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The Bullet in the Pawpaw: Theatre and AIDS in South Africa
by Kim HopeKim, a naïve, poorly educated English girl, is enjoying the delights of London in the &‘Swinging Sixties&’ when a chance encounter takes her on a journey to South Africa. Travelling as an actor with a touring Shakespeare company, Kim is irrevocably drawn to the &‘beloved country&’, but her abhorrence of the oppressive system of apartheid forces her to return home. This experience changes the direction of her life, and now, having achieved a longed-for education, she is on a mission: to stop the spread of HIV. She creates the Themba HIV&AIDS Organisation in Johannesburg and recruits and trains young people from the townships to deliver a unique programme of interactive theatre workshops.
Love's Calling: A Journey to Self
by Elizabeth GriffinJoin Elizabeth Griffin as she jumps into the unknown in search of....Love. Following inspiration she travels and ends up halfway around the world in Italy. A diagnosis of breast cancer changes the panorama of her outlook completely. She discovers the true terrain of her explorations is within. It is this new perspective that leads Elizabeth to realize her journey&’s end.
The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality
by Bernardo KastrupA rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and science today. This book examines what can be learned about the nature of reality based on conceptual parsimony, straightforward logic and empirical evidence from fields as diverse as physics and neuroscience. It compiles an overarching case for idealism - the notion that reality is essentially mental - from ten original articles the author has previously published in leading academic journals. The case begins with an exposition of the logical fallacies and internal contradictions of the reigning physicalist ontology and its popular alternatives, such as bottom-up panpsychism. It then advances a compelling formulation of idealism that elegantly makes sense of - and reconciles - classical and quantum worlds. The main objections to idealism are systematically refuted and empirical evidence is reviewed that corroborates the formulation presented here. The book closes with an analysis of the hidden psychological motivations behind mainstream physicalism and the implications of idealism for the way we relate to the world.
Kabbalah and Healing: A Mystical Guide to Transforming the Four Pivotal Relationships for Health and Happiness
by Maggy WhitehouseWhat Maggy Whitehouse has discovered, over more than a quarter of a century of studying, teaching and writing books on Kabbalah, is that, used as a tool for inspiration, Kabbalah is a magical loom on which we can weave our healing, and from that healing, we become an agent of healing for the World. Kabbalah tells us exactly where, when, how and why we may be out of alignment with health, finances and relationships and, just as importantly, how to realign ourselves. For Maggy, it began with chronic lack of self-esteem which, in turn, led to many a humiliation, widowhood, shark attack, failed emigration, debt, divorce, shame, misery, hatred and what the doctors called an incurable illness which now no longer exists. It can be summed up, in a way, by how the first eight aspects led to the final one and how Kabbalah taught Maggy how to heal them, from finish to start. After all, 'incurable' surely means 'curable from within'.
Life Is a Song of Love: A Woman's Spiritual Journey of the Heart and Womb
by Sally PattonFor over half her life, Sally Patton has engaged in a contemplative, spiritual practice to awaken from separation consciousness. In Life Is a Song of Love, she draws upon channeled non-dual teachings from Yeshua and Mother Mary, combined with a variety of teachings from many faith traditions and spiritual paths, to answer a unique call to be an emissary of Divine Feminine Compassionate Consciousness. The Holy Mother has returned to heal into wholeness the division between feminine and masculine energies, necessary to end thousands of years of patriarchal domination. Sally helps women wake to the strength of the Mother within, embracing the sacredness of all life on Mother Earth.
The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creative Life
by Erik S. RorabackThe Power of the Impossible surveys cultural figures from Spinoza to popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life. 'This original, unorthodox study illuminates our current crises of community formation and creativity in ways unexpected but necessary.' Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala University
Living With Honour: A Pagan Ethics
by Emma Restall OrrA provocative,articulate and uncompromising exploration of how Paganism can provide the philosophical guidance to live honourably in a twenty-first Western society.
Mindful Soul, Soulful Mind
by Trevor GreenfieldAn anthology of published Mind Body Spirit authors from across the spectrum.
Mind, Quantum, and Free Will: The Birth of Physics in the Sensuous Cosmos
by Peter EllsThe mind-body problem is the ultimate intractable enigma. How can we - being complex physical systems - have multicoloured experiences, and make conscious choices? This book proposes that all fundamental constituents of the universe are agents, which perceive one another, and freely act according to their percepts. Contemporary science can be explained in entirely mentalistic terms. This is consistent with many interpretations of quantum mechanics, such as GRW and Roger Penrose's OR theory.
Pagan Portals - Merlin: Once and Future Wizard
by Elen SentierBestselling author Elen Sentier looks at Merlin in history and mythology and considers his continuing relevance for people today. Best known as the wizard from the Arthurian stories, Merlin has been written about for well over 1000 years and is considered to be both a magical and historical figure. Over the centuries many people have had relationships with Merlin and in this book the author brings him to life for us once again in yet another way and from yet another perspective.
The Knowable God: A Fresh Look At The Fourth Gospel
by Peter BrainThe Knowable God comprises twenty-three self-contained chapters on the key issues raised and the emphases made in John's Gospel. It is not a critical commentary nor a set of devotional meditations; it is rather an exposition of key episodes, characters and themes, always trying to interpret the text for our own time. It centres on the fact that John's controversial distinctiveness is usually missed in Christian worship, teaching and belief. Within the New Testament there are several understandings of Christian faith, of salvation, of the significance of the cross. John gives us his views on all these, plus the headline message that it is the incarnation itself which is our salvation. To understand Christianity we need more than this Gospel - but cannot do without it.
Pagan Portals - Raven Goddess: Going Deeper with the Morrigan
by Morgan DaimlerPagan Portals - Raven Goddess follows on from the author's earlier book, The Morrigan, to help the reader continue to get to know the Irish Goddess of war, battle, and prophecy with a particular focus on disentangling truth from common misconceptions. As the Morrigan has grown in popularity, understandings of who she was and is have shifted and become even more nebulous. Raven Goddess is intended to clarify some common points of confusion and help people go deeper in their study of the Morrigan and assist in nurturing a devotional relationship to her.
Magnificent, Rational, Strange: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
by Ian BreckenridgeIn Magnificent, Rational, Strange, you will take a voyage of discovery to explore the entire universe as we know it today. Notice its magnificent rationality, its deep complexity, and some of the paradoxes seemingly built into it. Ponder the strangeness of time and of vast numbers, black holes, Big Bangs, and quantum dimensions. What are our human origins? Are we alone in our mysterious uniqueness? Or are we part of a natural pattern characteristic of this universe? The human voyage continues, but travel back first, to celebrate life, how it emerged and how it works. Examine the ancient roots of humankind and our journey thus far. Circle back to the biochemical underpinnings of human understanding. Where will this voyage take us now? Ian Breckenridge, a layman, has for many years been immersed in the indescribable wonder of our universe. In a single compact volume, this book manages to raise quite a few deep questions.
Awakening
by Elizabeth VallaniThis is a book of our time. We have spent the last decades collecting the cars, the house, the image, and now we are reaching for whats next. We numb our worlds with wall to wall TV and an endless busyness that exhausts and shadows who we really are. When we stop, we long to maintain the stillness and enjoyment that we find. We are asleep. The world is changing. Awakening is the answer to human happiness. It's easy, we just need to wake up, remember, and look to our future. From modern Mums to business high flyers we are homogenising our existence. We have the opportunity to harness our human psyche, build upon our past and present and create an amazing future. Whether you have been made redundant, are looking for the answer or are simply looking to feel and have a brighter future, you have the power to awaken to conscious living right now and in doing so feel the astounding spirit of source within you.
Mind-Spirit Detox: Reboot, Reset And Recharge With 40 Beautiful Practices To Deepen Your Oneness With Spirit
by Richard Charles AndersonYou have detoxed your body, maybe now is the time to detox your mind. Mind-Spirit Detox practices are the key to unlocking unhelpful habitual patterns of behaviour and thought. By spring-cleaning the mind and removing tired, used up energy, they dissolve resistance and doubt, and advance our understanding of who we are and our place on Earth. Our relationship with ourselves and our relationship with the Divine will receive a sublime and powerful &‘system re-boot&’. Mind-Spirit Detox will open you up to the full grace, power, beauty and love that the Universe longs to give you in your life. This book is about connection, it is about mending and radically enhancing your relationship with others, with yourself and with Spirit. You will experience an incredible expansion of love, of prosperity, and of compassion in your daily walk. You will come to know your deepest purpose on this earth and that purpose will be firmly rooted in the divine flow of Spirit. This practical book might just change your life forever.
Dying to Live: Lessons from Mark
by John ChurcherDying to Live' is a radical exploration of the life of Jesus through the memories of Peter the Apostle and his translator Mark. It is a journey, not a destination. It is a continuing quest not in search of integrity but to preserve it. This book offers glimpses of a deeper relevant spirituality for today. The starting point is that the 'Gospel' of Mark was written as an interpretive biography, not as sacred text. To over-spiritualise the reading of Mark is to miss the real Jesus contained within its pages. To follow Jesus is not so much concerned with "right belief" as it is about how one lives. Jesus accepted people as they were and especially offered the outsider and the rejected dignity and a sense of personal worth. Churches have rightly encouraged charitable giving, especially to the poor and the outcast, but its creeds and doctrines have misrepresented the transformational life and teaching of Jesus, masking the hard cost of discipleship required to address the underlying root causes of violence, hunger and poverty in a world of plenty.
Will You Join in Our Crusade?: The Invitation Of The Gospels Unlocked By The Inspiration Of Les Miserables
by Steve MannThe world's all-time bestseller meets a twenty-first century musical icon. In this seven-week course, suitable for group use or personal reflection, Steve Mann skilfully interweaves the Gospel narrative with the story of Les Miserables. Daily devotional readings are built around seven key spiritual themes - Grace, responsibility, truth, compassion, fellowship, darkness and reconciliation. These are complemented by weekly study material tied in to the 2012 movie release. This is an ideal resource for those looking for a Lent study but works equally well at any time of year.
A Cup of Buddha
by Thomas D. CraigA Cup of Buddha: reflections on truth discusses how to take the journey toward inner peace, toward truth in entertaining, simple language beyond the abstract and mystical concepts typically found in eastern philosophy books. The book applies eastern philosophy to western living utilizing pop culture and music metaphors to explore dense topics in an easy to digest format. Individuals are restless, and unhappy. We search for the water to put out our fire of discontent filling this space with self help books, food, new cars, relationships, and more, all with short term satisfaction but our fire still burns. We look outward, we look to others, yet the fire rages. A Cup of Buddha: reflections on truth addresses this fire within each of us, exploring the actual journey toward truth, understanding that each moment in life is everything, and we alone ultimately make this choice toward happiness.
Clouds of Heaven, Beings of Light
by Sharon Kay CaseyHow does one describe the indescribable? With trust, the words will come to paint a faint image of that which lives and dwells in us all. This is a true story of a blessed life that through a series of events went to a dark place of abusive relationships and drug addiction, until one night while sitting in a car, Sharon Kay Casey's path changed forever, when she heard God&’s voice say, &“Trust me.&” A few years later she entered a place of golden light. &“When stillness comes flowing over like a well springing from the depths of our being… We see your face, faint at first then brilliantly shining with many lights brighter than the sun itself. We witness the universe moving within you, swirling slowly, then like a spiraling vortex with lights of many colors like precious stones of unspeakable brilliance. Within your being, surely all the heavens dwell. Beams of lightning extend from your head and we your Children of Light stand in awe and wonder.&”
Exploding the Truth: The JFK, Jr. Assassination
by John KoernerExploding the Truth: The JFK, Jr. Assassination presents evidence of a conspiracy to assassinate the only surviving son of President John F. Kennedy and considers the motives that many powerful forces had, to make sure he never set foot in the White House. Divided into two parts, Part One examines the potential motives the Bush family, the C.I.A., and perhaps even Israeli intelligence, had to eliminate JFK, Jr. Part Two systematically dismantles the official version of events, that JFK, Jr., crashed his plane due to pilot error, and examines both the evidence of a government cover-up at the crime scene, and the extensive eyewitness reports of an explosion that brought the aircraft down.
Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing: SEICCGTC 2023, Boca Raton, USA, March 6–10 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #489)
by Frederick HoffmanThis proceedings volume compiles selected, revised papers presented at the 54th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (SEICCGTC 2023), which took place at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, USA, from March 6th to 10th, 2023. The SEICCGTC is widely regarded as a trendsetter for other conferences worldwide. Many ideas and themes initially discussed here have subsequently been explored in other conferences and symposia. Since 1970, the conference has been held annually in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Boca Raton, Florida. Over the years, it has grown to become the primary annual conference in its fields, playing a crucial role in disseminating results and fostering collaborative work. This volume is tailored for the community of pure and applied mathematicians in academia, industry, and government, who work in combinatorics and graph theory, as well as related areas of computer science and the intersections among these fields.
New Trends and Challenges in Optimization Theory Applied to Space Engineering: OTSE Conference Proceedings, 13‒15 December 2023, L'Aquila (Italy) (Springer Optimization and Its Applications #221)
by Giorgio Fasano Alessandra Celletti Piermarco Cannarsa Leonardo Mazzini Emmanuel Trélat Mauro PontaniThe book consists of the proceedings of the workshop "New Trends and Challenges in Optimization Theory Applied to Space Engineering", held in l'Aquila (Italy), and organized by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), on December 13-15, 2023. The main purpose of the book is to provide an overview of the most important current topics concerning optimal control in space. Optimal control theory is an exciting research area, where both new theoretical approaches and application problems come into play. The “New Trends and Challenges in Optimization Theory Applied to Space Engineering” conference brought together influential academic researchers and experts from industry and government to build bridges between their respective groups. The topics of the conference panels are selected to include the most advanced areas of interest for space applications. In line with the mission of the Gran Sasso Tech Foundation, interdisciplinary dialogue is promoted between the sciences, and different experts are encouraged to work together to identify new problems and generate new solutions. Covering a wide range of space-related topics and challenges, this conference aims to lay the foundation for a long-term collaboration between different groups of experts. A broad overview of control theory applications in space is presented, highlighting the most recent aspects, both from a theoretical and practical point of view, in particular on the following topics: - manifold dynamics, trajectory design and related control aspects; - AI techniques in guidance control problems and space missions; - optimization techniques for constellations with applications to space operations; - multi-stage control problems for launch and landing problems; - optimal control problems in the presence of uncertain parameters; - improved sufficient and necessary conditions in optimal control problems for space problems. New methods, specific mathematical models, ad hoc algorithms and heuristics, innovative mission scenarios, and advances in classical control theory are presented.
Promoting Sustainability Through Water Management and Climate Change Adaptation (Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences)
by Subhash Anand Anupama Dubey Basavaraj BagadeThis book explores the concept and issues of sustainability and its symbiotic relationship with existing water resources, the surrounding climate and geospatial development. It covers many dimensions of sustainable water resources, climatic variability, change. It also includes case studies on the basis of specific problems and issues, providing sustainable solutions for the future of the earth. Over the past several decades, climate change has significantly impacted a number of components of the hydrological cycle and hydrological systems, including changes in precipitation patterns and intensity; widespread melting of snow and ice; increased atmospheric water vapour; increased evaporation; and changes in soil moisture and runoff. Excess runoff eventually reaches larger bodies of water such as lakes, estuaries and the ocean, contaminating the water supply and limiting human and environmental access to water. An improved understanding of how changing anthropogenic activities could affect water resources, and climate in various parts of the world is a necessary step towards sustainability. This awareness requires analyses of challenging interactive areas within the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and sociosphere, as resultant long-term sustainable strategies and measures are greatly needed.
Bridging the Digital Divide: Perspectives on Inequality and Discrimination in the Digital Age (Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities)
by Oscar Pérez de la Fuente Jędrzej SkrzypczakThe digital revolution has sparked a new wave of inequality, particularly in access to technology and its benefits. Understanding these disparities is vital for grasping their impact on contemporary society. One manifestation is through artificial intelligence, algorithms, and misinformation. AI-driven systems, used in decision-making like job applications and loan approvals, can exhibit biases due to skewed datasets. Algorithms also spread false information on social media platforms with minimal oversight. Digital labor and the platform economy exacerbate inequality. While platforms like Uber and Airbnb offer income opportunities, workers lack basic protections like minimum wage laws. Additionally, personal data is often exploited without consent. Cybersafety and cybercrime further highlight digital inequalities. Some have access to robust security measures, while others lack basic knowledge, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. Economic barriers also hinder participation in gaming and other digital spaces. Big data collection practices can deepen existing disparities, especially regarding socioeconomic status and demographics. Public policies must address these issues to ensure equal access to technology for all. This book aims to shed light on these disparities and develop solutions for a more equitable technological landscape.
Propagation Characterization and Channel Modeling for UAV Communications (Wireless Networks)
by Xiang Cheng Ziwei Huang Lu BaiThis book focuses on the propagation characterization and channel modeling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications. Currently, there are no books that cover this specific topic. The authors fill in this void by elaborating accurate yet easy-to-use UAV channel models. The authors also present such topics as propagation characteristics of UAV communications, a time stationary regular-shaped geometry-based stochastic model (RS-GBSM) for UAV narrowband channels. It also introduces a time non-stationary RS-GBSM for UAV narrowband channels, a time non-stationary RS-GBSM for UAV wideband channels, a time-space non-stationary irregular-shaped geometry-based stochastic model (IS-GBSM) for UAV wideband channels and more. Finally, this book closes up with some promising directions, hoping to promote future research outcomes in the field of UAV channel modeling. As the UAV technology matures rapidly, UAV communications are shifting from military development to civilian and commercial sectors. The UAV communication is widely considered as a significant and indispensable component of wireless communications. It is well known that an accurate yet easy-to-use UAV channel model is the foundation of designing a proper UAV communication system and evaluating its performance. This book also provides valuable suggestions for the design of UAV communication systems by adequately presenting the UAV propagation characterization and channel modeling. This book is mainly written for researchers and professionals working in wireless communications. Advanced-level students majoring in computer science or electrical engineering may also find the content useful as a secondary textbook.