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A poetic book of the teachings from an interpretation of the sayings of the Buddha.

Two atomic bombs fell on Japan, a year later the High Council from the Pleiades began sending 144,000 Wayshowers to Earth. These Wayshowers were sent to help bring in the new Earth. While experiencing some important events during their lifetime, they learned to live consciously, and to receive instructions in their dreams.Eighteen years after the second great world war, the Avant-garde Wayshowers are ready to go to college, or to be drafted for another war. They remember hearing the stories about the last war and they aren't too keen about being involved in any war. While this new war is starting to unfold, the High Council will be on track with the plan of the ages, and it's now in full swing. These Wayshowers were told by the High Council that there will be Avatars along the way to help them.In what is nearly a twenty-five year period that an adult life is lived, marriage, children, buying houses, therefore full of exciting surprises, and challenges. The Wayshowers performed their mission, which is to learn, and experience this time of their life on planet Earth. They certainly contributed to helping make the planet a better place to live and after working in their occupations, raising their families, they are ready to transition into the next phase of the plan. They will receive some help, but it won't always be easy, and after they are gone the people on Earth will need to carry on without them. As they move into the final phase of this plan, they will continue to learn, and to be prepared for more of the adventures that are there throughout the galaxy.

This book is a collection of articles written to illustrate the principles of Leadership, especially when applied to technical people. Based on real-world international experience leading technical teams of engineers, project managers and software developers, the stories, ideas and practical examples in this down-to-earth guide, are provided to help and inspire you to become a better leader.

The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city. This research is centered in drawings of 70 housing projects, creating a common language highlighting different attempts at reinventing the house not as isolated battles but as part of a strategy for reimagining how we want to live. This book showcases the pivotal voices that have shaped major cities through housing projects and explores how policies and ideas transform into built form, and how in turn buildings shape societies.

Mute Icons' challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the "shock and awe" of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Dwelling in the paradox between silence and sign and aiming to debunk a false dichotomy between critical discourse, a pursue of formal novelty and the attainment of social ethics, 'Mute Icons' reaffirms the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image, suggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity. This book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real building, public space and landscape

From Radical Territory to Neo-Primitive Metropolis, Andrea Branzi's Theoretical Urbanism

Flowering Yourself is a poetic, self- love letter with the intentions of liberation through light, love and honesty. This poetic sharing is a warm dialogue about evolution, culture, femininity, ancestry, healing, and self-love.

Goldilocks goes to medical school to become a doctor and opens her office. The Three Bears come to see her because they do not feel well. Dr. Goldilocks examines Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear to find out if they have problems with their thyroid glands.

Our Home Movies is a story about a storyteller - Marty Nyrop - on the edge of realizing an ambition that only a few obsessive individuals ever achieve. He's directing his first feature film and it stars Laura Trent-Sampson, a world-renowned celebrity. But instead of transforming his life with this dream-come-true, Marty's next move is to throw away his hard-won career by bolting from the movie set with the actress's newborn baby in his arms. What on earth has he done to himself? And to the child? By abducting the son of his negligent, emotionally destructive performers, Marty makes an irrevocable choice: no more actors for this baby he's suddenly claimed as his own, no more directing for himself, and so, as only a parent would fully understand, no more Marty entirely. He flees knowing only that he's determined to give this still-nameless child a chance in life that he and his brother, the child's father, never knew.Yet seventeen years later, he must fight for his now-teenage son's future again when Laura, the enduringly famous birth mother, suddenly reappears in their lives with her own reality-TV crew in tow, intent on undoing everything Marty has achieved as a father.Our Home Movies is a search for connection - with children, siblings, parents, and lovers - even as those connections are misshapen by the moviemaking process and its aftermath. It's about the desire for celebrity, the price of gaining business and creative power, the real-world meaning to be found in Romantic Comedy, the explosive synergy of an actor's need for approval twisted together with a director's need for control, all of it braided with an American character trait that insists we're entitled to reinvent ourselves. Each issue is bound up with the others to make Our Home Movies a worthy addition to the "Hollywood novel" bookshelf.Author Sherril Jaffe, a PEN Award winner and Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at Sonoma State University writes: Our Home Movies is amazingly accomplished. I am in awe at the intricacy of its construction and all that it offers to a reader - not just entrée into what it's really like, in all aspects, to make a movie, but also how it gives a way for the reader to grapple with eternal conflicts: work and family, art and life, conflicts between brothers, unresolved traumas, the Japanese internment camps - and how there is a view into the adolescent skater world, a love story, a veritable course in film theory. Like a rom-com, the protagonist Marty wins the directorship, loses it and wins it again. Great themes emerge, doppelgängers merge into each other, and the past is redeemed by the future. By the end of the novel, I will have bonded with Marty on several fronts. Although the story has been about Hollywood and the making of movies, it has also been about the fact that parenting always involves an enormous sacrifice, about the incredible force that bonds one to one's child, and about how art reflects, redeems and resolves life, and so much more. I'm in awe at how the story is structured like a chiasmus; there's a great feeling of exhilaration at the end, its lovely final emotional moment leaves me utterly satisfied, as if all of my various parts had been exercised, all the conflicts of my life resolved, all the parts falling into place, the narrative so sure-footed and beautifully structured.

The twin volumes that compose Architecture in Effect present research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies.