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  The Waiting Land - A Spell in Nepal

  Dervla Murphy

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  The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in Kathmandu, and later at home in a tiny, vermin-infested room above a stall in a Nepalese bazaar, she falls under the spell of this ancient land, poised between East and West, between China and India, between Buddhism and Hinduism, yet true to its own distinct civilization. Dervla's understanding of the roots of the Nepalese past, and her own stamina, culminate in an epic trek into the remote Langtang region on the border with Tibet.

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  Let us sing and learn !

  Betina Serson

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  Welcome to this packet with two e- thematic units. Each unit has 5 lessons (circle time + activity) and the starting point is a children's song. Learning and teaching will be easier through active exploration with a variety of materials, hands on and inclusive activities that will provide experiences to develop children's cognitive, social, motor and emotional skills.

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  Descartes' Bones - A Skeletal...

  Russell Shorto

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  From bestselling, prize-winning author Russell Shorto comes a grand and strange history of the on-going debate between religion and science—seen through the oddly  momentous journey of the skull and bones of the great French philosopher Rene  Descartes. In this book Shorto brilliantly shows how this argument first started with  Descartes and how his ideas (and bones) have remained central to this theoretical  struggle for over 350 years.  On a brutal winter’s day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most  influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death  far from home. Sixteen years later, the pious French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon  secretly unearthed Descartes’ bones and transported them to France. Why would this  devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who was  hounded from country after country on charges of atheism? Why would Descartes’  bones take such a strange, serpentine path over the next 350 years—a path intersecting  some of the grandest events imaginable: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, the  mind-body problem, the conflict between faith and reason?  The answer lies in Descartes’ famous phrase: cogito ergo sum. “I think therefore I am.”  This quote from his work Discourse on the Method, destroyed 2,000 years of received  wisdom by introducing an attitude of human skepticism towards ideas of medicine,  nature, politics and society. The notion that one could look to provable facts, and not  rely on the Church’s teachings and tradition, was one of the most influential ideas in  human history, ultimately creating the scientific method and overthrowing religion as  prevailing truth. Descartes’ Bones is a fascinating narrative—both macro and micro  history in one—that twists and turns up to the present day.

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  Relativity: The Special and...

  Albert Einstein

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  This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Einstein’s theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive results, including the dissolution of absolute time. In this book he brings a simplified form of his profound understanding of the subject to the layperson. In the words of Einstein: “The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.” The book is challenging at times but, when approached patiently, proves itself one of the most lucid explanations of Relativity to be found anywhere. [Due to transcription or optical character recognition errors in creating online texts, and because of less-than-clear fonts in some printed texts, the variables as read in some of the equations here are not as Einstein intended. For example, the numeral ‘one’ has frequently been printed and read as the letter ‘I.’ In addition, some equations do not translate well into the spoken word. If you require completely accurate renditions of Einstein’s mathematical formulas, we suggest that you consult a published text.] — Summary written by Kelly Bescherer [and Laurie Anne Walden]

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  My Journey of Faith To The...

  Rafa Selase

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  In 2018 Bay Area born musician Rafa Selase travels to Africa and learns about rarely discussed historical events during the trans atlantic slave trade that connect the current state of America with times of past. During his trip he discovers a hidden past, culture and people that changed his perspective on religion, America and reconciling current day problems. This book ends with a plan for America and specifically black Americans to renew a culture, restore a people and bring peace, prosperity for people of all backgrounds if they so choose.

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  Dark Psychology - How...

  Amanda Grapes

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  There are 2 books in this combo, which are the following: 
  Book 1: In this book, you will learn more about the culture we live in today. Are we being brainwashed by the media? How is social media affecting us? 
  And with those two questions in mind, does this mean there are more narcissists today than ever before? 
  Not only are we going to dive into these specific topics, but we will also talk about real cults. Cults have existed for a long time. Some even see the relationship between cults and actual religions. But why are cults so dark and scary? How do cult leaders make people believe in something that is not true, or make them do things they would have never done before they were brainwashed? 
  Let’s take a look. 
  Book 2: Men and women are not the same. We all know that they think differently. But how do they use those thinking patterns to get what they want? How do they persuade the other gender to give them what they desire? This is where some human psychology will be helpful. The differences will be addressed in the first chapter of this book. 
  Moving on, some false concepts about mind control will be discussed, as well as persuasion techniques that you may have never heard about. The reasons why people choose to buy or do something, is something that will be a determining factor to understanding the psychology of persuasion. This is what you will learn.

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