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The bare book itself without all the pompous commentary usually found "explaining" Aldous Huxley's use of mind expanding drugs....
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A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’s head, rev...
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as...
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Sara is one of those rare women who changed the course of her life, pulling herself out of the quagmire of illness and to lead a fruitful and healthy life. Medicine makes us totaly dependent, freeing us from the responsibility for our own health. However, this dependence robs us of the ability to co...
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CONTENTS
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYERS
HINDU RELIGION
Purpose Of Religion
Distinguishing Features Of Hinduism
The Glory Of Vedanta And Yoga
Emphasis On Practice
Who Is A Hindu
Origin And Significance Of The Term
The Spiritual Soil Of India
The Facts Of History
Reasons For Survival Of The Hindu Religion
Its Future
HINDU sc
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On the thirtieth anniversary of the rise to popularity of punk rock, a collection of articles, interviews, and photography from the pages of MOJO magazine looks at the history of punk and the artists, music, and culture it spawned.
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“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?
A New York Times Bestseller
Best Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • Miami Herald • Book Riot • Buzz Feed • Globe and Mail (Toronto) • The Root • Shelf Awareness
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of t...
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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still p...
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The Tour of Mont Blanc is one of the best - if not the best - of the world's classic walks. It circumnavigates the Mont Blanc massif in about eleven days. This new edition incorporates details of the new routes on the Italian section, as well as all other recent route changes and variants. The walk ...
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Would you like to replace that empty feeling inside you with a deep sense of peace, passion, and purpose? Are your hoping that your life will not only be successful but significant? Are you ready to have the very best within you shine through and create a rich legacy in the process? If so, this pote...
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A worldwide bestseller that will make people question their beliefs and think:timely, impassioned and brilliantly argued, but very controversial....
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Epicenter - Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Future
מאת Joel C. Rosenberg
With over one million novels in print, New York Times best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg has been called "eerily prophetic" and a "modern Nostradamus" for his uncanny ability to write political thrillers that come true. In his first nonfiction book, this evangelical Christian from a...
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"Plan of Attack" is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of...
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Jordan B. Peterson’s Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsycholog...
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Just over 100 years ago, Theodor Herzl launched the Zionist Movement. They called for a Jewish State in their ancestral land, Palestine. Fifty years later, the State of Israel came into being. Israel was established so that Jews anywhere in the world could have a homeland of their own. After indepen...
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele -- Sylvia Plath, Rob...
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The West's foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and chance.
For him and for his son, Hellmut Wilhelm, the Book of Changes represented not just a mysterious book of oracles or a notable source of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies.
In their hands, it emerges, as it did for C. G. Jung, as a vital key to humanity's age-old collective unconscious.
Here the observations of the Wilhelms are combined in a volume that will reward specialists and af...
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Since September 11, Al Qaeda has been portrayed as an Islamist front united in armed struggle, or jihad, against the Christian West. However, as the historian and commentator Fawaz A. Gerges argues, the reality is rather different and more complex. In fact, Al Qaeda represents a minority within the ...
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The Miracle of Mindfulness - The Classic Guide to Meditation by the World's Most Revered Master by Thich Nhat Hanh
מאת Thich Nhat Hanh
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware. From washing the dishes to answering the phone to peeling an orange, he reminds us that each moment holds within...
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Yoni’s Last Battle is a gripping account of the famous operation in Entebbe, Uganda in July 4, 1976.
While the nation of Israel, and Jews throughout the world, struggle with the painful realities of the current Intifada, Yoni's Last Battle by Iddo Netanyahu returns to an earlier chapter of the ...
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"The Origin is one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be a part of the intellectual equipment of every educated person. . . . The book will endure in future ages so long as a knowledge of science persists among mankind." — Nature
It took Charles Darwin more...
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Primo Levi uses his passion-chemistry- to write a semi-autobiographic book about his life. Using the elements on the periodic table as me
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What Is Love?In this thoughtful, provocative work, Osho—one of the most revolutionary thinkers of our time—challenges us to question what we think we know about love and opens us to the possibility of a love that is natural, fulfilling, and free of possessiveness and jealousy.With his characteri...
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Called "The Black Pope" by many of his followers, Anton La Vey began the road to High Priesthood of the Church of Satan when he was only 16 years old and an organ pla
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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in space. The secret to Chris Hadfield's success - and survival - is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst - and enjoy every moment of it.
You might never be abl...
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A comprehensive guide to herbal remedies and healing practices in the European and Anglo-American traditions....
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"As a doctor, I make every effort to strengthen the belief in immortality, especially with older patients when such questions come threateningly close. For, seen in correct psychological perspective, death is not an end but a goal, and life's inclination towards death begins as soon as the meridian is past."--C.G. Jung, commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower"
Here collected for the first time are Jung's views on death and immortality, his writings often coinciding with the death of the most significant people in his life. The book shows many of the major themes running throughout th...
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On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa will never be the same again after this.' Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the white minority went into a laager and fought to the last drop of blood. Why did it happen? Professor Welsh views the topic against the backdrop of a long history of conflict spanning apartheid's rise and ...
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This compact, comprehensive, and generously illustrated history of ancient Greece takes us from the Stone Age roots of Greek civilization to the early Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great. Designed for nonspecialist readers, it will be a welcome and needed resource for all w...
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This is the first definitive guide to the Enneagram and its nine distinct personality types. It shows how to recognize your own type and those of the people you are involved with personally and at work. It also teaches ways to capitalize on the strengths of your type, handle its weaknesses, and ...
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Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected. The Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern examinations of the historical development of Sufism and is considered a classic work in numerous sources of Islamic studies today. Here, author J. Spencer Trimingham offers a clear and detailed account of the formation and development of the Sufi schools and orders (tariqahs) from the second century of Islam until modern times.
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In 1967 Avigdor Kahalani was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for leading the relentless charge at the head of the first Armored Corps tank company which broke through Egyptian lines and advanced along the northern Sinai axis during the Six Day War. Following the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Kahalani was awarded the Medal of Valor, Israel's highest military citation for his courageous stand during the first critical days of the war at the head of a tiny force that engaged and fought to a standstill an overwhelming number of Syrian forces in fierce and bloody clashes on the Golan Heights.
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‘The Master said, “If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil”’
The Analects are a collection of Confucius’s sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of t...
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By virtue of its size, history, resources, and strategic location, Iran under any circumstances would pose particular relevance for American policy, but the 1979 revolution and the political system that it wrought placed Iran squarely at the heart of U.S. security challenges. As the third book in...
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With his distinctive clarity and wit, "Bhante G" takes us step by step through the myths, realities, and benefits of meditation and the practice of mindfulness. We already have the foundation we need to live a more productive and peaceful life — Bhante simply points to each tool of meditation, tel...
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The book that addresses the trillion-dollar question:how is it that Israel, a country of 7 million people, only 61 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-produces more start-up companies than Japan, China, India and the UK combined? A fascinating insightful best-seller....
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This pictorial history of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s before the Holocaust, shows the stories of individuals, their increasing poverty, sad wisdom and enduring love in the years leading up to World War II....
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An arousing selection of sensuous and explicit artwork and photography,
combined with passionate prose and poetry,
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The Little Book of Mindfulness is a pocket-sized guide to help you calm your mind and lighten your spirit. Mindfulness techniques will help you focus on the present, changing the way you think, feel and act by releasing your mind of all that is around you. As a result, you will de-stress and de-clutter your thoughts. In this invaluable book is a collection of inspirational quotes, key research findings, tips for how to get the most out of the practice and a variety of short activities. It can be opened at any page to help you center and balance your mind in a few quick and easy steps....
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Do you ever wish you could press pause on the rush of daily life? Have you ever wanted to explore your spirituality? Do you want to connect to your inner self and the world around you? The Little Book of Meditations offers guidance and practical advice to help you along the path of your own spiritual journey. Learn about the many different types of meditation as well as the fascinating history of the practice, the benefits it can bring to your health, happiness and well-being, and how you can channel the powerful peace of meditation in your own life....
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The abduction of Western citizens by Hizb'Allah was motivated either by internal organisational requirements or in alignment with Syrian and Iranian interests, and mechanisms for the resolution of the hostage-crisis were subject to continuous interaction between Hizb'Allah, Iran, and Syria influenced by internal Lebanese, regional, and international events. The Western responses to the hostage-crisis showed limited effectiveness as the crisis management techniques were poorly adjusted in timing and direction to the actual crisis environment. With the exception of the French response, the overa...
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The renowned scholar’s epic dual biography of the 37th president and his powerful secretary of state: “A classic work of contemporary American history” (The Los Angeles Times).
Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contra...
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What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (w...
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Are Islam and the West on a collision course? From the Ayatollah Khomeini to Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly anti-American religion has gripped the minds of Western governments and media. But these perceptions, John L. Esposito writes, stem from a long history of mutual distrust, criticism, and condemnation, and are far too simplistic to help us understand one of the most important political issues of our time. In this new edition of The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Esposito places the challenge of Islam in critical perspective. Exploring the vi...
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Many of the millions who read their daily horoscopes want a better understanding of astrology--and here is the perfect, comprehensive, and great looking guide to teach them. Written by one of the worlds most popular contemporary astrologers, and filled with magnificent illustrations, it covers both ...
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The Complete Enochian Dictionary - A Dictionary of the Angelic Language As Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley
מאת Donald C. Laycock
he essential reference for understanding the Enochian language (“the language of the angels”), the proper pronunciation of the letters of the Enochian alphabet, and the use of Enochian evocations to call forth celestial beings.
In 1581, Dr. John Dee, an advisor in the court of Queen Elizabeth...
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The Garden Design Sourcebook - The Essential Guide to Garden Materials and Structures
מאת David Stevens
Starting with the basic elements of the garden - floors, boundaries and dividers - there are suggestions for different laying patterns in natural stone and tiles, new ways with gates and trellis, and designs for avenues, arches and fruit tunnels. Major features are examined next, whether you yearn for a stream complete with waterfall and bridge, or are choosing a gazebo or a garden shed. The finishing touches of ornaments and furniture are not forgotten, from urns and obelisks to benches and hammocks, along with special effects such as using lighting, mosaic and trompe l'oeil. A section on res...
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Director of the Middle East Forum and columnist for the New York Post and Jerusalem Post , Pipes explains to western readers the political dimension of Islam, and especially the importance of controlling territory, that had been leading to misunderstanding and conflict. He adds a new preface in light of the September 2001 attacks, and a page of corrections to the 1983 Basic Books edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR...
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Why did so many of the September 11th hijackers spend time in Germany? How did terrorist sleeper cells plant themselves in cities such as London, Paris, Rome, and Hamburg? This is the first book to uncover the secret history of how Europe was systematically infiltrated by the ranks of the most dangerous terrorist organization on earth.
Terrorist analyst Evan F. Kohlmann argues that the key to understanding Al-Qaida's European cells lies in the Bosnian war of the 1990s. Using the Bosnian war as their cover, Afghan-trained Islamic militants loyal to Usama Bin Laden convened in the Balkans in ...
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The Crown - The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977
מאת Robert Lacey
In this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama.
Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and their effects - not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the Suez Canal Crisis and the US/Russia space race to the legacy of the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler, along with the rumoured issues with the royal marriage, The...
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Poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, and druggie, Doors lead singer Jim Morrison quickly achieved cult status after his death in 1971. In The Lizard King, Jerry Hopkins reassesses Jim Morrison's life and provides fresh insights into this powerful and troubled talent, considering him as a human being rather than the myth he has become. At the heart of the book is a series of interviews with Morrison by journalists Ben Fong-Torres, John Tobler, Richard Goldstein, and others. Published uncut, they present a previously unseen Morrison: articulate, intelligent, witty, even self-deprecating...
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With a million copies in print, here comes an even larger, more up-to-date version of the most complete reference book ever published on the subject. All the gemstones ever discovered are treated in their many variations. More than 1,500 full-color photos showcase each precious and semiprecious ston...
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Hidden for almost 2000 years in remote caves in the Judean Desert, the Dead sea Scrolls are regarded as the greatest archaeological find of the twentieth century.
The official IAA Catalogue. 162 pages. Includes various articles, photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
Qumran artifacts and Qumra...
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An even-handed exploration of important ideologies of the past few centuries. Various chapters are devoted to liberalism, nationalism, anarchism, Marxism, communism socialism, fascism, feminism, and ideologies of the developing world. Aimed at first-year undergraduates, the book explains the histories, backgrounds, theories, and arguments of the ideologies....
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While the destruction of the World Trade Centre and the strike against the Pentagon shocked the world at large, experts on terrorism like Walter Laqueur couldn't feign complete surprise. In "War Without End", Laqueur draws on his many years of expertise to answer the most-often raised questions abo...
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John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life—from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years—a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important events of our...
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The Universal Garden of Emuna, completely non-denominational. All of mankind deserve to live a life of Emuna, peace and tranquility. The Garden of Emuna -- Emuna is the Hebrew word for faith -- Working on Emuna allows us to really appreciate life straight from the source. This book is a practical step by step guide to attaining high levels of Emuna / faith . Faith / Emuna is likened to a lush, fragrant garden, thus the book Garden of Emuna a garden harmonizing G-d's will with our existent. Written by the worlds expert on practical Emuna, Rabbi Shalom Arush, and translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody....
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George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions impose on its freedom of action. He has insisted that an America unbound is a more secure America. How did a man once mocked for knowing little about the world come to be a foreign policy revolutionary? In America Unbound, Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay dismiss claims that neoconservatives have captured the heart and mind of the president. They show that George W. Bush has been no one's puppet. He...
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For the first time a book is available which clearly explains the principles and practical applications of Ayurveda, the oldest healing system in the world. This beautifully illustrated text thoroughly explains the following: history & philosophy * basic principles, * diagnostic techniques * treatment * diet * medicinal usage of kitchen herbs & spices * first aid * first aid * food antidotes * and much more More than 50 concise charts, diagrams and tables are included, as well as a glossary and index in order to further clarify the text....
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Hidden meanings abound in every letter and every word of the Torah. In Midrash Sinim: Hasidic Legend and Commentary on the Torah, author Yong Zhao offersthoughtful commentaries on Jewish beliefs and traditions, including the Torah and theKabbalah. He answers the following questions in his commentaries as well:
• God had respect for Abel and his offering, but not Cain and his offering. Why?
• Ham saw the nakedness of his father, Noah, but why did Noah curse Ham’s son Canaan and his offspring rather than Ham himself?
• How can we understand that the Tree of Life was actually an aton...
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What makes a Stalin? When did the killing start? The famed historian brings us here the story of how Stalin became Stalin....
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The Israel wine industry has come a long way from the initial Rothchild mega-donation to plant coastal vineyards in 1882, for the production of Kosher sweet sacramental wines fro export to Jews worldwide. With the creation of a totally new vineyard area in the Golan Heights over 20 years ago, with t...
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Al-Qaeda's Armies - Middle East Affiliate Groups & The Next Generation of Terror
מאת Jonathan Schanzer
Al-Qaeda still threatens the West despite the fact that thousands of its fighters have been killed or captured. Attacks continue, even as Usama bin Laden and his top lieutenants hide in distant caves. The terror networks resiliency lies in the existence of "affiliate groups." Numbering more than two-dozen worldwide, these groups maintain operatives from al-Qaedas training camps and battlefields. They are local and autonomous, but fight in the name of al-Qaedas global jihad.
Using never-before published material, Arabic language sources, and personal interviews from the Middle East, Scha...
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One of the leading scholars of Hasidism and modern Jewish theology has brought together and translated a wide selection of the Torah teachings of the Sefat Emet—one of the last great masters of Polish Hasidism. Green’s personal insightful commentary on the words of the Sefat Emet create a remarkable work of Jewish scholarship, bringing the teaching of this insightful master to a wide audience....
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Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and ins...
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A painting called American Progress, which hangs in the Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles, shows a woman inspired by classical antiquity clutching a Bible, sweeping into barren land populated by cowering savages. In her wake, there advances, under clearing skies, a wave of agrarian fertility, s...
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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
מאת Carmine Gallo
“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.” — Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience
Apple CEO...
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Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial ...
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From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.
The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peac...
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This introductory book deals with the bonds created between German physicians and the Nazi biomedical vision ba
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The Book suggests evolving the Wisdom of the Heart by considering the life of the great mystics and their appreciation of God's fingerprints in Nature. One may, therefore, cultivate the Way of Love, unconstrained by comparison, hierarchy, and pre-concepts, usually existent in territorial thinking....
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In Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Professor Norman Golb intensifies the debate over the scrolls' origins, arguing that they were not the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect but written by different groups of Jews and the smuggled out of Jerusalem's libraries
Norman Golb unravels the mystery behind the scholarly monopoly that controlled the scrolls for many years, and discusses his role as a key pla
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Can colorless nail polish stop a cold sore from blossoming?How can silverware be used to make a leg cramp subside?Do kiwi fruit, carrots, apples and avocados lower cholesterol?Will ankle-pinching relieve stress?Why not? We all know that chicken soup really does help when you have a cold--and so do t...
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The Tao is the Way, the Way behind all ways, the principle underlying all principles, the fact underlying all facts. Taoism, in its broadest sense, is the search for truth and reality. In a narrower sense, it is the original knowledge tradition of China, yet Taoism has already in the last couple of centuries extended its influence to many different fields of endeavor in the West. In English today we have books on Taoism and investment, Taoism and health, Taoism and sex, Taoism and war, Taoism, and science, Taoism and art, Taoism and life. This book, Awakening to the Tao, is none of these but i...
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It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush's presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those tumultuous years.
Here are behind-the-scenes accounts of critical meetings in the White House and of summit conferences in Europe and the United States, interspersed with excerpts from Mr. Bush's diary. We are given fresh and intriguing views of world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yelt...
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The vastness of Hinduism and some aspects of Indian culture have been systematically put together in this compact book. It talks about the revered gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon; it tells us why Krishna is blue; why the cow is sacred; why have Hindu gods been depicted with several arms, and soon....
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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the ...
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Pamela Ball introduces the ancient teachings of Lao Tse and the concept of the Tao – a term very often translated as ‘the Wayâ€. She explains the history of Taoism, its sc
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For centuries the I Ching has been used as a basic map of conscious development, containing the underlying principles of all religions, and highly prized by followers of Buddhism. Chih-hsu Ou-i uses the concepts of Tianti Buddhism to elucidate the I Ching —concentration and insight, calmness and wisdom, and various levels of realization. Skillfully translated by Thomas Cleary, this work presents the complete text of the I Ching plus the only Buddhist interpretation of the oracle....
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This guide book is the first work to give a comprehensive list and desc
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At a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear's survey of the Chinese visual arts should be welcomed by art lovers, students and travellers alike. Generously illustrated and readable, it covers not only bronzes, jades, calligraphy and painting, but also Buddhist sculpture, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, lacquer, garden design and architecture. For the revised edition, all Chinese names, places, and terms have been romanized to current international usage. Throughout, information has been updated in view of recent finds, and the book contains new il...
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.
In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to war, making clear why Germany and Austria-Hungary were primarily to blame, and describes the gripping first clashes in the West, where the French army marched into action in uniforms of re...
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Vayu's Gate is the first and only book about the Ten Vayus. Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience will find in this volume inspiration and new insights for asana and pranayama practice. The Vayus system is an ancient Yogic practice that has been lost in time. Only few obscure desc
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