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Love or Laws: When Law Punishes Life (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 4, 2018) is a study on so-called "sex laws" or age-of-consent laws. The study takes a critical point of departure and attempts to demonstrate that ages of consent are rather arbitrary legal instruments for so-called child protection. In fact, they are ineffective and do not protect children effectively against sexual abuse.

The Roots of Violence: Why Humans Are Not by Nature Violent (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 10, 2018) is an analytical and policy study that presents abundant evidence that human beings are not by nature violent and that violence therefore is a conditioned response. The scientific disciplines examined are anthropology, biology, neurology, pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

This is an essay on the unique teaching of J. Krishnamurti. It starts with the question "What is consciousness?" - and carefully proposes a holistic definition, after reviewing the various psychological and spiritual theories that deal with this subject. The author actually goes a step ahead and focuses on a more particular issue, a provocative question asked by K: “How to empty consciousness of its content?”

Eight Dynamic Patterns of Living: Base Elements of True Civilization (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 2, 2018) is a study on native cultures with a specific focus on their lifestyle patterns. The study required several years of research on shamanism and aboriginal cultures for providing the evidence that there are eight dynamic patterns of living that are universally respected and applied by major tribal cultures all over the world.

This book is a scholarly yet practical edition of the I Ching both for beginners and seasoned practitioners. The special focus of this divination guide is upon leadership, self-leadership, and leading others. The central concern of the author is to help the reader understand the I Ching from a point of view of decision-making, and as an aid to decision-making. In this sense, the ‘oracle book’ becomes an effective guide for taking action, which can mean bold action, nonaction or retreat. The wisdom is to arrive at right action, in whatever form it has to be carried out.

Sane Child vs. Insane Society: Some Thoughts on Education (2017) is a scholarly article that contends that children are born sane and are rendered more or less insane by an educational system that, till now, considers the human being as the impossible human - that is, a creature that is basically faulty and has to be improved and upgraded by education and morality.

Jabez Wilson sucht die Hilfe von Sherlock Holmes in einer ganz und gar merkwürdigen Geschichte: Der Betreiber eines Pfandhauses benötigt dringend einen Nebenverdienst, um den Unterhalt von sich und seinem einzigen Angestellten zu sichern. Zufällig stößt er auf ein lukratives Angebot, bei dem er nur wenig Zeit und Arbeitskraft einsetzen muss. Einzige Voraussetzung: Der Bewerber muss rote Haare haben.

This edition of the Great Mind series Françoise Dolto and Child Psychoanalysis has been revised, updated, and reformatted. It is about one of the greatest psychoanalysts the world has known. The author interviewed Françoise Dolto in 1986, after having visited La Maison Verte in Paris, a center Dr. Dolto had created for parents and children that mainly served to prepare children for greater lapses of time away from their parents and the early kindergarten experience.

Das Dao De Ging - auch Tao Te King oder Daodejing geschrieben - ist eines der meist-übersetzten Bücher der Weltliteratur. Es ist hier dargeboten in einer Fassung, die auf jeden philosophischen Kommentar bewusst verzichtet und den Text so einfach und prägnant wie möglich hält. Alles, was Zierrat ist in der Diktion muss daher gnadenlos weggestrichen werden, sodass sozusagen das Skelett der Gedanken durchscheint.

The Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu is one of the most translated books of world literature. It is here presented in a translation that deliberately avoids any philosophical commentary and renders the text in English in its most simple and straightforward composure.

The Better Life is a self-help audiobook that teaches you the use of your subconscious mind to steer your life in alignment with your higher purpose and how to adjust your thinking process so as to attract harmonious conditions, success, and wealth.

Creative-C Learning: The Innovative Kindergarten - 2017's revised, updated, and reformatted edition - presents a pre-school curriculum for a sane, holistic, brain-smart, and system-literate education of small children. The author's educational approach is tailored to how our brain works and develops from ages two to six. It's a functional approach, not an idealistic one, based on the actual constitution of the human being, with all the complexity inherent in it.

A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell. The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband, Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion and anxiously checks with the waiter she has employed to make sure that everything is perfectly prepared. Her lucky guests include a postfeminist vegetarian artist, a distinguished microbiologist, a TV journalist and an uninvited guest who ends up staying for dinner.

Hörspiel über die Geschichte der Heiligen Drei Könige. Diese hier sind drei schwäbische Bauern, die die Oberländer Mundart sprechen und auf der Suche nach dem Jesuskind sind. Regie: Reinhard Zobel, Musik: Hermann Josephs.

Fritjof Capra and the Systems View of Life (Great Minds, Book 3): 2017 Revised, Updated, and Reformatted Edition is a passionate study about the great contemporary physicist and a review of all of his published books, including extensive quotes. The author considers Fritjof Capra as one of the most important authors on new science and systems research and considers as genius Capra's unique gift to formulate and explain complex scientific and philosophical insights and interrelations in a way that the educated listener can understand.

Helen hat Angst, dass sie dasselbe Schicksal erleidet wie ihre Schwester Julia. Diese fand den Tod kurz vor ihrer Hochzeit durch das "gesprenkelte Band". Können Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson helfen? Eine spannende Geschichte von Arthur Conan Doyle.

Diese Geschichte ist die Geburtsstunde der Freundschaft zwischen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson: Der Kriegsheimkehrer und der junge Exzentriker begegnen sich auf der Suche nach einer Bleibe in London und beziehen gemeinsam das berühmte Apartment in der Baker Street 221 B. So ist Watson auch an Holmes' Seite, als Scotland Yard um Mithilfe bei der Aufklärung eines rätselhaften Mordes bittet. Der scheinbar unverletzte Mr. Drebber wurde in einem verlassenen Haus aufgefunden.

Endlich ein neuer Fall für Sherlock Holmes! Sieben Jahre sind seit seinem Zusammentreffen mit Dr. Watson und ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall vergangen. In dieser Zeit schienen die Verbrechen zu pausieren. Doch nun erreicht Holmes das verzweifelte Hilfegesuch einer gewissen Miss Mary Morstan, die seit dem rätselhaften Verschwinden ihres Vaters jedes Jahr anonym an ihrem Geburtstag das gleiche Geschenk erhält: eine sehr große, prächtige Perle.

Auch als frischgebackener Ehemann ist Dr. Watson stets bereit, Sherlock Holmes bei dessen kriminalistischen Reisen zu unterstützen. Ohne Zögern begleitet er ihn nach Herefordshire, wo der Gutsbesitzer Charles McCarthy brutal ermordet wurde. Ein scheinbar simpler Fall, da alle Indizien auf dessen Sohn James deuten. Doch im Gegensatz zu Inspector Lestrade weiß Holmes: Nichts ist trügerischer als eine offensichtliche Tatsache.

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary vampire archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many, many, more...Featuring: Bloody fangs, dark and foreboding crypts, mysterious nighttime apparitions, and languid ladies.