Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. It begins where the reader already is-in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part-and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness"-the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment.
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Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was published by Coffee House Press in August 2011. Lerner's third full-length poetry collection, Mean Free Path, was published in 2010. He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006 and was subsequently named a finalist for the National Book Award, and was selected by Brian Foley as one of the "25 important books of poetry of the 00s (2000-2009)". in Political Theory and an MFA in Poetry. The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010, for which it received the "Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie" in 2011, making Lerner the first American to receive this honor.īorn and raised in Topeka, which figures in each of his books of poetry, Lerner is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School where he was a standout in debate and forensics. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. Includes discussion questions suitable for individual use or group discussions. From their first meeting, the two are caught in a stormy battle of wills. Atretes did not count on Rizpah's fiery resistance to having "her son" taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman's strength and beauty. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, a Christian widow who has cared for the baby since his birth. Meanwhile, Atretes, the Germanic warrior, vows to move heaven and earth to find his son-the baby he thought was dead and whose life Hadassah saved-and take him back to Germania. With Hadassah confined to the cells below the arena, facing death once again, and his sister Julia dying of a strange new illness and longing for a forgiveness beyond her reach, Marcus goes in search of God. The thrilling conclusion to the Mark of the Lion series. Book 3 in the 3-book historical Christian fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind. In 1982 there is a lot going on in England. He has an unwavering sense of moral, intellectual and ethical behavior and a unique thirst for knowledge. The longer he exists the more knowledge he gathers and the more human he seems. Charlie, we learn, makes a living (barely) day trading, so this purchase is beyond extravagant and arguably irresponsible.Īdam looks and acts like a real man. Charlie Friend, a slightly impoverished 33 year old searching for his place in the world, inherits money from his mother and spends 86,000 pounds on a 170 pound male robot, Adam. The writing is amazing, the story is captivating and intriguing and the interplay between the story, history (or I should really say alternate history) and the rise of technology is compelling Machines Like Me is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Those of you who follow my blog know that I rarely start a review with my opinion about a book. Kirk was the church minister at Aberfoyle in the southern Highlands of Scotland from 1685 to his death at age 48 in 1692. So, who was Robert Kirk, why was he writing about supernatural races on earth at the end of the 17th century, and what happened to him? The Strange Fate of Robert Kirk Much of the discussion in his text centers around people with the 'second sight', An Dà Shealladh in Gaelic, and their ability to sense the faerie world, which was apparently occupying the same space as consensus reality, but would only interact with it under special circumstances.Īugust Malmström - Dancing Faeries (1866) ( Public Domain ) When read carefully, the text of his 1691 manuscript describing the faeries of Aberfoyle, Scotland gives many clues as to the reality of what he calls the Subterraneans, and how people were able to perceive them and interact with them. Robert Kirk and his Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Faeries is very peculiar. There's information about the condition of each book in each respective listing, but anyone looking for more details can either ask me questions on eBay itself, or post a comment below, or drop me a line on the usual Existential Ennui email address (see the contact details in the sidebar on the right) and I'll respond as swiftly as I'm able. If they do well, I have other, more obscure delights waiting to be listed (not least some more Westlake books).Īll three auctions finish on Sunday 8 November around 7pm, and all three are UK only affairs, I'm afraid I may offer international shipping on future auctions (if there are future auctions), but for these initial ones I wanted to keep it simple. But they're all collectable first editions of a sort, and they all have low starting prices – £4.99 in each case – so they're a good way for me to test the waters, to see if it's going to be worth my while to persist with selling on eBay. I suppose they're all quite obvious books in a way: better known titles (although less so in the case of Pity Him Afterwards) by authors who are firm favourites on Existential Ennui. Westlake's Pity Him Afterwards, published in hardback by Random House in 1964, as seen on Existential Ennui here and here and The Violent World of Parker here, eBay auction here. An American first edition/impression of Donald E. His only connection with the larger world and important events in his life is through the handwritten notes clipped to his worn out suits. His world is reduced to solving puzzles from mathematic journals. Read moreĪ gifted mathematician, after suffering a terrible accident is left with a memory that only last for 80 minutes. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities-like the Housekeeper's shoe size-and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. As depicted here, Maud is a temperamental romance heroine, manipulated by male chauvinists-feudal barons her father, Henry I her domineering, priggish husband, Geoffrey. The novel dramatizes Maud's purported adulterous liaison with Stephen, who, despite their passionate involvement, angrily challenges her right to the throne when her father dies: their rivalry did in fact erupt into a devastating civil war Stephen won, reigning until his death in 1154, whereupon Maud's son acceded to the throne, becoming the skilled administrator Henry II, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Granddaughter of William the Conquerer, the historical Maud was wed at nine to an aging Holy Roman Emperor, later recalled from Germany as a widow of 25, named heir to the crown of England and married to 14-year-old Geoffrey Plantagenet. In this cumbrous historical novel, Jones postulates a turbulent love affair between the English princess Maud (born 1102) and her cousin and rival to the throne, Stephen of Blois-their passion complicated by political strife. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, Nozick boldly asserts that the rights of individuals are violated as a state's responsibilities increase-and that the only way to avoid these violations is the creation of a minimalist state limited to the enforcement of contracts and to protection against force, fraud, and theft. The foundational text of libertarian thought First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has become a defining text of classic libertarian thought. In other words, without The Outsiders, there may well be no Twilight. Together with Catcher in the Rye, The Outsiders helped to create today’s YA book market. All of a sudden, they realized that there was a separate market for young adults.” It nearly went out of print - until, Hinton says, her publishers found a better audience for it: “Teachers were using it in classes. But The Outsiders, initially marketed to adults, flopped. At 17 she sent it to a publisher, and she received her book contract on the day of her high school graduation. Hinton started writing the book at age 14, using the working title A Different Sunset. It is adolescent in every way, from its creation story to its legacy to - most especially - its contents. The Outsiders turns 50 today, but don’t let its age fool you: This book is a teenager, has always been a teenager, and always will be a teenager. |