epub, mobi |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]

CHAPTER 16 Witchcraft in Germany In Germany, thousands of people had been executed for witchcraft by the beginning of the seventeenth century, most of them tortured, many burned alive; thousands ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

THREE Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer—the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds pasted ...

mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-02-18 | Author:Michael Lewis

Chapter Seven The Salomon Diet 1986-1988 HE BOND MARKET and the people market sought their respective equilibriums, and in the two years following the dinner at Le Perigord the mortgage ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Patrick M. Burke

SUMMARY Simply put, bipolar disorder has two poles: mania and depression. Mania is associated with increased positive emotion and may be seen as a state of heightened awareness of positive ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Bertrand Russell

* * * 1. Cambridge Medieval History, V, chap. 10.↩ 2. I Timothy iii. 2.↩ 3. See Henry C. Lea, The History of Sacerdotal Celibacy.↩ 4. In 1046, it was ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-06-30 | Author:Louise Hay [Louise Hay]

I know that good resides in every moment and in every place, and that even in the worst situation, a bit of goodness can be found. The loss of a ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Corballis, Michael C. [Corballis, Michael C.]

9 Language and Mind Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

Curiously, though Penfield described such a variety of experiential hallucinations, he made no reference to what we now call “ecstatic” seizures—seizures that produce feelings of ecstasy or transcendent joy, such ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kayt Sukel

Developing Addiction Unexpected rewards lead to the release of dopamine in the basal ganglia, which facilitates learning. The more rewarding a particular stimulus may be, the more likely you will ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf | | 2004-03-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amanda Ripley

“i want to think about them as all the same.” Finland was a homogeneous place, but getting less so. The number of foreigners had increased over 600 percent since 1990, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Seabright, Paul [Seabright, Paul]

The Signaling Trap The modern office is an environment in which mutual signaling and maneuvering are as essential to survival as they were on the African woodland savanna where we ...

epub, mobi | | 2008-09-04 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

Part III Memory, Movement, and Music 15 In the Moment: Music and Amnesia You are the music while the music lasts. — T. S. ELIOT, The Four Quartets In January ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Allison Hoover Bartlett

AFTER SERVING his sentence, Gilkey walked out the doors of Los Angeles County Jail and within several weeks was hired again at Saks Fifth Avenue. Over the next year, while ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Lieberman, Philip

Figure 5.4. (A) Infant vocal tract. A newborn human’s head in many ways resembles a hairless infant chimpanzee’s. That’s also the case for the infant’s tongue and the position of ...