Rider is a publishing imprint of Ebury Publishing, a

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division, started by William Rider & Son in

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in 1908 when it took over the

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publisher Phillip Wellby. The editorial director of the new list was Ralph Shirley and under his direction, they began to publish titles as varied as the Rider–Waite tarot deck and

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's ''

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''. The current Rider motto is "New Ideas for New Ways of Living", and books and authors on the list reflect this. There are still books on the paranormal, with authors like Raymond Moody and

Colin Fry Colin Fry (19 May 1962 – 25 August 2015) was an English television personality, entertainer and self-proclaimed Mediumship, medium. He consistently professed his beliefs as a psychic and garnered a following across his career, whilst critics s ...

; on astral projection 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 o ...

, with books by the

Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama (, ; ) is the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The term is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣识一切瓦齐尔达喇达赖喇嘛) given by Altan Khan, the first Shu ...

and Jack Kornfield; and books on current and international affairs by authors as diverse as

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-winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi.

Bibliography

* Vera Stanley Alder: ** ''The Finding of the Third Eye'', 1938 ** ''The Initiation of the World'', 1939 ** ''The Fifth Dimension'', 1940 ** ''Wisdom in Practice'', 1942 ** ''The Secret of the Atomic Age'', 1958 ** ''From the Mundane to the Magnificent'', 1979 * Paul Brunton ** ''A Search in Secret India'', 1934 ** ''The Secret Path'', 1935 ** ''A Search in Secret Egypt'', 1936 ** ''A Message from Arunachala'', 1936 ** ''A Hermit in the Himalayas'', 1936 ** ''The Quest of the Overself'', 1937 ** ''Wisdom of the Overself'', 1943 * Gerald Gardner, '' Witchcraft Today'', 1954 * J. G. Carew Gibson, ''Communication with the Dead'', 1930 * Tony Hogan, ''Born to Heal'', 2002 * Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, '' The Japanese Cult of Tranquility'', 1960 * Arthur Osborne, ''The Incredible Sai Baba'', 1957 * Jonathan Yardley, ''States of Mind: A Personal Journey Through the Mid-Atlantic'', 1993, * Ben Okri, ''Tales of Freedom'', 2010, ISBN 978-1846041594

External links

Official Rider website

References

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