Meditative Spaces

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The need to reflect, contemplate, and concentrate is an essential counterpoint to the rush of daily life and its surface details. This has been recognized since ancient times, and meditation in one form or another has been practiced through the centuries and across cultures, for reasons both sacred and mundane. In the modern world the motivations are more likely to be personal than religious, but the same dynamics apply in calming and focusing the mind. A prerequisite is the right physical space-somewhere to help set one's frame of mind and to hold back the distractions of the outside. Specifically for the purpose of meditation, the examples are from sources as varied and fascinating as contemporary Japanese tea-ceremony rooms, minimalist Western architecture, idiosyncratic chapels, artists' and writers' workspaces, and portable tented structures. The principles are all applicable to modern living, whether permanent or temporary, at home or in beautiful natural settings.With its crisp photography and inventive design, Meditative Spaces will appeal to a variety of readers, from architecture enthusiasts to those with an interest in Japanese style to anyone looking to find-and celebrate-serenity in today's hectic and rapidly paced world.

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Excellent order fulfillment.......2007-01-04

My order was well-packaged, shipped quickly and item was just as described.

Labyrinths help open doors to meditative space; Take your soul for a stroll.(Faith): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press

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Labyrinths help open doors to meditative space; Take your soul for a stroll.(Faith): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
Gale Reference Team
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000V391X8
Release Date: 2007-08-13

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on August 12, 2007. The length of the article is 1056 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Labyrinths help open doors to meditative space; Take your soul for a stroll.(Faith)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 12, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: b8

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Pricing.......2007-02-07

I'm sorry but the price that you pay offered by sellers vs. what you could pay for at a regular book or Amazon.com is selfexplanetory. If you've ever gotten this book from from the Library & seen the price at the lower left-hand corner of the book, it's @ three less(@ [...] in regular stores) than the price [...]that the sellers are offering.

I know that times may be hard, but if you wanna sell something quickly like this, you price the item at either the cost of the book or less. Otherwise, you'll have a tough time selling it at all. I can find it cheaper on ebay or halfpricedbooks than here.

at last.......2000-10-05

After waiting some time for the release of this book I was both presently surprised and at the same time slightly disappointed.I would definately recommend this book to a beginner of braiding as the reading is interesting and the diagrams easy to follow. The only disappointment is that more than half of the braids pictured are for looking at only. No instructions!!!!How frustrating. None of the braids on the front and back covers are included in the instructions. The basic braiding techniques for all are obviously in the book but if I could work out for myself how to achieve them why would I have sent half way round the world for a book???

great.......2000-05-12

this is a very helpful book. I just started kumihimo, and i found this very easy to understand!

Kumihimo : Japanese Silk Braiding Technique

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Kumihimo : Japanese Silk Braiding Technique
Catherine Martin
Manufacturer: Lark Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KXHUTQ

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The Intimacy of the (Fe)male Gaze.......2000-10-17

I have been a fan of Ms. Rheims practically from my first exposure to her work & when this book came out, it strengthened my convictions of her vision. Since then, I have continually reveled in her approach to portraiture w/ this book, in the fact that Ms. Rheims is able to capture a sense of intimacy w/ her subjects usually reserved for one's lover(s) & Mr. Bramley's prose if wistful, Romantic & bittersweet.

Looking for something interesting? Look elsewhere........2000-06-08

I've searched bookstores for creative compilations of nudes with limited success. With size comes diversity, and Chambre Close is an example of the range of products you can find at an on-line bookstore. Unfortunately, Rheims and Bramley's compilation illustrates the lower end of the spectrum.

The book is nice enough at first glance... the images are clear and different enough from the stock, headless abstract black and white nudes that are so common. They quickly become tiring, however, with stilted composition, overly simplistic lighting and a kind of bland consistency that makes them easily forgetable. After one pass (and skimming some of the text previously noted as bland) I knew this book was heading back to the retailer for a refund.

It isn't that the book is of low quality. Rather, there is just so much more creative and interesting material available (of better quality) at the same price. Adding this book to your collection is like padding a composition with text. While technically sound it is superfluous and detracts from nudes as a genre.

A beautiful and fun trip about living out a fantasy.......1999-11-08

I was in Amsterdam recently, and searched for a book of nude and erotic photographs of beautiful and elegant European women, with a correspondingly pleasing text. This book is a delight from cover to cover; the pictures have a slightly amateurish, perverse quality that makes them even more real; the text is sexy and teasing without sleaze, cliches or misogyny. The work shows a fascinating relationship between photographer and subject, where every model is a unique erotic being, and you can feel the photographers obsession with capturing their images. Fun, classy, sexy and surprising, a worthy member of any photgraphy book collection.

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Pikachu and the other Pokemon make funny faces and plan an adventure, hoping to cheer up the ever-fussy Togepi.

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Year Of Change - More About The New Yorker & Me
E. J., Jr. Kahn
Manufacturer: Viking
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IUSF3Q

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Year of Change - More About The New Yorker & Me
E.J. Jr. KAHN
Manufacturer: Viking Penguin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IUSA3G

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Year of Change. More About the New Yorker and Me
Jr. E. J. Kahn
Manufacturer: Viking
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O5YCLE

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These 2-page essays and stories are about family values, faith, parenting, loneliness, and love. This inspirational book is a beautiful gift for any adult or child as it lifts up ideals of what is important in life.

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The Truly Important Things in Life.......2004-10-02

I just finished reading Little Things Remembered by Maria Luisa Salcines. In fact, I read it in two days because it is so easy to read and the stories are so heartwarming that it left me wanting to read on.
As a teacher, I consider this book to be one all parents should read. Maria Luisa's stories about parenting and families is a perfect example of what is missing in so many of today's young people.
Her story "Disco Bar" actually made me laugh, while "Give What You Can" brought tears to my eyes. Maria shares her stories in a way that reminds the book's readers what is truly important in this life.
This is a book you will go back to, one I would urge parents to share with their children. It's a wonderful gift book for those you love, too.

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Now largely forgotten, the massacres of 1675 to 1676, known as King Philip's War, ended the harmonious relations that had existed between native Americans and the colonists since their arrival at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Tensions had been rising as the number of settlers grew, and the pillaging of an outlying farm by affronted young braves escalated into open hostilities. Pitched battles were fought from Rhode Island to Maine. Hundreds of English died as farmers fled and cowered behind stockades or in the few port towns. Thousands of natives were slaughtered and the rest dispersed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. The savagery resulted in the clearing of the native populations from southern New England and the unopposed expansion of the New England colonies. It also became the brutal model on which the United States came to deal with its native peoples. King Philip's War tells the story with such close attention to detail that each ambush, each burned-out farm, becomes a vivid image. The authors make abundant use of maps and photographs of old sites to enable the reader to follow the course of the war: the book forms an exhaustive guide for the armchair historian or anyone wishing to visit the monuments and battlefields today. The terror and bitterness of the period live again in the book's illustrations of old woodcuts and lithographs and in quotations from contemporary narratives. That King Philip, whose head was paraded around the streets of Plymouth in a barbarous show of triumph, was the son of the Wampanoag chief who celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims in 1621 adds to the irony and tragedy of the events, whose memory this well-researched book deservedly keeps alive. --John Stevenson

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An ambitious work that details the events of the little-known King Philip's War, a two-year Indian rebellion that reduced many of New England's settlements to ashes and marked a crucial turning point in the battle for control of land in the New World. At the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving in 1621, chief among the honored guests was Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoag. Fifty-five years later, in 1676, colonial soldiers would walk through Plymouth with their horrible spoils of war: the severed head of Massasoit's son, King Philip, on a stake. Philip had just been shot at the end of a bloody conflict in which at least 10 percent of the colonists had been killed and half their towns destroyed. The Native Americans suffered even more in their pivotal struggle against the English. Less than a generation after King Philip's death, devastated by disease and famine and thousands slain or sold into slavery, the native peoples of New England were all but gone. Three hundred years later, their fight for freedom is all but erased from the history books. King Philip's Indian War provides insight into a dark and formative period of America's past, being both an in-depth history and a guide to the sites where the great ambushes, raids, and bloody battles took place. What the colonists learned from the native warriors in the swamps and woods of New England would prove invaluable in their own fight for freedom 100 years later, and the colonist's retaliation for the war would become the model for how Americans would treat Native Americans for the next three centuries. Includes first-person accounts by Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Church, and Captain Wheeler.

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The first English war with the Indians.......2006-12-06

Indians have been gone from Masachusetts for so long now that their mere presence has fallen out of the public imagination (everywhere except in Massachusetts I suppose). This book brings you back to a time long before the "cowboys and Indians" era when the American West was won. A time when there were still very few English settlers in America, and Indians lived all the way to the East Coast beaches.

King Philip's war was the first major conflict between English settlers in America and the native Indians -- just one generation after the Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth. This book claims the war set the tone for all future conflicts with the Indians, right through the settling of the West.

The book is organized into three sections: a general summary of the war, a long (and tedious) retelling of the war over and over and over again as regional conflicts, and excerpts from three eye-witness diaries.

If you live in the Northeast or are an avid history buff looking for every minor detail of the conflict, the middle of the book will fascinate you. But if you don't live there, the second section becomes very tedious. The authors are trying to give history buffs locations of every battle and skirmish. But unless you care to follow the Mapquest-like directions, the retellings are pointless. Here's a sample, "However, once away from the canal, Robbins picked up the chase along Bournedale Road to Head of Bay Road, into Wareham on Red Brook Road, passing along Route 6 to Elm Street." There are paragraphs full of that stuff!

If this book contained just the first and last secton, I would have given it 5 stars. Part I is a 71 page summary of the entire war. Part III contains short, heavily redacted excerpts from three eye-witness accounts of the war. I would have liked to see more of this.

The book does go a little overboard trying not to be too harsh on the Indians, and pointing out the insensitivities of the English. Only in the diaries do you get a feel for just how savage the Indians could be. The rest of the book certainly points out how treacherous the English were.

All in all the book really is worth it if you're at all interested in King Philip's War.

BLOODSHED AND BARBARISM IN THE NEW WORLD.......2006-05-02

For two years--1675 to 1676--Native Americans waged war against Colonial Americans, a ghastly, bloody conflict punctured with atrocities on both sides. Many Indian nations participated, but they were lead by a Wampanoag chief (or sachem) whose Christian name was Philip, and who was generally referred to (perhaps sarcastically) as King Philip.

In the war's first year, the Indians stormed with impunity throughout New England, slashing Colonial militias (one battle resulted in Muddy Brook, Massachusetts being renamed Bloody Brook), decimating villages and often reducing entire settlements to ashes, as well as taking scores of Colonists hostage, either to be tortured and killed or sold as slaves to other tribes. Colonists abandoned their farms and streamed to Plymouth and Boston for protection.

In the war's second year, the now-seasoned Colonial militias ruthlessly pursued the Indians through forest and swamp, often slaughtering those who had surrendered, and forcing captured Indians to help them track down their former comrades-in-arms. A formidable tactician, and with a keen eye for military prowess in his fellow Native Americans, King Philip was also a wily prey who was generally acknowledged "to never roost in the same place twice." King Philip was Colonial America's Public Enemy No. 1.

At last, King Philip was found. Promptly shot and killed, his corpse was dismembered and decapitated. His head was placed on a stake in downtown Plymouth. His captains and lieutenants were publicly executed. After suffering cumulative fatalities of 15,000, the surviving Indians were forced to relocate to set-aside tracts of real estate--the concept of Indian Reservations was thus born in America.

The Colonists themselves suffered a different retribution. For many years, England had been preoccupied with European affairs of state, but this war brought the Colonies to the top of Parliament's agenda. Investigations revealed that the Colonists violated both the letter and the spirit of several British decrees, and were behaving altogether too independently. A tight collar was thereupon fastened about New England's throat, and the eventual result was the American Revolution.

However, the most heartbreaking fact of King Philip's War is its lineage. King Philip was the second son of the Wampanoag Chief Massasoit, who shared in the first Thanksgiving feast with the Pilgrims in 1621. That wondrous day of respect and good will was erased in just one generation.

one view of this war.......2004-06-03

Like most modern American Indian histories they blame the Europens for every bad thing that happened to the Indians.Well the Indians were not ignorant of the Europens or there ways. Squantio, and Samoset friends of Massasoit had lived with Europens. Wampangag tribe knew about the French in Canada.The Indians knew that by helping the Plymouth Colony that warfare was inevitable.

A fascinating account.......2003-12-08

An important colonial book explaining the implications of the king Phillips war on American Indian policy. A must read for anyone interested in Indian policy and colonial America. The traumatic king Phillips war, in which one third or more of European settlements in America were overrun helped cement the American colonials view of their Indian neighbors, which eventually led to outright extermination.

Seth J. Frantzman

An Excellent Resource.......2003-09-25

I found this book to be an excellent resource because it goes beyond providing battle details to providing the historical context of the war.

Few people have even heard of this war, and yet the causes of our Revolutionary War can be traced directly back to the outcome of King Philip's war, making this war very important to American history.

This war played a pivotal role in American history, though few people know about it.

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, they immediately developed a friendly relationship with the Wampanoag Indians, who traded skins and furs for European manufactured goods.

Problems arose in the 1660s. There was a generational change, signaled by the death of the chief of the Wampanoag, who was replaced by his son, nicknamed King Philip by the colonists. And there was a financial crisis, caused by changes in style among European women, who no longer wanted to purchase skins and furs. One thing led to another, and an extremely violent and brutal war broke out in 1675.

The outcome of this war was that the colonists, who formerly were completely independent of the English Crown, now had to pay taxes to the Crown in return for the Crown's protection against future Indian attacks. The colonists accepted this arrangement because they thought they had to to survive, but by the 1760s they were no longer interested, leading to the Revolutionary War.

This book provides many of the context details that help the reader understand the importance of this war to the entire panorama of American history.

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KING PHILIP'S WAR:The history and legacy of America's forgotten conflict.
Eric B. and Tougias Michaelk J Schultz
Manufacturer: The Countryman Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NRW9DQ

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This book contains papers presented at the 1993 Como meeting on groups of Lie type and their geometries. Themes represented here include: subgroups of finite and algebraic groups, buildings and other geometries associated to groups of Lie type or Coxeter groups, generation, and applications. This book will be a necessary addition to the library of all researchers in group theory and related areas.

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