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Today, there are over two million members of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's a life-saving fellowship. But who started it, and when? Most people know about the co-founders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who met in 1935 and formally launched AA. But who are the other "key players" in the history of AA? Well, there's Dr. William Silkworth, Bill's doctor at Towns Hospital. And Marty Mann, one of the first women in AA, and the founder of the National Council...
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Includes in depth analysis of themes, symbols and techniques in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, as well as useful quotes and ways of reading the novel for developing a band 6 (A range) response. Also includes suggestions on how to use Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese as a related text. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby were written in periods of rapid, social change...
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Highly adaptive societies will determine whether civilization survives the challenges of the 21st century. Choosing Survival presents this startling new concept, defining such societies and showing how they have evolved, spread around the world, created a complex interactive network, and become the principal drivers of social change. The extraordinary events associated with the global evolution of highly adaptive societies are presented continent...
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How will the world see the 20th century a hundred years from now? For many, it was like living right on the edge of a turbulent ocean that threatened to engulf them; and sometimes it did. In this thoughtful book, Mike Robbins looks at the century just gone through those who lived it, and the books they left behind.
Robbins includes some very different perspectives. What was it like to crew the last great sailing ships? How did it feel to be an ordinary...
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In this volume, I have made an effort to push further the practice of assembling philosophical fictions or, if you prefer, literary philosophy. These efforts are driven by conviction that, in so many ways, what were once assumed to be clear boundaries and lines of demarcation between literature and philosophy are not only no longer obvious but, in fact, may well be hindering the development of philosophy or, better, some new form of writing in a fuller...
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The Sandmann's Journal Vol. 3 is next in the sequence of volumes 1 & 2. Dates at the beginning of each chapter indicate the point when I published them online. Also, I feel the need to emphasize that although there's factual information in this book, I base the material on my point of view. Therefore, readers should use them for entertainment purpose if not to get to know me as an artist. In Volume 1, you will find topics like how I established my...
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Scripture - and fairy tales - tell us that it is in the ordinary where we can be surprised by meaning and significance. If we have eyes to see, then we might catch sight of subtle signs pointing to a deeper reality that transcends the narrow confines of the here and now. In this view lost binoculars occasion hints of the divine, and everything from Sudoku, sun-dried cotton sheets, piles of trash and garter snakes loose in the house mysteriously provide...
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Now What? is a serious but informal essay on the twin facts of human freedom and human equality. Michael Lydon, a musician and writer who lives in New York, writes that all humans are equal because no one knows the future, and that we are free if we can do anything, however small, to make a better future for ourselves. Now What? is a book for anyone who feels that people of every race and color around the world are free and equal beings.
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For more than forty years, J P Endres directed a camp in northern Minnesota. There, he taught generations of youngsters the value of nature, the importance of working together, and the joys that can come from a life lead with purpose and meaning. Here are reflections from his life as a camp director, a father, a son, a husband, an educator, and a man for whom love of wilderness shaped a career. Portage from the Past is part adventure story, part exploration...
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Caring for patients is a privilege. Learning how to assist and watch patients as they grapple with the challenges and joys life dishes out is a process. If we are paying attention, we gain insights into our own struggles. Medical students from across Minnesota reflect on their experiences in the anatomy lab and the library, on the hospital wards and in clinic exam rooms. Their musings represent the universal experience of learning to negotiate the...
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It is a classic, timeless work, encap -
sulated in a clear, concise, and succinct
form. And like a twentieth-century Western
Civilization equivalent of Musashi's seventeenth-
century Book of Five Rings, it should
be read, studied, and then periodically
reread and restudied. No matter how many
times you read it, you will always find one
more pearl of wisdom that you missed
during the last read.
Principles of Personal Defense is the
fighting...
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The essays in this volume address the epochal change we are going through as a society. We have highlighted some of the key developments affecting the evolution of defense and security challenges facing the United States and its key allies, as well as innovations and developments in selected military technologies and concepts of operations. The first section brings together essays on the world in conflict in 2022, which are assessments of the challenges...
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Unusual writings, philosophy, and poetry written between 1989 and 2001 during the exploratory part of the life of one who has adopted the name of an Astral Prune. An Astral Prune is one who carefully picks and chooses which thoughts to develop as they appear on one's view screen and not to devour voraciously the content that appears. There are also many fresh and insightful drawings made by the Astral Prune who had spent many years learning the art...
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Learn From My Experiences is a collection of essays penned by the author Norman B. Gildin who offers professional fundraisers, lay leaders, volunteers and the general public his perspective and the benefit of nearly four and a half decades raising more than $93 million for nonprofit organizations.
Each chapter tackles a different fundraising topic and addresses techniques and methodologies considered best practices in the field of Development. There...
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Magnum Opus of the Gong, selected essays from the Master's Teachings on philosophy and practice of Gong Therapy, Sacred Tone Improvisation, Spiritual Quickening and Gong Consciousness, World Peace and global unity. Writings for deep contemplation and meditation. History, Philosophy, Theory and becoming an Artist for Humanity. Selected writings encourage and challenge the player of the gong to grasp more and more of the fascinating history and knowledge...
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There are ghosts in the mountains, there are whispers in the wind. Voices from the river are, carried through the trees, an invitation to journey through waters and woods and etched canyons to connect to purpose-and-truth and meaning.
Sermons in Stones is a collection of eighteen beautifully, crafted short stories, anecdotes, and personal narratives offering thoughtful and profound reflection on the author's life experiences in a "mountain wilderness...
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This book is dedicated to applicants in China and other nations. The essays are successful personal statements, statements of purpose and application essays to first-rate graduate schools, colleges and universities in Western countries including United States of America, Canada, The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Russia and other European countries, in a wide variety of fields of study in the sciences and the humanities. By default,...
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The Sandmann's Journal Vol. 4 widens the scheme of my Hiphop KruZade. If you've read volumes 1, 2, & 3, you know what we're talking about. The Sandmann is giving his reaction to how the world works today. You are reading the fourth volume of the journal, and there are usual topics like how the Hip Hop music Kulture has changed. My lament is on how this generation does not seem to care about their heritage or the impact of the new values that they...
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Explore the world of urban nature in this journal-style memoir of a year in Boulder, Colorado, a city known for its striking setting at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Much more than a starry-eyed paean to nature's wonders, Pieces of Light is a 'journey of the heart,' where Tweit's year is spent reaffirming her bonds, healing her spirit, and settling her young family into a powerfully alluring landscape - until they must move away for work in a distant...
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Henry Beston, a gifted writer from the last century, came up with this description of wildlife: "We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices...
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