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Andy Thomas discusses his book Strange: Paranormal Realities in the Everyday World

In Strange, Andy takes a fresh and vital look at the paranormal with incisive analysis to make the case that encounters with it are far more common than is acknowledged and that they urgently need re-evaluation. During his three and a half decades of research, Andy has met countless witnesses and now it is time for their stories to be told. Sceptics, of course, dismiss all such encounters, but what if they are wrong?

Using up to date evidence and with the help of a panel of open-minded scientific experts, Strange delves into many previously unrecorded true-life tales from around the world. Ghosts, UFOs, psychic powers, out-of-body-experiences and beyond, Strange constitutes one of the broadest and most insightful assessments of unexplained phenomena ever carried out, investigating their possible causes and profound implications.

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Keith Preston discusses his book Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire

More than half of the world's countries are democracies, even if in name only. Democracy is hailed by its advocates as the only rational political system, producing the best outcomes for the greatest number of citizens. But is this belief grounded more in ideology than reality? Are modern democratic governments actually doing more harm than good when it comes to the daily lives of individuals? Although the very idea may be regarded as unthinkable, democracy is essentially a gentrified form of mob rule and its failings are becoming increasingly obvious both in the West and in imitator countries around the world. And yet no matter how bad things get, few can even imagine an alternative.

However, in Anarchism, a much maligned set of social, cultural, political, and economic models, genuine alternatives exist, and Preston makes a convincing case on their behalf. His recent study in anarchist theory and practice is committed to the promotion of decentralised societies, autonomous regions and localities, self-managed municipalities and villages, stateless tribes and voluntary associations, peoples’ militias and federated communities: the foundations for a new, diversified world even as the old world is falling apart.

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Paul Devereux discusses his book Stone Age Soundtracks - The Acoustic Archaeology of Ancient Sites. Until recently, almost all archaeological insights have been gleaned by looking at ancient remains. Now archaeologists are starting to think beyond the visual. One of the most exciting branches of the new multi-sensory archaeology is archaeoacoustics, the archaeology of sound. Ancient civilizations developed far more than fine artwork and magnificent monuments. In songs to their gods, laments for their dead, and the universal human quest for the supernatural, people also made some very strange noises.

Boulders and stalactites incised with prehistoric rock art that ring like bells and gongs, a Bronze Age 'stone drum' alongside a Russian lake that can be heard for miles when struck, ancient rock paintings and petroglyphs that have secret 'soundtracks', Mayan ruins that emit echoes mimicking the calls of sacred birds, mysterious temples and tombs possessing eerie acoustic effects, Amazonian shamans who use subtle sounds to guide people through drug-induced visionary states, Stone Age musical instruments, and megalithic sites that seem to move when subjected to certain sounds... all this and much more is explored in Stone Age Soundtracks. '''Without acoustics, archaeology is deaf...' And in looking back to hear the old stones speak, maybe we can learn how to move forward.

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