We are not seeking stable ground in which to meditate we are meditating to allow us to dwell evenly on unstable ground."- Bryan Wagner"Seeing You as I Am" is the second book in a series of Dharma sharing's by Bryan Wagner. The focus is on seeing our Conditioned personality and how it effects the quality of our lives. Examining conditioning, projection, and aspects of the self applied to wisdom, it draws on many of the wisdom paths from the...

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktalePerhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. ...

There is a tremendous amount of breathing living wisdom in each of us. Sometimes it's a matter of seeing that the wisdom is already there. Seeing triggers the growth, evolution, and reinforces awareness. I explore the applications of the Dharma teachings. This book draws on the wisdom teachings of Buddhism, Tao, and Zen. As an explorer, I find perspective and applications for everyday life. I am seeking to demystify the teachings and bring them inside so they can dwell in our hearts.every ...

The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound. From "Hey Pocky A-Way" to "Big Chief Got a Golden Crown," the album draws on carnival traditions stretching back a century, adapting songs from the Mardi Gras Indians. Music chanted in the streets with tambourines and makeshift percussion is transformed throughout the album into electric rhythm and blues accented funk, calypso, and reggae. The album bridges not only genres but generations, linking t...

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints.Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places brings together essays by leading scholars of ...

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first detailed and comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer. Magee explores the relationship between words and music, between the conscious and the unconscious mind, between art and philosophy. It tackle...

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of German history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, the peri...

Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participat...

Der Weltraumtransporter Xanthos ist auf dem Rückweg zur Erde. Als die Mannschaft ein Notsignal empfängt, geht sie diesem nach und landet auf einem fremden Planeten. Dort finden sie ein unbekanntes Lebewesen, das sich schnell als todbringendes Monster erweist. Es beginnt ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod.

Eine Truppe von Elitesoldaten kehrt auf jenen Planeten zurück, wo die Mannschaft des Raumtransporters Xanthos vor Jahren eine fremde Lebensform entdeckt hat. Ihr Auftrag ist die Vernichtung der Monster, doch ein Teilnehmer der Mission hat andere Absichten.