Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution by Stanislav Grof

By Stanislav Grof

As well as the apocalyptic prospect of worldwide nuclear destruction, there are different dismal eventualities regarding source and environmental matters which are much less forthcoming yet nonetheless severe within the long-term. earlier analyses, looking treatments, have interested in indicators instead of motives. They symbolize extensions and expressions of an identical philosophies and strategiescreated those situations.

This e-book brings a clean and positive viewpoint to the matter quarter. It explores sleek realization learn and transpersonal psychology for practices that speed up the advance of attention. It covers a variety from laboratory strategies of experimental psychiatry, transpersonal psychotherapies, and Jungian psychology to the Oriental and Western mystical traditions.

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Studies Latin Language and Literature (Yale Classical by Thomas Cole, David Ross

By Thomas Cole, David Ross

This publication covers a variety of matters from Latin literature and language to textual heritage and feedback. E. D. Francis provides a heritage of the phrases prae and professional, as adverb, preposition and prefix. H. D. Jocelyn surveys the distribution and differing makes use of of quotations from Greek poetry in Cicero's prose writings and D. F. S. Thomson takes a clean examine the manuscript culture of Catullus. the remainder six articles take care of later authors and are divided both among the poets and the historians: a interpreting of Horace's Roman Odes and their relation to the opposite odes within which he addressed the Roman humans; an indication of the inner coherence of a Tibullan elegy and Juvenal satires; a overview of disputed readings within the OCT of Livy IX; an research of the constitution of the prologues to the Annals, Histories and Agricola to forged gentle on Tacitus' intentions; and a severe assessment of Tacitus' portrait of Germanicus, ordinarily seen in a sympathetic gentle yet debated by means of D. O. Ross.

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Utrillo by Klaus Werner

By Klaus Werner

Очередная брошюра из серии «Maler und Werk» о жизни и творчестве французского живописца-пейзажиста Мориса Утрилло (1883 - 1955).
Книга иллюстрирована репродукциями картин и рисунками знаменитого художника.

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A Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov

By Isaac Asimov

Every person knew that Ralph Neufeld used to be a cautious younger chemist, particularly his professor, Lou Brade. that is why Ralph's unintended dying as a result of a confusion of chemical compounds struck Brade as hugely not likely. The police agreed.

Someone on campus had switched bottles on terrible Ralph and the outcome used to be as lethal as have been deliberate. the difficulty was once the entire correct suspects have been within the incorrect areas whilst it happened...all the incorrect suspects had the best motives...and the single individual such a lot certified to unravel the crime was once already being referred to as the killer!

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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

By Victor Hugo

On one point Les Miserables is a detective tale within which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean. On one other point, it's a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set opposed to a wide ranging description of French society after Napoleon. yet notably, Hugo’s masterpiece is ready the metaphysical fight among solid and evil within the soul of each guy. it's a plea for social justice, political enlightenment and private charity.From the Hardcover variation

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Third Pillar by Soma Morgenstern, Ludwig Lewisohn

By Soma Morgenstern, Ludwig Lewisohn

That pagan onslaught upon the Jewish humans which destroyed one third
of that folks, that crime Lord Russell of Liverpool known as the best crime in all heritage, has been documented in a dozen languages.

Through gradual and hard years of
impassioned artistic attempt, Soma
Morgenstern has summed up, distilled, symbolized the incomparable tragedy of his humans into an basically poetic shape that's transparent with a good highbrow readability, besides as
majestic with the grandeur of the topic he treats. it's going to, without doubt, melt the calloused judgment of right and wrong and
shake to its intensity the center of Christian in addition to Jew. and it'll achieve this no longer as outcry or propaganda, yet as tale, as image, as nice epic paintings in a kind of singular purity.

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