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 The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber English | May 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1529389216, 1529327733 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 5.3 MB Who were the Fairy Tellers?  The Experience of Samadhi: An In-depth Exploration of Buddhist Meditation By Richard Shankman 2008 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 1590305213 | PDF | 30 MB Dharma practice comprises a wide range of wise instructions and skillful means. As a result, meditators may be exposed to a diversity of approaches to the core teachings and the meditative path--and that can be confusing at times. In this clear and accessible exploration, Dharma teacher and longtime meditator Richard Shankman unravels the mix of differing, sometimes conflicting, views and traditional teachings on how samadhi (concentration) is understood and taught.In part one, Richard Shankman explores the range of teachings and views about samadhi in the Theravada Pali tradition, examines different approaches, and considers how they can inform and enrich our meditation practice.Part two consists of a series of interviews with prominent contemporary Theravada and Vipassana (Insight) Buddhist teachers. These discussions focus on the practical experience of samadhi, bringing the theoretical to life and offering a range of applications of the different meditation techniques.  The Experience of Islamic Art on the Margins of Islam edited by Irene A. Bierman English | January 1, 1999 | ISBN: 0863723004 | True EPUB | 172 pages | 3.8 MB This book is a collection of papers from the 15th Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference which explore the meaning of Islamic art in liminal contexts.  Fritz Sager, "The European Public Servant: A Shared Administrative Identity?" English | ISBN: 1907301747 | 2015 | 326 pages | EPUB | 2 MB European integration is under pressure. At the same time, the notion of a European administrative space is being explicitly voiced. But does a shared idea of the public servant exist in Europe? This volume shows how the public servant has been conceived throughout history, and asks whether such conceptions are converging towards a common European administrative identity. It combines conceptual and institutional history with political thought and empirical political science. Sager & Overeem's timely analysis constitutes an original effort to integrate history of ideas and cutting-edge survey research. It presents the subject's ideational foundations as well as its modern manifestation in European administrative space.  Holly Bellebuono, "The Essential Herbal for Natural Health: How to Transform Easy-to-Find Herbs into Healing Remedies for the Whole Family" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1590309472 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 4.3 mb From tinctures to ease tummy aches to elixirs to enhance energy, making your own remedies from easy-to-find herbs can be a satisfying and pleasurable way to connect with nature and your family's health. While entering the "herb world" can be intimidating-many of today's herb books are filled with cultivation tables, harvest techniques, dye charts, and aromatherapy guidelines-The Essential Herbal for Natural Health provides a welcome entry point for those wishing to experience the beauty and simplicity of natural herbal remedies safely. By focusing on just thirteen foundation herbs, you can easily jump into the world of herbs while still creating a wide range of remedies and recipes. With something for everyone in the family-men, women, and children-these simple recipes can be made to cure coughs, calm anxiety, moisturize skin, and more.  The Elusiveness of the Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy by Stanley Rosen English | August 1, 2002 | ISBN: 0300091974 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.9 MB The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary - how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact.  The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics By Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Marco Boffo, Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Marco Boffo 2012 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 1848445377 | PDF | 3 MB This Companion takes stock of the trajectory, achievements, shortcomings and prospects of Marxist political economy. It reflects the contributors' shared commitment to bringing the methods, theories and concepts of Marx himself to bear across a wide range of topics and perspectives, and it provides a testimony to the continuing purpose and vitality of Marxist political economy. Some of the contributions found here offer an exposition of basic concepts, accessible to the general reader, laying out Marx's own contribution, its significance, and subsequent positions and debates with and within Marxist political economy. The authors also offer assessments of historical developments to and within capitalism, and of its current character and prospects. Other chapters adopt a mirror-image approach of pinpointing the conditions of contemporary capitalism as a way of interrogating the continuing salience of Marxist analysis. As a whole, the volume analyzes Marxist political economy in three areas: the critique of mainstream economics in all of its versions; the critical presence of Marxist political economy within, and its influence upon, each of the social science disciplines; and, cutting across these, the analysis of specific topics that straddle disciplinary boundaries. This volume will inform and inspire a new generation of students and scholars to become familiar with Marxist political economy from an enlightened and unprejudiced position, and to use their knowledge as both a resource and gateway to future study.  The Earth: an intimate history By Richard A. Fortey 2005 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0006551378 | EPUB | 9 MB The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world -- permanently. The face of the earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed constantly over billions of years. Its shape records a remote past of earthquakes, volcanos and continental drift, and the ongoing subtle shifts that bring our planet alive. Richard Fortey introduces us to the earth's distinct character, revealing the life that it leads when humans aren't watching. He follows the continual movement of seabeds, valleys, mountain ranges and ice caps and shows how everything -- our culture, natural history, even the formation of our cities -- has its roots in geology. In Richard Fortey's hands, geology becomes vital and exhilarating and unmistakably informs our lives in the most intimate way.  The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman English | July 5, 2022 | ISBN: 164160719X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 13 MB An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years.  The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature By Bruno Snell 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0486242641 | EPUB | 4 MB German classicist's monumental study of the origins of European thought in Greek literature and philosophy. Brilliant, widely influential. Includes "Homer's View of Man," "The Olympian Gods," "The Rise of the Individual in the Early Greek Lyric," "Pindar's Hymn to Zeus," "Myth and Reality in Greek Tragedy," and "Aristophanes and Aesthetic Criticism." |
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