India Today What he teaches is essentially a mix of psychological, yogic and meditation exercises tinged with the latest management jargon. Business World He is the latest Guru on the corporate scene. And his program on Stress and Creativity are being lapped up by executives from top-notch companies. The Times of India TOI does a poll on who talks the talk best. Swamiji tops the list on all counts. This is one man who has the abillity to reach out to every member in the audience. Swamiji is erudite, often lyrically so. His programs have been consciously ...

Paul Morphy is a chess legend and without doubt one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His understanding of the game was years ahead of his time and in his era he was easily the best player in the world. His chess career was brief but brilliant and he influenced all the great champions who came after him. His legacy includes a treasure trove of wonderful strategic and attacking games which are highly instructive for all aspiring chess players. In this book, Grandmaster Zenón Franco examines in detail Morphy's chess style, selects and ...

Democratic Responses to Terrorism  tackles how to protect democratic societies against terrorist violence while, at the same time, making sure that the steps democracies take to protect themselves do no fundamental harm to the rule of law and the rights of citizens. With a foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, the essays here assess such elements as the role of the legal framework, human rights, democracy and civil society, as well as international cooperation. The series explores one of the most pressing issues of our ...

This book addresses critical gaps in existing biographies of Nelson Algren, providing new perspectives on his writing style, literary contributions, professional colleagues, and personal life--especially his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. Although Beauvoir maintained a simultaneous relationship with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the correspondence exchanged between Beauvoir, Algren, and Sartre, as this book discusses, sheds new light on her "transatlantic love affair" with Algren. Moreover, this work challenges the assertion that Algren's ...

The Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales. - V. 1-2, 1863-73 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature ...

Voici un roman atypique où la fiction côtoie la réalité pour vous faire vivre une aventure palpitante ! Attachants, plein d'humanité et farouches adversaires des forces du mal, les héros de cette autofiction fantastique oeuvrent corps et âme à la paix des peuples. Suspens, action, rêve, amour et magie s'entremêlent pour vous tenir en haleine. Le pouvoir de l'amour universel, qui n'a pas de frontière, sera le fer de lance de cette aventure qui pourrait bien éclairer les coeurs ...

Guillermo O'Donnell here brings together a collection of significant recent essays in which he considers both the method for and substance of critiques of democracies. While progress has been made in democratization, the authoritarian legacy hangs as a shadow over that advancement. O'Donnell engages in his analysis while keeping a firm gaze on that dangerous past. O'Donnell's work has influenced a generation of political scientists. The essays in this volume bring forward and develop many of the ideas presented in his earlier collection, Counterpoints: ...

Ein Kaleidoskop tiefsinniger Gedichte, humoristischer Gedichte sowie Nonsens-Gedichten zum Lachen und Schmunzeln. In bester Erich Kästner und Christian Morgenstern Tradition haben die zwei Autoren Eddie Hofmann und sein Neffe Rafael Bopp mit viel Humor und Ironie in enger Zusammenarbeit über Skype diese surrealistischen Gedichte verfasst. Die zwei Autoren haben ausserdem auch einen surrealistischen und ironischen Roman verfasst. "Der Aufstand in Habenbeck" handelt von der Revolution alltäglicher Gegenstände, die sich gegen die Herrschaft ...

Stories of ghosts guarding buried treasure and mines plagued by foreboding specters have been a staple of campfire tales for generations. In that spirit, the authors dug deep into the recesses of Old West-era newspapers to unearth horrifying accounts of terror in the mines. In Arizona, thrill to stories of a wraith in Tombstone's Bronco Mine, then brave the spirits that guard the Muerta Mine near Marfa, Texas. In Oklahoma, hear the fierce cries of the screaming ghosts of Snake Creek and run from the Headless Horseman that guards a gold cache in the Kiamichi ...

An image had rooted itself in my mind. That of an ingenuous fresh-faced American arriving at Casablanca’s airport at the start of a mid-life crisis. I could see him clearly. Dressed in a crumpled old Burberry raincoat and fedora, he was a clone of Humphrey Bogart of Rick’s Café Americain. Each night before I drifted off to sleep, I allowed myself to imagine the adventures of the Casablanca -obsessed visitor. Within a week or so I had an entire storyline planned out. Drilling down into the dark side of Morocco’s seething modern ...