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This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Our greatest passion is going to markets and second hand stores to look for all sorts of fun, old things. We fall in love with the patina, the shape or the number without actually knowing what we'll do with it. We always buy things on our initial impulse. Now the art is finding new applications. This...

In this collection of stories, essays and poems, find a wondrous world where armchairs fly and inanimate objects lead surprisingly animated lives. Add in realities of everyday life, and a profound respect for all of creation, even rutabagas. You will be gently challenged to examine opinions and assumptions. A grape will never again be just a grape.

From the preface: “This work is intended not merely to point out certain common defects in the Dwelling House, and to show how evils more or less necessary in towns may be avoided in the country, but to call attention to the fact that our modern methods of sanitation, and the heavy taxation...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of Koblenz-Landau (Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Second Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: This term paper, deals primarily with Second...

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This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

It wasnt that uncommon for kids from the Baby Boomer generation to have big dreams. Growing up during the Happy Days of the 1950 era in sunny Los Angeles, California, we listened to Judy sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow knowing in our hearts we would find our pot of gold someday. Similar to the dreams...

The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which,...

Vilano and the North Beaches are perhaps most known as small, eclectic beach communities within sight of St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city. For centuries, people have flocked to this coastal playground by horse-drawn trolley, ferry, and more recently Florida's Coastal Highway, State Road A1A....

This is a story about ten teenagers who spent lots of time together, enjoying the summer sun, swimming and exploring. It was one of those beautiful but strange days that no one understands. Maybe it was strange because of the weather. It was 106 degrees in the shade and the old people were saying...

The interplay between sociopolitical forces and economic agendas becomes apparent when one examines the June 28, 2007 United States Supreme Court Decision, Parents Involved In Community Schools v. Seattle School District . In a reversal of the 1954 Brown Decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled...

"There is a pulse of all life being awakened in each one of us. We are holy carriers of the Divine Feminine, and She is here, now, whispering into the recesses of our sacred hearts..." —Jacqueline L. RobinsonThe vision of this collection aims to explore all aspects of the authentic integrity...

Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes,...