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September 28, 2023

This Changes Everything Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement

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Free Download Sarah Van Gelder, The staff of YES! Magazine, "This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement"
English | 2011 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1609945875 | PDF | 4,8 mb
We’re bombarded by messages telling us that bigger and better things are the keys to happiness-but after we pile up the stuff and pile on the work hours, we end up exhausted and broke on a planet full of trash. Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. Here they offer fascinating research, in-depth essays, and compelling personal stories by visionaries such as Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, showing us that real well-being is found in supportive relationships and thriving communities, opportunities to make a contribution, and the renewal we receive from a thriving natural world. In the pages of this book, you’ll find creative and practical ways to cultivate a happiness that is nurturing, enduring, and life affirming.

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September 28, 2023

The quest for Gaia A book of changes

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Free Download Kit Pedler, "The quest for Gaia: A book of changes"
English | 2012 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 0586083650 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
Kit Pedler, the scientist who co-created the ‘Doomwatch’ television series to warn us of the dangers of technology, presents his vision of a totally different way of being in the world. Mankind, Pedler believes, stands at a critical point in history and has to reassess its relationship and the web of interactions that make up the total life-form of the planet. Pedler calls this life-form Gaia, after the Greek earth mother goddess, a being whose sole concern is the survival of the planet itself. Mankind is provoking the wrath of the life-form by its high technology, accelerating entropy and production of planetary disorder. Can we halt the technological Behemoth and live in harmony with the planet again? Kit Pedler says ‘yes, we can, indeed, that we have no choice but to do so’. He outlines highly practical ways every individual can change his or her way of life to reduce our personal entropy debt. Do we need to eat factory-farm beef rather than, the sun-product, grain? Must be build homes from steel and concrete rather than, the renewable earth-product, timber? Is there an alternative to expensive, and ecologically destructive, drugs? From experiments with his own lifestyle Kit Pedler comes to some profoundly optimistic conclusions. He demonstrates how low-entropy living can have unexpected rewards, from restoring our respect for the creatures with which we share the earth, greater independence and freedom through learning abandoned skills and, above all, by the recovery of a lost vision, once possessed by our forefathers, which enables us to see and feel in ways forgotten by industrial man. The Quest for Gaia is an exhilarating and optimistic book, and a challenge to capture a rewarding and sustainable future for ourselves and our earth. It is a blueprint for the Age of Gaia.

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August 16, 2023

52 Small Changes One Year to a Happier, Healthier You

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Free Download Brett Blumenthal, "52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You"
English | ISBN: 1612181392 | 2012 | 380 pages | AZW3 | 15 MB
Whether as New Year’s resolutions, birthday wishes, or daily promises, most everyone vows at some point to make a major life change. But change is easier said than done, especially when it comes to better managing our wellness amidst the chaos of everyday living. Fortunately, wellness coach and award-winning writer Brett Blumenthal has devised a way to inspire and motivate her readers to live healthier and make positive changes in their lives. Although Blumenthal’s method is not a quick fix, it is a surprisingly simple one: make one small change per week, for fifty-two weeks, and at the end of a year, you’ll be happier and healthier. After all, it is the small changes that are the most realistic, instead of trying to overhaul your lifestyle all at once.

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July 24, 2023

The I Ching or Book of Changes

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Free Download The I Ching or Book of Changes By Wilhelm, Richard(Translator);Baynes, Cary F(Translator);Jung, C G(Foreword)
1997 | 740 Pages | ISBN: 069109750X | EPUB | 2 MB
TheI Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning when ethical values were attached to the oracular pronouncements; it became a book of wisdom, eventually one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, and provided the common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy.Wilhelm’s rendering of theI Chinginto German, published in 1924, presented it for the 1st time in a form intelligible to the general reader. Wilhelm, who translated many other ancient Chinese works and who wrote several books on Chinese philosophy and civilization, long resided in China. His close association with its cultural leaders gave him a unique understanding of the text of theI Ching. In the English translation, every effort has been made to preserve Wilhelm’s pioneering insight into the spirit of the original.This 3rd edition, completely reset, contains a new forward by Hellmut Wilhelm, one of the most eminent American scholars of Chinese culture. He discusses his father’s textual methods and summarizes recent studies of theI Chingboth in the West and in present-day China. The new edition contains minor textual corrections, bibliographical revisions and an index.

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July 24, 2023

Consonant-induced sound changes in stressed vowels in Romance Assimilatory, dissimilatory and diphthongization processe

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Free Download Daniel Recasens, "Consonant-induced sound changes in stressed vowels in Romance: Assimilatory, dissimilatory and diphthongization processe"
English | ISBN: 3111000451 | 2023 | 480 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The book investigates historical patterns of vowel diphthongization, assimilation and dissimilation induced by consonants – mostly (alveolo)palatals – in Romance. Compiling data from dialectal descriptions, old documentary sources and experimental phonetic studies, it explains why certain vowels undergo raising assimilation before (alveolo)palatal consonants more than others. It also suggests that in French, Francoprovençal, Occitan, Rhaetoromance and dialects from northern Italy, mid low vowel diphthongization before (alveolo)palatal consonants started out with the formation of non-canonical falling diphthongs through off-glide insertion, from which rising diphthongs could emerge at a later date (e.g., Upper Engadinian OCTO ‘eight’ > [ɔc] > [ɔ(ə̯)c] > [wac]). Both diphthongal types, rather than canonical falling diphthongs with a palatal off-glide, could also give rise to high vowels (dialectal French [li]

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July 13, 2023

Varieties of Religious Authority Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam

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Free Download Azyumardi Azra, Van Kees Dijk, J. G. Nico Kaptein, "Varieties of Religious Authority: Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam"
English | 2010 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 9812309403 | PDF | 7,8 mb
The twentieth century was a fascinating period of profound political, social and economic changes in Indonesia. These changes contributed to the diversification of the religious landscape and as a result, religious authority was redistributed over an increasing number of actors. Although many Muslims in Indonesia continued to regard the ulama, the traditional religious scholars, as the principle source of religious guidance, religious authority has become more diffused and differentiated over time. The present book consists of contributions which all deal with the multi-facetted and multidimensional topic of religious authority and aim to complement each other. Most papers deal with Indonesia, but two dealing with other countries have been included in order to add a comparative dimension. Amongst the topics dealt with are the different and changing roles of the ulama, the rise and role of Muslim organizations, developments within Islamic education, like the madrasa, and the spread of Salafi ideas in contemporary Indonesia.

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