A trilogy of novels spanning over more than 1800 pages, a point&click video game with over 15 hours of gameplay, spin-off stories for hundreds of additional pages of adventure, a cardgame, not to mention projects still in development such as a comic book and a role-playing game: the "Pirin" saga presents itself as a vast high fantasy world to be explored, with an incredibly varied and complex lore, stratified reading levels and a panoply of cultural references to ancient mythologies. From ...

Giovanni Battista Lamperti (1839 -1910) was an Italian singing teacher and son of the singing teacher Francesco Lamperti. He is source for Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti (1931). His preferred teaching arrangement was having three or four students present at each lesson: each would get their turn while the others observed and learned thereby. He was said to be a strict, exacting instructor not given to flattery, but who enthusiastically praised his students upon exceptio...

A provocative reinterpretation of accounts of spirit possession and exorcism in early ChristianityThe earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of his earliest followers. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be exorcized, can also have a positive role in many cultures. Often it helps individuals and groups to reflect on and reshape...

Lonergan's Insight has frequently been compared with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Giovanni B. Sala, an internationally acknowledged Kant scholar, contrasts the cognitional theory of his former teacher Lonergan with the positions of Kant that have proved so influential, and in many ways so intractable, over the past two centuries.The first essay is one of the most influential papers ever written on Lonergan; it and the second one inquire into the notion of the a priori. The third...

Contrary to existing economic analyses of the Weimar Republic, this book looks beyond the explanations of the individual events that characterized it - in particular hyperinflation, Brüning's fiscal policy, and the 1931 crisis. Instead, it adopts a more unified approach, and thereby sheds light on the underlying causes of these events.The book argues that these individual events were the final result of economic processes and policy choices which had made it possible to mitigate th...

According to Wikipedia: "Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry." "The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma" which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual ple...

Comprehensive review of current research on the causes of major fungal, bacterial and viral diseases of tree fruitSummarises current understanding of the ecology of key insect pests of tree fruitAssesses ways of improving integrated disease and pest management, with a particular focus on biological control

A Fantasy trilogy extending over more than 1800 pages, a point-and-click videogame adventure lasting 15 hours and beyond, six spin-off tales adding 400 more captivating pages, plus the forthcoming comic-book expansion of paths and plots: the "Pirin" Saga is coming, as its large High Fantasy world, open to travellers, unfolds its manifold, outstanding, intricated lore, in each of their several layers of reading, and a tantalizing wealth of innuendos, pointing at ancient mythologies and cult...

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cogniti...

Charlie and Winston are two strangers that meet at a picnic one afternoon. They are given the task to escort a young woman named Mary to a mansion on top of a hill. What follows is a zany adventure that includes unruly bears, an old miner, a Cadillac driving aardvark and two prominent wolves that like cherry milkshakes.

We too often listen to negative self-chatter about ourselves or others, but not so inclined to listen to our instincts or trust ourselves.Where would you be in your life today if you had trusted yourself in the past and not talked yourself out of things that felt right?When we make a mistake or fail at something, we can lose faith in ourselves. This makes it easier for self-doubting thoughts and self-sabotaging habits to sneak in. However, imagine a life where you freely and ...

While a moon hurtles toward certain destruction, taking with it a Weyland-Yutani bioweapons lab, talks on a nearby colony could lead to all-out war among the colonies.Hygeia, an outer rim colony, is doomed as the moon on which it was built hurtles toward an inevitable collision with the dead planet Hephaestus. When a distress signal arrives from a Weyland-Yutani biowarfare outpost near the colony, a desperate plan is launched to evacuate the trapped scientists and ...