Rider is a publishing

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, a

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division. The list was started by William Rider & Son in Britain in 1908 when he took over the

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publisher Phillip Wellby. The

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of the new list was

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and under his direction, they began to publish titles as varied as the Rider–Waite tarot deck and

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. Today the Rider motto is "New Ideas for New Ways of Living" and books and authors on the list reflects this. There are still books on the paranormal, with authors like

Raymond Moody Raymond A. Moody Jr. (born June 30, 1944) is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book '' ...

and Colin Fry; on

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with authors Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington; and

spirituality The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape ...

, with books by the

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and Jack Kornfield; but there are also books on current and international affairs by authors as diverse as Nobel Prize-winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi.

External links

Official Rider website

Bibliography

* Vera Stanley Alder, ''The Finding of the Third Eye'', 1938 * Vera Stanley Alder, ''The Initiation of the World'', 1939 * Vera Stanley Alder, ''The Fifth Dimension'', 1940 * Vera Stanley Alder, ''Wisdom in Practice'', 1942 * Vera Stanley Alder, ''The Secret of the Atomic Age'', 1958 * Vera Stanley Alder, ''From the Mundane to the Magnificent'', 1979 * Paul Brunton, '' A Search in Secret India'', 1934 * Paul Brunton, ''The Secret Path'', 1935 * Paul Brunton, ''A Search in Secret Egypt'', 1936 * Paul Brunton, ''A Message from Arunachala'', 1936 * Paul Brunton, ''A Hermit in the Himalayas'', 1936 * Paul Brunton, ''The Quest of the Overself'', 1937 * Paul Brunton, ''Wisdom of the Overself'', 1943 * Gerald Gardner, ''

Witchcraft Today ''Witchcraft Today'' is a non-fiction book written by Gerald Gardner. Published in 1954, ''Witchcraft Today'' recounts Gardner's thoughts on the history and the practices of the witch-cult, and his claim to have met practising witches in 1930 ...

'', 1954 * J. G. Carew Gibson, ''Communication with the Dead'', 1930 * Tony Hogan, ''Born to Heal'', 2002 *

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (24 October 1896 – 28 December 1988) was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen master. A veteran of World War I, he was introduced to Zen Buddhism ea ...

, ''

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'', 1960 * Arthur Osborne, ''The Incredible Sai Baba'', 1957 *

Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley (born October 27, 1939) was the book critic at '' The Washington Post'' from 1981 to December 2014, and held the same post from 1978 to 1981 at the '' Washington Star''. In 1981, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Ba ...

, ''States of Mind: A Personal Journey Through the Mid-Atlantic'', 1993, * Ben Okri, ''Tales of Freedom'', 2010, ISBN 978-1846041594

References

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