Download or read book Cruel Cravings written by Jordan Grant and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I met him my first day at Livingston Prep. I thought he was my friend, but beauty is a cruel deceiver. He orchestrated the (second) worst moment of my life. He is my enemy. Yet his electric blue eyes and hair as black as night haunt my dreams. His kisses, sinfully sweet, still poison my lips. I am twenty-one year old, Cora Nambett. Fresh churned ground covers my father. Multiple Sclerosis threatens to paralyze my mother. We are about to lose our home. Desperation sends me to his door. Blood will bind my promise to him. Hate will help me survive. Note to Readers: Cruel Cravings is an enemies-to-lovers romance that does not end on a cliff-hanger. It is a sizzling hot, new adult novel that contains swearing and, at times, dark themes including bullying. What Readers Are Saying: "Good romance, well written, steamy with good characters and full of twists and turns." -- Magali, Goodreads "This book hooked me from the beginning. I just couldn't put it down. I fell for these characters and goodness, what a story just ... perfect." -- Tu R., Booksprout "Cora and Alexander hit every button on their road from enemies to lovers lane." -- JJ, Booksprout

Download or read book Madkind written by Charles Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1962, the original blurb reads: ‘This provocative book explores the whole range of human thought conduct and beliefs. Commencing with primitive man and his superstitions it goes on to study our present-day cultural institutions, customs, ritual and other behaviour upon which we pride ourselves. All of these are shown to have identical primitive mechanisms and to be subjectively determined without reference to scientific knowledge. These delusions are shown to be mostly undesirable and harmful and the author goes on to state that only objective thinking, scientifically based, can lead to any ultimate good. The later chapters contain an aetiological study of the mind. The author states "If we can consider the human mind in the light of its origin and development we may better appreciate its basic nature and its inevitable limitations". The subject matter is amply illustrated with clinical examples in Dr Berg’s usual lively style. This book is one which will affect all readers. None of us is immune from delusions, however much we may delude ourselves to the contrary, and the presentation of these truths will to some of us seem shocking in the extreme.’ Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

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Download or read book SN2 Collection of Interlaced Speeches written by Tomás Morales y Durán and published by Libros de Verdad. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saṁyutta is the past participle of saṁyujjati meaning to bind or tie. A saṃyutta is a bundle in which discourses (suttas) are presented tied together, a poetic image used to refer to bundles of packaged discourses using their subject matter as a criterion. Thus, the Saṁyutta Nikāya means "collection of bundles" that are grouped by subject. However, a more accurate designation would be "Interwoven Discourses," based on their structure, development, and presentation. The Saṁyutta Nikāya is the most important of the four collections, or nikāyas, containing the doctrinal texts of the Gotama Buddha. The others are the Digha Nikāya, the Majjhima Nikāya, the Anguttara Nikāya. There is information of other kinds in some sections of the Sutta Nipata and the Vinaya includes accounts of Sangha living and its rules. Usually the information is presented in two components, one biographical and the other doctrinal. The Saṁyutta Nikāya is the more important doctrinal set, where all doctrinal topics, with all their variations, are exhaustively addressed, presenting the biographical component essential to be able to locate the teachings in their place of impartation. Thus, while the Digha and the Majjhima Nikāya are full of drama, debate and narrative, here the decorative framework is absent. The whole situation is simplified into one sentence, usually abbreviated as "In Sāvatthī, in Jeta Park," and even in the fourth book this is omitted. The long and tortuous road that the various texts have traveled until reaching the ones we have today is a reflection of the long, diffuse and intermittent history of Buddhism in Asia. We must remember that at the time of the Buddha the cultural advances of the Harappa civilization had been forgotten for millennia. This civilization had writing and such an advanced standardization in construction techniques that the early sites were discarded as modern. The standardized fired brick throughout the Indus Valley gave way to flimsy reed and mud constructions that, as we will see in this work, reached the construction of a meeting house of unfired bricks. And it would be another century and a half before the first scripts appeared, which gradually made writing possible. Therefore, the Buddha lived technically in prehistoric times. The transmission of knowledge was exclusively oral. This is important for the presentation and development of this work. The discourses obey mnemonic structures made to be remembered by large groups of bhikkhus, each of them with parts that, in turn, are shared by other bhikkhus, so that the redundancy was sufficient to overcome losses of information due to the death of certain individuals or were even able to somehow survive calamities and mortalities, until a century before the common era, they decided to pass the teachings to flimsy palm leaves in order to conjure all these risks once and for all. Ancient Chinese served as the first written refuge for the teachings. This language is very ancient, although its availability in India was supposedly limited. Today we have received the so-called "Chinese Agamas" which are translations of oral Sanskrit texts. The drawback is that they are fragmented, scattered and largely lost. Although they do not serve to reconstruct the teaching, their value is extraordinary to find the precise definition of technical terms, since both Chinese and Sanskrit are living languages today that have an enormous and rich etymology and comparative uses. The most important collection that has come down to us to the present day is the "Nikāyas Pāli". While it is the most complete, it is simultaneously the most problematic. Pāli was never a natural spoken language. It is an artificial language with an obscure kinship to old dialects of present-day Pakistan. The pāli was created for the exclusive purpose of containing the so-called "Pāli Canon" which is a heterogeneous accumulation of texts combining versions of the originals mixed with tales, legends and classical philosophical-religious lucubrations, which were included in order to give them "authority". The restoration work was made possible by five factors: 1. They are mystical texts, and since the mystical experience is objective, it can be recognized in the text. 2. The interwoven structure of the texts forces the choice of the correct word to be valid in different environments and occasions throughout the work. 3. The support of the Chinese Agamas. 4. The etymologies and uses of traditionally corresponding terms in Sanskrit. 5. Raw access to texts in Pāli. Thanks to these factors it was possible to achieve the restoration of the original meaning given by the Buddha, which remained, worse than bad, under layers of millenary crusts, as a result of the accumulation of the avatars that the texts suffered during the last twenty-five centuries. The reason for this profound misunderstanding lies in the fact that the teachings of the Buddha are mystical texts addressed to people who practice mysticism and only mystics understand them in their full extent. Just like travel books where it is the travelers who get the real benefit. Once the last disciples of the Buddha disappear that knowledge is extinguished and the mystical path is closed. Without jhānas there is no teaching. This was already warned by the Buddha himself, who was never interested in leaving his teaching for future generations, precisely because of this. If it has reached us until today, it was not by his will but by political decision of his mortal enemy, King Ajātasattu of Māgadha, who organizes and sponsors the First Council that was already schismatic: half of the Sangha rejected the results of the council. From then on, the texts will be orphaned of meaning and will wander through centuries, councils, kingdoms and empires, always seeking the warmth of political power like any other religion. But today, having recovered the mysticism and being functional again, this wonderful window opened by the Blessed One opens again for those who today see what the Buddha saw, and who today live what his noble Sangha lived. If, in any way, it is useful to you, you are welcome to this window to the Truth.

Download or read book Letters on American Slavery written by John Rankin and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rankin was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ripley and Strait-Creek, in Brown County, Ohio. His brother Thomas was a Virginia businessman. Reverend Rankin wrote these thirteen letters "with the desire of aiding and encouraging every effort for the liberation of the enslaved and degraded Africans." He rebuts the canard that blacks are an inferior race: "What people, in similar circumstances, have ever given stronger marks of genius than are exhibited by the enslaved African of the United States?" By 1838 the book had gone through at least five editions, all of which are far more common than this first edition.

Download or read book Morbid Cravings written by Gladys Furphy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Brooks is literally fading away from her anorexia/bulimia disorder-and losing whatever self-esteem she had. An attack by a werewolf in New York City not only changes Hilda into a fierce animal during nocturnal rampages, but impacts her "normal" life as well. Suddenly Hilda's eating disorder becomes a thing of the past. She evolves socially, no longer avoids people-rather she pursues them! Never again the "doormat", Hilda changes into a viable, assertive, twenty-first century woman. She is now a "Wolfbitch," empowered and emboldened. Hilda no longer fears food, she worships it-in the human form. Morbid Cravings is but one woman's journey into the often-troubled world of human relationships. It offers a pleasurable and frightening read, reaching beneath the surface of illusions to the tortured wellspring of prevalent and visible illnesses in today's world-illnesses suffered by so many women of all ages in all walks of life. This novel fosters a refreshingly new feminist outlook to the arena of werewolves and horror alike.

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Download or read book John Craxton written by Ian Collins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a “kind of Arcadian”. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly—including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.

Download or read book About Children and Children No Longer written by Paula Heimann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Children and Children-no-longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On Countertransference' (1950); 'Dynamics and Transference Interpretations' (1956); 'Some Notes on Sublimation' (1959); and 'Notes on the Anal Stage' (1962). In addition, more recent works are published here in English for the first time, describing the author's particular integration of theory and technique. Paula Heimann's ideas on an undifferentiated early phase of infant development and its implications for analytic technique, along with her unique knowledge of both Kleinian object relations and classical theory and technique, make her work very relevant both to present-day practice and the understanding of the historical development of some central psychoanalytic ideas.

Download or read book Liberty The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United States of America written by Julius Rubens Ames and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Letters on American slavery addressed to Mr J Rankin Fifth edition written by John RANKIN (Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ripley, Ohio.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constant Craving written by Doreen Virtue and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you crave chocolate, bread, cheese, fries, or other foods? If so, there's a reason why, as Doreen Virtue's breakthrough book explains. Each food craving actually corresponds to a specific underlying emotion; so once you understand the meaning behind your particular craving and apply the information and affirmations within these pages, you'll be able to heal your cycle of emotional overeating. In addition, you'll read scientific studies about the mood- and energy-altering properties of each food, which will help you see how your appetite perfectly mirrors your emotions. This comprehensive and empowering guide will also show you how to give "food readings" to yourself and others, allowing you to accurately interpret the meaning behind many cravings. Constant Craving is a one-of-kind book that will give you the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to make friends with food . . . and your appetite!