Anthony F. Aveni, Author . Oxford $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-19-515024-7
Why do we celebrate Easter by telling children that a rabbit will bring them eggs and candy? Why do we make New Year's resolutions? Why do we engage in rituals like bobbing for apples on Halloween, watching football on Thanksgiving, and giving...
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Anthony F. Aveni, Author Basic Books $24.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-465-01950-2
A linear sense of time may be well suited to our hectic, clock-watching society, but the timekeeping systems of ancient or ``primitive'' peoples are no less valid, suggests Aveni. Writing as both an astronomer and an anthropologist, he finds...
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Anthony F. Aveni, Author Crown Publishers $21 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1975-2
Aveni, a professor of astronomy and anthropology at Colgate University, seeks here to integrate--in his view, reintegrate--the rational universe with a more comforting model that takes into account ``the interrelationship between matter and spirit.''
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Anthony F. Aveni, Author, Aveni, Author Crown Publishers $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8129-2415-2
Titles on science and spirituality are usually targeted at readers interested in new scientific paradigms. This informative but stacked-deck history of science and magic (the latter a discipline that Aveni defines broadly enough to include kundalini
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