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This is a story about a little lost dog that wanders into a Firehouse and is fascinated by the bells, sirens, ladders, wagons and hoses. The firefighters let him stay around and name him, "Dog." The puppy grows up, grows stronger, pulls hoses around and can even jump up on the firewagon. It is also the story of how a little puppy grows into an adult dog and becomes the hero of the firehouse.

Evil Is Coming – Worse than You ImagineWe live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted. But we’re rapidly, and now inevitably, losing the Christian culture that shaped the American republic. What will take its place is a despotism—and a new paganism, worse than the old, becaus...

In the early nineties the so-called, and perhaps miscalled movement for “Naval Reserves” came into Connecticut. In 1893 it gathered shape in New Haven and on the petition of Edward G. Buckland and forty-four others. General Edward E. Bradley of New Haven, adjutant-general under Governor Luzon B. Morris, issued an order for the formation of the First Division, Naval Militia, C. N. G. In November of that year a division was organized, a month pregnant with meaning in the annals of the naval ...

《EQ》之父暨情緒教育大師丹尼爾．高曼 × 腦神經研究先驅理查．戴維森當代最具影響力的正念研究權威，超過40年實證，奠定西方靜觀科學基礎：刻意鍛鍊心，就能形塑大腦，啟動長久、深層、正向的生命轉變。達賴喇嘛：「真正的平靜，是你的心一天二十四小時沒有恐懼，也沒有焦慮。」健康的心是可以鍛鍊的，靜觀不只是舒壓或安眠，當我們持續訓練心智，就能夠形塑大腦結構和功能，產生內心質變，改變日常生活的行為，有效處理傷害身心的破壞性情緒，不被隨機的念頭、突然的恐懼和憤怒控制，冷靜面對煩亂困難，重新掌控內心。◎脫去宗教性和神秘性，從心理和腦科學研究驗證享譽世界的《EQ》作者丹尼爾．高曼，以及大腦與情緒研究先驅理查．戴維森博士，在達賴喇嘛的鼓勵之下，聯手世界級各領域科學家，不受限於宗教信仰，以嚴格的科學實證，證明靜觀練習可以管理造成身心傷害的破壞性情緒。在醫...

DELVE INTO THE SCIENCE BEHIND YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS ESSENTIAL AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MEDITATION'This is a book that really can change your life' Arianna Huffington, author of the New York Times bestseller The Sleep RevolutionMeditation is fascinating, but often it feels elusive. How can simple exercises change your mental state? How can focussing your breathing lead to changes in your personality? For the first time, Har...

Two New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the...

Últimamente, la meditación y el mindfulness se han convertido en el «remedio» para todo aquello que nos preocupa. Destapando mitos e ideas preconcebidas, estos dos gigantes de las neurociencias y la psicología muestran dónde se ha distorsionado la información para comercializar métodos de entrenamiento mental. Además de los estados de sosiego que producen dichos ejercicios, los verdaderos beneficios de la meditación se dan en las transformaciones de nuestros rasgos de personalidad. Goleman...

Daniel Revisited makes the case that the ancient book of Daniel reveals four specific events to occur in the Middle East in the end times prior to the Tribulation. This new look at old assumptions about prophecy and plain reading of Scripture combines a comprehensive study of relevant history with the fresh perspective of today’s current events. Not only does it show that the Antichrist will be Muslim, it also identifies four events the author calls Signposts which will occur in a...

"A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species—be they human or animal, mythical or alien." — Publishers WeeklyIn this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures that have ...

Brains are highly variable, changing systems that shift in response to our experience. Contemplative neuroscience proves that we have the power to guide our brain’s ongoing development – to cultivate happiness and compassion.  In this accessible dialogue, Goleman and Davidson explain the science behind our emotions.  Detailing the neurological effects of contemplation, they show how we can activate our brains to recover from stress and anxiety, and conquer fear.  Goleman and Davidson offer...

Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fal...