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 Tim Parks, "Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence" English | 2006 | ISBN: 0393328457 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4.3 MB "A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history."―Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review  Materia Medica for Martial Artists By Josh Walker 2012 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 147819393X | PDF | 4 MB "Materia Medica for Martial Artists" is the only resource of its kind. This reference on Chinese herbs is designed directly with the martial artist and athlete in mind. Specifically chosen herbs which are relevant to the study of combat, healing, and peak performance are covered, including relevant classical functions and important notes about each herb, special processing, pharmacological actions and chemical compounds, formulas each herb appears in, and useful remarks about the past, present, and future price, availability, and utility of each substance.As injury and conditioning formulas, training wines, and longevity tonics continue to proliferate throughout the martial arts, this reference work will help guide you through understanding the utility of various herbs in formulas and arm you with a great deal of knowledge which has been unpublished until now.(From the back cover...)  Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth) by Simon Ferdinand English | December 1, 2019 | ISBN: 1496212118, 1496217586 | 318 pages | PDF | 51 MB Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the fantasy and functionality they perceive in geographical mapmaking. This field of "map art" has moved into increasing prominence in recent years yet critical writing on the topic has been largely confined to general overviews of the field.  Learning Programming with MyCo: Learning Programming easily - independent of a PC by Juergen Pintaske English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00K6N87UG | 120 pages | EPUB | 4.49 Mb Programming a computer is difficult many think - wrong. Read the eBook, write down the programs, follow the processing on a sheet of paper - no PC needed. The kit described here teaches programming in a minimal and easy way. No PC necessary to run the kit either. There are just a few instructions MyCo can execute. But it shows and demonstrates many programming aspects. All programs documented and tested using an easy to build hardware kit.  Jeffry Houser, "Learn With: AngularJS: Collected Essays" English | 9 Jan. 2017 | ASIN: B01MY6MQFA | 150 Pages | AZW3 | 3 MB The Learn With series will teach you about Enterprise programming technologies by building an application.  Learn Spanish For Beginners 3 Books in 1: Top Language Lessons With Grammar, Short Stories, Words & Phrases to Motivate You and Stop Getting Stuck By International Learning Academy English | 2021 | ASIN : B098CZR5HK | 716 pages | PDF/EPUB | 2.4 MB  Leadership Styles, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Era of Digitalization by Caglar Dogru English | 2020 | ISBN: 1799811085 | 470 Pages | PDF | 7 MB  Tim Parks, "Italian Neighbors" English | 2003 | ISBN: 0802140343 | 280 pages | EPUB | 0.53 MB In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy. Via Colombre, the main street in a village just outside Verona, offers an exemplary hodgepodge of all that is new and old in the bel paese, a point of collision between invading suburbia and diehard peasant tradition in a sometimes madcap, sometimes romantic always mixed-up world of creeping vines, stuccoed walls, shotguns, security cameras, hypochondria, and expensive sports cars.  Islamic Fundamentalism: The Story of Islamist Movements By Youssef M. Choueiri 2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0826498000 | PDF | 13 MB The world of Islamic fundamentalism has become, more or less, a daily preoccupation, not only of journalists and scholars, but, more importantly, of almost all governments and security services across the globe. This book presents a striking analysis of how and why Islamism and Jihadism have become such potent contemporary political forces, shedding new light on a much-misunderstood situation.This revised edition offers an analytical survey of the modern and contemporary Islamist movements by linking their emergence and potency to the historical background of Muslim societies and their encounter with Western globalism. Thus, it also locates the advent of new Islamist espousals of democratic governance. It includes an entirely new section dealing with post-1997 aspects, a section on al-Qa'ida and the aftermath of 9/11, as well as a discussion of the global reach of Islamism. This comprehensive volume explores the advent of a new wave of Islamism and its manifestations in Western countries, concluding with an overall evaluation of the future prospects of Islamism and alternative Western policies ranging from direct confrontation to political dialogue.  Internal Alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality By Livia Kohn; Robin R. Wang 2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1931483116 | PDF | 90 MB Internal alchemy (neidan) has been the dominant system of Daoist spiritual practice since the Song dynasty, when it was defined as the complex integration of multiple forms of Daoist self-cultivation. Its practitioners transform body energies into subtle levels of spirit and pure cosmic being, hoping to find illumination by returning to the fundamental order of the cosmos and in the process reconcile physiological training with intellectual speculation.Bringing together the best work of leading scholars in the field, this book provides a thorough and easily accessible introduction to this important tradition. The volume begins with a general survey of the cultivation methods that form the backbone of internal alchemy and an analysis of its understanding of the human body and the terminology it employs. Next, it presents the historical development of the tradition with its major schools and a detailed discussion of key concepts, such as mind, inner nature, and destiny.Following this, presentations focus on specific practices, such as the emergence of the spirit through the top of the head, the activation of internal visions in Thunder Rites, the sexual comingling of energies in duo-cultivation, and the body visions and transformative techniques employed specifically by women. Next come two contributions on the contemporary application of internal alchemy in China and its transmission and understanding in the West. The work concludes with comparative studies on Kundalini Yoga and Hermeticism. |
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