Eclectic Collecting
Eclectic Collecting

Author: Alexandra Green

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9789971694043

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The collection of Burmese art housed at the Denison Museum in Granville, Ohio, USA, includes more than 1,500 objects dating from the late first millennium AD through the twentieth century. While particularly strong on textiles originating with minority groups in Burma, it also showcases Buddha images, lacquer objects, works on paper, manuscripts, wood carvings, and pieces made from bronze, silver, and ivory. Eclectic Collecting is both a catalogue of the collection and a scholarly examination of Burmese art.

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Report

Author: Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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Probing Parapsychology
Probing Parapsychology

Author: Grant R. Shafer

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-05-29

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1476680388

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Parapsychology is a science made controversial by its subjects: extrasensory perception, psychokinesis (mind over matter) and disembodied minds, which imply life after death. Moreover, these parapsychological phenomena (called "psi") challenge physicalism, the philosophy that everything can be completely understood in terms of physics. This book is a snapshot of the parapsychological field, with essays written by authors of diverse academic backgrounds and experiences. Essays examine parapsychological phenomena from prehistory, through the founding of the science by intellectuals distressed by physicalism, to the postmodern present. It includes both experimental and theoretical evaluations of the phenomena. Parapsychology is a science which may overturn the philosophy which has dominated science since Newton and may inspire curious readers who are disheartened by the consequent denial of the spirit.