In considering a group that identified with Victorian American culture and its anxieties while adhering to an occult worldview that most of their contemporaries found strange, if not dangerous, the book explains why these middle-class Americans found Theosophy so persuasive and why they left family and friends behind to take up residence at this California settlement."--BOOK JACKET.
A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza. For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion—quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic cycles—resulting in an urbanized, globalized, and unimaginably wealthy world. However, our development has lately become precarious. Climate and population fluctuations and factors such as global trade have left us more vulnerable than ever to newly emerging plagues. Greater global cooperation toward sustainable health is urgently required—such as the international efforts to manufacture and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine—with millions of lives and trillions of dollars at stake. “A timely, lucid look at the role of pandemics in history” (Kirkus Reviews), The Plague Cycle reveals the relationship between civilization, globalization, prosperity, and infectious disease over the past five millennia. It harnesses history, economics, and public health, and charts humanity’s remarkable progress, providing a fascinating and astute look at the cyclical nature of infectious disease.
Join Glissa and Slobad on one final adventure through the hellish landscape of Mirrodin in this action-packed series finale An enemy beyond evil . . . Whose eye sees into every corner of Mirrodin. Whose ambition strides across the planes. Whose foe is a lonely elf and her loyal goblin companion. The fury of Memnarch is turned against Glissa and Slobad as they make their way across Mirrodin in search of new allies. From the city of the leonin to the dark fortress Panopticon, their travels range until they come face to face with the creator of Mirrodin himself. And from his lips they will hear the prophecy that can remake their world.
The Magical Circle School's Year of Ritual Volume 6 for the years 2011-2013. 43 rituals written by the students and staff of The Magical Circle School and performed at the school during the 2011-2013 school years. Included are rituals for Esbats, Sabbats, and many more. Authors included are: Colleen M. Criswell, Laura Sireci Roman, Kristin Griffin, Raiwvynn Dusana Windsong, Amy Davison, Moonwillow Roses, Spirited Crystal, Minnie Eerin, Koala MoonBear Dreaming, Samantha Boyer and Obsidian Moondragon
