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All yoga exercises are aimed at mental discipline and the harmonisation of body and mind. Control of the breath (Pranayama) plays a crucial role to reach inner balance and self-realisation. The practice of Pranayama will contribute to well-being and a happy life. The exercises increase the supply of...

Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. The Memorabilia is a...

A poetry book about joy, triumph, love, empathy and sorrow in a Swedish Children's Hospital.

Erstmals 1882 erschienen, 1887 noch einmal bearbeitet ist Die fröhliche Wissenschaft ist eine Zusammensetzung aus Aphorismen. Hieraus entstammt auch der Ausruf Gott ist tot!

ARM. What! Sister, you will give up the sweet and enchanting title of maiden? You can entertain thoughts of marrying! This vulgar wish can enter your head! HEN. Yes, sister. ARM. Ah! Who can bear that "yes"? Can anyone hear it without feelings of disgust? HEN. What is there in marriage which...

"The owner of a garden that is so small that but few plants can be grown in it naturally desires to confine her selection to such kinds as will be likely to give the greatest amount of bloom and require the least amount of care. At the head of the list it is quite safe to place the sweet-pea....

A Cop from another world has to find a criminal. He finds the person, and a fight begins. A fight between good and evil. A personal fight.

Small talkers of the world, unite! Gordon Carrega has given us our manifesto. Arm yourself with this book and forget about words of wisdom.

Eine Sammlung von eigenen Gedichten in englischer Sprache, geschrieben in den Jahren 2005 - 2010 untermalt mit ausgewählten Fotografien aus dem persönlichen Umfeld der Autorin.

These poems were written over a period of about twenty years when the author lived in London, Nigeria, Zambia and finally back in Germany. Though this background is present, it is the inner landscape and the shifting moods which are significant. “Stirring in their austere clarity” (Nadine Gordimer)

"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene."

Twenty students wrote a novel, a beautiful love story about compassion and pain. This is the product of an inspiring project that took one and a half years of generating ideas, researching, writing, and rewriting. Twenty heads agreed on a plot full of tension, emotions, and grief. LAST TRAIN TO PARIS...

"...The attack on the wood had begun soon after dawn, and it was no more than 8 a.m. when the Corporal was dropped badly wounded in the advance line of the attack where it had penetrated about four hundred yards into the wood. But it was well into afternoon before he sufficiently woke to his...

Jazbury came scampering gaily up the stairs to where his mother and Aunt Tabby were sitting on the window-sill washing their faces and cleaning their fur. Jazbury was a small black kitten with white markings on his face and breast, and soft little white paws. Soft as those little paws were there were...