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A series of spiritual experiences send Elisabeth Egekvist on a quest for answers: What happened and why? She embarks on journey that takes her through various university studies. Here she meets both modern and ancient thinkers like English anthropologist, Gregory Bateson, and Islamic mystic, Ibn 'Arabi,...

One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle...

The story of humankind is, ultimately, a story of advancement, progress and triumph. But it wasn’t achieved quickly nor in a straight upward line. There have been times when homo sapien has been on the verge of extinction. And times when it looked as if it might extinguish itself. We have come a long...

You've read and loved The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, but can you call yourself an avid fan? Take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends and family for a time of fun! **Many read the book, but many don’t like it. Many like the book, but many are not avid...

The book “The cross of karma: Comment on Papyrus Oxy V 840” comments Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 and describes in the following shortly the possibilities and the impact of internal cleaning for ascending on the path to God. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 is a small piece of papyrus bearing 45 lines of text...

Hope is a basic affection of the mind. This philosophical analysis will clarify the concept by dealing with its involvement in knowledge, ethics and metaphysics. Being a belief, oscillating between knowledge and ignorance, hope is prone to illusion and disappointment. Man can be guided and manipulated...

This book discusses various examples on the use of ion exchange in chemical processing, mainly in aqueous systems but also in non-aqueous systems and in gas streams. The theory behind these examples is briefly discussed in order to make the subjects better understood. The focus is on ion exchange rather...

Understanding the Old Stellar Souls completes Terralogy and the Souls of Humanity. In this book the chiasm is explained in depth along with the understanding of the LPU, the evolutionary cycles, the five LPRF races and the beginning of the understanding that will lead to the work on the human DNA. The...

It is very easy to gain a knowledge of the stars, if the learner sets to work in the proper manner. But he commonly meets with a difficulty at the outset of his task. He provides himself with a set of the ordinary star maps, and then finds himself at a loss how to make use of them. Such maps tell...

In Syntonie In this mini guide you can find a brief outline on how to use Syntonic Optometry - Syntonic Phototherapy in an optometric office. Basic concepts and principles based on the CSO curriculum courses, thought by the author, are put together in a very handy guide for starters or as e reminder for practitioners.

Raffles had vanished from the face of the town, and even I had no conception of his whereabouts until he cabled to me to meet the 7.31 at Charing Cross next night. That was on the Tuesday before the 'Varsity match, or a full fortnight after his mysterious disappearance. The telegram was from Carlsbad,...

The title of this book,-or, more accurately, of its subject;-for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains,-will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats...

When a surgeon goes to the operating room, one would never consider that the surgeon might not be the one to come out alive. Dr. Allen barely escaped electrocution while saving a patients life. On the other side of his near-death experience, he heard a voice clearly say, "I'm not ready for you yet. You...

Few things are “more important to running a successful company than being able to reach wise, stable, and advantageous agreements” (Movius and Susskind 2009). Professionally prepared and executed negotiations can create a value of millions of Euros, a few imprudent sentences in negotiations can ruin...