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To quiet his existential horror, a brooding young man seeks to understand life. Cliff Gogh is out in the dark, a solitary ghost examining himself in the night, with all of his mental faculties directed toward the intangible, pain, darkness, despair, fearlessness, love, and the incomprehensibly vast.
1682) Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy
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Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+'s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading oil market players consider before making a fateful move?
Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent...
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Welcome to The Superconscious Mantra of Divine Love. This is a simple potent mantra to help you experience more spiritual growth, emotional freedom, inner happiness, and compassion for others. You can further use it intentionally to help the planet move to higher states of love, clarity, and functioning.
In this short book I will share this mantra with you, and then issue you a sacred challenge to repeat, feel, and vibrate...
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This book will help you understand how a Vedic birth chart is the key to tapping into your
personal cosmic frequency. A Vedic birth chart is a language that explains the harmonic
frequency that is embedded within our earthly bodies. Your Vedic birth chart is your
karmic code or, light matrix, that identifies you as a unique intersection of the cosmos with
individualized form. I will show you the building blocks of this so that when we arrive...
1685) The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
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In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka "the world's greatest bar band." Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for their revolutionary days, Mongolian neo-Nazis in full SS regalia, and a gay expat in Ulaanbaatar who needs an...
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"Feng shui & Astrology 2022" contains all the essential feng shui and bazi (Chinese Astrology) information you will need to have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2022. This book will equip you with the special knowledge on how to enhance your financial income; boost your career; find love; have good health; achieve academic success; gain help from people; improve relationships; remove obstacles and hindrances; improve communication skills etc.
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Nowadays, you and I are in the midst of AI, big data, multimedia, gossip, rumors, materialistic desires, and the great trend of the times.
In the midst of the confusion and material satisfaction caused by complicated and novel things, have you ever thought about examining life with a reflective attitude and taking a careful and quiet look at life, the apparent convenience and innovation of technological civilization, but deepening the hidden nature...
1688) Short Prose
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In the late-1960s Romania, during the relative cultural thaw of the post-Stalinist period, Dumitru Tsepeneag emerged as an innovative writer of short prose and the pioneer of oneirism, a subversive theory and practice of literature that challenged not only socialist realism in particular but realism in general. By the early 1970s, following a cultural crackdown by the totalitarian state, oneirism had been banned and Tsepeneag was forced into exile...
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Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is one of the major Iranian poets of the 20th century. His verses are often-recited in public gatherings and lines from them were used as slogans by protesters in 2009. A painter, wood-worker, and poet, Sepehri wrote these poems after journeys through Japan, China, and India, where he was exposed to various cultural arts and spiritual disciplines.
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This is not your average complicated astrology book. No planets, trines, squares or oppositions to confuse you. New Astrology for Lovers is a guide which examines the compatibilities between the characters of all 24 astrological signs with each other: There are 12 Chinese and 12 western signs.. Suzanne White has matched all pairings of both zodiacs and come up with remarkably accurate results.For example: A fire-breathing Taurus/Dragon might very...
1691) The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914
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How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook the independent contribution of peasant societies. She explores the complex case of the Polish peasants of Austrian Galicia, from the 1848 emancipation of the serfs...
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An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to telling the Palestinian story and exploring the contradictions of modern Israel, while also capturing the nuances of everyday family life in all its tenderness...
1693) Sylvia's Book Smuggler
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After a traumatic break up with her boyfriend in Chicago, Sylvia is, persuaded to go on a trip to Lithuania, the land of her ancestors. She doesn't expect to find new friends who take her to some of the most beautiful places in the country. Nor does she expect to fall for an Olympic rower or meet a bossy ghost who's determined to give her history lessons at every opportunity. However, Silvia has to make an important decision. Should she go back to...
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With the voice of forty-five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes journey through Iran's history to define the challenges that face Western nations today. A cradle of civilization, Iran has been a political hot spot not just for decades, but for eons. Now, the urgent issue for Western nations is the extent of Iran's nuclear capabilities. Is Iran developing an atomic bomb? If so, should we do something to stop it? Who...
1695) ReTargeting Iran
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A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.
The United States and Iran seem to be permanently locked in a dangerous cycle of brinkmanship and violence. Both countries have staged cyber attacks and recently shot down one another's aircrafts. Why do both countries seem intent on escalation? Why did the U.S. abandon the nuclear deal (which, according...
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THIS BOOK'S ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF YOUR WESTERN SUN SIGN COMBINED WITH YOUR CHINESE ANIMAL SIGNS IS ASTOUNDING. EACH CHAPTER OFFERS AN INGENIOUS BLEND OF THE WORLD'S TWO MAIN ZODIACS. THE NEW ASTROLOGY REVEALS TRUE CHARACTER AND DEFINES PERSONALITY… THE NOISY SCORPIO/DRAGON IS ,FOR EXAMPLE, VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM A CRUSTY SCORPIO/DOG. FIND OUT IN THIS BOOK HOW ALL 12 CHINESE ANIMALS AFFECT THE LIVES OF ALL SCORPIOS. VOLUME EIGHT – SCORPIO In...
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Through yoga philosophy towards more awareness for body, mind, soul. Living Yoga Wisdom is a practice book for beginners as well as for advanced yoginis and yogis, who would like to deepen and advance their practice through yoga philosophy. Each of the 18 chapters is coupled with exercises, which not only make yoga philosophy more comprehensible, but also applicable and experiential in everyday living. The book demonstrates that yoga philosophy means...
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What is chrismation? Nicholas Denysenko breaks open chrismation as sacrament of belonging by exploring its history and liturgical theology. This study offers a sacramental theology of chrismation by examining its relationship with baptism and the Eucharist and its function as the ritual for receiving converts into the Orthodox Church. Drawing from a rich array of liturgical and theological sources, Denysenko explains how chrismation initiates the...
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Light and Heavy Things provides readers in this country an opportunity to discover the work of the late Pakistani poet, Zeeshan Sahil. Although readers of Urdu poetry mourned his passing in 2008, Sahil is a relatively unknown poet in the United States. Sahil's work conveys his post-modern sensibility with plain language, presenting political realities of Pakistan in personal terms.
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A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco's greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers.
Zafzaf's stories are set within a variety of contexts, each portraying a slice of life, a simple struggle for survival in a challenging world that is changing at a rapid pace....
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