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  Jewels From The Indra Net

  Terence Leggett

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  These pieces on Eastern methods of inner training and realisation are not intended as theoretical instruction or entertainment. They all point to actual practice in life and hint at deeper practice. 
  The title of the book Jewels from the Indra Net refers to the fabled net of the god Indra of which the strands have a jewel of truth at each junction. The jewels reflect each other so that each one has deeper and deeper meanings in it. 
  The pieces are from a variety of traditions, some of them being based on original translations of little known Sanskrit or Japanese texts. Others come from observation or personal experience and hopefully will reflect to the reader some further gleams from the Indra Net. 
  The fundamental training is mind control and meditation which in the end have to become one pointed. Allusions to them will be found in several places and will be recognised by those who are approaching that level. Some longer pieces have been put at the beginning to give a survey of some main points.

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  The Moors Murders

  Micheal Attwell

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  'First-class. I read it with great interest and fascination.' – Jean Ritchie  
  What drives seemingly ordinary individuals to commit unimaginable acts of evil? 
  In the case of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, this question has haunted Britain for decades. Known as the Moors Murderers, this notorious pair lured, abducted, and ultimately murdered five innocent children, subjecting them to unspeakable horrors. Their actions, documented in photographs and recordings, have left a lasting scar on the national consciousness. 
  In The Moors Murders, Michael Attwell, presents a comprehensive examination of this chilling chapter in British history. With nearly fifty years of dedicated research, Attwell seeks to understand how the pair transformed into figures of unspeakable evil. 
  As Attwell revisits the timeline of the Moors Murders, he confronts the enduring question that has perplexed the public for decades: 
  Why did they do it? 
  The Moors Murders invites readers to reflect on the chilling realities of this case, encouraging a deeper understanding of the events and the individuals involved. It is a sobering reminder of the capacity for evil that can exist in the most unexpected places. 
  Perfect for readers of true crime, criminal psychology, and those seeking a detailed, authoritative account of Britain’s most notorious murder case. 
  Attwell’s non-fiction study uses criminology and science to illuminate the social impact of the Moors Murders, a case that reverberated far beyond Britain into europe and reshaped how the public understood serial killers. Among the best and top treatments of this tragedy, it offers the latest, most searching look at the question that still refuses to fade: why? 
  HarperCollins 2026

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  Art - The Path To Knowledge

  Luiz Fernando Pereira

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  A university must produce and organize knowledge. Indeed, this fact does not seem to suffer disputes. However, what is the knowledge that a university produces and disseminates? In this short essay, which serves as a conceptual basis for a wide-ranging epistemological discussion, the authors propose questions about knowledge, whose answers have been sought by the contemporary academy. However, the research is more focused on questions than on answers. The important thing is to ask the right questions. We invite the members of the academic community to participate in this theoretical reflection on knowledge, in order to support our research activities, extension, teaching and graduate studies. The growing and unstable transformations the world has been going through are reflected directly in production, recording and distribution of knowledge, not to mention the value changes that the traditional knowledge has suffered, as it is hastily abandoned by unfounded news. Revisiting the concepts that form the bases of our science serves to verify their validity, effectiveness and socioeconomic, political and cultural importance. Courage to re-examine openly the beliefs that we embrace in the practice of our sciences is the virtue that defines, par excellence, the academic researcher. "If Biology can save the humans and the Earth, the arts can save the soul…" (Luiz Fernando Pereira) "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." A. Einstein.

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  Up Up and Away

  Sally Cook

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  Up, Up and Away tells of the author's experience in making her own hot air balloons including accidentally setting a paddock and her husband to be alight, her escapades chasing such home made balloons across the suburban night skies and her experience of going up in a piloted hot air balloon which landed on its side in a paddock, skidding through cow manure towards a herd of startled milk cows. The story also looks at the first hot air balloon which took off in the Palace of Versailles in front of Louis XVI carrying a sheep,, a rooster and a duck. They survived the 3.5 km long journey and were hailed by the king as 'heroes of the sky'.

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  Young Lions

  Andrew Mackay

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  This is the story of two teenage British boys in a Britain occupied by the Germans, which is what might have happened if the Nazis had successfully carried out their plans to invade Britain under Operation Sea Lion in the 1940s. Alan Mitchell and Sam Roberts study at St. John's Academy in the fictional Cambridgeshire market town of Hereward. Their Home Guard unit is defeated and the Schutzstaffel (S.S.) massacres the prisoners but the boys escape and return to German occupied Hereward.

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  Ancient Rome’s Provinces: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  It can be argued that Roman culture was, indeed, Graeco-Roman rather than Roman. It was the Greek language that served as the lingua franca in the Eastern Empire and much of the west including Italy. Many Greek intellectuals, including Galen, were based in Rome and the Roman aristocracy more and more came to embrace Greek literature and philosophy. Homer’s epics inspired Virgil’s Aeneid and Seneca wrote in Greek. Earlier, Scipio Africanus (236 – 183 B.C.), the epitome of the Roman martial hero, studied Greek philosophy and regarded Greek culture as the benchmark against which all others had to be judged. The Roman poet and philosopher Horace studied in Athens during the Principate and, in common with many of his class, saw that city as the intellectual centre of the world. 
  In the minds of most people today, Gaul equates to modern France. However, the vast geographical area that Caesar named Gaul, in fact, was made up of a number of very distinct regions and covered, in addition to modern-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, parts of the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy. The Romans called the northern area of the Italian peninsula, which is now part of modern Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, or Gaul on this side of the Alps. Early Romans did not even consider this region as part of Italy and repeated incursions southwards, and the sacking of Rome itself in 390 B.C., resulted in Rome taking full control of the area in 221 B.C. and thoroughly Romanizing it to the extent that even the Celtic language totally disappeared and was replaced by Latin. The region was initially a province but by the beginning of the 1st century B.C., it had become fully integrated into the Roman heartland and became an administrative region of Italy rather than a province. 

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