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The heart is popularly regarded in connection to feelings, emotions and desires. However, from an esoteric point of view, the heart is the seat of the spiritual consciousness in human beings. It is for this reason that most spiritual traditions have designed different meditations and prayers centered on the heart. Dr. Sender explores esoteric teachings on the heart and how meditation on it can hasten the awakening of spiritual consciousness.
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The heart is popularly regarded in connection to feelings, emotions and desires. However, from an esoteric point of view, the heart is the seat of the spiritual consciousness in human beings. It is for this reason that most spiritual traditions have designed different meditations and prayers centered on the heart. Dr. Sender explores esoteric teachings on the heart and how meditation on it can hasten the awakening of spiritual consciousness.
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"This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaijū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors demonstrate various ways in which this monster cinema tackles environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change"--
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Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine...
131) The British oak
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The British Oak is a comprehensive overview of everything that the iconic oak tree signifies to Britain and its people. Archie Miles explores the rise of oak woods since the last Ice Age, placing the tree in its biological, cultural and economic context. We still speak of the 'heart of oak' that built the British Empire, such is its importance in industry, architecture and shipbuilding, while the oak's role in myth, art and literature took root in...
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Scott Poole's central argument is that monster tales intertwine with America's troubled history of racism, politics, class struggle, and gender inequality. The second edition of Monsters leads readers deeper into America's tangled past to show how monsters continue to haunt contemporary American ideology. By adding new discussions of the American West, Poole focuses intently on the Native American experience. He reveals how monster stories went west...
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Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy changes her life irrevocably, 9-year-old Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on a native flower farm that gives refuge to women who, like Alice, are lost or broken. In the Victorian tradition, every flower has a meaning and, as she settles into her new life,...
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"Food played a central role in the Third Reich, to satisfy the daily needs of the people, to prepare Germany for war, to decrease the country's dependence on food imports and as the foundation of a racial ideology that justified the murder of millions of Jews, prisoners of war and Slavs. This book is the first to address the topic of food during the Nazi Reich in a comprehensive way. It illustrates the importance of food in Nazi ideology, its use...
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