Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape

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Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo.

They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution.

The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.

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A Very Thorough Presentation.......2001-06-28

Invisible Gardens is a well-written, lively introduction to the confluence of landscape architecture and modernism during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Although somewhat like a textbook in its style of presentation, the writing throughout is clear, incisive and often quite absorbing. And there are plenty of black and white photos and architectural renderings which accompany the text to enhance its ability to inform. But only twelve colour plates were included in Invisible Gardens. I felt a bit let-down personally by this aspect of the project. I thought the book could have used additional high quality colour plates of the often spectacular commissions under review to balance the density of the text. And to convey visually what often needs to be seen to be properly appreciated.

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Invisible Worlds: Exploring the Unseen
Piers Bizony
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ASIN: 0297843427

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Take an amazing and truly awe-inspiring visual voyage, courtesy of 100 incredible images made from the most sophisticated, cutting-edge technology, and see what can’t be seen with the naked eye.

It’s an eye-opening experience: from the smashing of atoms to the diffraction of X-rays skimming through a crystal of DNA, the deepest patterns of nature’s building blocks are revealed to thrilling effect thanks to revolutionary technology. These thoroughly breathtaking images delve deep into the invisible world, letting us peer into the hidden secrets of heat, sound, and all manner of exotic energies and radiations. View the human body as seen in a colored Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan; a photo of a huge solar prominence, taken by an Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope; an enhanced electron scan of tiny dust mites; and striking spots of light from the distant galaxies. Computer simulations, powered by 21st-century mathematics, hint that there are still greater truths out there. It’s as unbelievable as the best science fiction—and it’s all true.

Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World & Your Invisible Power (2 Books in 1)

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how to use your mind

Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World & Your Invisible Power (2 Books in 1)
William Walker Atkinson , and Genevieve Behrend
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ASIN: 9569569441

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Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

by William Walker Atkinson

In this New Thought classic, Atkinson looks at the law of attraction in the thought world. He points out the similarities between the law of gravitation and the mental law of attraction. He explains that thought vibrations are as real as those manifesting as light, heat, magnetism and electricity. The difference is in the vibratory rate which also explains the fact that thought vibrations cannot usually be perceived by our 5 senses.

Contents: Law of attraction in the thought world; Thought-waves and their power of reproduction; About the mind; Mind building; Secret of the will; How to become immune to injurious thought attraction; Transmutation of negative thought; Law of mental control; Asserting the life force; Training the habit mind; Psychology of the emotions; Developing new brain cells; Attractive power-desire force; Law, not chance.

Your Invisible Power

by Genevieve Behrend

This is a really inspiring book. It gets you focused on your dreams and goals with very simple to understand directions. I encourage everyone to read and apply the information with a spirit of enthusiasm and watch your life change!

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how to use your mind.......2006-06-18

Great Edition

2 Books in 1 :

Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World & Your Invisible Power

that can change your life!

they theach you how to use your mind

because as a man thinketh so is his life...

Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World

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More than a book -- a gift!!!
Any general-interest library will welcome its wisdom.
Courageous and Revolutionary
What a meaningful book!
Profound and Poetic

Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World
Richard F. Mollica
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Everywhere and constantly human beings are subject to terrible violence—be it natural or manmade. It has happened in New Orleans, New York, India, Iraq, Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Ivory Coast. But long after the levees have been reconstructed, after the war criminals have been brought to justice, the question remains—can people heal, and if so, how?

Richard Mollica has spent more than thirty years helping victims of trauma. Now he draws from hundreds of interviews, years of research, and his counseling experience to show us a new way of helping people overcome their pain. The key to this? People have an inherent ability to heal themselves. And the lessons we can learn from the survivors of such trials and extreme situations can even teach us how to cope better with everyday life.

Here is a passionate, humanitarian voice of hope in a cruel and violent world, telling us all we can do more than survive—we can find strength and healing no matter what we have experienced.

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More than a book -- a gift!!!.......2007-05-26

All too rarely, it seems, the public is privileged to receive a book that is neither text nor tome, but rather gift. Richard Mollica's Healing Invisible Wounds is such a gift - a gift of hope for all who inhabit this violent world. One of the most widely accessible books I have read, Healing Invisible Wounds speaks to clinicians, policy makers, survivors and all who wish to live responsibly toward their neighbor in an increasingly global world. Having developed international recognition as a leading researcher/scientist in the field of psychiatry and trauma, Mollica departs from hard, empirical science and turns his attention toward the grace-filled trauma stories of which he has long been the recipient in his work with refugees, torture survivors, and victims of disaster. Such a shift is not easy - evidence-based research exerts an indomitable influence on the practice of healthcare. Yet, with this book, Mollica demonstrates his commitment to individuals - real people struggling with real pain yet capable of real healing. In this book, we do not find statistical evidence to support hypotheses about the mental health sequelae of violence; instead, what we find are stories of people - Somaly, Dr. Nakas and Liz - whose resilience, spirit and grace lead readers to a newfound understanding of "healing."

As a religious professional, I cannot recommend this book enough to clergy, congregations and individuals seeking to make an active, faith-based commitment to their communities. Resounding throughout Healing Invisible Wounds is Mollica's dedicated attention to the powerful force of spirituality, empathy and narrative in regards to healing. Were I to attempt to re-energize an adult faith study at my church, this is the book with which I would begin - inspiring, courageous, visionary and hopeful, Mollica's gift to us is one to be read, discussed and shared for years to come.

Any general-interest library will welcome its wisdom........2007-05-17

HEALING INVISIBLE WOUNDS: PATHS TO HOPE AND RECOVERY IN A VIOLENT WORLD could also have been featured in our Health section but is reviewed here for its wide-ranging interest beyond the usual health library audience. Richard Mollica has spent over thirty years treating victims of all kinds of trauma: hundreds of interviews, years of research, and his counseling expertise blend to produce a series of case histories with lessons on how people heal from devastating events. Any general-interest library will welcome its wisdom.

Diane C. Donovan
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Courageous and Revolutionary.......2007-01-26

Dr. Paul Farmer, the subject of "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder, describes Healing Invisible Wounds as "a welcome salve in a world of want and pain." I couldn't agree more. If you're exhausted from violence, war, and fear, look it square in the eye, and Mollica will show you the previously invisible resilience of the human mind and heart.

The book provides a courageous, inspiring, and radical message of the human capacity for self-healing. Mollica reveals the intricate relationship of humiliation, depression, and violence, providing deep insight both into international headlines and into our own lives. He describes the relationship of personal- and social-healing, illuminating and artfully deconstructing their systemic obstacles and showing a middle way.

Defying genre, and far from clinical in style, the book is a philosophical inquiry into the soul of man while providing skills rooted in scientific study for both understanding and recovering from trauma. The book is as applicable to the average person that is witness to ambient violence as to the survivor of extreme violence.

I've told everyone I know about it.

What a meaningful book!.......2007-01-23

I dedicated more than my spare time in three days to read this wonderful and exiting book. I find it innovative, creative, entertaining, revealing, informative, interesting and moving. I consider, and hope, although I am not an expert in the field, that it might really result in becoming a bestseller.

Profound and Poetic.......2007-01-12

Drawing from a rich and powerful history of personal and clinical experience, Dr. Richard Mollica's Healing Invisible Wounds has compiled a moving book about the healing power of the human soul, taking the reader on a fantastic journey through the complex, but often unrecognized resilient attributes of individuals whom have endured horrific pain and tragedy.

This book is by no means, however, a "self-help", or even "self-healing" textbook. Rather, this book is radically unique insofar as it cannot truly be boxed in to any particular literary genre. It is at once deeply philosophical, gracefully painting an illustration of healing as a true art form, while simultaneously noting the value of concrete and pragmatic applications of the artistic healing principles covered throughout the book. Through employing a mix of clinical vignettes, personal observations and revelations, and new scientific findings made throughout a lifetime of learning, Dr. Mollica's Healing Invisible Wounds reads much like a crazy, philosophical adventure novel calling, awakening the reader to the hidden, subtle, yet ubiquitous nature of discovery and healing entwined in this mystery we call "the human experience".

This book is a profound and poetic new psychology of healing and recovery from not only extreme violence but the tragic events of everyday life. The well-cultivated insights Dr. Mollica shares with the reader should--almost must--be openly embraced, encouraged, and activated in ourselves and our loved ones as often as humanly possible.

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See (A CyberAge Book)

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Technical explanations for the truly web-savvy
Worth It
Excellent instruction for librarians . . .
Great guide to out of reach resources
Good source, but slowly becoming dated

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See (A CyberAge Book)
Chris Sherman
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Enormous expanses of the Internet are unreachable with standard Web search engines. This book provides the key to finding these hidden resources by identifying how to uncover and use invisible Web resources. Mapping the invisible Web, when and how to use it, assessing the validity of the information, and the future of Web searching are topics covered in detail. Only 16 percent of Net-based information can be located using a general search engine. The other 84 percent is what is referred to as the invisible Web-made up of information stored in databases. Unlike pages on the visible Web, information in databases is generally inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that compile search engine indexes. As Web technology improves, more and more information is being stored in databases that feed into dynamically generated Web pages. The tips provided in this resource will ensure that those databases are exposed and Net-based research will be conducted in the most thorough and effective manner.

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Technical explanations for the truly web-savvy.......2006-02-27

The author is the unsurpassed guru of InterNet searching, and is explicitly relied upon by other authors engaging in the same work. His website is the mother lode of additional information, which is very helpful. If you have one book on your shelf regarding InterNet resources, this should be it. That said, Mr. Sherman relies heavily upon explanations of the breadth and depth of various resources; these explanations are designed to pique the reader's interest in further self-directed exploration, but may be more than the average searcher might need.

Worth It.......2005-09-04

Actually bought the book for my boyfriend who is currently working on my business website - he found the book very interesting and helpful.

Excellent instruction for librarians . . ........2003-06-12

I retired five years ago after thirty years in a very large public library system, and recently found it necessary to return to the trenches for awhile, in a rather smaller system. In that half-decade, of course, the Internet changed drastically and, even though I'm constantly online and intimately familiar with the major search engines (and many of the minor ones), there was a large number of new reference information sources with which I was not at all familiar. So I went looking for professional tools to remedy my ignorance. This is the first book I've seen in the publisher's "CyberAge" series, and medthodologically, it's quite good. As others have noted, the static nature of print-on-paper means rapidly outdated material, but Sherman and Price show you how to attack the problem, so, even though I came across several (unfortunately) extinct databases, I was able to locate several new ones, too. This is a terrific instructional work for reference librarians, and the accompanying web site is near the top of my bookmarks at work.

Great guide to out of reach resources.......2003-05-29

"The Invisible Web" is a thorough, thoughtful guide to finding information lying just outside the reach of search engines. It can be divided into two parts.

The first part describes the strengths and weaknesses of search engines as tools for finding information on the World Wide Web and provides a good overview of the technical and business limitations that lead to the weaknesses. At the same time, the authors also provide a high-level explanation of how search engines operate and a comprehensive explanation of what types of resources are left out of search engine indexes. Although this section is a bit repetitive, it also stands as the best explanation I have encountered on the subject of Web resource accessibility (and inaccessibility) through the popular tools that searchers have at their disposal.

The second part provides a list of Invisible Web resources (resources that can not be indexed by search engines), organized by subject, with annotations. I personally did not find this list comprehensive, but it is a good place to start for those who have previously relied solely on search engines and directories for Web searching.

If you want to understand what resources are just beyond the grasp of search engines, and get a hand on them yourself, "The Invisible Web" is a great book to get you started.

Note: some of the URL's sited in the second part of the book are now gone. This is not a criticism of the book, but a reflection of the ever-changing nature of the Web.

Good source, but slowly becoming dated.......2002-05-01

Its always risky to buy a web guide, when by its own omission, half of the web sites will be dead in two years. My own use of the web addresses in the book, found a few dead, but the author's "invisible web" web site had updated links. As search engines get better the current "invisible webs" becomes more visible, and are probably replaced with a new class of invisible webs. My own recent search was able to find many of the "invisible sites" in this book, so perhaps this book is best at giving you ideas of how to search better, for example if your looking for books search for "Library of Congress". In the context of where this review is, Amazon is a great translucent source for info on books.

Spiritual Unfoldment 1: How to Discover the Invisible Worlds and Find the Source of Healing (Spiritual Unfoldment)

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Somewhat Interesting... But Still Too Vague
Spiritual Unfoldment #1 How to discover Invisible Worlds
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Spiritual Unfoldment 1: How to Discover the Invisible Worlds and Find the Source of Healing (Spiritual Unfoldment)
White Eagle
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Somewhat Interesting... But Still Too Vague.......2002-10-21

I bought this boook because I had purchased The Quiet Mind, also by White Eagle, and thought it was probably the single greatest book I had ever read. Unfortunately, Spiritual Unfoldment 1, is far from that.

The book starts with a chapter called "A Simple Approach", which discusses the need for correct health, breathing and posture for
spiritual attainment. I found this chapter to be fairly good and instructional. The second chapter discusses the aura and the third discuses communication between the two worlds. It was after these last two chapters that I realized I had a book very different from "The Quiet Mind". Although I have read alot about spirit communication and auras, I have not yet found a book that I feel adequately explains the phenomenon and this one is no exception.

The book continues with very short, single chapters on still more spiritual concepts... your spiritual guide, clairvoyance, divine love, reincarnation, karma and spiritual healing. Although each of these chapters were interesting, they were not discussed in-depth enough for the reader to walk away with a good understanding or belief in the subjects.

My idea of a great book is one that leaves you thirsty to learn more, that makes you think deeply, that makes that "light" go on in your head with a knowing... YES! This book did not do any of those things for me... so I would not recommend it.

Although there were a few interesting passages, I recommend you spend your time reading and re-reading "The Quiet Mind", also by White Eagle instead. It's content is far more valuable!

Spiritual Unfoldment #1 How to discover Invisible Worlds.......2002-06-03

What is the purpose of life? White Eagle's opening line in Spiritual Unfoldment #1 answers this philosophical question raised over the centuries: "The fundamental purpose of your life is that you may find truth." Religious battles have been waged over truth, and debates have raged around truth. Is truth universal or is it relative to time, place and culture? It is the question Pilate asks Jesus: What is truth?

How significant that White Eagle, who advises us to avoid extremes and find harmonious balance, should tell us that truth is both universal and relative. "Truth always has more than one aspect and many paths lead to God." Elsewhere he has likened truth to a diamond. On one path we see one facet, on another path a different facet, but they are all part of the same diamond. Whichever path we choose it will lead to an aspect of truth.

How do we find the path that is true for us? Not by debate or argument or by looking to outside authority. White Eagle tells us that "truth lies buried deep within your own inner self." In order to contact this source of truth within, we must first learn to release ourselves from the physical limitations of the material body and gently unfold that spiritual eternal life.

Spiritual Unfoldment #1 is White Eagle's basic guide book to realizing the God within. It is the first in a series of four books. Its title so aptly describes the gentle process of awakening that occurs within, like the opening of a rosebud or the natural unfurling of butterfly wings. In the nine chapters he assures us that "a glorious future awaits each soul, but it entails hard work."

An important way to unfold spiritually is through meditation. Meditation is a discipline that keeps the mind focused, yet prevents it from becoming too narrow or constricted. It brings together all wisdom stored in the soul, making us aware of God within and helping that inner light grow. After a period of meditation "your innermost voice will speak to you, saying:"this is my path." But to hear that voice, we must first learn to become discerning and distinguish between the "real higher God-mind" and the "unreal, worldly mind."

Meditation is not the only way to spiritual unfoldment. Anything which cultivates awareness of the beauty of God should be pursued, whether through literature, gardening, cooking or artistry. "All beauty, every emotion of joy and happiness is an expression of God." White Eagle suggests we become more in tune with nature and appreciate grey skies and rain as much as sunshine and blossoms, that we hear the voice of God, the sacred OM in a gale as clearly as in a gentle breeze. "Awakening the inner senses of life brings greater health to your physical body and an expansion of mentality, and an expansion of consciousness and spiritual realization."

White Eagle's advice can help us at all levels. He assures us each one has come back into incarnation to develop a particular quality which will be built into our higher body. "If things are not exactly as you wish them to be in your life, be patient and learn the lesson which your circumstances have brought to teach you."

Spiritual Unfoldment #1 abounds in gems of wisdom. Inspiring words enable us to better understand life and the role we can play to make life happier for ourselves and everyone else. "Be kind--you will be amazed at the peace you will find;" "When the strength of the spirit shows is when you can smile when things appear to be all against you."
Spiritual Unfoldment #1 is highly relevant in today's world.

Spiritual Unfoldment 2: The Ministry of Angels & Nature.......2002-06-03

Based on talks given by White Eagle and re-published with minor language revisions in 2001, Spiritual Unfoldment #2 is an important book for this age of Aquarius, for it offers a broader perspective on the meaning of brotherhood. Angels and humans are brothers and sisters, White Eagle tells us, "through their kinship of spirit."
In eight chapters covering one hundred pages, Spiritual Unfoldment #2 gives us a panoramic view of the interconnectedness of the universe, beginning with the vibration of the Word which caused the Light, which in turn divided into seven rays of life, each guided by one of the Great Masters of Wisdom. "From each ray comes seven, so that behind and within the veil of physical life are countless hosts of beings, both of the human line of evolution and of the natural and angelic. The life within every growing thing is brought into manifestation, sustained and fed by these countless hosts."
In recent years, humanity has grown to understand its causal impact on the environment and is realizing it does not live in total isolation from other species sharing our planet. White Eagle takes us a step further by disclosing that behind physical life there exists a spiritual counterpart with which we must live in harmony. "Don't be greedy, my dears," he gently chides, "why should humans be the only spiritual manifestations on the earth plane, and all other forms but empty shells?"
Opening our imaginations to the colourful creations that inhabit the finer ether interpenetrating the elements of earth, air, fire and water, White Eagle introduces us to life-forms busy at work in nature, creating jewels and minerals within the earth, colouring flowers, inspiring our creativity. Their work complete, many of these life-forms eventually merge into the angelic kingdom, for all these nature spirits are commanded by angels influenced by one of the three major Rays from which all life comes: Wisdom, Love and Power.
For some, Spiritual Unfoldment#2 may read like science fiction of fantasy, but White Eagle is aware of this scepticism. "Keep an open mind," he advises, "there is so much in heaven and earth which is undreamt of in earthly philosophy." Fairy tales, he says, contain gems of spiritual truth and devotes a chapter to the spiritual interpretation of familiar folklore.
Angels have received wide popular acceptance over the past decade, yet much of the information has been misguided. White Eagle tells us angelic beings come from a different line of evolution than humans. Dispassionate beings, angels often have difficulty coming close to humans who have not learned to control their emotions. Although angels work closely with humans, essentially both belong to different lines and have distinctive roles. The prime concern of angelic hierarchies is with the evolution and the building of form, whereas the human concern is with the growth of spiritual consciousness within that form. Each line relies on the cooperation of the other. "The angels have to work through human channels in order to build heavenly powers into human consciousness."
A guardian angel, "custodian of the karmic law which rules all life," is appointed to each human, guiding it along its chosen path from birth to death. "Every time you respond to a good spiritual impulse, you are helped by your guardian angel," says White Eagle. Attending human birth is also an angel of Birth; likewise at death, an angel of Death with "a face of ineffable mercy, pity and love." Other angels are concerned with soul attributes, such as Love, Mercy, Truth, and even Music, for music influences the soul. Angels of Ceremonial and Ritual assist in the gathering and distribution of power at great ceremonies, while angels of Healing, working under the Master Jesus, carry and distribute healing power.
For those who accept the existence of myriad forms of invisible life, gaining knowledge and understanding of our own relationship with these various life-forms becomes essential to our progress along the spiritual path. "If the soul desires to reach the Divine it must itself help the hosts of angels in their work...it must serve the cause of brotherhood, of evolution." So what is it that humans need to do to contribute to this harmonious brotherhood of life?
White Eagle suggests that by becoming aware of these other forms of life, we are making the first step on the spiritual path, "identify with the tiniest insect, with flowers, sunlight and gentle rains." He also reminds us that one of the biggest contributions humans can make is through the power of thought. "Thoughts are drawn by magnetic attraction towards other thought-streams, either positive or negative." Angels take and mould throught to create form. Human thought, "the healing substance which you give forth from your heart and mind" can be maipulated and used by the angels for positive good, as in healing services, "all uplifting thoughts contribute to that great stream of Divine light." Yet negative thoughts of fear, violent emotions, alcoholic deliriums create elementals from the lower ethers, who cling to the one who creates them. "When people begin to understand what they are creating by their thoughts and their actions and their emotions, they will perhaps understand the great need for discipline in their life."
White Eagle's detailed descriptions of the fascinating work of nature spirits who beautify our world, the glorious connection between angels and humans, and the use of simple language to depict the profundity of creation, contribute to this book's strong appeal. Spiritual Unfoldment #2 is an ideal book to read and re-read now over the Summer when nature is in full bloom and there is time to listen to "the harmonies of the spheres of light sounding from the beauty of a little flower."

Absolutely, Beautiful!.......2000-03-15

This book grabs your attention from the start and focuses on bringing you home, one with Spirit, one with our Creator. You realize how simple the path is to follow when you truly desire to serve God and mankind. If you are seeking and searching for true happiness and joy in your heart, then look no further - this book becomes a guide for you to become more spiritual, regardless of your religion or denomination. If you have a sincere and open heart and mind, then this fabulous book will allow you to become healthier, through wholeness or holiness. Trust me, once you start this book, you won't want to put it down until you've finished it from cover to cover. It's absolutely, beautiful - a must read book for anyone who loves life!

Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali

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Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali
Margaret J. Wiener
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung forms the basis of Margaret Wiener's complex anthropolological history.

Wiener challenges colonial and academic claims that Klungkung had no "real" power and argues that such claims enabled colonial domination. By focusing on Balinese discourses she makes clear the choices open to Balinese, both at the time of the Dutch conquest and in its narration. At the same time, she shows how these discourses, which revolve around magical weapons acquired from invisible agents such as gods, spirits, and ancestors, offer an alternative understanding of Klungkung's power.

Moving between Balinese and Dutch narratives and between past and present, Wiener critiques colonial accounts by recounting Balinese memories and interpretations. Her attention to history and local situations illuminates the ways in which colonialism and orientalist scholarship have obscured the power of indigenous rulers and shows how Klungkung, once Bali's paramount realm, was relegated to a peripheral corner of the Indonesian nation-state. Both as a fascinating story and as a rich example of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will interest students of colonialism, anthropology, history, religion, and Southeast Asia.

Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts) (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts)

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Explores the role that mythology plays in human identity

Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts) (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts)
James Hollis
Manufacturer: Inner City Books
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Tales told by shadowy elders around ancient campfires offered both explanation and comfort. Life hasn't changed that much: our dependence on explanation and comfort still lies just under our busy ambition and constant yearning. Most of the time, the basic assumptions of our early years were so viscerally absorbed that we have never made them articulate, and therefore never had any way to evaluate their relevance for us now. What if they are outdated? Immature? Beside the point?

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Explores the role that mythology plays in human identity .......2004-10-06

Mythologems: incarnations Of The Invisible World by Jungian scholar and analytical psychologist James Hollis explores the role that mythology plays in human identity and understanding, from early civilization to the modern day. With especial focus upon transcendental archtypes of the child, the parents, the hero task, gods, and death/ascent or death/rebirth, Mythologems reveals the stunning extent upon which people depend upon explanations, comfort, and stories absorbed at an early age. A fascinating discourse that dwells upon the profound impact principles of Jungian psychology have on everyday life.

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A brilliant history of the Jews in Germany
brilliant, insightful well written book
The first well balanced acount of German Jewish History
i was there
An excellent but still incomplete view.

The Invisible Wall
W. Michael Blumenthal
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W. Michael Blumenthal, a German Jew who arrived in the U.S. with $65 in his pocket, went on to become President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Treasury. He comes by his over-achievement honestly: his ancestors include jewelers, composers, businessmen, and literati, whose stories he collects in The Invisible Wall: The Mystery of the Germans and Jews. These stories are the lens through which Blumenthal views the history of Christian-Jewish relations in Germany, and the means by which he answers the question of why Jews in that country experienced "such a promising beginning, so much hope and so much accomplishment--and so terrible an end." His answers to that question are both careful and controversial, and his book, as a whole, will convince many that it's finally impossible to separate personal and political responsibilities. --Michael Joseph Gross

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W. Michael Blumenthal seeks to show how "the unrequited love affair of Germany's Jews with their native country" contributed to the horrors of the Holocaust

Often compared in reviews to Daniel Goldhagen's bestselling Hitler's Willing Executioners, The Invisible Wall refutes Goldhagen's assessment of German "eliminationist" anti-Semitism. Instead, Blumenthal presents a sweeping portrait of German Jews from the birth of Christianity to the eve of the Holocaust, revealing how Jews of various generations tried but failed to pierce the prejudice that separated them from other Germans. A work of tremendous scope and insight, The Invisible Wall presents a fascinating perspective on one of the most difficult questions of our time.

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A brilliant history of the Jews in Germany.......2004-11-09

It's clear from the first page that researching and writing this book was a passion for W. Michael Blumenthal.

Blumenthal does a masterful job of creating an objective and insightful narration of the centruries-long and ultimately tragic saga of the Jews in Germany, and an equally remarkable job of interweaving the lives of some of his own ancestors as exemplars of the conditions and opportunities for Jews in Germany through the centuries.

The result is an accurate, insightful, and poignant exploration of a terrible, but vitally important part of Western history.

It's a book that's worth reading with the same care and attention that the author so clearly put into it.

Robert Adler, author of _Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome; and Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation.

brilliant, insightful well written book.......2000-02-24

After reading this fascinating account -- I loved the interweaving of biography with general history -- I feel I now understand why the Holocaust happened in Germany. Germany looked like a modern country, but was not really part of Western European culture -- it was dominated by a militarized aristocracy, had never developed true representative democracy, and had achieved a very late unification by rallying its people around racism -- the idealization of the German race, and the denigration of the Jews in their midst. The biography of their monarchs shows a line of really sick, sadistic, militarily obsessed rulers, suitable progenitors for Hitler. A veneer of high culture and a strong econmy made them look like a modern country, but underneath was a much more backward country, morally and politcally.

The first well balanced acount of German Jewish History.......1999-05-01

As a native of Germany born immediately after WWII, I can truly say that this is the first book which explains the role of the German Jews through German History.Michael Blumenthal does a great job in balancing his book between actual historical events and the lives of his main characters. His extraordinary objectivity does not cast blame but tries to make sense of what happened to his people A book well worth reading. I hope that it will make my daugher better understand her mother's struggle with her German past.

i was there.......1999-04-23

hi, i just would liek to say,that this book was pretty good,because i grew up in the ddr.i was 9 years old,when the wall came down but i was not there,because my dad and i escaped a coulpe of days before. i recommend a book about something like that to everybody and i think it is really important,to know what happenend,right? thanx,nora

An excellent but still incomplete view........1998-11-30

I bought Blumenthal's book because, like many people, I have long sought to understand the persistence of "antisemitism" over at least two millenia. His book and Nora Ephron's review of Lindeman's book "Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews" in the Boston Book Review (1998) have begun to pull together a few of the pieces. I very much liked the scope and even-handedness of Blumenthal's book and would recommend it to anyone interested in either antisemitism, in the history of the Jews in Germany, or in the factors that contributed to Hitler's takeover in Germany. One thing that I didn't realize, for instance, was that the US stock market collapse of 1929 may have been a significant factor in tilting Germany into Hitler's hands.

Blumenthal is clear in recognizing some of the components of Jewish behavior that contributed to the situation in Germany - the tendency of the Jews to come out on top financially whenever they were given a chance to compete, their tendency to wedge themselves in between the aristocracy and the rest of the people in Germany (letting the people blame the Jews for problems that were often the fault of the leaders), the tendency of the orthodox Jews to separate from the host people in dress and language and give the impression that they had disdain for the host people, etc. When inflammatory religious differences were thrown into this mix, the result was an unstable explosive mixture, especially when early Christians started the practice of blaming the Jews as a whole for the death of Jesus Christ.

Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Papers from 'Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the ... (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)
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Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Papers from 'Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the ... (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)

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Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first "Europe," the conference explored the dominant conception of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the understanding of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibriums in the collective mentality within élites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology.

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