Tales of Ivan Belkin is the breaking point in Pushkin's creative work. It's the border between Sentimentalist literature and Realistic one. The characters are much deeper than they could be looked for the first time! Tales of Ivan Belkin are something about a JOKE OF GENIUS, don't you see that? They all are about things that were important for the author in this horrible autumn, 1830, when they were written. These things are family, friendship, and love. Each tale is full of love, don't you think so?

"Your book is certainly more helpful in terms of long-term practical information than most of today's introductory or finance principles texts." Professor Peter H. Huang,Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Stanford University "Admirers of The Tao of Love will surely be curious to see how Hoffman goes about transforming a common equation:that of monetary concerns and fear-based actions." Booklist

I want to know where in his writings does he treat fairly extensively the "acquiring of a second skin" as a result of being absorbed into the Gulag? I have found a very brief reference in the glossary of my old paperback translation from the early eighties. I know in years past that I read a more extensive treatment of this topic, but scanning of all his major works except August 1914 (which I have not read) and Cancer Ward (which I have read, but the local library does not have a copy) has not turned up this reference. Please someone help in this matter!

'Todo es Prólogo' is a comprehensive anthology of poems written by the award-winning Chilean poet, Carlos Trujillo, over the course of his career. This collection (in Spanish) reveals the poet's profound interest in the basic value of humanity, as in the dynamism that emerges from open and diverse cultural perspectives.

Carlos Trujillo brings the proud insight of an heir to the tradition of Chilean visionary Pablo Neruda, as well as the unique and substantial contribution which sets his own work apart. This book expresses the full range of the poet's work, and offers a rewarding sojourn into the more subtle, supple territories of the human experience.

This is the translation that I first read (years after it was published) and loved. The novel has been around a long time but its attraction can be won or lost according to the translation. Another, later translation irked me so much that I didn't want to finish reading it. Now that I've found my favorite translation -- which I think is more poetic and does better justice to the style and mood of the Russian original -- I'm buying a copy for myself and one for a gift to someone in high school.

A remarkable view of a repressed society viewed through several refractions. Five stories which surround you into a depiction of the military regime of 1970's Brazil. Innovative story telling, with each story performing its own gimmick and each story pulling it off. The surface may be often derivational, but the core of each tale is as accurate and moving as anything Brazil has produced.

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This is az amazing book about an interesting period of Hungarian history. In my view, if you'd like to know an era, the best thing to do is to check out its newspapers and magazines, and this is exactly what this book provides you with. Tons of funny/ridiculous/incredible (depending on your political attitude) pictures and clips of articles. Being Hungarian, I might have a different view on these things than non-Hungarians, but I'm too young to remember most of this era. If you'd like to know how people could actually _live_ in an oppressive socialist state without any personal freedom, this book is the one to read. It tells you a lot in an amusing way about this sad & sweet period of Hungarian history.

Having collected and read Mr.Sanderson for years (those dealing with UFOs,Yeti,and unexplained phenomena)this is one of the standouts of his incredible line of great books.You'd be very hard pressed to find a book that is more impressive in it's views of the UAP&UAO (unidentified aerial phenomina&unidentified aerial objects).Mr.Sanderson's views are very intelligent indeed as he was a trained biologist and a Fortean as well.
He was a friend of John Keel's and he touched on some of Keel's subjects like MIB,the Mothmen,and Gypsies before Keel and these are addressed in the book as well as the Phladelphia Project.
If you can find it,get it.Most people want a substansial amount for this book (it's worth it).I lucked out and got a 1st edition for $....

In this challenging book, psychologist, Ivan Leudar traces voice-hearing and its interpretations through 2,800 years of history. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice-hearers. Leudar assisted with some contributory chapters by psychiatrist Philip Thomas demonstrates how the direct experience has been changed from being a sign of virtue to being a sign of insanity, signaling 'psychosis' or 'schizoprenia'.

Leudar asks the question if the experience should be taken out of the hands of psychiatry and rehabilitated as a normal, although uncommon human experience.

Leudar lists an impressive number of historically significant voice hearers, including Soctates and Pythagoris. Pointing out that voices were implicated in the religious conversions of St. Augustine and Hildegard of Bingen. Other voice hearers like Galelio, heard the voice of his dead daughter or threatening voices like Daniel Paul Schreiber ( a nineteenth century German judge) who heard voices that boomed abuse at him.

The conclusions that Leudar draws from this fascinating study is that hearing voices is no more insane than other psychological faculties; such as thinking or imagining or seeing. Leudar and Thomas conclude that:

- In general voices are very ordinary and relate to ongoing activites (as with ordinary inner speech). - The voices are typically orientated towards the voice hearer, without direct access to each other or to other people. - Voices typically do not force voice hearers to do things, rather they influence voice hearers' decisions on how to act (an important differentiation) - Voices are not persons in the sense of being capable of reflection - there could be no voices who hear voices. - Most importantly, voice hearers do not mistake 'hallucinatory' voices for other people thinking. They follow, publicly available reality testing procedures to establish their status.

The authors locate the main problem of what voice hearers themselves make of the experience as being one that is caught between 'the rocks of mysticism and pathologisation'. The issue then is a political one and the resolution is to bring back voice-talk back into ordinary everyday life.

This book flies in the face of accepted theories about the meaning of voices and represents an important contribution to the debate about the meaning of voices and indeed mental illness.

A 'must read' for voice hearers and interested professionals wanting to discover a new perspective on this troubling and egmatic experience