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The Origin of Buddhist Meditation by Wynne Alexander
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-10-21 | Author:Wynne, Alexander

In these two explanations sītisiyā is interpreted as ‘become eternal’ (sassato) or ‘final emancipation’ (parinibbāna) respectively. In both cases the concept of ‘becoming cool’ seems to refer to the death ...
( Category: Legal Theory & Systems September 4,2018 )
Athenian Democracy by John Thorley
epub |eng | 2012-07-22 | Author:John Thorley

CLERUCHIES AND COLONIES Klerukhiai (cleruchies) were a special kind of colony that the Athenians established in key locations around the Aegean. Though there is no evidence that they were a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 4,2018 )
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist by Lerman Antony;
epub |eng | | Author:Lerman, Antony; [Lerman, Antony]

Of course, I was not alone in my confusion, anxiety and anger. Many of my friends and acquaintances had similar feelings and it wasn’t long before we sought out each ...
( Category: World September 4,2018 )
Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold
epub |eng | | Author:Catharine Arnold

CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE FATAL VOYAGE ON 29 SEPTEMBER 1918, the USS Leviathan transport ship was preparing to leave Hoboken, New Jersey, to sail to Brest, France. The vessel, along with ...
( Category: World September 4,2018 )
50 Guns That Changed the World by Robert A. Sadowski
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Robert A. Sadowski

Jack O’Connor and his son Brad at a successful moose hunt in British Columbia. Courtesy Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center; jack-oconnor.org. The old man and his sheep, O’Connor ...
( Category: Military September 4,2018 )
China by Adeline Yen Mah
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Yen Adeline]

Kublai Khan taking part in a hunting expedition SIEGE BY SEESAW In 1268, Kublai ordered the construction of an enormous river feet of 500 boats and laid siege to the ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2018 )
How God Became Jesus by Michael F. Bird
epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Michael F. Bird

CHAPTER 7 Misreading Paul’s Christology: Problems with Ehrman’s Exegesis Chris Tilling INTRODUCTION In the news recently was a story about Amazon tribes in Brazil that have never before been contacted. ...
( Category: Theology September 3,2018 )
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Woolf

THREE HERE THEN IS your own letter. In that, as we have seen, after asking for an opinion as to how to prevent war, you go on to suggest certain ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 3,2018 )
Genghis Khan by Frank McLynn
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frank McLynn

13 The Twilight Years THE HISTORY OF Genghis Khan and the Mongols can sometimes seem no more than an endless recital of massacres with pyramids of skulls. Yet Genghis and ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2018 )
Zero Hour for Gen X by Matthew Hennessey
epub |eng | 2018-06-06 | Author:Matthew Hennessey

6About a year later I would get my cool card punched when I brought $15 down to Scotti’s and shelled out for cassette copies of the Smiths’ Strangeways Here We ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 3,2018 )
A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology by Taber John A. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:Taber, John A.,Kumārila Bhaṭṭa. [Taber, John A.,Kumārila Bhaṭṭa.]

If words are superimposed onto their meanings, thereby obscuring the meanings, how could they stand in the relation of qualifier–qualificand to each other?108 For such a relation can only be ...
( Category: World September 1,2018 )
Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim & Victor Davis Hanson
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Raymond Ibrahim & Victor Davis Hanson

To keep the Christians in their place it did not suffice to surround them with a zone of famine and destruction. It was necessary also to go and sow terror ...
( Category: Middle East September 1,2018 )
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster by Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro
epub |eng | 2002-06-03 | Author:Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro [Lapierre, Dominique & Moro, Javier]

29 “My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul” The young engineer who had risked his life escorting the first barrels of MIC from Bombay to Bhopal could not believe it. ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 31,2018 )
Imam in Paris by Newman Daniel L.;
epub |eng | | Author:Newman, Daniel L.;

All in all, it is impossible to give a detailed overview of the sciences and arts of Paris. One can provide only a general survey as we have done here. ...
( Category: Middle East August 31,2018 )
Empire of Fear by Andrew Hosken
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Andrew Hosken

The thing is it is not just ISIS; we brought ISIS inside Syria. We brought in ISIS, we the Syrian opposition, which was based in Qatar, Saudi [Arabia] and Turkey. ...
( Category: Islam August 31,2018 )

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