Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to
articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can’t quite convey that odd
urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you’re
struggling to express...
This is the Abstract (a summary) of the book. Easy reading for 15 minutes.
Category: Philosophy | Inspiration & Motivation | Personal Growth
For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama’s...
Growing up in suburban Pretoria, Steve Joubert dreamed of a career as a pilot. After undergoing SAAF pilot training, a freak injury put an end to his hopes of flying fighter jets. Instead he learned to fly the versatile Alouette helicopter.
He...
A textbook for English-speaking students for class teaching or home study with graduated reading matter and numerous exercises.
This e-book relies on some advanced features of the FictionBook format, such as footnotes, styles and tables. An adequate...
THE STORY IN A NUTSHELL
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Two views of the world clashed at the dawn of thought. In the great debate between the earliest Greek philosophers, Heraclitus argued for perpetual change, but Parmenides maintained there was neither time nor motion....
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. . . .1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of...
The myth that the Nazi-era German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, was not involved in war crimes persisted for decades after the war. Now two German researchers have destroyed it once and for all. Newly published conversations between German...
**"Read this book to connect with your highest self. "
**-- Susan Cain, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *Bittersweet* and *Quiet
* "We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find...
In America, 2.3 million people—a population about the size of Houston’s, the country’s fourth-largest city—live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create...