"Offers more information about the first-century world of early Christians, asking, 'Could Christ's original teachings have truly been lost?'" — Foreword Reviews"Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death." —from the Gospel of ThomasThe work of scholars such as Elaine Pagels and Marvin Meyer have captured the imagination of the public by setting forth the Gospel of Thomas and other lost teachings of Jesus. Now Peter N...

Novak investigates a belief called the Binary Soul Doctrine (BSD) which states simply that humans possess two souls which split at death, the conscious going on to reincarnate again and again, while the unconscious ends up in a type of limbo judging itself for all eternity.He goes on to explain that long ago the BSD was the primary belief of a single world religion, which since has been broken into more and more fragments. However, he claims that twentieth-century findings, including the w...

Drawing on mythology, psychology, religion and science, as well as past-life regression and near-death experiences, Peter Novak explores the nuances of what really happens to the soul after death. Eastern and Western philosophies have disagreed on this point for centuries. After ten years of intensive investigation, his conclusions are a ground-breaking blend of east and west, explaining how this division may have arisen and how it is likely to be resolved.

DDisorders associated with dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system are quite common yet frequently unrecognized. The quantitative autonomic testing presented here can be invaluable tool for evaluation of these disorders. This manual fills a gap in the literature and deals mainly with practical aspects of autonomic testing. In accord with the “good picture is worth a thousand words” mantra, signal drawings are heavy used throughout the text to facilitate the readers' knowledge. Auto...

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community”—or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race”—cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal—its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the networks of power and thought—is the essential context of the present volume, whose basic premis...

Das Buch gilt als internationales Standardwerk der Getriebeentwicklung. Für Ingenieure der Getriebe- und Antriebstechnik werden alle Kenntnisse vollständig, praxisnah und fundiert bereitgestellt: Grundlagen, Entwicklungsabläufe, die komplette Systematik der Getriebe sowie die Auslegung und Gestaltung wichtiger Bauteile. Beispiele ausgeführter Konstruktionen, Zuverlässigkeit, Lebensdauer, notwendige Elektronik und Informationsvernetzung vertiefen den Inhalt. Das Buch ist daher als Nachschla...

Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons. Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed versatility, appearing in stories from multiple genres, including science fiction, noir, and fantasy and mediums far beyond his comic book origins. While there are volumes analyzing Batman through literary, philosophical, and psychological le...

Do you want to listen to Peter Pan? If so then keep reading…Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland...

La COVID-19 a provoqué la crise mondiale la plus importante et la plus globale du 21e siècle. Pour certains, les répercussions ont été rapides et dramatiques, la pandémie poussant des dizaines de millions de personnes dans la pauvreté et générant une insécurité alimentaire extrême. Pour d’autres, les transformations bouillonnent encore sous la surface et des questions demeurent quant à savoir si les changements de société induits par la COVID-19 perdureront dans la période post-pandémique....

Ein Roman mit Knalleffekt und voll leiser Ironie: komisch, tragisch, furios! Novak entdeckt die Welt der großen Gefühle spät und ausgerechnet im Krankenhaus. Weil ihm sein Zimmergenosse Nacht für Nacht den Schlaf raubt, leiht ihm die indonesische Krankenschwester Manuela ihren Walkman samt Kassetten und infiziert ihn so mit ihrer Liebe zur Oper. Aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen, findet er nicht so recht in sein gewohntes, gewöhnliches Leben zurück. Manuela hat ihm die Ohren geöffnet, allerdin...

Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish -- Christian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that have taken place in Christian thought. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which features a main essay, written by a Jewish scholar, that explores the meaning of a set of Christian beliefs. Following the ...

This book provides a thorough interpretation of Raymond Aron’s political sociology of industrial societies from the perspective of contemporary political science. However, the book is not only aimed at specialists or advanced students of political science, but appeals to a much wider range of cultivated readers. Particular attention is paid to those issues that have been subject to conflicting interpretations, such as his relationship to the so-called convergence theory, or how he understo...