This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Zen is not about escaping life, nor is it about controlling the mind. It is about seeing reality as it is, without distortion, without resistance. In a world filled with distractions, over thinking, and endless striving, Zen offers something radical: simplicity, presence, and effortless awareness.This book is a practical and profound guide to understanding and practicing Zen meditation. Whether you are a complet...

An intriguing exploration of the role and significance of the body in the world of a Pacific Islands People, the Lelet of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In vivid ethnographic detail, the monograph captures the fluidity and complexity of Lelet conceptions of corporeality and their significance to identity as they encounter the influences of modernity, in the form of colonialism, Christianity and cash-cropping. The author examines the importance of the body to constructions of identity and ...

In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters—addressed mostly to the colonists’ mothers—with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and theories of history-making to view the l...

With the introduction of yearly appraisals and revalidation every general practitioner needs to be armed with a good Personal Development Plan. This book provides the information needed to create just that. Guiding the reader through the consultation looking for Patient's Unmet Needs (PUNs) and the Doctor's Educational Needs (DENs), it focuses on those learning needs that help to provide competent care for patients. All general practitioners will find this book a straightforward, no nonsen...

There is a special time of year.A time when everyone celebrates.There are many things celebrated:Life, love, family, selflessness, and more.Come with us as we explore that time,That time of fun, food, gifts, laughter, hope,And Decked Halls.Edited by Sam KnightWith stories by:Arlen Feldman, Josh Morrey, Katie Kent, Donea Lee Weaver, Emily Martha Sorensen, Shannon Fox, Kay Hanifen, Tony Covatta, Julia LaFond, Dawn Colcla...

Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements. Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page.Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. Bu...

A glorious celebration of butter, with lashings of sweet and savoury recipes.Butter is regarded as an everyday staple – it is a reminder of the joy of real food; at its root it does not have to be complicated, after all, the best things in life are often the simplest. In this book, devoted experts celebrate the timeless craft of making butter from scratch, as well as nourishing, fulfilling and indispensable recipes using butter as the key ingredient.Beyond the secret history...

A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re-evaluate. In the course of literary history it is men who dominated by opportunit...

Food. One of the overpowering needs that we all hunger for. Whether to use as basic fuel or sophisticated tasting, food and its providers, its servers, its guests and our authors are here to converse, deliberate as courses are served, some savoury, some sweet but always to be enjoyed.01 - The Fine Art of Dining - A Short Story Volume02 - A Little Dinner at Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray03 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield04 - On Some Dinners at...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Learning to read Orthodox icons is an opportunity to engage Holy Scripture with greater depth and understanding. It allows viewers to uncover fresh dimensions and encounter the Kingdom of God from within the created world. The meaning of icons, which are often referred to as "windows into heaven," reaches beyond the limits of the natural world and into the divine realm.Eve Tibbs is an Orthodox insider and veteran teacher who has devoted her career to translating the faith for evang...

In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. This volume is dedicated to one such recognised master of the short story, namely, Katherine Mansfield whose innovative stream of consciousness and symbolic narrative style profoundly influenced Virginia Woolf.She was born on 14th October, 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five. A gifted celloist, who at one point c...