MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART III PART ONE: EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP (Cont) As the inner life of the prisoner tended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before. Under their influence he sometimes even forgot his …
THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS BOOKS 2006 PART II PART ONE: THE TIDES OF TRANSFORMATION Chapter 1: New Thinking for a New World Einstein told us that we cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking at which we were when …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART IV Chapter 4: Political Limits: The Crisis of International Political Will (Cont.) The unperceived imperatives The UN would be the obvious instrument for defining global goals and coordinating the policies required for their achievement …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART 1II Chapter 4: The Second Lesson of Life “Sangratan’s down in the pasture, I’ll just nip over and see him.” I approached the camp fire cautiously. He beckoned me to sit beside him. “These last few days I have begun to realize all that …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART II Chapter 2: All or Nothing or Something Else 1. George I spent the first 26 years of my life disliking animals. And then one day I became a person who loved dogs. I became a dog person. Sixty-three percent of American households have at …
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART II PART ONE: EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP (Cont) Another sensation seized us: curiosity. Cold curiosity predominated even in Auschwitz, somehow detaching the mind from its surroundings, which came to be regarded with a kind of objectivity. We were anxious to know …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART III Chapter 3: Cultural Limits. The Atrophy of Positive Vision Where there is no vision the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18) A tale of the power of positive vision In ancient Arabia, Mamun inherited …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART 1I Chapter 2: The Lessons of Life My plan was to get back as soon as possible to where I had last seen Sangratan. ‘You are looking for me, Mr Bill?’ I turned sharply, surprised to hear my name. There, at the side of …
Book Review Below you will find Part 9 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Mitigation acts to reduce the upper bounds of projected warming, and thus to avoid the most extreme and damaging possibilities. Mitigation action taken now will have its most significant …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART I Chapter 1: Storytelling Americans choose to eat less than 0.25% of the known edible food on the planet. The fruits of family trees My grandmother survived the War barefoot, scavenging other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins, and the …
