New Releases by Richard Freeman

u200bu200bWritten without “yoga jargon,” Feeling Happy explores the nature of happiness as a basic human capacity—and illuminates how suffering, imbalanced emotion, and confusion can cast a veil over one’s ability to truly feel happy. What is the fully embodied experience of happiness, and is there any way for it to last? Feeling Happy helps you explore what happiness is and offers practical steps toward cultivating happiness as a deep, embodied expression of life and connection to others. Using familiar examples from everyday life, traditional understanding of one’s search for happiness, stories, and humor, Freeman and Taylor demonstrate how to find your way back home to the essence of who you are, and the direct experience of what it feels like to be truly happy. The book offers 24 accessible practices—meditations, simple movements, and breathing exercises—along with 22 black-and-white illustrative photos as guides along the path toward fully embodying happiness. These practices together with insight into the nature of being, will allow you to wake up and integrate the physical body, heart, and mind through the breath so that even in difficult times, compassion, equanimity, and happiness can emerge. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor draw from their years of experience practicing and teaching yoga, meditation and the philosophical interfacing of yoga and Buddhism to explore what happiness is and to offer practical steps toward cultivating happiness as a deep, embodied expression of life. They offer insight into the nature of happiness as a basic human capacity—and illuminate how suffering, imbalanced emotion, and confusion can cast a veil over one’s ability to truly feel happy. Some of the practices included: · Focusing and calming the mind · Observing and engaging the breath as a guide · Working with difficulty and vulnerability · Keeping a tender and open heart · Building authenticity and presence · Attuning to yourself and to others · Cultivating kindness and compassion in complex times · And more

"Wie man Eier sammelt und andere Katastrophen" ist eine Sammlung von Anekdoten in der Form von Kurzgeschichten aus dem Zusammenleben des Autors mit seinen Tieren. Sie sind, vom Autor erlebte, wahre eigenständige Geschichten. Sie ermöglichen dem Leser zu erleben, wie das Zusammensein mit Tieren das Leben bereichern kann. Humorvoll und einfühlsam geschrieben, zeigen die Geschichten wie es ist mit Tieren zu leben, mit allen Höhen und Tiefen.

Wild Animals Might Eat You—Learn Which Ones “Informative and very entertaining”—Readers of Richard’s books Creatures That Eat People is an action-packed deep dive on predators that turn man eater. Learn about past and present cases on human eating animals—big and small—so you can survive being hunted! Avoid getting eaten! Do you find yourself wondering: Do bears eat humans? Do snakes eat people? Could I survive people-eating predators of any kind? Perfect for anyone with a fun or morbid interest in wildlife or survivalism, Creatures That Eat People is full of stories of strange animals that eat humans and the situations that lead to it. Learn which wild animals might eat you—from an expert. Cryptozoologist, former zookeeper, current zoological director, best-selling author, and animal enthusiast Richard Freeman examines all the cool man eaters in the animal kingdom—so you can be prepared on your next adventure. Inside, you’ll find: Tips for visiting different types of areas with apex predators in them Bears, sharks, crocodiles, snakes, and other other weird, wild animals that eat people Real-life, thrilling stories of animals eating people—and some survive and some don’t If you liked How To Survive A Freakin’ Bear Attack, Plants That Kill, Surviving the Wild, or In Search of Real Monsters, and if you enjoyed shows like Tiger King or Human Prey, you’ll love Creatures That Eat People.

瑜伽是一面鏡子，照見事物本質，卻不染塵埃。 當代最深入瑜伽歷史脈絡與各式流派的經典之作， 千呼萬喚，中文版重磅上市。 跟隨瑜伽大師理察・福禮縵， 探究哈達瑜伽、奉愛瑜伽、密宗瑜伽等流派， 深入數論、《薄伽梵歌》、《瑜伽經》等經典核心， 認識瑜伽矩陣——底層的脈絡。 擺脫無常，連結當下，揭示我們存在的本質。 ｜瑜伽，始於聆聽，始於當下 無論你的瑜伽練習包括坐禪、誦經、體位法還是調息法， 你會發現身體只是一種媒介， 透過它可以發現相互關聯的覺知途徑，從而獲得直觀的洞見。 ｜瑜伽是自由 免於不知道我們是誰的恐懼， 免於向世界展示不真實的面孔， 免於假裝相信我們也不知道是否為真的事情。 透過往內深掘，可以直接體驗此時此地正在發生的事， 對純意識的真實本質與心智功能，打開醒覺， 走進全然解脫與釋放。 ｜經典流派相互映照 傳說因陀羅神有張幻網，網的每個連結點都如寶石， 每個寶石自成一格，與其他寶石互相映照，沒有主次。 所有經典流派都是彼此相關的，沒有一支能準確描述瑜伽的整體過程， 他們互為有益的鏡子，映照出對方的盲點，促進彼此成長， 正如一張因陀羅寶石網。 ｜哈達瑜伽——身體裡的小河 當氣息進入左脈（月脈）與右脈（日脈）， 會交織消融於中脈， 透過專注並持續練習體位法與調息法，左右脈平衡， 便能打開中脈，連結到透徹而深沉的冥想。 ｜《薄伽梵歌》 英雄阿周納在戰場上陷入了靈性與現實的兩難， 這種困境也是打開瑜伽墊練習時，內心上演的劇碼。 覺智瑜伽能帶來明辨的智識，能夠區分永恆與整體、虛幻與無常。 行動瑜伽則是理解不抱期待，不執著回報的工作，會帶來極度愉悅的美感。 最終，想要真正修行瑜伽，放下當下的感官感受、心智思維模式的關鍵， 唯有接受並信任本質愛。 本書作者理察・福禮縵是當代瑜伽大師，他用啟發性的話語領我們走進瑜伽的核心。透過哈達瑜伽、密宗瑜伽、《薄伽梵歌》、《瑜珈經》等重要瑜伽流派與典籍的探索，我們對練習瑜伽中產生的關於人生、真實與喜樂的大哉問，得到更深層的啟發。而這面瑜伽之鏡，將會照見出深沉的、全然神祕的、極度喜樂的，與最重要的宇宙真相。 最後，這裡展示了與瑜伽練習相關的最重要和最有活力的主題。理察具有獨特而令人愉悅的能力，能夠講述瑜伽體驗中的錯綜複雜、悖論、深度和表象。理察為我們今天在瑜伽路上的所有人舉起如此清晰的鏡子，帶來巨大的裨益。——提亞斯・里托（Tias Little），《瑜伽中的能量精微體》作者 [這本書包含]我想說的一切，以及但願我知道我想說的一切。理察・福禮縵再次證明了他是超人，他對作為人的一切瞭若指掌，並且知道如何用這種不斷發展的瑜伽藝術教我們汲取生命的甘露。——羅德尼・宜（Rodney Yee），《走向平衡》作者 總的來說，這些文章對瑜伽哲學的更深層次進行了深刻而幽默的介紹，初學者和經驗豐富的練習者都適用。除了非常原創、富想像力、有時甚至是異想天開之外，《瑜伽與鏡照》也堅實地立基於對所有修行流派最推崇的瑜伽文本的引用和摘錄。——《名色》（Namarupa）雜誌 這本深思熟慮、文筆優美的書。⋯⋯能讓普通的瑜伽練習者提升到下一個境界。——《New Age Retailer》雜誌

Eminent yoga teachers Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor explore essential lessons from The Bhagavad Gita to reveal a practical guide for living in today''s complex world. The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential and widely recognized ancient texts in Indian epic literature. Through the telling of the story and its many different philosophical teachings, the text provides deep insight into how to meet life''s inevitable challenges while remaining open, clear, and compassionate. It offers modern day wisdom seekers a framework for understanding our core beliefs and who we really are--revealing the fact that healthy relationships to others and the world are essential to living a full, compassionate, balanced life. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, both deeply respected yogic teachers, offer a practical, immediately relevant interpretation that emphasizes self-reflection and waking up in our modern world. Following the traditional sequence of teachings in The Bhagavad Gita--from its opening scene in which Arjuna finds himself in the middle of a battlefield, hesitating and trapped between opposing sides, torn by his dharma and confused by the various paths of action he might choose in the process of awakening--Freeman and Taylor interweave insight into how these classic teachings are relevant for modern readers struggling with what it means to live responsibly in the twenty-first century. With quotes, citations, and a full translation of the original text, they look at the overall arc of the The Bhagavad Gita''s teachings and how that relates to the turmoil that arises, not only for Arjuna, but for any of us in the face of crises of conscience, spirit, and form. Exploring the essential themes such as love, wisdom, and karma, and by offering embodiment exercises to apply the teachings, When Love Comes to Light guides readers in the step-by-step process of waking up their intelligence and finding a path toward compassionate action.

La multiplicidad de escuelas y métodos de yoga es tan fértil como asombrosa. No obstante, todas las corrientes comparten una misma meta: descubrir la esencia que reside en el centro de nuestro ser. Dicho descubrimiento es lo que se conoce por liberación. Richard Freeman, renombrado maestro y experto en la materia, ofrece una visión esclarecedora del corazón de las enseñanzas, prácticas y escrituras que forman la base para todas las escuelas del yoga: haṭha, bhakti, jñāna, karma, tantra y sus variantes. Profundiza en las enseñanzas de las Upaniṣads, la filosofía Sāṃkhya, los Yoga-sūtras de Patañjali, lo mismo que en la práctica la meditación, el servicio a los demás, el canto, el rol del guru, etcétera. Al mostrarnos los puntos en común de esa infinidad de formas y abordajes, Freeman delinea una matriz vasta e interconectada, símbolo de la riqueza y el esplendor de la milenaria tradición del yoga.

The Extra Things added to the Book Added details biography of author Bibliography is added Added about Dr. Thorndyke Added index to get quick view and interface Dr. Thorndyke is one of the best creations of the Golden Age of British detective fiction. He is both a medical doctor and barrister and the first great exponent of forensics in fiction, with encyclopedic scientific knowledge. These five short stories were originally published in the \"Treasuries of Modern Prose\" series in 1930 and showcase Freeman''s skill and originality. This collection includes The Blue Sequin, The New Jersey Sphinx, The Magic Casket, The Pathologist to the Rescue and The Touchstone.

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Discover the history and science behind these (not so) imaginary creatures—and how to search for them yourself. Cryptozoology, the study of hidden, monstrous, and legendary animals, is truly the art of discovering the unknown. Richard Freeman, Zoological Director of Centre for Fortean Zoology, has explored the corners of the five continents in search of creatures that many people believe are non-existent. In this book, he shares the exciting stories of his investigations of the Yeti, Mongolian Deathworm, Loch Ness Monster, Orang-Pendak, Ninki-Naka, and more. Cryptozoologists throughout the years have studied unknown species of reptiles, lake and sea creatures, apes, and hominins. The science and history of this field of study includes examples of creatures that were once thought to be mythological, but that have since been proven to exist. If you’re ready to begin your search for Sasquatch and learn to hunt monsters, Adventures in Cryptozoology is your guide. In these pages you’ll find: · Tales of mythical, extinct, and out-of-place creatures · Hints about Bigfoot and other ape-men · And tips for equipping your own cryptozoology adventure, including all the gear, field craft, and resources you’ll need to record your findings

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a ''fresh and newly'' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Discover the science of (not so) imaginary creatures Adventures in Cryptozoology is the perfect resource for the explorer who loves Josh Gates''s Expedition Unknown and Cryptozoology A to Z. Explore the world through its most unlikely creatures: Cryptozoology, the study of hidden, monstrous, and legendary animals, is truly the art of discovering the unknown. Richard Freeman, Zoological Director of Centre for Fortean Zoology, has explored the corners of the five continents on the search for creatures that many people believe are non-existent. In this book, he shares the exciting stories of his investigations of the Yeti, Mongolian Deathworm, Loch Ness Monster, Orang-Pendak, Ninki-Naka, and more. The line between myth and reality may be more narrow than you think: Cryptozoologists throughout the years have studied unknown species of reptiles, lake and sea creatures, apes, and hominins. The science and history of this field of study includes examples of creatures that were once thought to be mythological, but that have since been proven to exist. Our monsters, ourselves: The history of fabulous beasts and our searches for them is a history of the cultures of the world and the secrets we keep. If you''re ready to begin your search for Sasquatch and learn to hunt monsters, Adventures in Cryptozoology is your guide. In these pages you''ll find: Tales of mythical, extinct, and out-of-place creatures Hints about Bigfoot and other ape-men And tips for equipping your own cryptozoology adventure, including all the gear, field craft, and resources you''ll need to record your findings

A practical guide for developing end-to-end serverless microservices in Python for developers, DevOps, and architects. Key FeaturesCreate a secure, cost-effective, and scalable serverless data APIUse identity management and authentication for a user-specific and secure web applicationGo beyond traditional web hosting to explore the full range of cloud hosting optionsBook Description Over the last few years, there has been a massive shift from monolithic architecture to microservices, thanks to their small and independent deployments that allow increased flexibility and agile delivery. Traditionally, virtual machines and containers were the principal mediums for deploying microservices, but they involved a lot of operational effort, configuration, and maintenance. More recently, serverless computing has gained popularity due to its built-in autoscaling abilities, reduced operational costs, and increased productivity. Building Serverless Microservices in Python begins by introducing you to serverless microservice structures. You will then learn how to create your first serverless data API and test your microservice. Moving on, you''ll delve into data management and work with serverless patterns. Finally, the book introduces you to the importance of securing microservices. By the end of the book, you will have gained the skills you need to combine microservices with serverless computing, making their deployment much easier thanks to the cloud provider managing the servers and capacity planning. What you will learnDiscover what microservices offer above and beyond other architecturesCreate a serverless application with AWSGain secure access to data and resourcesRun tests on your configuration and codeCreate a highly available serverless microservice data APIBuild, deploy, and run your serverless configuration and codeWho this book is for If you are a developer with basic knowledge of Python and want to learn how to build, test, deploy, and secure microservices, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of building microservices is required.

As team doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, Dr Richard Freeman treated the world''s most successful cyclists, such as Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott and Victoria Pendleton. From 2009 until 2017, the ''Doc'' was part of the team who became national heroes with Olympic and Tour de France victories. In The Line, Dr Freeman reveals the medical principles and practices that helped lead these athletes to success - ideas that we now consider commonplace, but many of which were in fact the Doc''s own innovations. And in a sport where there''s an ethical line as well as a finishing line, Dr Freeman gives a frank and open account in response to allegations of misuse of medical treatment to enhance performance.

This graduate level textbook aims to teach fundamental ideas of advanced classical electrodynamics, with an emphasis on the physics of radiation. The text describes concepts with the minimum required mathematical detail, while the accompanying side notes and end of chapter discussions provide the detailed derivations.

In just six months, America turned the rout of Pearl Harbor into the victories of Coral Sea and Midway. ''Whirlwind: War in the Pacific'' tells the story of how America achieved this staggering turnaround using accounts of the three key Pacific battles of 1942. Pearl Harbor: Hinge of War Just over seventy years ago the world witnessed one of the most audacious and villainous surprise attacks in history. While Tokyo and Washington talked peace, hundreds of Japanese war planes descended on the Sunday morning calm of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. In less than 90 minutes four battleships were sunk, four more badly damaged and hundreds of American warplanes lay burnt out in tangled heaps on the runways. The story of the raid is one of Japanese military skill meeting American courage. As airfields and ships were attacked, as planes caught fire and ships capsized, the men of the army and navy heroically fought to save the planes, the ships and their compatriots. Coral Sea 1942 After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbour, the Americans suffered setback after setback in the Pacific. In May 1942, the Japanese were poised to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. At all costs the Americans had to stop them. Admiral Frank Fletcher was dispatched with two aircraft carriers - Yorktown and Lexington - with orders to destroy the Japanese invasion force. The fate of the Pacific was in the balance. ''Coral Sea 1942'' tells the dramatic story of that conflict. The great Coral Sea victory came at a price. Pilots died in dog-fights; crippled planes fell into the sea; damaged planes crashed onto carrier flight decks; and pilots found themselves stranded on remote islands. But the battle was an American triumph. Japan entered it as an aggressor at the peak of her imperial power. She left the battle with her dominance shattered. The tide had turned. Midway Never was there a naval battle like Midway. It was fought at a place thousands of miles from land, by hundreds of planes over distances of hundreds of miles. It saw four massive Japanese aircraft carriers pitted against three similarly huge American carriers in a battle for domination of the Pacific. The battle is the story of the young Japanese empire seeking to challenge the established industrial power of America. Japan was ready to risk all in one mighty attempt to drive the United States Navy from the Pacific Ocean. The battle that followed raged over three days, full of set backs and disaster for each side. But Admirals Yamamoto and Nagumo had over-reached themselves and suffered the greatest naval defeat in history. America entered Midway on the defensive, still a hesitant participant in the war. She left the battle as the world''s first super power. ''Whirlwind: War In The Pacific'' is a brilliant narrative history of three of the crucial naval battles of the Second World War. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the period. Richard Freeman graduated in mathematics before following a career in distance education. He now writes on naval history. His other books include ''The Great Edwardian Naval Feud''.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T160869 Also issued as part of: ''Reports of cases in law and equity: from 1670 to 1706. .. By .. Richard Freeman'', [London], 1742. [London]: In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq;), 1742. [8],293, [25]p.; 2°

The school of St. Margaret''s Hospital was fortunate in its lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence, or Forensic Medicine, as it is sometimes described. At some schools the lecturer on this subject is appointed apparently for the reason that he lacks the qualifications to lecture on any other. But with us it was very different: John Thorndyke was not only an enthusiast, a man of profound learning and great reputation, but he was an exceptional teacher, lively and fascinating in style and of endless resources. Every remarkable case that had ever been reported he appeared to have at his fingers'' ends; every fact--chemical, physical, biological, or even historical--that could in any way be twisted into a medico-legal significance, was pressed into his service; and his own varied and curious experiences seemed as inexhaustible as the widow''s curse. One of his favorite devices for giving life and interest to a rather dry subject was that of analyzing and commenting upon contemporary cases as reported in the papers (always, of course, with a due regard to the legal and social proprieties); and it was in this way that I first became introduced to the astonishing series of events that was destined to exercise so great an influence on my own life.The lecture which had just been concluded had dealt with the rather unsatisfactory subject of survivorship. Most of the students had left the theater, and the remainder had gathered round the lecturer''s table to listen to the informal comments that Dr. Thorndyke was wont to deliver on these occasions in an easy, conversational manner, leaning against the edge of the table and apparently addressing his remarks to a stick of blackboard chalk that he held in his fingers.

Samuel Freeman is a leading political philosopher and one of the foremost authorities on the works of John Rawls. Liberalism and Distributive Justice offers a series of Freeman''s essays in contemporary political philosophy on three different forms of liberalism-classical liberalism, libertarianism, and the high liberal tradition--and their relation to capitalism, the welfare state, and economic justice.

Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 - 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective''s attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.

Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff’s now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labor markets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labor market regulations and labor institutions remain critically important to researchers and policy makers. The relations between unions and management can range between cooperation and conflict; unions have powerful offsetting wage and non-wage effects that economists and other social scientists have long debated. Do the benefits of unionism exceed the costs to the economy and society writ large, or do the costs exceed the benefits? The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects of trade unions using the tools of meta-regression analysis to identify and quantify the economic impact of trade unions, as well as to correct research design faults, the effects of selection bias and model misspecification. This volume makes use of a unique dataset of hundreds of empirical studies and their reported estimates of the microeconomic impact of trade unions. Written by three authors who have been at the forefront of this research field (including the co-author of the original volume, What Do Unions Do?), this book offers an overview of a subject that is of huge importance to scholars of labor economics, industrial and employee relations, and human resource management, as well as those with an interest in meta-analysis.

Harold Monkhouse is usually such an uncomplaining patient so when his brother Amos calls in one night, what he doesn''t expect is to see him at death''s door. Suspicions aroused, he demands an urgent second opinion. And when Harold is later found dead from arsenic poisoning, Amos is left in no doubt that foul play is afoot. The inquiry begins and Barbara Monkhouse is soon singled out as the prime suspect. What ensues is a roller coaster ride into crime fiction at its best as the truth of the fateful night eludes even the best of detective minds. Could it be a simple case of wife poisoning husband-or is it just possible that another shadowy figure stole into Harold''s room, as a thief in the night, to rid the world of an innocent man?

This is the tantalizing tale of a missing world-renowned archaeologist that, so far, no one seems to be able to find any clues to. Dr. Thorndyke, our detective, is unusually perceptive and begins to find clues leading to a man with a tattoo of the "Eye of Osiris".

A radical presentation of the most rigorous form of contemporary yoga as meditation in motion The Art of Vinyasa takes a unique look at Ashtanga yoga as meditation in motion that produces profound inner change. Two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, explore this rigorous practice not as a gymnastic feat, but as a meditative form. They reveal that doing the practice—and particularly the vinyasa, or the breath-synchonized movements—in such a deep and focused way allows practitioners to experience a profound awakening of the body and mind. It also develops an adaptable, flexible practice that can last a lifetime. Freeman and Taylor give an in-depth explanation of form, alignment, and anatomy, and how they work together in the practice. They also present a holistic approach to asana practice that includes an awareness of the subtle breath, and seamlessly merges yoga philosophy with practical technique. Unlike other books on Ashtanga, The Art of Vinyasa does not follow the linear pattern of the sequences of postures that are the hallmark of Ashtanga yoga. Instead, it interlinks the eight limbs: yama and niyama (ethical practices), asana (postures), pranayama (breathing), pratyahara (nongrasping of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), samadhi (harmony, insight)—and shows how to establish an internally rooted yoga practice.

This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on the different forms that knowledge takes. Knowledge is embodied in people, inscribed in documents and instruments, and enacted in specific circumstances. Empirical case studies of health and education policy in different national and international contexts demonstrate the essential interdependence of different forms and phases of knowledge. They illustrate the ways in which knowledge is mobilised and resisted, and draw attention to key problems in the processing and transformation of knowledge in policy work. This novel theoretical framework offers real benefits for policymakers, academics in public policy, public administration, management studies, sociology, education, public health and social work, and those with a practical interest in education and health and related fields of public policy.

The author of this text concentrates on the management and support systems needed in open and distance learning, to help the reader decide whether an open learning system is appropriate for their given situation.

For comprehensive extracts from this book. Go to: http: //bigstretchuniverse.com A lifetime interest in Cosmology has led to this book which explores how our universe may have begun without a Big Bang. By observing the movement of all particles within Space-time and applying the very few known concepts of Dark Matter this book unravels a logical and coherent Blueprint for a universe which begins without a Big Bang. Learn how this basic Blueprint can easily explain the very source of Gravity, the exact makeup of Dark Matter, solve the Matter and Anti-matter conundrum, solve the riddle of mysterious Dark-energy and even fully explain the formation of all types of Galaxies. Venture even further to include the configuration of atoms and even reason why Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity refuse to mesh together. Titled, "The Big Stretch a Universe without The Big Bang" this book is based on an aspiration to tell the story of known and proven science while exploring and focusing in areas which harbor mysteries or gaps to today''s science of the Cosmos. The aim is to fill in these gaps, like missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, to, hopefully, expose a complete and coherent universe. The Big Stretch universe is composed of a synthesis of new, imaginative and innovative processes, which are given new names such as ''Center-point Expansion'', ''Massless Accretion'', ''Outer-gravity'', ''Hermits Acquisition'', ''Stationary Momentum'', ''Dark Creation'', ''Fountain Formation'' and ''Ghost-matter''. Rather than being radical, these new imaginative and innovative processes comprise a progression of fresh ideas which make down-to-Earth common sense. After reading this book one will question the very concept of the Big Bang. "Almost all of my working life has been alone at sea and urged on by the sounds of the ocean, my mind is always motivated and free to wander and speculate about the many mysteries of the night sky above and what more amazing mysteries may lie beyond. I wonder what could really be going on far out there, how did it all begin and will it ever end? I wonder how one can ever comprehend the unimaginable distances in our universe." Richard Freeman. (Author)

The idea of workers owning the businesses where they work is not new. In America’s early years, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison believed that the best economic plan for the Republic was for citizens to have some ownership stake in the land, which was the main form of productive capital. This book traces the development of that share idea in American history and brings its message to today''s economy, where business capital has replaced land as the source of wealth creation.div /DIVdivBased on a ten-year study of profit sharing and employee ownership at small and large corporations, this important and insightful work makes the case that the Founders’ original vision of sharing ownership and profits offers a viable path toward restoring the middle class. Blasi, Freeman, and Kruse show that an ownership stake in a corporation inspires and increases worker loyalty, productivity, and innovation. Their book offers history-, economics-, and evidence-based policy ideas at their best./DIV

‘Unsinkable’ is the story of a man unjustly vilified: Churchill in the First World. His enemies – the Tory party – censured him for Antwerp, the Dardanelles and Gallipoli. He could do no right and was regarded as a dangerous maniac. But the true story is quite the opposite. This book tells how, as a brilliant First Sea Lord, Churchill was ousted by his enemies, yet clawed his way back to power against all the odds. As the leading critic of senselessly sending men to march towards machine guns his calls for ‘machines not men’ went unheeded. After a spell in the trenches he returned to London to clear his name over the Dardanelles. Then he relentless fought his way back to power through his brilliant, incisive criticism of the land war. The unsinkable politician finally became Munitions Minster in 1917, where he pushed output to unimagined levels. His weapons delivered the victory that had eluded others for the previous three years.

The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America¿s greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee¿s and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch, who has undertaken the task of completing the text was a friend of Leavitt¿s and knew Tennessee Williams. It has been his desire to carry to fruition the original plan Dick Leavitt conceived in the 1970s and augmented in 1983 when Williams died.