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1	Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral more books like this by Kris Radish add to wishlist The bestselling author of "Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn" introduces five singular women about to embark upon a most remarkable--and inspiring--journey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.08! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral more books like this by Gayden Metcalfe, Charlotte Hays add to wishlist In this dishy collection of Southern humor and recipes, inveterate hostess and Southern belle Gayden Metcalfe explains everything one needs to know to throw a proper Southern funeral. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bleachers more books like this by John Grisham add to wishlist John Grisham ventures out of the suspense field and onto the football field in this story of a once-great high school quarterback, Neely Crenshaw, who, years later, returns to the scene of his glory days to attend a memorial to his old coach, the controversial Eddie Rake--a man about whom Neely has decidedly mixed feelings. And those are what he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Illuminata: A Return to Prayer more books like this by Marianne Williamson add to wishlist A beautiful volume of prayers and meditative writings by the acclaimed author of A Return to Love and A Woman's Worth. Prayer is practical, says Williamson, a way to create a sweeter, more abundant life for ourselves and the people for whom we care. "Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world". (Prayer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life more books like this by Alexandra Stoddard add to wishlist Alexandra Stoddard presents her philosophy, stressing the importance of every act we perform, no matter how mundane it is. Eating, sleeping, bathing, setting the table, writing a letter--all of these small but significant acts can be life-enhancing rituals. Stoddard includes decorating advice, emphasizing ways of organizing our lives to enhance ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux more books like this by Joseph E Brown (Editor) add to wishlist During the winter of 1947, Black Elk, the Oglala Sioux holy man, related to Joseph Brown seven of the sacred Oglala traditions, including such revered rites as "The Keeping of the Soul", "The Rite of Purification", and "Preparing for Womanhood". The San Francisco Chronicle calls The Sacred Pipe "a valuable contribution to American Indian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Hallowed Hunt more books like this by Lois McMaster Bujold add to wishlist A man and a woman struggle with demons within and an uneasy political situation without in this work of high fantasy, set in the same milieu as the Hugo award-winning PALADIN OF SOULS and THE CURSE OF CHALION. The imminent death of the Hallow King has thrown the realm into turmoil, exacerbated by the death of his youngest son, Prince Bolesco. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries more books like this by Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest add to wishlist Women's rights and rites merge in this complete guide to the principles and practices of matriarchal religion. The Holy Book combines the political and spiritual aspects of feminism; it also teaches spells and rituals, prayers and poetry, nutrition and health. Library Journal includes it among 28 essential titles in its Collection Development ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The ritual process: structure and anti-structure more books like this by Victor Witter Turner add to wishlist Victor Turner here examines the rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his concept of aCommunitas,a which he characterizes as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $14.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The American way of death revisited more books like this by Professor Jessica Mitford add to wishlist An examination of American burial customs, written by an Englishwoman who resided in California for many years. Mitford finds the funeral industry infested with corruption, price-fixing, and outright fraud, and she writes scathingly of those who profit from it. see all copies from $3.13! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Aztecs: An Interpretation more books like this by Inga Clendinnen add to wishlist In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman more books like this by Bear Heart, Molly Larkin add to wishlist With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. Bear Heart is both a healer and a "road man" of the Native American Church. see all copies from $3.42! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death more books like this by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen add to wishlist In a colorful, conversational, irreverent, and even hilarious narrative, journalist Cullen travels America chronicling the reinvention of the rites and business of the American funeral. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Real Witches Book of Spells and Rituals more books like this by Kate West add to wishlist This title contains spells and rituals for celebrations marking the seasons and festivals of the year, as well as a wealth of other information about magic for the initiated or the beginner alike. It should be a useful guide for anyone who wants to perform seasonal spells and is a follow-up and next step in the'Real Witches' series, providing a ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $7.29! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism more books like this by Frank Waters add to wishlist "A fascinating and important book". -- The New York Times see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Sacred Origins of Profound Things: The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions more books like this by Charles Panati add to wishlist In this enlightening and entertaining book, the author of Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things covers the spectrum of religious items and ideas, exploring the origins of sacred practices and customs, the reasons for religious holidays, the meaning of vestments, sacraments, and more. Line illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	From Beginning to End more books like this by Robert Fulghum add to wishlist In his bestselling new book, Fulghum writes of the importance of rituals in human life: "The most powerful rites of passage are reflective--when you look back on your life again and again, paying attention to the rivers you have crossed and the gates you have opened and walked on through, the thresholds you have passed over". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play more books like this by Professor Victor Turner add to wishlist "Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary Supplement How is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our daily lives relate to the genre of theater? Victor Turner deals with ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $12.40! \| SVS
19 view cover	Drama, Fields and Metaphors more books like this by Victor Witter Turner add to wishlist see all copies from $11.70! new only from $16.75! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	How Societies Remember more books like this by Paul Connerton add to wishlist In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) ... see all copies from $24.45! new only from $24.45! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Birth as an American Rite of Passage more books like this by Robbie E Davis-Floyd add to wishlist Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensively technologized? Robbie Davis-Floyd argues that these ... see all copies from $3.11! new only from $24.38! \| signed copies \| SVS
22 view cover	In the Checklist of Life: A "Working Book" to Help You Live and Leave This Life! more books like this by Lynn McPhelimy add to wishlist Author Lynn McPhelimy's inspiration to write "In the Checklist of Life" came from her parents, Ellyn and Joe, who eagerly talked with her as they faced the cancers that, in time, took their lives. This "Working Book to Help You Live and Leave This Life" is a friendly, non-threatening place to record the practical aspects of our lives: the numbers, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.92! \| SVS
23 view cover	Andean Awakening: An Incan Guide to Mystical Peru more books like this by Jorge Luis Delgado, MaryAnn Male, David Morehouse (Foreword by) add to wishlist It is an extraordinary time to be alive, as a long-foretold alignment of the Earth with the axis of the Milky Way galaxy announces a new dawn. In Peru, descendants of the Inca call this time the Pachakuti, 'the return of the light' after 500 years of darkness. Peru is said to be the "morning of the new sun" - the portal through which rays of the ... see all copies from $31.68! new only from $31.68! \| first editions
24 view cover	Ritual in Early Modern Europe more books like this by Professor Edward Muir add to wishlist The first comprehensive study of rituals in early modern Europe, this new and expanded edition argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. Edward Muir draws on extensive historical research to emphasize ... see all copies from $11.13! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corps more books like this by Katherine M Ramsland add to wishlist From the moment a hearse gets called to embalmings to putting bodies in the ground, this book gathers funny, strange and often disturbing tales from cemeteries, and other places of the dead, all over the world. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| SVS

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