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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam

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by Karen Armstrong "IN THE BEGINNING, human beings created a God who was the First Cause of all things and Ruler of heaven and earth..." (more) From Publishers Weekly This searching, profound comparative history of the three major monotheistic faiths fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate. Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious affairs and former Roman Catholic nun, argues that Judaism, Christianity and Islam each developed the idea of a personal God, which has helped believers to mature as full human beings. Yet Armstrong also acknowledges that the idea of a personal God can be dangerous, encouraging us to judge, condemn and marginalize others. Recognizing this, each of the three monotheisms, in their different ways, developed a mystical tradition grounded in a realization that our human idea of God is merely a symbol of an ineffable reality. To Armstrong, modern, aggressively righteous fundamentalists of all three faiths represent "a retreat from God." She views as inevitable a move away from the idea of a personal God who behaves like a larger version of ourselves, and welcomes the grouping of believers toward a notion of God that "works for us in the empirical age." 25,000 first printing; BOMC alternate. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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India 2020 : A Vision for the New Millennium is a book, written by former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam, though before his tenure, and Y. S. Rajan.

The book's 300 pages are divided into 12 chapters :

What Other Countries Envision for Themselves
Evolution of Technology Vision 2020
Food, Agriculture and Processing
Materials and the Future
Chemical Industries and Our Biological Wealth
Manufacturing for the Future
Services As People's Wealth
Strategies Industries
Health Care for All
The Enabling Infrastructure
Realizing the Vision

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The Art of Public Speaking | Dale Carnegie | 300 PGS

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The best way to become a confident, effective public speaker, according to the authors of this landmark book, is simply to do it. Practice, practice, practice. And while you're at it, assume the positive. Have something to say. Forget the self. Cast out fear. Be absorbed by your subject. And most importantly, expect success. "If you believe you will fail," they write, "there is hope for you. You will." DALE CARNEGIE (1888-1955), a pioneer in public speaking and personality development, gained fame by teaching others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold more than 10 million copies. He also founded the Dale Carnegie Institute for Effective Speaking and Human Relations, with branches all over the world. JOSEPH BERG ESENWEIN (1867-1946) also wrote The Art of Story-Writing, Writing the Photoplay (with Arthur Leeds), and Children's Stories and How to Tell Them.
Author: Dale Carnegie

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Awakening the Third Eye

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ISBN: 0958670056 Written by Samuel Sagan, M.D., this book describes a systematic process to open the third eye and presents the first principles of the Clairvision style of work. What is the Third Eye? The third eye is the gate that opens to the space of consciousness and inner worlds. It is also the main organ through which the body of energy can be awakened and governed. In practice, the third eye acts as a 'switch' which activates higher states of consciousness and experiences of spiritual vision. The development of spiritual vision requires the patient building of some new 'organs' of energy, of which the third eye is a master key. These new structures are not physical, nevertheless they are very real and tangible. Once fully developed, the perceptions coming through them appear clear, sharper and far more substantial than those coming from the physical senses. Excerpt 3.6 The Tunnel of the Third Eye "A useful hint that can be given is not to consider the eye as a patch or a fifty cent coin on the forehead. In reality, the third eye is more like a pipe or a tunnel, going from the area in the middle of the eyebrows to the occipital bone at the back of the head." All along the tunnel are a number of centers of energy, through which one can connect with different worlds and areas of consciousness.This explains why different systems may 'locate' the third eye in different places - each of them chooses a different centeralong the pipe as a reference point, or even a structure of energy adjacent to the tunnel. Another important point to keep in mind is that the third eye is not physical. The grossest part of the third eye is a structure of energy belonging to the etheric body, or layer of life force.The etheric body has many connections with the physical body andtherefore the third eye, being the 'main switch' of the ethericbody, is also closely connected to certain structures of the physicalbody, for instance the pituitary and the pineal glands. However, it would be over-simplified to say that the third eyeis the pineal gland or the pituitary gland, as stated by certainbooks. For, as explained before, the tunnel of the third eye isn't physical. It impacts its energy on a number of structures of the physical body, including the frontal sinus, the optic nervesand their chiasma, the nerves of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone, the pituitary and the pineal glands, some of the nuclei at the center of the brain, the ventricles of the brain and others.It would be far too simplistic and limited to pick one of thesephysical structures and label it 'third eye'. For the third eye is not physical: it is an organ of energy. It may have some privilegedconnections with certain physical structures, but it can't be limited to any of them."

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God a Debate Between A Christian And a Atheist

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William Lane Craig & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, “God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist” (Point/Counterpoint) Oxford University Press (2004) | English | ISBN 0195165993 | 174 pages | PDF | 6.40 MB The question of whether or not God exists is endlessly fascinating and profoundly important. Now two articulate spokesmen–one a Christian, the other an atheist–duel over God’s existence in a lively and illuminating battle of ideas. In God?, William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong bring to the printed page two debates they held before live audiences, preserving all the wit, clarity, and immediacy of their public exchanges. With none of the opaque discourse of academic logicians and divinity-school theologians, the authors make claims and comebacks that cut with precision. Their arguments are sharp and humorous, as each philosopher strikes quickly to the heart of his opponent’s case. For example, Craig claims that we must believe in God to explain objective moral values, such as why rape is wrong. Sinnott-Armstrong responds that what makes rape wrong is the harm to victims of rape, so rape is immoral even if there is no God. From arguments about the nature of infinity and the Big Bang, to religious experience and divine action, to the resurrection of Jesus and the problem of evil, the authors treat us to a remarkable display of intelligence and insight–a truly thought-provoking exploration of a classic issue that remains relevant to contemporary life.

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Laugh & Learn - 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and Training

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By Doni Tamblyn 2002 Training/Human Resources Hardcover • 224 pages ISBN: 0-8144-0745-5 Doni is a stand-up comic who used her day job teaching traffic offenders in a “school” to launch a training career. Grounded in Comedy, and he practical teaching of difficult students who “did not wish to be attending class”, Doni is an expert in humor and its application to training and teaching. Doni says that whilst we may not all be born comedians, most people are naturally humorous. Doni ’s humorous techniques bring serious results at clients such as Chevron, Wells Fargo, and other Fortune 500 companies, universities, and government entities. Her book Laugh and Learn offers plenty to keep smiles on the faces of trainers and their students, but it is NOT a collection of one-liners and knock-knock jokes. It IS though, an enlightening and practical look at how teachers and training professionals can inject elements of entertainment, creativity, humor, and emotion into their existing methods, even when dealing with serious or technical topics. Filled with fun, challenging, and thought-provoking exercises to help readers feel more comfortable being funny, the book also provides dozens of workshop activities and techniques to introduce humor into the learning environment. Combining the latest brain studies and humor research with the author’s own 23 years of experience in comedy and corporate training, Laugh and Learn is a fascinating look at what makes learners perk up, pay attention—and remember! And what is really good about Doni’s book is that it has an INDEX – which is also very funny!! About the Author Doni Tamblyn (Philadelphia, PA) is president of HumorRules, a Philadelphia-based consulting firm. She is the author of The Big Book of Humorous Training Games, a frequent speaker at training conferences, and a former stand-up comic. BOOK # 2 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom: Using Humor in Business Speaking

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Shamanism An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture

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ISBN: 1576076458 ISBN-13: 9781576076453 Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated Pub. Date: December 2004 Synopsis For thousands of years shamans have traveled the spirit world, hunting lost souls, healing the sick, interpreting dreams, and guiding human endeavors on behalf of individuals and communities. Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture is the first worldwide survey to trace the continuous thread of shamanic beliefs and rituals across cultures and through time. It is the only reference to fully convey what it means to be a shaman and how the role of the shaman influences—and draws meaning from—each culture from which it emerges. Shamanism offers nearly 200 fascinating entries on general and regional topics, with leading anthropologists, ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature describing shamanism in tribal and large-scale populations and in developing and developed societies. It both investigates shamanism as a universal part of humanity and discusses specific traits and rituals, studying shamanism from multiple points of view. Library Journal This two-volume set offers a comprehensive cross-cultural overview of shamanism, defined by editors Walter (Bucknell Univ.) and Fridman (Brown Univ.) as a "religious belief system in which the shaman is the specialist in knowledge." The shaman serves the community by providing a connection of the soul to the spirit world, often through an altered state. The first volume consists of short essays on general themes, such as animal symbolism, divination, healing, music, and trance. The essays point both general readers and scholars to further resources while providing basic information on all things shamanistic. The second volume comprises nearly 200 entries organized into ten geographical sections. Written by some 180 contributors, these entries focus on the cultural groups and practices found in each region, both historically and presently. The introduction to the work provides a historical perspective on the subject, including differing approaches to the topic. It also addresses difficulties with shamanism, especially the debate over whether to classify it as a religion. Bottom Line More than a reference tool, this is a useful compendium on a topic that has been fairly inaccessible, especially to nonscholars. While it features some illustrations, it could have been improved upon by the addition of many more. Recommended for academic libraries and public libraries where there is interest in the topic.-Nancy Almand, Weld Lib. Dist., Greeley, CO Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Norse mythology a guide to the Gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs

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Professor John Lindow's "Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs" is one of three important reference works on the subject currently or recently available, following Rudolf Simek's heavily linguistic "Dictionary of Northern Mythology" (German edition 1984, translated by Angela Hall, 1993) and Andy Orchard's "Cassell's Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend" (and slightly variant titles, 1997). Each of the three takes a different approach, and I have found them nicely complementary.The book opens with an introduction that explores the historical background of the Scandinavian people, their ties to Indo-European culture, the tradition of Skaldic poetry, and the texts of Snorri Sturluson. In addition, problems that arise in studying Norse mythology are addressed, problems that develop as texts dealing with Norse deities were composed by Christian authors writing in different languages centuries after the actual worship of the deities.

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Top 100 Best Novels Of All Time (BBC)

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Here are the top 100

1984, George Orwell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Dubliners, James Joyce
Emma, Jane Austen
Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Holes, Louis Sachar
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Memoirs of Fanny Hill, John Cleland
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Moby , Herman Melville
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Tales of Terror and Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas père
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
The Provost, John Galt
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Stand, Stephen King
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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Wings of Fire - An Autobiography (APJ Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari)

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Wings of Fire - An Autobiography (APJ Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari)

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