![]() ![]() ![]() The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter…. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. ![]() Like a Wu Li Master who would teach us wonder for the falling petal before speaking of gravity, Zukav writes in beautifully clear language-with no mathematical equations-opening our minds to the exciting new theories that are beginning to embrace the ultimate nature of our universe…Quantum mechanics, relativity, and beyond to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect and Bell’s theorem.Īt an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, “”patterns of organic energy.”” Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters–the teachers of physical essence. Gary Zukav has written “the Bible” for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When she's not tearing out her hair over her latest WIP, she spends her time baking and playing FPS games. She is currently living back in Jakarta on the same street as her parents and about seven hundred meddlesome aunties. ![]() She has a Masters degree from Oxford University, though she has yet to figure out a way of saying that without sounding obnoxious. Jesse Q Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Jakarta and Singapore and sees both cities as her homes. ![]() Oh, and also being a mom to her two kids. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Wheel of time a memory of light![]() ![]() Brett, internationally bestselling author of The Demon Cycle series I thanked him then, but I didn't thank him enough." -Peter V. "Robert Jordan was a giant of fiction whose words helped a whole generation of fantasy writers, including myself, find our true voices. He became the New York Times bestseller list face of fantasy." -Guy Gavriel Kay, author of A Brightness Long Ago He brought innumerable readers to fantasy. " impact on the place of fantasy in the culture is colossal. "Jordan's writing is so amazing! The characterization, the attention to detail!" -Clint McElroy, co-creator of the #1 podcast The Adventure Zone ![]() ![]() "Robert Jordan's work has been a formative influence and an inspiration for a generation of fantasy writers." -Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Shadows (Then continued on to write my larger fantasy novels.)" -Robin Hobb, author of the award-winning Realm of the Elderlings series "The Eye of the World was a turning point in my life. "Anyone who's writing epic of secondary world fantasy knows Robert Jordan isn't just a part of the landscape, he's a monolith within the landscape." -Patrick Rothfuss, author of the Kingkiller Chronicle series "His huge, ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre." -George R. Praise for Robert Jordan and The Wheel of Time(R) ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A Body, Undone by Christina Crosby![]() ![]() To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. ![]() Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. ![]() ![]() In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. This book cancels out all others." -Bob Dylanįrom the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated.Ī New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Ralph J. Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A grief observed review![]() ![]() Even so, generations of readers have found comfort and consolation in it is pages. In the introduction, Lewis’s stepson Douglas Gresham points out that the title “A Grief Observed” indicates that the book does not deal with the experience of every grief, but only with the experience of Lewis’s particular grief. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.” Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. ![]() “Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. He worked through his emotions in four notebooks, from which he later compiled this account, initially published under a pseudonym. Lewis found himself questioning his faith. After the death of his wife Joy Davidman in 1960, C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Barragans writing is to be savoured from the very first page to the last.-Martin Davies, The Barbary Press Nina Barragans memoir is a deftly stitched quilt of many colours, a rich evocation of a writers formation and a thought-provoking meditation on the roots of creativity.-Rick Archbold, writer and editor, Toronto, Canada Nina Barragan is not just a printmakers daughter and a painters wife, and her exquisite, intimate book is no mere memoir. Review Quotes Barragan has recently written a carefully constructed memoir, Printmakers Daughter, Painters Wife, that juxtaposes various personal experiences while also weaving in a few short fiction pieces, demonstrating how life often informs art.-Laura Farmer, The Gazette This is a book packed with heartfelt reflections and intimate biographical nuggets which will enrich students of printing history for many years to come, while also providing food for thought for wordsmiths of every variety, professional and amateur alike. Inserts of fiction-revealing ties between life and writing-enhance the journey. The narrative travels through melded panoramas of past and present, this country, the others, certainties and doubts. ![]() This work of fusion moves beyond memoir to be a juggling act of reality and imagination. ![]() Book Synopsis Deconstructing the fundamentals of identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Donald Trump in fact represents the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values. How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate’s staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which delves beyond facile headlines to explain how white evangelicals have brought us to our fractured political moment. A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Devoted dean koontz review![]() ![]() And now, at this point, with his judgment possibly affected by outside influences, he may be unable to tell right from wrong. It will include six short stories that follow an amnesiac vigilante called Nameless as he travels from town to town, taking down criminals that the law has failed to act against. Shacket may never have been evil personified exactly, but he likely was not a good person much of his life. In addition to Devoted, Koontz will also release his short thriller collection Nameless through Amazon. The trio, along with their extended family, have to stick together as they are forced to confront a threat that could spell an end for all of humanity. ![]() The two are also accompanied by a golden retriever named Kipp who is a part of a small collective of dogs that are self-aware and possess other gifts. Her son Woody, a person with autism, is set upon seeking vengeance against his father's killer. The first full-length novel in the five-book run will be titled Devoted and is set to be available next spring.Īccording to Amazon, Devoted will tell the tale of Megan Bookman, an artist who is left a widow after her husband is murdered. The agreement will also include a short story collection called Nameless that will be available for free to Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited customers on November 12th as a Kindle eBook and Audible audiobook. ![]() Amazon announced today that it inked best-selling author Dean Koontz to a five-book deal. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Purgatory steve alten![]() ![]() MEG hit every major best-seller list, including #19 on the New York Times list (#7 audio), and became a popular radio series in Japan. MEG would go on to become the book of the 1996 Frankfurt book fair, where it eventually sold to more than a twenty countries. Four days later his agent had a two-book, seven figure deal with Bantam Doubleday. On September (Friday) the 13th, 1996, Steve lost his general manager’s job at a wholesale meat plant. Steve sold his car to pay for editing fees. Working late nights and on weekends, he eventually finished MEG A Novel of Deep Terror. Struggling to support his family of five, he decided to pen a novel he had been thinking about for years. Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia, earning his Bachelors degree in Physical Education at Penn State University, a Masters Degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate of Education at Temple University. ![]() |