This personal growth and transformation journal gives insight to the superconscious states attained during meditation as part of spiritual awakening and its unfolding process. The answer to the yearning to know a Higher Power is found within. Upon silencing the mind, the heart begins to express itself and its alchemical work increases the seeker’s vibrational frequency and thus expands their field of perception and awareness.Thus, the author shares her intimate mystical experiences...

Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums of past evils? Or should we transform them and, if so, into which forms and according to which principles? Which pasts do these places transmit, and how? This volume uses an innovative semiotic ...

Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the strategies used by the ecclesiastical leadership to regulate the press and culture during a century characterized by important changes, from the spread of the Enlightenment to the creation of a state censorship apparatus. Based on the archival ...

As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit.Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to ...

The tragic story of Robert Johnson, great Blues musician of the American 30's, the mysterious solution to his tragic end, the background and his complete discography.An emotional thriller with a historical research of the short life of Robert Johnson, considered by most as the grandfather of rock, but adored by blues fans. A compelling narration that perhaps offers a solution to a mysterious intrigue, full of esotery and religious fanaticism, that lead to the violent and early death...

Organizations, Strategic Risk Management and Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism aims to identify, analyse and underline the importance of having a conceptual framework designed to develop and improve the risk management and resilience for organizations, particularly during times of crisis. In the aftermath of COVID-19, it is of paramount importance to predict the trajectory of change in consumer behaviour to help managers identify the basis of a resilience strategy to ideally re...

Willa Ferrier is headed for Olympic curling gold, if she can keep her mind on her team, her strategy, and her drive, and keep her mind off her aching knee, and above all, off the thoroughly annoying curling official and sometime coach, Stoney Turner, who keeps reminding her of their shared past and former passion. How is a woman supposed to concentrate on the ultimate prize when her eyes keep straying to the eye candy that keeps popping up at every turn in her personal and competitive life...

Determined, bold and proactive, young journalist Sofia Interrante is certainly not the type of girl to beat around the bush. It seems that nothing can faze her. And yet, when the editor of her newspaper asks her to write an article about a famous chef - now considered a sex symbol and never off the TV screens - Sofia feels out of her comfort zone for the first time. The chef in question is no less than Manlio Bivaldi - her former geeky and pimply high school classmate. It seems that distan...

Every now and then we come across situations where the anti-inflammatory drug is taken long-term to relieve inflammation. However, by taking this drug long term, we will probably have side effects, which would be best avoided. Nature has provided us with many products that can claim to be anti-inflammatory, now we will see what we are talking about. Let's make a premise, some time ago, drugs of this type could cause problems with stomach ulcers, now they no longer have this type of contrai...

The book is a collection of short stories, some real, some fictional, together with some articles written by the author during her travels, and already published by national and international agencies and journals.These are travel stories, real and fictional, conveyed one after the other as flashes of different emotions, fast and easy to grasp. Tales of a complex and complete India, told through its spirituality, its diverse mix of people and cultures, the incredible beauty of its ...

'Two hours ago I fell in loveand trembled, and tremble still,and haven't a clue whom I should tell'From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and above all - love. This volume is the first substantial gathering of the best of Patrizia Cavalli's work from her first six collections, from 1974 to 2006, translated by a selection of renowned po...

Two tragedies, the Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Child Prostitution, sum up the troubled -and toxic- relationship between the United States of America and China.A spirited, witty book that exposes many hidden, hideous truths.PUBLISHER: TEKTIME