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Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
epub | | 2009-06-15 | Author:Shunryu Suzuki [Suzuki, Shunryu]

So, of Rinzai's four ways of practice, the perfect one is not to give a student any interpretation of himself, nor to give him any encouragement. If we think of ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice March 9,2015 )
Men of Science, Men of God by Morris Henry
epub |eng | 1982-03-01 | Author:Morris, Henry [Morris, Henry]

Statue of Thomas Chalmers Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) was a leader in the Church of Scotland and professor of theology in the University of Edinburgh. He authored the first two Bridgewater ...
( Category: Religious March 8,2015 )
Personal Impressions by Berlin Isaiah Hardy Henry Lee Hermione Annan Noel
epub |eng | 2014-03-07 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Lee, Hermione, Annan, Noel

1 Principal representative of the British Treasury in Washington 1944–6. 1 [i.e. her pronunciation of his name ended with a soft Russian ‘r’, the Russian soft sign ь being indicated ...
( Category: Authors March 8,2015 )
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

( Category: United States March 8,2015 )
The Book of Job by Harold S. Kushner
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Harold S. Kushner [Kushner, Harold S.]

Job’s Plea for a Redeemer: Chapter 19 Job responds to Bildad in chapter 19 in an outburst that is more despairing than anything we have yet heard from him. This ...
( Category: Religious March 7,2015 )
The Generalissimo by Taylor Jay
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Taylor, Jay [Taylor, Jay]

9 The Great Failure With his recent victory over Lin Biao still untarnished, Du Yuming was suffering another bout of bad health, and in early July after Li Zongren declined ...
( Category: Regional March 7,2015 )
Joker One by Donovan Campbell
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Donovan Campbell [Campbell, Donovan]

For Joker One, though, the events of April 6 began well before we launched into the city to relieve third platoon. In fact, for us April 6 began precisely at ...
( Category: Iraq War March 6,2015 )
King in the New World by John Thompson
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-05 | Author:John Thompson [Thompson, John]

That evening they dressed in clothes thought to be earth preppy at that time. Woo wore a collared shirt with short sleeves. He also wore a pair of skin tight ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 6,2015 )
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Barack Obama

CHAPTER TWELVE RAFIQ HAD DONE HIS best to spruce the place up. There was a new sign above the entrance, and the door had been propped open to let in ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 6,2015 )
Her Majesty by Robert Hardman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Hardman

* Some have accused Blair of breaking the code of secrecy surrounding the meetings of monarch and Prime Minister by describing them in his memoirs. But there are no complaints ...
( Category: Great Britain March 6,2015 )
Two Souls Indivisible by James S. Hirsch
epub |eng | | Author:James S. Hirsch [Hirsch, James S.]

9. The Hanoi March As the summer approached, the Hanoi media increased their attacks on the POWs. They had always been called "criminals," "air pirates," or "mercenaries," but now they ...
( Category: Military March 4,2015 )
The King in the North by Max Adam Max Adams
epub, mobi | | | Author:Max Adam, Max Adams [Adams, Max]

It is also a tradition which has become proverbial, that he died with a prayer on his lips. When he was beset by the weapons of his enemies and saw ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Grace and Grit by Lilly Ledbetter
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Lilly Ledbetter [Ledbetter, Lilly]

CHAPTER 7 Holding the Tiger by the Tail Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? —WILLIAM BLAKE ...
( Category: Sociology March 4,2015 )
The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

Isabella decided that she would exercise the duties of a regent, even though the title and recognition had been withheld. Mortimer and Adam of Orleton had been given places on ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan by Elia Kazan & Albert J. Devlin
mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Elia Kazan & Albert J. Devlin

TO MOLLY DAY THACHER PM: Piggott, Arkansas, September 27, 1955 We had a great day today. I’m getting to know a lot of people here too. Its too much, but ...
( Category: Letters March 4,2015 )

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