Combinatie van vertaling en uitleg van de 'Ethica', het hoofdwerk van de Nederlandse filosoof (1632-1677).

This collection of translated texts includes: "Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic: " A tenth-century text on the principles of inner alchemy. "The Inner Teachings of Taoism: " The essentials of self-transformation according to the Complete Reality School of Taoism, with commentary by Liu I-ming. "The Book of Balance and Harmony: " These essays, conversations, poetry, and songs about the secrets of Taoism teach how to live a centered and orderly life. "Practical Taoism: " A collection of the most accessible of the texts on inner alchemy.

"Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. Born in Berlin in 1915, Hirschman grew up amid the promise and turmoil of the Weimar era, but fled Germany when the Nazis seized power in 1933. Amid hardship and personal tragedy, he volunteered to fight against the fascists in Spain and helped many of Europe's leading artists and intellectuals escape to America after France fell to Hitler. His intellectual career led him to Paris, London, and Trieste, and to academic appointments at Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was an influential adviser to governments in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, as well as major foundations and the World Bank. Along the way, he wrote some of the most innovative and important books in economics, the social sciences, and the history of ideas. Throughout, he remained committed to his belief that reform is possible, even in the darkest of times. This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism"--

Een Amerikaanse vrouw beschrijft haar leven in een sekte, waarin polygamie en huiselijk geweld normaal zijn en waaruit zij uiteindelijk samen met haar acht kinderen weet te ontsnappen.

Beschrijving van een pelgrimstocht naar de heiligste plaats in het Tibetaans boeddhisme, de berg Kailas.

What makes for a great meeting? As a leader, how can you keep discussions on point and productive? In "How to Run a Meeting", Antony Jay argues that too many leaders fail to plan adequately for meetings. In this bestselling article, he defines the characteristics that contribute to success , from keeping formal minutes to acknowledging junior staff first. These guidelines will help you get demonstrably better results from every meeting you run. Since 1922, "Harvard Business Review" has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. "The Harvard Business Review Classics" series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Verslagen van gesprekken met overledenen die via het Amerikaanse medium George Anderson zijn gevoerd om nabestaanden te helpen.

Handreiking met oefeningen voor zelfontwikkeling door middel van creativiteit.

A radical synthesis of science and personal experience that advocates a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer When David Servan- Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, it changed his life. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness, the little known workings of the bodyas natural cancer-fighting capacities, and his own will to live, Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-year journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration, and finally to health. Combining memoir with a clear explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them, and describing both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer, Anticancer is revolutionary in its clarity. It is a moving story of a doctoras inner and outer search for healing; radical in its discussion of the environment, lifestyle, and trauma; and inspiring and cautionary in its certainty that cancer cells lie dormant in all of usaand we all must care for the aterraina in which they exist. Anticancer takes us on a serious journey and, ultimately, an empowering one. In the tradition of Michael Pollan, John Kabat- Zinn, Barbara Kingsolver, and Andrew Weil, Anticancer genuinely guides us to aa new way of life.a

Verklaring van het bestaan van het ik, de innerlijke persoon, vanuit de structuur van de hersenen, waar cycli van zelfregulerende neurale activiteit de basis vormen voor de hogere hersenfuncties.

In 'Moderne devoties' vertellen veertien vrouwen in een persoonlijk essay wat hun geloof voor hen betekent. Ze zijn allen vrouwen met een hoog 'emancipatiegehalte', afkomstig uit verschillende relegieuze tradities en met uiteenlopende maatschappelijke functies. In sommige verhalen staat de persoonlijke beleving centraal, in andere gaat het meer om ethische en esthetische aspecten van geloof. De verhalen staan ver af van fanatieke geloofsovertuiging of fundamentalisme. De vrouwen in het boek aarzelen juist niet om de fundamenten van hun geloof ter discussie te stellen. Hun geloof is hun wel dierbaar, maar niet heilig.

Beschouwing over de plaats van lichamelijkheid in de christelijke traditie en de theologie.

Populair-wetenschappelijke behandeling van het vermogen om mensen en dingen in het dagelijks leven te kunnen loslaten.

Bespreking van de verschillen tussen de seksen vanuit evolutionair perspectief.

Oorspr. titel en uitg. : Das Auge im Bauch : Erfahrungen mit tiefenpsychischer Spiritualität. - Olten : Walter-Verlag, 1986.

Onderzoek naar neurobiologie van mentale processen, waarbij de vraag centraal staat of de hersenen door de geest worden beïnvloed of andersom.

Opvoedingsprogramma voor het inprenten van normen en waarden.

In dit land is het heel gewoon geworden om argwanend, soms zelfs vijandig tegen religie aan te kijken. Men beroept zich daarbij ideologisch graag op de verlichtingsfilosofen uit de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw. Maar laten die Verlichters nu zelf vrijwel allemaal religieus zijn geweest! Ze noemden zich weliswaar soms atheïst, maar dan in de betekenis van die tijd: los van oude dogma's. Hannemieke Stamperius geeft in dit boek weer hoe de Verlichtingsdenkers over God schreven.

“There’s no fool like an old fool,” the saying goes. What is it about wisdom that sets it apart from mere intelligence? What is that elusive difference between a simple grasp of the facts and profound understanding? Wisdom has fascinated the human race for thousands of years; philosophers are notorious for being in love with it, and for centuries writers have tried to capture its essence in proverbs and fables. In this book, Trevor Curnow provides an accessible introduction to wisdom and the many ways we have thought about and tried to achieve it throughout history.

Drawing on examples from a diversity of eras and places—from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe to modern Africa—Curnow explores the ways we have sought to overcome the problems posed by our existence, such as love and death, with a steadfast wisdom. He shows how many cultures have attributed wisdom to deities such as Apollo, Odin, and Sarasvati, and how, especially, we have placed it within the vehicle of the proverb, which has safeguarded its lessons throughout time and across cultures.

Including a collection of one hundred sayings that offer a rich record of wisdom’s reification, this history gives new insight into what wisdom actually is and where we might find it.

A Western-trained psychoanalyst returns to her homeland and tells stories of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.

Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague exclaims, “I do not think that Iranians can free-associate!” Homayounpour responds that in her opinion Iranians do nothing but. Iranian culture, she says, revolves around stories. Why wouldn't Freud's methods work, given Iranians' need to talk?

Thus begins a fascinating narrative of interlocking stories that resembles—more than a little—a psychoanalytic session. Homayounpour recounts the pleasure and pain of returning to her motherland, her passion for the work of Milan Kundera, her complex relationship with Kundera's Iranian translator (her father), and her own and other Iranians' anxieties of influence and disobedience. Woven throughout the narrative are glimpses of her sometimes frustrating, always candid, sessions with patients. Ms. N, a famous artist, dreams of abandonment and sits in the analyst's chair rather than on the analysand's couch; a young chador-clad woman expresses shame because she has lost her virginity; an eloquently suicidal young man cannot kill himself.

As a psychoanalyst, Homayounpour knows that behind every story told is another story that remains untold. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran connects the stories, spoken and unspoken, that ordinary Iranians tell about their lives before their hour is up.

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