<p><span> There's little comfort in the wise. </span><br><span>Rupert Brooke. </span><br><span> </span><br><span> Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. </span><br><span>Oscar Wilde / To SIGOURNEY FAY </span><br><span> </span><br><span> Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. </span><br><span> </span><br><span>In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her. </span><br><span> </span><br><span>But Beatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her father's estate at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, or in Rome at the Sacred Heart Convent—an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally wealthy—showed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. </span><br><span> </span><br><span>A brilliant education she had—her youth passed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of the Older Roman Families; known by name as a fabulously wealthy American girl to Cardinal Vitori and Queen Mar-gherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whiskey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broadened in two senses during a winter in Vienna. All in all Beatrice O'Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.</span></p>
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<b>Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt in next to no time with this concise guide.</b> <br><b><br></b>50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and political career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. When Roosevelt was first elected in 1932, the USA was in the midst of the Great Depression, a major economic crisis. Thanks to a series of progressive, interventionist measures known collectively as the New Deal, the new president was able to set the economy on the path to recovery and drastically reduce unemployment. He also steered his country through the Second World War and played a crucial role in the establishment of the postwar world order, notably through his contribution to the creation of the United Nations. <br><b><br> In just 50 minutes you will:</b> <br> • Find out about Roosevelt’s political career, from his days as governor of the state of New York to his four terms as president <br> • Understand the main programmes of the New Deal and their impact on the American economy <br> • Learn about Roosevelt’s leadership during the Second World War and find out how he contributed to the peace process <br> <br><b>ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture</b> <br> 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery. <br>
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This book tells you about issues that are crucial to life. The stories and poems collected here not only illustrate typical human problems and conflicts - they also provide a basis for getting advice and finding solutions. Along with the exceptional graphics, these narratives - which are couched in the symbolic language of the fantastical imagination, of fable and fairy tale - point you in the direction of truths and possibilities. They take a thoroughly realistic view of habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior, with the aim of illustrating different ways of looking at things, different ways of being, opening up doorways to self-determination and encouraging readers to bring about healing changes in their lives. So an ant, for example, suddenly experiences loneliness, and leaves its nest to look for a remedy, a young woman bound on an adventurous journey faces up to her fears, and decides to become a free person; a water droplet experiences how its existence is transformed and renewed - all this with lots of surprising twists and turns, told in exciting and poetic style. This book offers the gift of life wisdom, so that we can come to a better understanding of who we are and what we need.
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This fast-paced page-turner from E. W. Hornung has something for every reader: a juicy murder mystery, a tender romance, charming local color, a critique of Victorian social mores, around-the-world adventures, and much more. The plot twists come at a breakneck pace, so don't blink or you might miss a crucial clue!
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What does "magic of nature" mean? Starting with the placebo effect and its relevance for biomedical research and clinical practice of today, this treatise focusses on diverse historical concepts of the "healing power of nature". This topos was fundamental for natural medicine, life reform movement, suggestive therapy, hypnotism, romantic natural philosophy, and mesmerism. Such a retrospection leads to the crucial concept of "natural magic" (Latin: magia naturalis), which was essential for early modern medicine and natural science. At that time, Nature (Latin: natura) was revered as a divine creator of natural things in the service of God, as a mediator of His wisdom for the inquiring humans. So, Nature was personified in many ways as a wise woman or magician, mystically adored by alchemists. At the end, the study returns to the present age. It reflects critically modern sexology and sexual medicine confronting them with certain spritually guided practices of "sexual magic". The 68 supplementary image pages stand for themselves displaying an emblematic subtext. Each of them tells an own story and is more or less self-explaining.
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Now, as at all crucial turning points in history, when this planet and all its living forms faces total destruction, help arrives from higher sources of consciousness. Many great beings incarnate into human form to show humankind, at present lost and bewildered, the way out of the threatening chaos. Babaji reappeared in 1970 at the foot of Mount Kailash in the Himalayas - the area worshipped since time immemorial as the axis of the earth and dwelling place of the gods. In his book, Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda refers to Babaji as Mahaavatar, the great immortal Being, embodiment of the highest consciousness, the one who has forever acted as spiritual guide for human beings and who appears more publicly at critical moments in history, when only the direct intervention of the divine can alter its course. Like Christ two thousand years ago, Babaji came recently in a human body and lived among the people 1970 - 84), teaching them by example the timeless message of the universal divine laws, based on truth, simplicity and love. According to Babaji's prophecies our planet is undergoing a total transformation to the point of the collapse of our civilizations and the decimation of the human race through a series of cataclysmic events. Following this a new age of peace would begin. Babaji taught that the way to live happily and successfully and not waste the opportunity of this lifetime was to be continuously mindful of the divine, to surrender the fruits of one's actions to the divine and to work in service to humanity and to creation as a whole. He taught that this was the relevant and true yoga of the times. He recommended the repetition of the mantra Om namaha Shivaya, which means "I take refuge in God" or "Thy will be done, O Lord".This mantra has the power to awaken the innate potential present in each human being to come to know his/her true divine nature, of which Babaji is the pure example.
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The collection of articles written by the author in the past two decades shows a lot of issues, developments, and paradoxes that mount up to some real memories of virtual documents. Looking back, each of the articles was motivated by a conflict the author experienced. All articles were trying to answer questions. The succession from one perspective to another, from one community to another, also indicates that some problems were grown out by just ignoring them, directly solved by taking action, or by changing conditions through advanced technology. However, the most sensitive sections of these articles follow the gaze of an observer who is incurably interested in cultural and social aspects of the fact that the accumulation of knowledge through sound and audio-visual documents is crucial to the survival of human communities and their environment. This approach is itself brought up through the conflict between steadily progressing technologies and their application in still slowly learning societies. Gisa Jähnichen, ecomusicologist, currently working at Shanghai Conservatory of Music is an IASA ambassador engaged in audiovisual archiving around the globe, especially in Asia.
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<p> Welcome to the adventuring, thrilling world of E. Phillips Oppenheim’s modern retelling of „Monte Cristo”. Gilbert Channay is released from prison after three years. He had been framed-up by business partners in the Channay Syndicate, and sets about executing his revenge. The retired policeman, Martin Fogg, mysteriously appears, knowing too much about Channay’s business. He helps Channay escape an attempt on his life, and keeps turning up at crucial times. The plot is the story of Channay’s revenge against each of the former members of the syndicate. In various intriguing and clever ways he manages to humble them all. Fans of fiction where wronged men turn tables on foes and out-maneuver them will enjoy „The Channay Syndicate”.</p>
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