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Spanning the world's artistic, scientific, and religious traditions, alchemy has embraced and continues to embrace the complete spectrum of existence. From metallurgy to metaphysics, or gold-making to god-making, alchemy pervades the technical and the hieratic arts in order to provide a living phenomenology of the one, single, elusive process that acts through all things.

Despite this all-pervasive purview, alchemy continues to be conceived as either proto-chemistry or proto-psychology. The present volume seeks to redress this false dichotomy by exploring alchemy as a quintessentially integral phenomenon. Opening wide the full spectrum of alchemy-from east to west, in history and practice, from antiquity to the avant-garde-the present work seeks to penetrate as deeply as possible, within the bounds of a single volume, into the transfiguring spiritual intensity that underpins the perfection of life, not only from mineral to man, but from humanity to divinity

Meticulously curated by Dr. Aaron Cheak, the chapters in this 900-page volume examine the foundations and flowerings of alchemy in Egyptian, Chinese, Hellenic, Islamic, Indo-Tibetan, and European cultural contexts. Particular emphasis has been placed upon the relationship of alchemy to the esoteric currents of Taoism, Theurgy, Gnosticism, Shī'ism, Sufism, Tantra, and Hermeticism. From these perspectives, Alchemical Traditions seeks to liberate alchemy from its persistent materialist misconceptions within academia, and to show that transcendence and concretion, rather than being at variance, mutually inform a single wisdom.

From easing pregnancy discomforts to embracing the miracle of birth, this nurturing journal by prenatal yoga experts Tara Lee and Clare Daniell offers guidance, wisdom and support for expectant mothers every step of the way.

Approach birth with a calmer mind, an understanding of what's happening in the body and techniques for handling aches and pains.

This supportive and reflective journal will become a cherished keepsake, preserving the miraculous development of both mother and baby.

The first chapter focuses on managing symptoms and building strength during the first trimester. The second and third trimesters are packed with information for health and wellbeing for your pregnancy week-by week, blending:

• soothing yoga poses to relieve symptoms, such as backache, rib ache and swollen feet
• themed yoga sequences, including for calming the mind, digestion and birth preparation
• breathing techniques
• guided meditations
• nutritional advice
• physiological information on what's happening in the body
• space for photographs of scans and bumps
• weekly reflective journal prompts
• logs, trackers and space for name lists and appointments.

A true story of colonial loot and restless objects, and an absorbingly creepy travelogue through the shadowy corridors, echoing tunnels and musty basements of our most famous repository of cultural treasure.

What if the British Museum isn't a carefully ordered cross section of history but is in instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot - swarming with volatile and errant spirits?

When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a deluge as staff old and new - from overnight security to respected curators - brought him testimonies of their supernatural encounters.

It became clear that the source of the disturbances was related to the Museum's contents - unquiet objects, holy plunder, and restless human remains protesting their enforced stay within the colonial collection's cabinets and deep underground vaults. According to those who have worked there, the institution is heaving with profound spectral disorder.

Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world's oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where restless objects are held against their will.

It now appears that the objects are fighting back.