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Ancestor Trouble
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Author : Maud Newton
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-03-29
Ancestor Trouble written by Maud Newton and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.
The Ancestor Syndrome
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Author : Anne Ancelin Schützenberger
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
The Ancestor Syndrome written by Anne Ancelin Schützenberger and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Family & Relationships categories.
In this book, Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger draws on over 20 years of experience as a therapist and analyst to explain and illustrate her unique psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy.
Ancestor
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Author : Scott Sigler
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-06-22
Ancestor written by Scott Sigler and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-22 with Fiction categories.
“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.” From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something evil. With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda. As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
Ancestor
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Author : Scott Sigler
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010
Ancestor written by Scott Sigler and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
When a team of brilliant geneticists discovers how to use animal tissue to replace failing human organs, they revive an ancient species reflecting a common ancestor and inadvertently unleash a fearsome giant predator with an insatiable appetite.
The Good Ancestor
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Author : Roman Krznaric
language : en
Publisher: The Experiment
Release Date : 2021-08-31
The Good Ancestor written by Roman Krznaric and has been published by The Experiment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with Philosophy categories.
Now in paperback: A call to save ourselves and our planet that gets to the root of the current crisis—society’s extreme short-sightedness
Ancestors
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Author : Alice Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-05-27
Ancestors written by Alice Roberts and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Social Science categories.
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today. ‘This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us heart, body and mind beyond history, to the fascinating truth of the prehistoric past and the present’ Bettany Hughes We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons, from burial sites and by using new technology to analyse ancient DNA. Told through seven fascinating burial sites, this groundbreaking prehistory of Britain teaches us more about ourselves and our history: how people came and went and how we came to be on this island. It explores forgotten journeys and memories of migrations long ago, written into genes and preserved in the ground for thousands of years. This is a book about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It explores our interconnected global ancestry, and the human experience that binds us all together. It’s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world.
African Religion Defined
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Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2012-07-10
African Religion Defined written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-10 with Religion categories.
African religion is ancestor worship; that is, funeral preparations, burial of the dead with ceremony and pomp, belief in eternal existence of souls of the dead as ancestors, periodic remembrance of ancestors, and belief that they influence the affairs of their living descendants. Whether called Akw?sidai, Homowo, Voodoo, Nyant?r (Aboakyir), CandomblZ, or Santeria in Africa or the African Diaspora, ancestor worship centers on the ancestors and deities. This makes it a tenably viable religion, because living descendants are genetically linked to their ancestors. The author, a traditional king and professor, studies the Akan in Ghana to demonstrate that ancestor worship is as pragmatic, systematic, theological, teleological, soteriological — with a highly trained clerical body and elders as mediators — and symbolic as any other religion in the world. Ancestor worship follows prescribed rites and rituals, formulas, precepts for ritual efficacy, and festivities of honor with music and dances to provoke ancestors and deities into joining in the celebration.
The Ancestor
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Author : Danielle Trussoni
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The Ancestor written by Danielle Trussoni and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Fiction categories.
"A lushly written, dream-like modern gothic with as many dark turns and twists as the Montebianco family tree has branches. Welcome to the family." – Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of Survivor Song After a DNA test reveals that Alberta “Bert” Monte is the sole heir of a wealthy noble family in the Italian Alps, she leaves New York to visit the family estate: Montebianco Castle, a centuries-old compound isolated in the mountains. What appeared to be a fairy tale inheritance, however, soon turns into a nightmare as Bert begins to uncover the dark legacy of her family: the truth about the abandoned village at the base of the castle; the whispers of stolen children; and the rumors of a legendary monster in the mountains. As Bert unravels the truth, she learns that her true inheritance lies not in a noble title or ancestral treasures, but in her very genes, and now she must choose between preserving a secret centuries in the keeping or abandoning it forever. “Vivid and uncanny…makes the most of Trussoni’s signature blend of science, myth, and mystery.” —Deborah Harkness, bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches "Inventive and entertaining." — People “A Gothic Extravaganza.” —Kirkus
Ancestor Of The West
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Author : Jean Bottéro
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2000-06-15
Ancestor Of The West written by Jean Bottéro and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with History categories.
At the same time Ancestor of the West reminds us that these cultures were precursors of our own precisely because they possessed an intelligence that we still recognize. The ancients, even in their earliest writings, thought like us."--BOOK JACKET.
Ancestor Masks And Aristocratic Power In Roman Culture
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Author : Harriet I. Flower
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Ancestor Masks And Aristocratic Power In Roman Culture written by Harriet I. Flower and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Elite (Social sciences) categories.
In the first comprehensive study of Roman ancestor masks in English, Harriet Flower explains the reasons behind the use of wax masks in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome. Flower traces the functional evolution of ancestor masks, from theirfirst attested appearance in the third century BC to their last mention in the sixth century AD, through the examination of literary sources in both prose and verse, legal texts, epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics, and art. It is by putting these masks, which were worn by actors at the funerals ofthe deceased, into their legal, social, and political context that Flower is able to elucidate their central position in the media of the time and their special meaning as symbols of power and prestige.