King Gesar was not an ordinary human being but rather a manifestation of the enlightened activity of all the buddhas, brought forth by the strength of their great compassion at a time of despair in the land of Tibet. Dating from the ninth century and with versions originating in many of the countries of Asia, Gesar’s story paints a detailed picture of the culture and life of the time. In this reflective and sometimes humorous retelling, David Shapiro shares the epic tale of Gesar’s birth, ...

This book is a compendium of lesson plans for classroom exercises designed to foster philosophical inquiry with young people. It introduces the reader to a wide range of activities for exploring philosophical questions and problems with children from pre-school age through high-school. There are lessons for a full-range of topics in philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and each is intended to help foster a supportive and caring classroom community of inq...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax Principles of Microeconomics 3e textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠.Principles of Microeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one semester introductory microeconomics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of microeconomics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theori...

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.This semiautobiographical debut is ...

Readers are taken on a journey through 600 million years of evolution and Earth history. With his time-travel inducing Blunderbuss gun, the Colonel ventures through geologic time. He visits the Trilobite-filled seas of the Cambrian period, the steamy jungle of the Carboniferous, and the first flower-laden bushes of the Cretaceous with T-Rex lurking behind the bend. Horizontally Is the best way to view me Read me and enjoy!

Commuters see their Departed on Boston's Red Line subway trains. Consultant Harry West is hired to investigate by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. His project turns personal when his ex-wife Alexandra Ben-Tov meets their beloved daughter on the Red Line who looks like the teenager she might have become if she had lived. Are the visitors on the Red Line ghosts or hallucinations? Either way, after Harry’s team discovers the source of the visitations, the MBTA declares that it ...

The destruction of tribal and traditional western life by modernization spawned groups separated from society. These groups often mobile and reaching into many nations re-emerged in history. They have influenced change in the world and in turn have been affected by the cultures of the world. Gypsies, Bandits, Revolutionaries, Hoboes, Bohemians, Beats and Hippies are subjects of the studies recent and historical forerunners. This study analyzes the cause of these groups rooted in levels of ...

Traditional education and training has been destroyed by the fads and fancies of educators and the new laws and regulations of politicians. The key sectors of our society that contribute to the success of our youth have been damaged and neglected ... the family, the community, and nation. Youth have been removed from their role of productivity, contributing to the survival of their family, community and nation. The revitalization of apprenticeship, and the return to traditional educational...

Seventy years of oppressive labor laws have reduced organized labor and American Workers to legal servitude. Organized Labor's strong traditions of apprenticeship, organizing, political independence and community has been torn asunder. Labor can regain its historic purpose through organizing and a return to its traditions.

The revolutionary effects of using accounting information systems by displacing manual information systems in the private and public sectors cannot be overstated. The benefits of this substitution of set of processes include increased mathematical accuracy, predefined fields and coding tasks, and de-emphasis of manual clerical labor in favor of labor adept in data processing.Reporting can be significantly automated, facilitating managerial power and control at a distance and the pr...

Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided by electronic transfers (in effect, e-capital) to distribute criminal proceeds in the same covert and high-speed manner used by the so-called legitimate commercial enterprises. Offshore banking ...

We all want to do the right thing. But determining the right thing to do isn't always easy. Everytime we pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV, someone tells us how we ought to behave. Rarely, however, do we get much assistance in deciding what to do for ourselves. Meanwhile, technological developments and rapid social changes make the right decisions-especially about the BIG issues-life, death, sex, justice, and so on-harder and harder to identify.Choosing the Right Thing to Do res...