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Raz jeszcze w wyłom
Bitwa to jeden z najbardziej emocjonujących tematów, jakich może podjąć się twórca, ale stanowi też nie lada wyzwanie. Niełatwo opisać w sposób angażujący coś tak złożonego, spleść siatkę intryg i powiązań, namalować paletę ludzkich uczuć, opisać sprawę, o którą warto walczyć i stworzyć bohaterów, których losy czytelnicy zechcą śledzić i o których życie będą się lękać. Po której stronie stanie odbiorca? Czy uwierzy w słuszność sprawy? Czy odczuje ciężar decyzji podejmowanych przez postaci? Autorzy tej antologii rzucają nas w wir zdarzeń, w sam środek nieprzeciętnych starć. Obsadzili w głównych rolach fascynujących, wielowymiarowych bohaterów. Stań wraz z nimi w pierwszej linii, przezwycięż słabości i przełam barierę. Przebij się przez mur i dowiedz się, czy za nim czeka nadzieja na zwycięstwo, czy może początek prawdziwego wyzwania. Bo jeden wyłom może zmienić przebieg bitwy. Jeden wyłom może być przepustką do świata, do którego tak pragnęli dotrzeć. A jedna antologia może stać się wyłomem do waszej wyobraźni.
The Woman Who Invented the Thread that Stops Bullets
Stephanie Louise Kwolek is an American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. In 1964, in anticipation of a gasoline shortage, her group began searching for a lightweight yet strong fiber to be used in tires. The polymers she had been working with at the time formed liquid crystal while in solution, something unique to those polymers at the time. However, Kwolek persuaded technician Charles Smullen to test her solution. She was amazed to find that the new fiber would not break when nylon typically would.
The Law of the Looking Glass
Polish cinema has produced some of Europe's finest directors, such as Krzysztof Kie´slowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, and Krzysztof Zanussi, but little is known about its origins at the turn of the twentieth century. In The Law of the Looking Glass, Sheila Skaff analyzes the early years of Polish cinema. She looks at local film production, practices of spectatorship, clashes over language choice in intertitles, and the controversies surrounding the first synchronized sound experiments before World War I. Skaff discusses the creation of a national film industry in the newly independent country of the interwar years; silent cinema; the transition from silent to sound film, including the passionate debates in the press over the transition; and the first Polish and Yiddish “talkies.” The Law of the Looking Glass places particular importance on conflicts in majority-minority relations in the region and the types of collaboration that led to important films such as Der dibuk.
Galloway's Book on Running
An approach to running describing how to prepare for races and to avoid stress -related injuries and to help the runner get started comfortably and with confidence.
Living in the Light of Death
This book presents the Buddhist approach to facing the inevitable facts of growing older, getting sick, and dying. These tough realities are not given much attention by many people until midlife, when they become harder to avoid. Using a Buddhist text known as the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, Larry Rosenberg shows how intimacy with the realities of aging can actually be used as a means to liberation. When we become intimate with these inevitable aspects of life, he writes, we also become intimate with ourselves, with others, with the world—indeed with all things.
Baroque Music Today
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Breath by Breath
A “wonderfully accessible” interpretation of the Buddha’s teachings on breathwork in meditation, from a leading insight meditation teacher (Joseph Goldstein, author of The Experience of Insight) Freedom from suffering is not only possible, but the means for achieving it are immediately within our grasp—literally as close to us as our own breath. This is the 2,500-year-old good news contained in the Anapanasati Sutra, the Buddha's own teaching on cultivating both tranquility and deep insight through the full awareness of breathing. In this book, Larry Rosenberg brings this timeless meditation method to modern practitioners, using the insights gained from his many years of practice and teaching. With wisdom, compassion, and humor, he shows how the practice of breath awareness is quietly, profoundly transformative—and supremely practical: if you're breathing, you've already got everything you need to start.
Man and the Sacred
Table of Contents Translator's Introduction 7 Preface to the Second Edition 11 Introduction 13 Ch. I General Interrelationships of the Sacred and the Profane 19 Ch. II The Ambiguity of the Sacred 33 Ch. III The Sacred as Respect: Theory of Taboo 60 Ch. IV The Sacred as Transgression: Theory of the Festival 97 Ch. V The Sacred: Condition of Life and Gateway to Death 128 App. I Sex and the Sacred: Sexual Purification Rites Among the Thonga 139 App. II Play and the Sacred 152 App. III War and the Sacred 163 Bibliography 181 Index 189.
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The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali
A classic work of Indian philosophy that succinctly spells out how the mind works and what is needed to attain liberation. In 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy succinctly spells out how the mind works and how it is possible to use the mind to attain liberation. The Yoga-Sūtra is a road map of human consciousness and a helpful guide to the mental states that one encounters in meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices. Chip Hartranft’s translation and extensive, lucid commentary bring the text beautifully to life. He also provides useful auxiliary materials, including an afterword on the legacy of the Yoga-Sūtra and its enduring relevance for us today.
