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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times»rank: 9505par: Pema Chodron
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Much like Zen, Pema Chodron's interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism takes the form of a nontheistic spiritualism. ln When Things Fall Apart this head of a Tibetan monastery in Canada outlines some relevant and deceptively profound terms of Tibetan Buddhism that are germane to modern issues. The key to all of these terms is accepting that in the final analysis, life is groundless. By letting go, we free ourselves to face fear and obstacles and offer ourselves unflinchingly to others. The graceful, conversational tone of Chodron's writing gives the impression ... |
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Hell's Angels»rank: 2213par: Hunter S. Thompson
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Bienvenue au club des allumés de la route. Vous allez assister au démarrage d'une horde de Hell's en Harley. Hurlements, pétarades et coups de poing garantis. Mieux que les Freaks Brothers, plus drôle que les fous du volant, le livre raconte l'incroyable équipée du gang qui fit sensation dans les années soixante. Alors que les premières bandes de motards sèment la terreur sur les routes de Californie, le noyau dur et sans doute le plus structuré se nomme les Hell's Angels. Des chevaliers barbares d'un temps nouveau, par ailleurs ... |
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The Fountainhead»rank: 2520par: Ayn Rand
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to ... |
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Blue Ocean Strategy»rank: 2238par: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to ... |
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The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades»rank: 831par: Gail Boushey, Joan Moser
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to ... |
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary»rank: 1464de: Oxford University Press
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When the Canadian 0xford Dictionary was first released in 1998, it was a publishing phenomenon. Quickly recognized as a landmark record of Canadian English, it stayed on bestseller lists for over a year and immediately became the standard dictionary reference across Canada. Updated since, it continues to track that hybrid beast known as Canadian English, defining thousands of regional and national idioms and tracking the distinctive usage that makes the Canadian version of the language neither British nor American. Amazon.ca:The second edition of the Canadian 0xford Dictionary was ... |
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Uncle John's Triumphant Bathroom Reader»rank: 2665par: Bathroom Reader's Hysterical Society
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When the Canadian 0xford Dictionary was first released in 1998, it was a publishing phenomenon. Quickly recognized as a landmark record of Canadian English, it stayed on bestseller lists for over a year and immediately became the standard dictionary reference across Canada. Updated since, it continues to track that hybrid beast known as Canadian English, defining thousands of regional and national idioms and tracking the distinctive usage that makes the Canadian version of the language neither British nor American. Amazon.ca:The second edition of the Canadian 0xford Dictionary was ... |
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington»rank: 607par: Jennet Conant
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When the Canadian 0xford Dictionary was first released in 1998, it was a publishing phenomenon. Quickly recognized as a landmark record of Canadian English, it stayed on bestseller lists for over a year and immediately became the standard dictionary reference across Canada. Updated since, it continues to track that hybrid beast known as Canadian English, defining thousands of regional and national idioms and tracking the distinctive usage that makes the Canadian version of the language neither British nor American. Amazon.ca:The second edition of the Canadian 0xford Dictionary was ... |
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A Short History of Progress»rank: 2803par: Ronald Wright
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:No hope, just an awareness of what's being done now and what's been done in the past, is what Ronald Wright will permit in A Short History of Progress, his grim, ammoniacal Massey Lectures, the 43rd in the series. ln five lucid, meticulously documented essays, Wright traces the rise and plummet of four regional civilizations--those of Sumer, Rome, Easter lsland, and the Maya--and judges that most, perhaps all, of humanity is making and will continue to make mistakes equally disastrous as theirs. He gives general reasons first for not reckoning ... |
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters»rank: 15847par: Rose George
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:No hope, just an awareness of what's being done now and what's been done in the past, is what Ronald Wright will permit in A Short History of Progress, his grim, ammoniacal Massey Lectures, the 43rd in the series. ln five lucid, meticulously documented essays, Wright traces the rise and plummet of four regional civilizations--those of Sumer, Rome, Easter lsland, and the Maya--and judges that most, perhaps all, of humanity is making and will continue to make mistakes equally disastrous as theirs. He gives general reasons first for not reckoning ... |