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This book is about the stranger reaches of extraordinary experience research. In these pages an intrepid cast of writers, investigators and academics explore the complexities of extraordinary experience, and consider why it is that some of the most unusual experiential reports - what we might call 'high strangeness' experiences - come to be neglected, even in what is already a relatively fringe field of inquiry. The aversion to the most unus...

Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts.

Exploring how technological apparatuses "capture" invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more on...

What does it mean to be a change agent? How can you as a leader become a changemaker and foster positive change in your school? This guide will show you how!Instructional leaders are the front runners of change. Their role is incredibly complex, from budget management to school safety, but ultimately, they are responsible for improving teacher efficacy and student performance.In today's ever-shifting landscape, instructional leaders must reali...

Manifesting Spirits is an exploration of contemporary trance and physical mediumship at a private spiritualist home-circle called the Bristol Spirit Lodge. Located in a garden on the outskirts of Bristol, the Lodge is a wooden shed specially constructed for the purposes of mediumship development and spirit communication. Through a combination of ethnographic observations in seances - including his own experiences of mediumship development - an...

Note: Formerly published as an ebook titled Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic. Now available in paperback.Across the globe and through time, diverse cultures have developed elaborate systems for understanding and interacting with strange forces and invisible beings. Since the nineteenth century anthropologists have theorised about the nature of the extraordinary experiences and beliefs recounted to them by their fieldwork informant...

Featuring concrete ideas and action steps for beginning Instructional Leaders and veterans alike. From the first staff meeting to the last PLC this guide will assist you with school improvement and school turnaround. Numerous successful strategies are shared that will assist with student growth and improvement of school culture. "Every person, every child has a specific skill set that has value.

School improvement is always at the forefront of all educational discussions. In this book you will learn how a low performing school improved to the top five in their respective district by adopting a new evidence based practice: Mastery Based Learning. You will learn step by step how to implement this from the perspective of an administrator and educator. This school is located in Urban Ohio and has a diverse population comprised of 100% fre...

We are at a critical moment in the history of humankind's relationship with the Earth, and all the species that co-inhabit with us. This is a time of climate change, species loss and ecological collapse on a scale that has never been seen before. New ways of thinking will be required if we hope to overcome these global problems and develop a more harmonious relationship between the human and non-human worlds. In the spirit of creative explorat...

One School One Planet Vol. 2 is a collection of articles and essays written over the course of the second and third years of the One School One Planet project in Llanfyllin, Powys. The project sought to develop a mainstream permaculture curriculum for schools, while also helping Llanfyllin to prepare as a community for the realities of climate change.

Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-reductive, participatory and experiential anthropology of the paranormal. Over the course of the book, Hunter surveys: • Trends in anthropology's engagement with the paranormal • The anthropology and neuroscience of spirit possession • The history of Spiritualism and the phenomena of physical medium...

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Four Americansa twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless U.S. senator, and a guilt-ridden heiressare inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I.

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