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Bhakti or Devotion by Swami VivekanandaPublisher: Swami TadrupanandaFifth edition 1978Paperback4.05 x 6.3 inches, 33 pagesBhakti Yoga is a real genuine search after the Lord, a search beg… Mehr…

Bhakti or Devotion by Swami VivekanandaPublisher: Swami TadrupanandaFifth edition 1978Paperback4.05 x 6.3 inches, 33 pagesBhakti Yoga is a real genuine search after the Lord, a search beginning, continuing, and ending in Love. One single moment of the madness of extreme love to God brings us eternal freedom. When a man gets it, he loves all, hates none; he becomes satisfied forever.--------------------Mainly devotion comes from the grace of great devotees of God, or even by the slightest fraction of God's infinite grace.---------------------Literally speaking bhakti means, loyalty, surrender, faithfulness, attachment and devotion. The word is derived from bhakta meaning a person who is attached or loyal to someone, a worshipper, devotee, adorer or faithful attendant. Bhakta also means food, boiled or cooked rice, an offering made in a sacrifice. In other words, bhkata means one who physically or spiritually sacrifices himself as an offering in the worship of God.-----------------Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion.Born into an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family in Calcutta, Vivekananda was inclined from a young age towards religion and spirituality. He later found his guru, Ramakrishna, and became a monk. After the death of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda extensively toured the Indian subcontinent, acquiring first-hand knowledge of the living conditions of Indian people in then British India. Moved by their plight, he resolved to help his countrymen and found a way to travel to the United States, where he became a popular figure after the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, in which he began his famous speech with the words: Sisters and brothers of America... before introducing Hinduism to Americans. He was so impactful at the Parliament that an American newspaper described him as "an orator by divine right and undoubtedly the greatest figure at the Parliament".After great success at the Parliament, in the subsequent years, Vivekananda delivered hundreds of lectures across the United States, England and Europe, disseminating the core tenets of Hindu philosophy, and founded the Vedanta Society of New York and the Vedanta Society of San Francisco (now Vedanta Society of Northern California), both of which became the foundations for Vedanta Societies in the West. In India, Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math, which provides spiritual training for monastics and householder devotees, and the Ramakrishna Mission that provides charity, social work and education.Vivekananda was one of the most influential philosophers and social reformers in his contemporary India, and the most successful missionaries of Vedanta to the Western world. He was also a major force in contemporary Hindu reform movements, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. He is now widely regarded as one of the most influential people of modern India and a patriotic saint. His birthday in India is celebrated as National Youth Day., Swami Tadrupananda, 1978, 3, When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a new approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, a $300 billion pension fund, workers led a shareholder revolt that unseated three of Burd's boardroom allies.In The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber uses cases such as Safeway's to shine a light on labor's most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under constant assault in Washington, state houses, and the courts, worker organizations are beginning to exercise muscle through markets. Shareholder activism has been used to divest from anti-labor companies, gun makers, and tobacco; diversify corporate boards; support Occupy Wall Street; force global warming onto the corporate agenda; create jobs; and challenge outlandish CEO pay. Webber argues that workers have found in labor's capital a potent strategy against their exploiters. He explains the tactic's surmountable difficulties even as he cautions that corporate interests are already working to deny labor's access to this powerful and underused tool.The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder is a rare good-news story for American workers, an opportunity hiding in plain sight. Combining legal rigor with inspiring narratives of labor victory, Webber shows how workers can wield their own capital to reclaim their strength. Reviews "Webber makes a persuasive case for the potential power of the pension funds he seeks to enlist in this effort...[he] backs up his argument... with examples of corporate battles they have fought and won... [and] makes a good case that there is no logical reason always to define those workers' interests narrowly..." -- New York Review of Books "Webber weaves narratives of activist campaigns (pension fund administrators, union staffers, and government comptrollers are the book's unlikely heroes) with fine-grained analysis of the relevant legal and financial concepts in accessible prose...Webber marshals a lot of information into a common sense argument that will appeal to anyone with an interest in the current labor movement."Publishers Weekly "Excellent book."--Forbes "In his recent book, "Rise of the Working Class Shareholder", Boston University law professor David Webber recounts the history of labour's investor activism, predicting that, "there is no going back to a world in which labour and capital are mutually exclusive, lined up across a barren cavern of confrontation". --Financial Times, Harvard University Press, 2018, 0, Latin America Bureau, 1993. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 0906156777 Previous owner's name on inside cover. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. Since the early 1970s women across South America have been uniting to confont the brutality and repression of military rule. In Out of the Shadows, author Jo Fisher interviews women in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay to show how they have moved into the vacuum left by the military's destruction of the male-dominated left. Chapters describe how women have organised - in communal kitchens in Chile's shantytowns, as trade unionists in Uruguay, peace activists in Paraguay, mothers of the disappeared and self-help groups in Argentina, as grassroots feminists in Chile - ending the isolation of home life. While built around the traditional female concerns such as providing food and care for their families, the new women's movements have developed a grassroots feminism that is strikingly different from the middle class feminism of the city centres and have had a seismic impact on gender consciousness throughout the region.., Latin America Bureau, 1993, 3, Before I became a rabbi, I was a social change activist and a psychotherapist. I had participated in sit-ins for civil rights, had organized teach-ins and demonstrations and nonviolent civil disobedience against the war in Vietnam, and had been involved in the early development of the environmental movement. Yet I felt uncomfortable with the way these movements at times seemed more interested in proving their own righteousness than in finding ways to attract and build an American majority that supports peace and social justice.In the early 1970s I tried to convince my compatriots to link our movements with a critique of the prevailing tax structure, which placed a huge burden on middle-income working people, and so I proposed a ballot initiative to shift that burden onto the rich. But many of my comrades in the movement felt that the Left shouldn't be pandering to the "white-skin privilege" of white American working people, a decision many came to regret a few years later when a tax revolt led by right-wingers did indeed reduce the tax burden but only by cutting social services for the poor. Then, in 1976, I joined with Jeremy Rifkin in an effort to design a celebration of the country's bicentennial that would focus on what was positive in America's history. But again, I encountered considerable resistance from liberals and progressives whose anger over the war in Vietnam had obscured for them all that deserved to be honored about our past -- the way the American people had successfully separated church and state and had fought against their own economic and political elites to expand democratic rights, to overthrow slavery, to eliminate property requirements for voting, and, more recently, to extend equal rights to women and minorities while empowering working people to organize for a living wage and for health-and-safety standards in the workplace.As a Jew, I have always been particularly grateful to America for providing my people a safe haven in a world that has too frequently murdered us. I felt blessed to be part of a generation of Jews that could look at this country not as a refuge but as a homeland. For that reason, I wanted the Left to let go of some of its angry rhetoric and its preoccupation with what had yet to be achieved in order to affirm more clearly all that had already been accomplished in America. Having experienced some of that anger myself, I understood the appeal of this dichotomizing between the good guys and the bad guys, but as I grew beyond my own simplistic thinking and began to recognize that we in the social change movements needed more humility and compassion for those with whom we disagreed, I hoped that a movement could emerge that would embrace what was best in America and build a progressive social change movement across class, race, and gender boundaries.I had hoped that making this case would be easier in post-Vietnam America. The war had been shown to be a disaster, the Nixon presidency had collapsed in disgrace, the Democratic Party had begun to listen to feminists and environmentalists. Surely, I thought, this would be a moment when liberal and progressive forces could consolidate power, end the cold war, and devote America's massive resources to promoting social and economic justice. Unfortunately, though, something different was happening beneath the surface, at least among middle-income Americans. I detected the first inkling of a major shift away from the Democratic Party and the Left on the part of white working males -- ironically, people whose economic interests were far better served by the Left than the Right.I was puzzled by this phenomenon. So, after completing my PhD in psychology in 1977, I helped found the Institute for Labor and Mental Health to study the psychodynamics of American society. The psychotherapists, union activists, and social theorists who were working at the institute had one question we particularly wanted to answer: why is it that people whose economic interests would lead them to identify with the Left often actually end up voting for the Right?The answer to that question lies at the heart of this book.In an effort to discover why working people have increasingly turned to the Right we have spent the past twenty-eight years interviewing middle-income working people in the United States, Canada, England, and Israel. We began by recruiting subjects from the labor movement and by advertising on buses, billboards, and posters. We were seeking people who, apart from the normal tensions everyone faces in the workplace, were not experiencing excessive stress in their lives. In fact, we used standard measures to screen out and refer elsewhere people in need of psychotherapy as well as candidates for marriage or family therapy. We were interested in speaking to people who did not have any particular presenting problem and who would not have agreed to participate had they thought they were going to a therapy session. As part of our program, we ran groups that taught communications skills, stress reduction, and leadership skills. Most of those groups met once a week for a period of eight to ten weeks.After that initial phase of research, institute researchers conducted follow-up studies using a wide variety of both quantitative and qualitative research instruments. Over two decades we've done phone interviews, one-time in-person interviews, and written questionnaires. In addition, as the political world has changed, we've continued to reassess the results of our observations.What we have discovered, fundamentally, is that many people need what anthropologist Clifford Geertz once termed a "politics of meaning" and what I now call a spiritual politics -- a spiritual framework that can lend meaning to their lives. They yearn for a purpose-driven life that will allow them to serve something beyond personal goals and economic self-interest. If they don't find this sense of purpose on the Left, they will look for it on the Right.Left Hand of God, TheTaking Back Our Country from the Religious Right. Copyright © by Michael Lerner. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael LernerAll rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher., HarperOne, 3, MMS Gold. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry., MMS Gold, 2.5, Blandford Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. Hard Cover. 4to 0713719575 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Some waves to pages. Numerous photographs and diagrams. AS the German blitzkrieg of] 940 cut its way through Belgium and France, terror reigned from the air. Screaming earthwards, the Stukas spread mayhem and destruction before them. A new, dynamic force had entered warfare. In the early days of military aviation it soon became apparent that precision bombing was exceedingly difficult. The movement of the aircraft, the trajectory of the bomb's descent path, the time delay between release and impact, plus the natural hazards of crosswinds and other air elements - all these factors militated against accurate level-flight bombing. A daring alternative was to dive directly at the target, releasing the bomb straight at the enemy. The dangers of the new technique were all too apparent. The RAF carried out trials in Suffolk during 1918/19, but between the wars the long-range level-flight bomber reigned supreme in the world's air forces. It was in the late 1930s and in the Second World War that the dive bomber came into its own, contributing its special, spectacular form of destruction to the battlefield - attacking pin-point targets such as bridges, command posts and artillery positions, and harassing a retreating enemy. Most famous of the dive bombers was the Ju 87 Stuka, which was adopted by the Germans in 1936 and made its notorious mark in the Spanish Civil War. In Poland and in the 1940 campaign in the West it proved again its worth as a close-support ground-attack aircraft. Meanwhile in China the Japanese were also experimenting and succeeding with dive bombing; and the British Skua dive bombers early in the Second World War achieved a notable triumph in sinking the German cruiser Konigsberg. Dive bombers spearheaded the Japanese sweep across the Pacific; while in later campaigns, a host of United States dive bomber types - including the Helldiver, Dauntless and Vindicator - provided valuable 'aerial artillery' against both land and sea targets. The dive bombers - as operated by all the combatants in the Second World War - is the subject of this exciting and action-packed book. Included are the ideas behind the aircraft, the experimental work, trials and improvisations - as well as detailed accounts of the operation of the dive bomber squadrons in all theatres of the world war. ., Blandford Press, 1988, 3, London: Voyager, 2003. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Powerful new epic fantasy trilogy from Stan Nicholls, the British author of the internationally acclaimed ORCS series. The empires of Rintarah and Gath Tampoor are squared against each other, each continually spying for weaknesses in the other. In the middle huddles the small island state of Bhealfa, ruled by a demented Prince who is obsessed with the idea that he can outrun death. Everywhere, magic underpins the social order. Different classes enjoy different qualities of magic; from meagre charms for the destitute, to grand conjurations impossible to distinguish from reality for the rich. But the most skilful and expensive spells are kept by the authorities and used to control the entire population. Reeth Caldason is among the last of his kind. His people, the Qalochians, a race of natural warriors, were brutally massacred decades ago. Reeth is cursed with immortality, forced to wander the world, seeking revenge for his tribe and a cure for his magical affliction. Under the floating Palace of the mad Prince of Bhealfa he comes across other outlaws and is drawn into the Resistance movement, assisting those who have suffered under the dictatorships of the two massive empires. Reeth., Voyager, 2003, 2.5<

2003, ISBN: 9780007141494

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. CJ4 - A first edition hardcover book signed and inscribed by author to previous owner on a bookplate ahdered on the half-title page in very good c… Mehr…

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. CJ4 - A first edition hardcover book signed and inscribed by author to previous owner on a bookplate ahdered on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges, some light scratches, moderate tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, patch scuffed/peeling on the half-title page, tanning and light shelf wear. The Last Raven - a tale of political terror and patriotism run mad - ranges from the icy mountains of Tadzhikistan to the inner sanctums of the newly enlightened Kremlin, from Sausalito jazz points to London's most exclusive old-boy clubs, finally to climax in a fierce and deadly confrontation on the shores of California's beautiful Lake Shasta. 9.5"x6.5", 457 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, 3, London: Voyager, 2003. Powerful new epic fantasy trilogy from Stan Nicholls, the British author of the internationally acclaimed ORCS series. The empires of Rintarah and Gath Tampoor are squared against each other, each continually spying for weaknesses in the other. In the middle huddles the small island state of Bhealfa, ruled by a demented Prince who is obsessed with the idea that he can outrun death. Everywhere, magic underpins the social order. Different classes enjoy different qualities of magic; from meagre charms for the destitute, to grand conjurations impossible to distinguish from reality for the rich. But the most skilful and expensive spells are kept by the authorities and used to control the entire population. Reeth Caldason is among the last of his kind. His people, the Qalochians, a race of natural warriors, were brutally massacred decades ago. Reeth is cursed with immortality, forced to wander the world, seeking revenge for his tribe and a cure for his magical affliction. Under the floating Palace of the mad Prince of Bhealfa he comes across other outlaws and is drawn into the Resistance movement, assisting those who have suffered under the dictatorships of the two massive empires. Reeth. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Voyager, 2003, 2.5<

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UsedGood. The book may have minor cosmetic wear (i.e. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, minor sunburn, minor water damage, minor bent). The book may have some… Mehr…

UsedGood. The book may have minor cosmetic wear (i.e. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, minor sunburn, minor water damage, minor bent). The book may have some highlights/notes/underlined pages - Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included - Safe and Secure Mailer - No Hassle Return, 0, Harper San Francisco, 1991. Cover shows surface brushing, interior is clean, large color photographs supplement the narrative; 108 pgs.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Carr, Kathleen Thormod. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Harper San Francisco, 1991, 3, UsedGood. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing The cover has visible markings and wear. This is a paperback copy Some writing on the text block edge This is a ex library book, stickers and markings accordingly. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!, 0, London: Voyager, 2003. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Powerful new epic fantasy trilogy from Stan Nicholls, the British author of the internationally acclaimed ORCS series. The empires of Rintarah and Gath Tampoor are squared against each other, each continually spying for weaknesses in the other. In the middle huddles the small island state of Bhealfa, ruled by a demented Prince who is obsessed with the idea that he can outrun death. Everywhere, magic underpins the social order. Different classes enjoy different qualities of magic; from meagre charms for the destitute, to grand conjurations impossible to distinguish from reality for the rich. But the most skilful and expensive spells are kept by the authorities and used to control the entire population. Reeth Caldason is among the last of his kind. His people, the Qalochians, a race of natural warriors, were brutally massacred decades ago. Reeth is cursed with immortality, forced to wander the world, seeking revenge for his tribe and a cure for his magical affliction. Under the floating Palace of the mad Prince of Bhealfa he comes across other outlaws and is drawn into the Resistance movement, assisting those who have suffered under the dictatorships of the two massive empires. Reeth., Voyager, 2003, 2.5<

2003, ISBN: 9780007141494

Voyager. Fair. Paperback. 2003. 410 pages. ex-library with usual stamps & markings wear, creas es, tanned pages<br><br><p><strong>QUICKSILVER RISING</str… Mehr…

Voyager. Fair. Paperback. 2003. 410 pages. ex-library with usual stamps & markings wear, creas es, tanned pages<br><br><p><strong>QUICKSILVER RISING</strong><br /><br /><em>The Quicksilver Trilogy: 1</em><br /><br />by Stan N icholls<br /><br />Voyager, UK, 2003<br />ISBN 0007141491<br />tr ade pb, 410pp<br /><br />READING COPY: ex-library with usual stam ps &amp; markings; wear, creases, tanned pages<br /><br />In the land of Bhealfa magic underpins the social order. Different class es enjoy different qualities of magic; from meagre charms for the destitute, to grand conjurations for the rich. But the most skil ful and expensive spells of all are those used by the authorities to control the entire population. Reeth Caldason is the last rem aining member of a tribe of warriors who were brutally massacred decades ago. Cursed with episodes of blind rage that endanger any one near him, he is forced to wander the world seeking revenge fo r his people and a cure for his magical affliction.<br /><br />Bu t the spell that binds Reeth is an esoteric one, and his search h as so far been fruitless. Only when a young sorcerer's apprentice named Kutch tells him of the mysterious Covenant does he regain a glimmer of hope. Forming an uneasy alliance the two head for Bh ealfa's capital city in search of this secretive magical society, unaware that they are about to be drawn into a dangerous world o f conspiracy and sedition.</p> ., Voyager, 2003, 2<

2003, ISBN: 0007141491

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[EAN: 9780007141494], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Voyager, London], FANTASY, Powerful new epic fantasy trilogy from Stan Nicholls, the British author of the internationally acclaimed O… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780007141494], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Voyager, London], FANTASY, Powerful new epic fantasy trilogy from Stan Nicholls, the British author of the internationally acclaimed ORCS series. The empires of Rintarah and Gath Tampoor are squared against each other, each continually spying for weaknesses in the other. In the middle huddles the small island state of Bhealfa, ruled by a demented Prince who is obsessed with the idea that he can outrun death. Everywhere, magic underpins the social order. Different classes enjoy different qualities of magic; from meagre charms for the destitute, to grand conjurations impossible to distinguish from reality for the rich. But the most skilful and expensive spells are kept by the authorities and used to control the entire population. Reeth Caldason is among the last of his kind. His people, the Qalochians, a race of natural warriors, were brutally massacred decades ago. Reeth is cursed with immortality, forced to wander the world, seeking revenge for his tribe and a cure for his magical affliction. Under the floating Palace of the mad Prince of Bhealfa he comes across other outlaws and is drawn into the Resistance movement, assisting those who have suffered under the dictatorships of the two massive empires. Reeth, Books<