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Glimpse of Possibility

Author : Andy Hsieh
Publisher : eXtasy Books
ISBN 13 : 1487441762
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Glimpse of Possibility written by Andy Hsieh and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just three months after his first quest, Abyss and Diana are once again dragged into the bizarre. A group of aliens trying to test humanity and a decisive strike from the Brotherhood of Clerics drag in the opportunistic water-wielder Friedrich Drake. Caught up in strange mutations and injuries once again, the young hero must leap through time, traveling to both the past and present to restore the rifts in the fabric of the universe. As he seals a time loop for the half-mad Witch Dorothy, Abyss furthers his connection with all the Earth's fauna, learning to co-exist with a tentacle buried inside his chest. Thrown into the future, the boy must come face to face with many possibilities, each of them filled with disappointments and shortcomings. And as his journey continues, the ominous Pharaoh and the cynical Diana continue to oversee his development, whilst Inder and Latis are once again sent to assist him. Inevitably, it seems like growing up and maturity mean giving up on many dreams. Always filled with injury and disaster and never quite complete, the new saga of Abyss's story abounds with twists, turns, and a fair share of oddities. For better or for worse, there is no fate that is set in stone.

NRL Report

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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A Shimmer of Possibility

Author : Paul Graham
Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 : 9783865218629
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Shimmer of Possibility written by Paul Graham and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in late 2007, Paul Graham's a shimmer of possibility was quickly hailed as "one of the most important advances in contemporary photographic practice that has taken place in a long while" and marked a paradigm shift in the medium. The first edition redefined what a photobook can be. Comprising 12 individual hardback books in an edition of 1,000 copies, it sold out immediately. This second edition brings together the 12 books in one single volume at an accessible price. Loosely inspired by Chekhov's short stories, a shimmer of possibility comprises a series of photographic short stories of everyday life in today's America. Each story is a small sequence of images, such as a man smoking a cigarette while he waits for a bus in Las Vegas, or a walk down a street in Boston on an autumn afternoon. Often two, three or four sequences intertwine in a single chapter, like separate but related lives co-existing in suburban America. Sometimes the quiet narrative breaks unexpectedly into a sublime moment - while a couple carry their shopping home in Texas a small child dances with a plastic bag in a garden; as a man cuts the grass in Pittsburgh it begins to rain and the low sun breaks through to illuminate every raindrop. These filmic haikus avoid the forceful summation we usually find in photography, shunning any tidy packaging of the world into perfect images. Instead, life simply flows around and past us while we stand and stare, quietly astonished by its beauty and grace. The radical form of this work is reflected in the book's sequences, giving the flow of life precedence over conclusiveness, where nothing much happens, but nothing is foreclosed either, where everything shimmers with possibility." -- Publisher's description

The Great Turning

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442964502
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Great Turning written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Turning

Author : David C. Korten
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442964480
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Great Turning written by David C. Korten and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the issues addressed in The Great Turning are global and universal, I have chosen to focus my analysis on the United States. It is the nation among all others that is most challenged by the imperatives of the Great Turning. Few other nations are so accustomed to living beyond their own means, so imbued with a sense of special virtue and entitlement, or so burdened by a political leadership as out of touch with global reality and as incapable of accepting responsibility for the consequences of its actions. Because of its global presence, whether the United States responds to the imperatives with the logic of Empire or the logic of Earth Community is likely to have far-reaching consequences for all nations. Furthermore, the United States is the nation of my birth, the nation I know best and love most, and the nation for whose role in the world I feel most responsible.

Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 1

Author : Osho
Publisher : Fivestar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 1 written by Osho and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen is not a theology, it is a religion -- and religion without a theology is a unique phenomenon. All other religions exist around the concept of God. They have theologies. They are God-centric not man-centric; man is not the end, God is the end. But not so for Zen. For Zen, man is the goal, man is the end unto himself God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

Roaring Silence

Author : Ngakpa Chogyam
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834828820
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Roaring Silence written by Ngakpa Chogyam and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Dzogchen—or the direct experience of enlightenment—complete with meditation techniques by two Vajrayana teachers In Roaring Silence, Vajrayana teachers Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen walk the reader through the meditation techniques that "enable us to side-step the bureaucracy of intellectual processes and experience ourselves directly"—to discover this direct experience of enlightenment that is the mind of Dzogchen. Surprisingly, the approach is very pragmatic. Offering an investigation of the necessary steps, the authors begin with how to prepare for the journey: the lama is essential; as are a sense of humor, inspiration, and determination. They continue by describing the path of Dzogchen from sitting meditation to the direct perception of reality. The chapters include exercises for sharpening the presence of our awareness, for simple visualizations, and for investigating how to "remain uninvolved" with mental activity for a period—with follow-up guidance on how to view our experiences. Both practical and inspirational, the authors' exquisitely precise guidance is all presented with the caveat, "be kind to yourself, don't push yourself beyond your limits."

Understanding the University

Author : Ronald Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317390598
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the University written by Ronald Barnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the University constitutes the final volume in a trilogy – the first two books having been Being a University (2010) and Imagining the University (2012) – and represents the trilogy’s ultimate aims and endeavours. The three volumes together offer a unique attempt at a fairly systematic and exhaustive level to map out just what it might be seriously to understand the extraordinarily complex entity that is known across the world as ‘the university’. Through examination of the conditions and possibilities underlying and affecting universities, this work offers an understanding of specific ideas of the university which can inform policies, strategies and practices in relation to the university. This book is a must read for leaders and senior managers in universities , as well as those undertaking postgraduate studies in the policy and practice of higher education.

Glimpses of Utopia

Author : Jess Scully
Publisher : Pantera Press
ISBN 13 : 1925700771
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of Utopia written by Jess Scully and published by Pantera Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What can we do? The answer is: plenty! All over the world, people are refusing the business-as-usual mindset and putting humans back into the civic equation, reimagining work and care, finance and government, urban planning and communication, to make them better and fairer for all. Meet the care workers reclaiming control in India and Lebanon, the people turning slums into safe havens in Kenya and Bangladesh, and champions of people-powered digital democracy in Iceland and Taiwan. There are radical bankers funding renewable energy in the USA and architects redesigning real estate in Australia, new payment systems in Italy and the Philippines that keep money in local communities, and innovators redesigning taxation to cut pollution and incentivise creative solutions. Glimpses of Utopia is a call for optimism. Humans everywhere are rising up to confront our challenges with creativity, resilience and compassion. Harnessing technology and imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair and sustainable. This book shows us how.

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083306X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature written by Richard Rorty and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned. Today, the book remains a must-read and stands as a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. Its influence on the academy, both within philosophy and across a wide array of disciplines, continues unabated. This edition includes new essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert."

Protostars and Planets V

Author : Bo Reipurth
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816526543
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Protostars and Planets V written by Bo Reipurth and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Protostars and Planets V' builds on the latest results from recent advances in ground and space-based astronomy and in numerical computing techniques to offer the most detailed and up-to-date picture of star and planet formation - including the formation and early evolution of our own solar system.

Gifted

Author : Robert J. Schinke
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1718229313
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Gifted written by Robert J. Schinke and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace your innate talents and abilities to become the best version of yourself. Gifted: 8 Steps to Succeeding in Sport, Work, and Life offers eight valuable lessons to guide you onto the life path you deserve.

The Signifying Body

Author : Penelope Ingram
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478378
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Signifying Body written by Penelope Ingram and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. Central to the connection between ontology and ethics is the role of language. Ingram revisits the relationship between representation and matter in order to advance a theory of material signification. She examines a number of twentieth-century film and literary texts, including Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, to demonstrate that material signification, rather than representation, is crucial to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger's, Irigaray's, and Fanon's positions on language, this original work argues that the literary text is indispensable to a "revealing" of the relationship between ontology and ethics, and through it, the reader can experience a state of "authentic Being ethically."

Journey of Awakening

Author : Ram Dass
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307812480
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Journey of Awakening written by Ram Dass and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the practice that’s right for you with this exploration of the many paths of meditation—from mantra, prayer, singing, visualizations, and “just sitting” to movement meditations such as tai chi “Everyone has experienced a moment of pure awareness. A moment without thinking ‘I am aware’ or ‘that is a tree.’ Such moments bring a sense of rightness, of clarity, of being at one. Such moments are the essence of meditation.”—Ram Dass Ram Dass is an American psychologist and spiritual teacher who has studied and practiced meditation for many years. Here he shares his understanding and suggests how you can find methods suitable for you. He illuminates the stages and benefits of meditative practice, and provides wise and often humorous advice on overcoming difficulties along the way.

The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse

Author : Kerry McSweeney
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036958
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse written by Kerry McSweeney and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse--powerful and tightly focused--into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest. Selecting writers from different generational, national, and cultural backgrounds, McSweeney chooses writers based on their commitment to the realist representation of experience and their shared belief in the importance and efficacy of the short story form. By considering their efforts in tandem, he develops a means to assess the strategies and claims of realist short fiction. McSweeney demonstrates that when the comments these writers have made about their work are assembled and critically scrutinized, the result is an aesthetic critical model--as opposed to more interpretative models that focus attention on the determination (or indetermination) of meanings. He suggests that a fully adequate reading of a realist short story involves the integration of three components: the enjoyment and contemplation of the story in and of itself; affective receptivity, or a response to the story's emotional content; and cognitive activity, or the reflective consideration of the story's conceptual implications. In individual chapters on Chekov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver, this presentational model is applied to widely known and often anthologized readings from each writer. McSweeney brings into sharp focus the distinctive features of each piece, makes qualitative discriminations, and assesses the profitability of other critical models. He concludes with an invitation to test the mettle of his approach in reading other realist short story writers.

The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion

Author : Chogyam Trungpa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611801052
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion written by Chogyam Trungpa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chögyam Trungpa continues his study of the three “yanas” of Tibetan Buddhism with this overview of the teachings of the mahayana This three-volume collection presents in lively, relevant language the comprehensive teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist path of the hinayana, mahayana, and vajrayana. Considered Chögyam Trungpa’s magnum opus, The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma will resonate with new and senior students of Buddhism. In this second volume, Chögyam Trungpa presents the bodhisattva teachings of the mahayana. At this point—having trained and seen the benefits of looking within—the student begins to shift their focus outward to the broader world. Formal entry into the mahayana occurs with taking the bodhisattva vow. Mahayana practitioners dedicate themselves to the service of all sentient beings, aspiring to save them from sorrow and confusion, and vowing to bring them to perfect liberation. This stage of the path emphasizes the cultivation of wisdom through the view and experience of emptiness, or shunyata, in which all phenomena are seen to be unbounded, completely open, ungraspable, and profound. From the ground of shunyata, compassionate activity is said to arise naturally and spontaneously. In addition to mindfulness and awareness, the mahayanist practices lojong, or "mind training," based on the cultivation of the paramitas, or "transcendent virtues": generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation, and prajna, or "knowledge." As a component of lojong, tonglen, or "sending and taking," is practiced in order to increase maitri, or loving-kindness. Other topics covered in detail in this volume include bodhichitta, skillful means, Buddha nature and basic goodness, Madhyamaka, the ten bhumis, the three kayas, and more.

The Philosophical Writings of Prémontval

Author : Lloyd Strickland
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498563570
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Writings of Prémontval written by Lloyd Strickland and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the key philosophical writings of maverick Enlightenment philosopher André-Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval (1716-1764). Prémontval was a prolific member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and in his career as academic he wrote a series of essays and books on a range of core philosophical topics, such as necessity and contingency, free will, sufficient reason, personal identity, the nature of the mind and its relationship with the body, optimism, and the existence of God. Prémontval’s philosophy, shaped by his opposition to key philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, and Wolff, is notable for a number of original and often provocative positions on key philosophical issues of the time, which he supported by inventive critiques and a raft of novel arguments. In addition to developing a highly original proof for the existence of God based on the principles of atheism, Prémontval argued that all possible beings exist, and do so necessarily and therefore eternally; he insisted that the universe unfolded through an interplay of chance and necessity, its direction influenced by God but not under God’s direct control; and he considered free will a curse and the main impediment to the realization of the only aim fitting for God, which was to make all beings happy and holy as quickly as possible. His writings are notable for anticipating modern developments such as open theism, process theology, and animal theodicy. In this volume, Lloyd Strickland makes Prémontval’s key philosophical writings available in English for the first time. In making these translations, Strickland—a well-respected translator of Leibniz’s work—has consulted the original manuscripts to ensure the greatest accuracy, and as befits a scholarly edition, the texts are meticulously documented with copious annotations. Accompanying the texts is a substantial and informative introduction.