Sociology
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Kathleen McDonald & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

To do this practice, imagine the following: First imagine that the four elements that form your own body absorb into the four external elements of earth, water, fire, and air. ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chodron, Pema [Chodron, Pema]

13 Meeting the Enemy With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or what ever, the next ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-02-13 | Author:Judith L. Lief

12 Compassion COMPASSION IS INHERENT in our very nature as human beings. It is natural to us. We do not need to create it. Cultivating compassion does not mean injecting ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-03-03 | Author:Robert Desjarlais

One was your father's [and Rinjin Lama's] mother. Then along with her was my mother-in-law [Wangel Lama's mother]. She [the woman who left] was my cousin. Then, she left me ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Anyen Rinpoche

▶ The second metaphor depicts the consciousness as a traveler. The meaning of this metaphor is that our consciousness isn’t always going to be in the same body or in ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Tam, Shek-wing [Tam, Shek-wing]

CHAPTER 13 Threefold Space and the Four Liberations–The Bardo of Meditation THE THIRD BARDO TEACHING is the bardo of meditation, known as natural liberation of awareness. The experience of natural ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Caradonna, Jeremy L.

SUSTAINABILITY METRICS, METHODS, AND MEASUREMENT TOOLS When the UN released Agenda 21 in 1992, one of the central recommendations of this sustainable development action plan was to generate “better measurement ...
( Category: Economic Policy & Development January 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-18 | Author:Kennedy, Randall [Kennedy, Randall]

Like every other significant feature of American life—including cigarettes, guns, pornography, drugs, stock trading, sex, religion, and money—nigger is thoroughly enmeshed in litigation. The disorderly diversity of the conflicts in ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 21,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Foreman, Judy

SURGERY—DON’T LEAP! Okay, then. What about surgery? There’s no question that back surgery is still more popular than it should be, in part because patients in chronic pain are so ...
( Category: Pathology January 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Carson, Clayborne & Shepard, Kris [Carson, Clayborne]

ADDRESS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH My dear and abiding friend, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 20,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-05-17 | Author:Lasch, Christopher [Lasch, Christopher]

Education as a Commodity The resulting split between general knowledge and the specialized knowledge of the experts, embedded in obscure journals and written in language or mathematical symbols unintelligible to ...
( Category: Personality January 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Penilla, Adan R. & Taylor, Angela Lee [Penilla, Adan R.]

If your Deaf friends have a local Sign for a game, just use that Sign instead. English: Who wants to play poker? Sign: P-O-K-E-R — WANTS — WHO Q English: ...
( Category: Sign Language January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof;Sheryl WuDunn

Studies on the impact of abstinence-only programs aren’t conclusive and seem to depend to some extent on the ideology of those conducting the study. But on balance, the evidence suggests ...
( Category: Political Advocacy January 17,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

4. In chapter 2, when I was discussing what made someone like Mark Alpert so important in word of mouth epidemics, I talked about two seemingly counterintuitive aspects of persuasion. ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 17,2015 )