Peter Sterling is an award-winning harpist, visionary artist, author, and renowned guide to the sacred red rock vortexes of Sedona, Arizona. His journey with the harp began in the early 1990s after a series of profound angelic encounters in Sedona's mystical canyons. Since then, Peter's heartfelt and celestial harp music has touched the hearts and souls of listeners around the world. Many report receiving beautiful visions, deep peace, and even miraculous healings while immersed in his hea...

An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanisms, the brain is definitely in charge. In this book, the eminent neuro...

Hearing the Angels Sing is a wonderfully inspiring book. Peter Sterling, in telling his uplifting story of encountering the angels and being shown his destiny as one of God's harpists, encourages readers to open to the deeper dimensions of life for themselves. There is authentic humility in suggesting that if the author seeks and receives such profound guidance from the angels, anyone can do it. In writing so openly and courageously about his life, Peter demonstrates the commitmen...

Homo sapiens emerged as a species about 200,000 years ago and soon––with fire, simple tools, and an egalitarian social system––we inhabited every continent. But now our infinitely elaborated tools and our highly non-egalitarian social system threaten sustainability. Many at the bottom lose the desire to live, committing suicide or succumbing to drugs, alcohol, and obesity. As women gain education and contraception, they lose the desire to reproduce, and our species' total fertility plummet...

Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, “reverse engineering” the brain to understand its design.Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two lea...

Following the success of their Locus Award–winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder. Authors include:Neal AsherJohn BarnesCory DoctorowJohn KesselJay LakeJohn MeaneyElizabeth MoonGarth NixMike ResnickJustina RobsonKristine Kathryn RuschJohn ScalziBruce SterlingPeter Wat...

An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until the company closed in 1989.The Lanchester and the Patchett Machine Carbines were both developed at Sterling Engineering Co Ltd during World War II.With the appearance of the earliest Patchett prototypes the military began testing them in ever more rigorous trials, wherein the Patchett kept proving its merits. This led to limited UK adoption of the M...

Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own? In this timely yet otherworldly volume, more than a dozen scholars of international relations join hands to demonstrate how this well-loved artifact of popular culture reflects and shapes our own lifeworld. A wide range of historical and sociological sources shows how Harry's world contains aspects of our own. Practices such as quidditch dovetail quite clearly with "muggle" sports, and the very Br...

Featuring the original The Expanse story "Drive" by James S. A. Corey, the basis for Season 2, Episode 6, “Paradigm Shift” and Pat Cadigan’s Hugo-winning “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi”.One Giant Leap For MankindThose were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an...

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and colleagues collaborate to complete the work that he began on this critical p...

On the first, second, third (etcetera) day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…Twaalf Nederlandse auteurs zijn "allen tezamen gekomen" om fans van young adult verhalen te voorzien van genoeg leesvoer voor de hele kerstperiode! Voor alle twaalf dagen van kerst is er een verhaal te lezen. De verhalen bevatten zonder uitzondering een sprankje magie, of het nu om een magische liefde, een midwinterfeest, een kerstboomboerderij, een mysterieuze sneeuwkoningin of een afgelegen dorpje in...

Diese Publikation erörtert die Haftung des GmbH-Geschäftsführers samt den Möglichkeiten seiner Haftungsbeschränkung im Innenverhältnis zur Gesellschaft. Beweggrund für das Thema ist die in Rechtsprechung und Literatur erkennbaren Tendenzen zur Ausweitung der Tatbestandsmerkmale des Haftungstatbestandes nach § 43 GmbHG, die zur Erhöhung des Haftungsrisikos des Geschäftsführers führen. Nicht selten wird der Geschäftsführer in seiner wirtschaftlichen Existenz aufgrund der Haftung bedroht, ins...