to the fountain of youth. Meet the scientists who have doubled the life-expectancy of mice by knocking out a single gene, and others like Aubrey de Grey, who claims that we are on the cusp of achieving ‘longevity escape velocity’, and who predicts that our children could live for a thousand years. An intoxicating mixture of deep reporting, fascinating science and sound advice, Spring Chicken will reveal the extraordinary breakthroughs that may yet bring us eternal youth, while exposing the dangerous deceptions that prey on the innocent and ignorant.
The Manichaean Body
Award for the Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion Reconstructing Manichaeism from scraps of ancient texts and the ungenerous polemic of its enemies (such as the ex-Manichaean Augustine of Hippo), BeDuhn reveals for the first time the religion as it was actually practiced. He describes the Manichaeans' daily ritual meal, their stringent disciplinary codes (intended to prevent humans from harming plants and animals), and their secretive religious procedures designed to transform the cosmos and bring about the salvation of all living beings. Overturning long-held assumptions about Manichaean dualism, asceticism, spirituality, and the pursuit of salvation, The Manichaean Body changes completely how we look at this ancient religion and the environment in which Christianity arose. BeDuhn's conclusions revolutionize our understanding of the Manichaeans, clearly distinguishing them from Gnostics and other early Christian heretics and revealing them to be practitioners of a unique world religion.
