Descriere: . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years.
Page dim. 198 x 129
Weight: 346 grams
Autori: Bellos Alex | Editura: Guardian Faber Publishing | Anul aparitiei: 2020 | ISBN: 9781783351916 | Numar de pagini: 288 | Categorie: Inspirational
Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation
Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life. Never before published except as a series of articles (one per chapter) in an academic journal, this book on contemplation was revised by Merton shortly before his untimely death. The material bridges Merton's early work on Catholic monasticism, mysticism, and contemplation with his later writing on Eastern, especially Buddhist, traditions of meditation and spirituality. This book thus provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. Merton was still tinkering with this book when he died; it was the book he struggled with most during his career as a writer. But now the Merton Legacy Trust and experts have determined that the book makes such a valuable contribution as his major comprehensive presentation of contemplation that they have allowed its publication.
Richard A. Daly
God's Little Book of Hope: Words of Inspiration and Encouragement for Difficult Times
What a caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." This pocket-sized book filled with inspirational religious thoughts on the theme of hope can function as a ray of light in difficult times. Open this little book to any page and answers will be provided: "Pick yourself up when you fall down. No one else is likely to." "There are no hopeless situations . . . only attitudes that have grown hopeless about them.
Jack Canfield, Gay Hendricks
You've Got to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life
There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives. What book shaped their outlook and habits? Helped them navigate rough seas? Spurred them to satisfaction and success? The contributors include Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Craig Newmark, Michael E. Gerber, Lou Holtz, and Pat Williams, to name just a few. Their richly varied stories are poignant, energizing, and entertaining.Author and actor Malachy McCourt tells how a tattered biography of Gandhi, stumbled on in his youth, offered a shining example of true humility—and planted the seeds that would help support his sobriety decades later. Bestselling author and physician Bernie Siegel, M.D., tells how William Saroyan's The Human Comedy helped him realize that, in order to successfully treat his ...