Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

Seven tripods, which ne'er felt the fire, and of gold ten talents And burnished braziers twenty, and horses twelve— (70) by weight and measure duly reckoned, (71) I cannot stay ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

Footnotes: 1 (return) [ Or, "Socrates' Defence before the Dicasts." For the title of the work see Grote, "H. G." viii. 641; Schneid. ap. L. Dindorf's note {pros tous dikastas}, ...
( Category: Philosophy April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(35) Or, "But to pass on, he was already, may be, eighty years of age, when it came under his observation...." (36) This same Tachos. (37) See "Hell." VII. i. ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 28,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 [Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963]

APPENDIX I TWO OTHER, LESS effective aids to visionary experience deserve mention – carbon dioxide and the stroboscopic lamp. A mixture (completely non-toxic) of seven parts of oxygen and three ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Taleb, Nassim Nicholas [Taleb, Nassim Nicholas]

Lingua Franca The theory of preferential attachment is ubiquitous in its applications: it can explain why city size is from Extremistan, why vocabulary is concentrated among a small number of ...
( Category: Management April 23,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-08-28 | Author:Tolle, Eckhart [Tolle, Eckhart]

ENTERTAINMENT, THE MEDIA, AND THE PAIN-BODY If you were not familiar with our contemporary civilization, if you had come here from another age or another planet, one of the things ...
( Category: Meditation April 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Benjamin Hoff [Hoff, Benjamin]

“Oh! That sort.” “Yes. And we’re going to discover a Pole or something. Or was it a Mole? Anyhow we’re going to discover it.” Unfortunately for our chances of survival ...
( Category: Taoism April 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-05-01 | Author:May, Rollo [May, Rollo]

The self for him, thus, exists on the archaic, infantile level of selfhood. The world of relationship, the complex, fascinating, difficult, endlessly new, this world is rich in demands but ...
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-17 | Author:May, Rollo

What Freedom Is Not We can understand more clearly what freedom is if we first look at what it is not. Freedom is not rebellion. Rebellion is a normal interim ...
( Category: Personality April 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-03-17 | Author:May, Rollo [May, Rollo]

FOUR CREATIVITY AND ENCOUNTER I WISH to propose a theory and to make some remarks about it, arising largely out of my contacts and discussions with artists and poets. The ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius April 21,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Jacques Ranciere

How the atomization of individuals can come to signify the triumph of number and force might remain obscure to the reader. But such is precisely the great subterfuge effected by ...
( Category: Democracy April 20,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category: Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha April 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Paul Auster [Paul Auster]

After that night, Nora went on telling him everything. It made sense that she should want to share her troubles with someone, but of all the people in the world, ...
( Category: Psychological April 18,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Edward Said [Said, Edward]

Thus archaeology becomes the royal road to Jewish-Israeli identity, one in which the claim is repeatedly made that in the present-day land of Israel the Bible is materially realized thanks ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling April 17,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

The effect is that of a moment out of time in which Janine escapes the sordid narrative of her present life and enters the kingdom of the collection’s title; or ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 17,2014 )