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Author Numa Jay Pillion set out to achieve the dream he had nurtured for a lifetime. Years later, with only the clothes on his back, he began to question his purpose in life. He discovered it in a Life Reading -- a communication from spirit plane delivered through a medium. In the process he learned that the sexual orientation he had been struggling with was a byproduct of reincarnation, that we are, first and foremost, members of one spiritua...

Laura Lacey Satterly, born and raised in Hialeah, Florida. Laura is Mother to Jennifer and Bobby, and Nana to Nicholas and Sydney. Laura is a retired Chef of thirty five years. She is attending College for a new direction in healing. Surrounded by Spirit and loving friends, she is living the path laid before her, neither ahead of spirit nor behind, but walking side by side, holding hands like old friends.

A scene of self-sacrifice can never be staged or secured. The work of Friedrich Hölderlin, arguably one of the most profound writers of the German Enlightenment, supports this idea in fascinating ways. Much of Hölderlin's critical reception, however, has the poet saying the exact opposite. Joseph Suglia counters the dominant critical reception of Hölderlin's Empedokles fragments, which would transform the tragic hero's experience of mortality ...

Is America the new Germany? Focusing on Iowa, this book explores the hidden meaning of that question, and seeks its answer in the forgotten history of nineteenth-century migration. Between 1847 and 1881, more than 300, 000 North Germans migrated to the Midwestern state of Iowa. Despite their experiences in the failed revolutions of 1848-1849 in Europe's German speaking kingdoms, leaders among these immigrants developed a program of political c...

This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the works of the prolific Austrian poet and prose artist Evelyn Schlag. European and American scholars provide an overview of Schlag's themes as well as detailed analyses of individual works. The essayists present a variety of approaches, from feminist readings to analyses of Schlag's eroticized language and poetic networking, making the book a rich resource for students and scholars alike. Additio...

Governmental control was largely exercised by the secret police of the Communist German Democratic Republic, popularly called the «Stasi». This book is based on the Stasi's internal documents at the district level in Magdeburg, which describe the popular reactions to government policy, a constant discontent that increased to an explosive level. These documents also reveal that the secret police reported internal problems and that by 1987 they ...

To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores the grounding of Lacan's psychoanalytic work in the intellectual and artistic movements of the modernist period. More specifically, it examines masculine anxiety in the modernist novel in terms of Lacan's work on psychosis, masochism, and narcissism, viewed against the broader cultural context of the modernist era. In the process, this book illustrat...

This book is not available for sale in France. Sometimes described as a «poetic essay», Celebration of the Everyday represents a confluence of genres. Written in prose, it possesses distinctive poetic qualities. It meets high intellectual standards, yet appeals to a broad readership. Colette Nys-Mazure proposes a certain «art of living», a search for the beauty and pleasures to be found in the simple things of everyday life, and also for th...

Imagine this scenario: one day you walk into a post office, and on the wall displaying missing children, you see a picture of Jesus!The President of the United States has put out an all-points bulletin to begin a massive search to find him. Jesus hasn't been seen in our schools - or in any public place - for several years now, and the concern is widening.The sad thing is, it isn't Jesus who is lost, but America. And the author didn't want his ...

From the embattled farmers who "fired the shot heard round the world" in the stirring "Concord Hymn, " to the flower in "The Rhodora, " whose existence demonstrates "that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being, " Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature.

The essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is therefore invaluable for the light it throws upon an underappreciated aspect of Derrida's own engagement, both philosophical and political, in struggles against the stifling of philosophical research and teaching.

Rethinking Military History is a bold new 'thought book' that reconsiders military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapters provide a valuable and concise survey of the main themes in the study of military history from 1500 to the present day as Jeremy Black reveals the main trends in the practice and approach to military history and proposes a new manifesto for the subject to move forward. This must-read study demon...

Ken Hultman has the rare ability to state profound wisdom in a simple way. Packed with rich biblical insight, Changing Kingdoms: Choosing a Christ-Centered Life describes the epic conflict between God's values and the world's, and explains why these two paradigms inevitably clash. The book provides an in-depth study of the four primary Christian values--faith, obedience, love, and service--and shows how they define the pathway to victorious Ch...

Social Problems in a Free Society offers an original perspective on social problems such as violations of the principles of individual rights and the free market. This book is a vision for reinvigorating the discipline in a fashion undreamt of within the wearisome strains of today's radical social problems theory.

Sierra and James grew up without a father and when they learned the detrimental truth the effect was catastrophic. When Sierra moved to another state she also learned how difficult it was to comfort a murderer, known as her best friend. She learned that the missing father was the missing love she yearned for. James had to change his attitude from being an abusive man to being a man. In spite, of his mother's addiction to cocaine and never know...

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From its attention-grabbing opening scene of a body found in an elevator in the Hotel Bristol in Vienna to its surprise ending at Interpol headquarters in Lyon, the Interpol Imbroglio will hold your interest. When delegates at a General Assembly of Interpol, the international police organization start dropping dead, fear sets in that the law enforcement community itself--or perhaps the entire city of Vienna--may be the target. The plot involve...

From its attention-grabbing opening scene of a body found in an elevator in the Hotel Bristol in Vienna to its surprise ending at Interpol headquarters in Lyon, the Interpol Imbroglio will hold your interest. When delegates at a General Assembly of Interpol, the international police organization start dropping dead, fear sets in that the law enforcement community itself--or perhaps the entire city of Vienna--may be the target. The plot involve...

Understanding Why is a book which attempts to communicate to a wide audience such topics which better our understanding of "why are we here", "why do we do what we do", and "what does life mean"? George Naryshkin draws from his years of study in embryology and geology in college, and anatomy from dental school. He also spent years in the Air Force as a jet pilot and Red cross volunteer as a dentist. This background, along with years of literat...

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