Bhoomi Digital Apps : 72 books

Evidence From Scripture And History Of The Second Coming Of Christ by William Miller This is a collection of lectures by William Miller (1782-1849), a 19th century preacher who managed to convince himself and thousands of others that Jesus would return in 1844. Born a Baptist, he became a...

Chukchee Mythology by Waldemar Bogoras The Chukchi occupy the extreme north-eastern tip of Asia, adjacent to the Arctic Ocean and the Behring Strait. They are Eskimos of Western Chukotka inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic...

Five Stages Of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray Gilbert Murray's book "The Five Stages of Greek Religion" is t he outgrowth of a lecture series given before the First World War. Murray traces the growth and development of Greek religion from its beginnings in prehistorical animism to the full...

Feng Shui, or, The Rudiments Of Natural Science In Chinaby Ernest J. Eitel Feng Shui is much more than a way of arranging furniture for good luck. The Chinese geomancers have a very intricate set of beliefs with roots in Animism, Taoism and Confucianism. Feng shui teaches that the earth has...

Facing Life Fearlessly : The Pessimistic Versus The Optimistic View Of Life by Clarence Darrow Facing Life Fearlessly - Clarence Darrow - The Pessimistic Versus The Optimistic View of Life - Report of a lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Poetry Club,...

Apollonius Of Tyana by G.R.S. Mead Apollonius of Tyana had the myth and ambiance about him equal to Pythagoras and perhaps even approaching the level the other Jewish sage - Jesus of Nazareth. The reason Apollonius is important is because he is not as much talked about and discussed. He remained...

A Mission Record Of The California Indians by A. L. Kroeber This is an 'interrogatorio,' a survey taken in 1811 by the Spanish government of Mexico regarding the status of the Native Californians at each mission in Alta California, translated and heavily annotated by A.L. Kroeber. Along with...

Buddhism In Tibet by Emil Schlagintweit This mid-19th Century work is one of the few public domain descriptions of Tibetan Buddhism we have found. Desipte the sketchy knowledge of Buddhism in Europe at the time, this has a surprising level of detail about the subject, due to the pioneering...

Greek Popular Religion by Martin P. Nilsson Jon D. Mikalson examines how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time - practices such as sacrifice, prayer,...

Beside The Fire by Douglas Hyde "An Alp-luachra is an evil, greedy fairy from Irish mythology. When a person falls asleep by the side of a stream, the Alp-luachra appears in the form of a newt and crawls down the person's mouth, feeding off the food that they had eaten. Douglas Hyde's Beside...

English Gipsies And Their Language by Charles G. Leland The Gipsies. Wisdom, Language, Song and History of English Gipsies. The Gipsies of England call their language, as the Gipsies of many other countries call theirs, Romany or Romanes, a word either derived from the Indian Ram or Rama,...

Folklore And Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbitts This is an anthology of tales from several widely separated Asian story-telling traditions, with the center of gravity somewhere in Persia. This was originally published in a series of 'folklore and legends' volumes by the firm of W.W....

Euthyphro by Plato Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution...

Folk-Lore Of The Pennsylvania Germans by W. J. Hoffman, M. D. This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with...