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Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kurt M. Campbell, chairman and chief executive officer of the Asia Group, analyze the rise of Chinese President Xi Jinping and call for a new American grand strategy for Asia that "seeks to avoid a U.S.-China confrontation and maintain U.S. primacy in Asia."

A book with 29 ideas by word and visions of a poetic mind. Inspired by the mood of scenes, poetry can more than tell, it picturizes what it means, words invite the sense to dwell.

The City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations that Christianity brought about the decline of Rome...

These books contain a form of free verse poetry, essays, short stories, thoughts, opinions based on observation, and some humour and imagination, engaging the heart as well as the mind. A critical look at many current issues intriguing and plaguing man. Spirituality, interaction with nature and environment,...

La Vie de Jésus est un essai d'Ernest Renan, publié en 1863. C'est le premier volume d'un projet plus vaste, l'Histoire des origines du christianisme (huit volumes publiés entre 1863 et 1883). Ce best-seller européen fait scandale notamment en France car le philologue et historien présente Jésus...

In 1884 I wrote a book entitled "My Religion," wherein I formulated my creed. While affirming my faith in the doctrine taught by Christ, I could not refrain from manifesting at the same time the reason why I look upon the ecclesiastical doctrine commonly called Christianity as erroneous,...

John Stuart Mill was born on 20th May 1806. He was a delicate child, and the extraordinary education designed by his father was not calculated to develop and improve his physical powers. "I never was a boy," he says; "never played cricket." His exercise was taken in the form of...

On March 24, 2011 Ron Zakreski was detained by the Burmese army fifty meters from the border of Thailand. He was held at Kheenyalee command center by Light Infantry Battalion 356 when it came under fire from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Transported through conflict areas to Myawaddi he was...

'The condemnation,' says Hegel, 'which a great man lays upon the world, is to force it to explain him.' The greatness of Hegel, if it be measured by this standard, must be something far above common. Interpreters of his system have contradicted each other, almost as variously as the several commentators...

Les Trois discours sur la condition des grands sont un ensemble de discours éducatifs tenus par Blaise Pascal au futur duc de Chevreuse Charles-Honoré d'Albert, probablement vers 1660. Ils sont reconstitués et retranscris par Pierre Nicole dans son ouvrage De l'éducation d'un prince, publié en...

This 5th book "ZERO MEDITATION: NO NEED TO MEDITATE - LIFE HAPPENS ANYWAY!" by the League of Empty Ones contains all the original english articles that were published for the german projects www.urruhe.de & www.nullyoga.de between 2015 and 2018 about a new kind of transspirituality that...

Léon Tolstoï, nom francisé de Lev Nikolaïevitch Tolstoï, né le 28 août 1828 à Iasnaïa Poliana et mort le 7 novembre 1910 à Astapovo, en Russie, est un écrivain célèbre surtout pour ses romans

Auteur de grands romans (La Guerre et la paix, Anna Karénine, etc.), Léon Tolstoï est aussi cependant l'auteur de nombreux contes et nouvelles.

Le 5 septembre eut lieu le combat de Schevardino ; le 6, pas un coup de fusil ne fut tiré de part ni d'autre, et le 7 vit la sanglante bataille de Borodino ! Pourquoi et comment ces batailles furent-elles livrées ? On se le demande avec stupeur, car elles ne pouvaient offrir d'avantages sérieux ni aux Russes ni aux Français.