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Time is running out for Joel. If he doesn't make a move on Hannah soon, he's going to lose his chance forever. But can he get over his Korean cultural hang-ups in time to make his play for the girl of his dreams?

Jungle Love Audio Cassette: Level 5 (Cambridge English Readers)

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Margaret Johnson
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Modern, original fiction for learners of English. On an adventure holiday in the Caribbean, Lisa and Jennifer are sharing a room. They are very different people and do not get on. However, they do have something in common: they are both attracted to Ian. And Ian likes both of them. But what about Ian's girlfriend, Caroline? And then there's Pete and of course, Gary…

Jungle Love Book and Audio CD Pack: Level 5 Upper Intermediate (Cambridge English Readers)

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Margaret Johnson
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Our Pal, God and Other Presumptions: A Book of Jewish Humor

Did you hear the one about the Rabbi and the . . .

"Our Pal" is first rate

"Our Pal, God" and Other Presumptions: A Book of Jewish Humor
Jeffry V Mallow
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Many books have been written about the meaning and purpose of humor. In 'Our Pal, God" and Other Presumptions: A Book of Jewish Humor, author Jeffry V. Mallow provides a collection of the best jokes from Jewish communities around the world.

Inside you'll find humor across both space and time: jokes from the Bible and from around the world, as well as Jew versus Gentile and Jew versus Jew jokes. There are even jokes with both Jewish and other cultural variants, with an analysis of their similarities and differences. Mallow shares his insights, gleaned from his many years of collecting and telling jokes. For example, he's learned the rules of Jewish humor:

Rule #1-There are (almost) no new jokes
Rule #2-Rule #1 is not exactly true
Rule #3-There are variants of what we think of as Jewish jokes in other cultures
Rule #4-Rule #3 is not exactly true
Rule #5-Timing is everything

Mallow has tested these stories over three decades of stand-up comedy-to both Jews and Gentiles, from college-age students to ninety-year-olds. 'Our Pal, God" and Other Presumptions is both funny and informative as it shows how different forms of Jewish humor reflect and illuminate Jewish life in various lands.

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Our Pal, God and Other Presumptions: A Book of Jewish Humor.......2007-01-10

Thank you to Jeffry Mallow------a most wonderful and charming collection of Jewish humor. We keep our copy in the kitchen so that we can spontaneously pick it up, select a joke or funny story and chuckle out loud!!! Also--------you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this!!! A great gift-----lovely addition to anyone's library. WONDERFULLY DONE!!!!
-----SM & RM Cold Spring Harbor, New York

Did you hear the one about the Rabbi and the . . ........2006-02-17

Jeffrey Mallow is a humorist, a linguist, and a physicist - perhaps no one else in the United States combines those three talents, and certainly not at his high level. In "Our Pal God, and Other Presumptions," Mallow puts his humor and language skills to superb use, and he even throws in a little science now and then.

"Our Pal God" is a book of Jewish humor, but it is far more than just another collection of funny stories. To be sure, it is a collection of jokes - really, really good jokes - but Mallow does much more than that. He categorizes and defines Jewish humor, explaining both its inward-looking and outward-looking aspects. He also shows how the Yiddish language contributed to Jewish humor, but you don't need to understand a word of Yiddish in order to get the jokes (Mallow deftly provides unobtrusive definitions at every key point).

Indeed, the best section is probably the one on Language Humor, especially the chapter on "Jokes that Do, Almost Do, and Do Not Translate." It is a perfect introduction to Jewish culture and the immigrant experience. Then again, perhaps the best section is "Compare and Contrast - Jewish/Non-Jewish Variants" in which Mallow shows us how one joke can show up in two or three different cultures, each time taking on a subtle variation in meaning.

Everyone knows about chutzpah, an untranslatable Yiddish word that is usually defined as temerity, gall, or unbelievable nerve. Here is one of Mallow's chutzpah jokes (I picked the shortest one)

An Israeli is walking down the street in Jerusalem, chuckling. He stops the first passerby and says, "I heard a great joke about our dumb prime minister, and I've just got to tell it to someone."

The passerby replies, "I am the prime minister."

"Okay," says the Israeli, "I'll talk slow."

There is much more. You will enjoy this book cover to cover. And that's the emmis (truth).

"Our Pal" is first rate.......2006-01-27

"Our Pal" is an outstanding and easy to read book. It covers a wide range of jokes, and will give you plenty of laugh-out-load moments. It's got something for everybody, but avoids tasteless and pointless jokes we get tired of hearing. Instead it offers real insights into the cultures and mindsets that gave rise to a very particular form of humor, as well as really interesting tidbits about languages and connections to other cultures. If I were better at telling jokes, this would be a primary source for material.

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The British New Wave of the 1960s broke the mould of British filmmaking, and bequeathed a huge legacy to subsequent film and television. This guide, aimed primarily at teachers and students of Film Studies, introduces the cultural background of the New Wave in Britain and complements the bfi's re-release on video and DVD of three key British New Wave films: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
This educational resource, provided on a CD-ROM, covers topics including Studies in World Cinema, Critical Research Study on Women in Film, Texts and Contexts in the Media, Representations and Reception. It also provides essential insights and background material to support the study of English literature of the 1960s, in particular the texts which inspired these films. And it is of interest for anyone studying this fascinating period of British filmmaking.

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In Spirits of Defiance, the first book to examine how American writers responded to the far-reaching effects of the Eighteenth Amendment, Kathleen Drowne analyzes the literary portrayals of bootleggers, moonshiners, revenuers, speakeasies, cabarets, and other specifically Prohibition-era characters and settings in a wide range of novels and short stories produced during the 1920s and early 1930s. She argues that these fictional representations carry enormous political and moral significance exposing how and why Americans defied or supported their government's attempt to legislate the morality of its citizens. Drowne examines a wide range of American literature including works by William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Claude McKay, Sinclair Lewis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Upton Sinclair. Grounding her study in social, cultural, and literary history, she investigates how these and other authors' politically charged accounts of life during the "Dry Decade" reflected the many ways Americans responded to the legal, social, and cultural changes wrought by National Prohibition.

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The authors, experts in the fields of art history, games, and the tarot, trace the history of the tarot deck from its origins in the game room to its current role in occult circles. Their thorough research cuts through the misconceptions and glamorization surrounding the cards' rather mundane beginnings, while revealing the rich history of psychological, political, and religious influences on our perceptions of what is now a common tool of many occult practitioners.

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A Mean Spirited, Academic History of Tarot.......2006-01-12

I hated this book. It is an academic history of the tarot which demands attention and careful reading. This is ok. What is not ok is the snarky attitude of the authors. They take great delight in belittling any sort of esoteric interest in the tarot. This just makes reading this book an awful experience. I was working hard to follow their arguments and all the while it felt like the authors were spitting on me. About half way through the book I got fed up with this ugliness and returned the book to the library. The whole experience just left me feeling bad and stupid, which is a shame cause there is plenty of worthwhile stuff here.

Are we blind, Professor, or just dumm?.......2005-08-25

Given that so many of the statements made in this book are misleading and/or inaccurate, to say the least, is it possible that (a) such eminently learned gentlemen can be so staggeringly ignorant of the confluence of Hermetic/Alexandrian ideas that invested most areas of intellectual activity in the Italian Renaissance, to say nothing of the Islamic-Hebraic influences that had been transmitted to 13th-14th century Western Europe through the philosophical schools of Hohenstaufen Sicily; or, is it also possible that (b) they have been so diligently debunking the poor misunderstood ancient esoteric tradition because, like those equally learned scholarly dilettantes of the decadent decades of the early 20th century, such as Cornford, Harrison, Weston, and Waite, to say nothing of Mr Yeats and his friends, they are actually occultists themselves throwing out those infamous blinds or decoys that Grand Master Eliphas Levi was supposed to be the first to use, as a counterforce to the absurd New Age Mystic Babble that has usurped the kingdom of the initiated? Or, to give them the benefit of a superb irony, something like that ...?

Sort of useful, but mostly wrongheaded.......2003-10-31

Even as an historian's account of the origins of occult Tarot, this book largely perpetuates Dummett's logically-confused debunking accounts, published in numerous books.

Here're the facts:

1. Tarot was certainly invented in the fourteenth-fifteenth century, in Italy, and was used for a trick-taking game not unlike Hearts, Spades or Bridge (the Trumps were Trumps, you see).

2. In the late eighteenth century, Antoine Court de Gebelin re-invented Tarot as an occult device, as part of his vast project of interpreting everything interesting as Egyptian.

3. Eliphas Levi picked up on Court de Gebelin (we don't know how directly), and through his influence Tarot (as a divination device and later an initiatory and meditational one) became central to the occult revival and now Neopagan and New Age spiritualities.

4. In the nineteenth century, lots of people got interested in Tarot and cartomancy, such that it became a big fad, especially in France.

Now, given all that, Dummett would have us go one step further: since Tarot was not invented for occult purposes, and since Tarot was not handed down since Egypt, Atlantis, or what have you, Tarot as an occult device is stupid and everyone who uses it is an idiot.

Dummett is a distinguished scholar of Frege, if memory serves, and has a top chair in logic, with expertise in epistemology and language. You'd think he wouldn't fall into this elementary logical trap: what makes historical origin (of a word, a practice, an object) necessarily absolutely contiguous with every possible later usage? For example, "occult force" was once (until the late 17th C.) a stock term describing things like gravity, and now it's always and only used to mean magical forces and such; does that mean Dummett's book should be retitled to avoid "occult"? or that Newton was an idiot to call gravity "occult"? It boggles the mind that Dummett can turn off his brain this completely, book after book.

At any rate, in this particular book, rather than going on from this claim to tell us all about how Tarot was (and is) used for playing a card-game (as in other books by Dummett), he and his pals tell us instead about how various interesting characters of the Belle Epoque developed cartomancy into a fad, a craze, and an occult tradition.

Unfortunately, there is no better history of occult Tarot out there, and if you simply discard every editorial or analytical remark, it's not even all that bad. Of course, that's rather a lot to cut.

If you want the history of occult Tarot from about 1790 to about 1900, this is the only place to go. Just disregard everything except factual statements (and consider carefully whether any given remark is really opinion masquerading as fact), and be ready to look things up in the notes if the authors don't make it clear.

Someday somebody will do a Ronald Hutton on Tarot, and things will be better. Until then, Dummett is as good as it gets. Too bad he's so miserable.

Incidentally, if you want the original texts on Tarot, they've been published, in French (try amazon.fr -- American Amazon doesn't have it):

Court de Gebelin, Antoine. _Le Tarot_. Ed. Jean-Marie L'Hote. Paris: Berg, 1983. ISBN 2.900269-30-X.

The re-invention of cartomancy in France.......2002-08-31

As this book confirms, contemporary interest in Tarot cards was rekindled by a brief mention of the traditional Marseilles deck by a late eighteenth century French writer named Court de Gébelin. Writing without the benefit of Champollion's rediscovery of the Egyptian language, de Gébelin created a fanciful history of the cards, a fanciful etymology of the word "tarot," and was the catalyst for a great deal of mystification and malarkey.

The authors of this book try to do for the history of this old game what Ronald Hutton did for the origins of neo-paganism in "Triumph of the Moon." What they lack, though, is a wider background in the literature and culture, including the popular culture, of the period of French history in question. A broader grasp of this material would answer the question of why a need was felt for a mystic Tarot in nineteenth century France, and enable them to relate to their subjects with somewhat more sympathy. This background is given in Hutton's book, and is perhaps the most successful thing about it. Without it, the discussion of occult cartomancy turns into a round of "liar, liar, pants on fire."

The Historians', not the Occultists' perspective.......1999-03-06

In my opinion, the best volume to date about the history of the Tarot. I look forward to the series being continued into the contributions of the Golden Dawn. Many occultists will not like this book, as it thouroughly and logically debunks many cherished myths of the Tarot's history and origins. (No, it was not invented by Gypsies. No, it has no connection with the Quabala. No, it is not the ancestor of modern playing cards. No, it was not invented by the Egyptians.)

A WICKED PACK OF CARDS. The Origins of the Occult Tarot

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A WICKED PACK OF CARDS. The Origins of the Occult Tarot
Ronald, DEPAULIS, Thiery and DUMMETT, Michael DECKER
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Novell GroupWise 7 Administrator Solutions Guide is the authoritative guide for successfully administrating and maintaining the newest release of Novell's communication and collaboration solution. Author Tay Kratzer, a Novell Premium Service-Primary Support Engineer, will provide you with insider tips on administration solutions, proven information on how to work with GroupWise 7, and techniques for troubleshooting this latest release of GroupWise not available in the standard GroupWise 7 documentation. Amongst many other things, this guide will cover:

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Novell GroupWise 7 Administrator's Guide is the authoritative guide for successfully administrating and maintaining the newest release of Novell's communication and collaboration solution. Many organizations are moving to Linux and open source environments, and GroupWise is now available on the Linux, offering the same functionality it does with NetWare. This book meets the needs of both Novell clients learning to manage the Novell move to Open Source technology, as well as the Open Source audience that has flocked to GroupWise, making it the #1 choice for Linux users. With over 30 million users of GroupWise, the audience of administrators managing those accounts is large and growing. In this edition of the Novell GroupWise Administrator's Guide, the author has added valuable administrations solutions and troubleshooting tips not available in the GroupWise documentation.

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lacks some in-depths tips........2007-07-01

i bought this book thinking it has great in-depth tips that the usual books would miss..Tay Kratzer is a famous guy in Novell, too bad there are some parts missing which couldn't make me get my GW7 up and running in a shorter time...

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An impressive, informative historical survey.

book's great -- publisher isn't

Brilliant performance

Atlas of the Year 1000
John Man
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The title is disingenuously precise. Around the turn of the last millennium, time bore a different complexion; indeed, it was expressed through a variety of calendars. The notion of a millennium would occupy a book in itself (and has: see Stephen Jay Gould's terrific Questioning the Millennium), so rather than box himself in, anthropologist John Man wisely attempts a general appraisal of the late-10th-and-early-11th-century world, and how it hung together.

And it did hang together. Vikings were in Vinland (Canada's Newfoundland today), Basques were roaming the oceans, Polynesians roamed the South Seas, and the Jews were the blood coursing through the new-born community's veins, linking empires with their indomitable trading. Recognizable events included the murder of Malcolm, later to be immortalized in That Scottish Play, the writing of The Tale of Genji, possibly the world's first novel, the Battle of Maldon, and the carving of the Easter Island statues. John Man takes on this developing world methodically, moving across the continents, taking each people in turn and in a couple of pages outlining their status in historical and cultural contexts, past and present. Of course, some are easier to trace than others, with the world dividing into those with a written culture and those without; however, large expanses that were previously a mystery, such as sub-Saharan Africa, are only now starting to turn up illuminative archaeological remains and artifacts. As ever, the past is in the future, and will be for many years to come. There is a lot here to digest. The sweep of this book is refreshingly broad and cosmopolitan--for a more Anglocentric perspective, read Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger's The Year 1000. John Man's brief history of a time is more globally connective, broadsheet rather than tabloid, and while there is inevitably a hint of the textbook about it, liberal use of illustrative maps and photographs breaks up the text at apposite points. In a cluttered field, and at a cluttered time, it delivers an instructive and timely historical bookmark. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk

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This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. These and other peoples reached out to create links and put isolated cultures unwittingly in touch. John Man vividly captures these epochal events, and depicts the colorful peoples that defined the world's mix of stability and change, of isolation and contact. In an immensely learned portrayal, he traces enduring cultural strands that became part of the world as we know it today.

In text, maps, and pictures, most in color, and drawing on the expertise of two dozen consultants, John Man has created a concise compendium of all the major cultures of the lost millennial world of 1000. In some cultures--Europe, Islam, China, and Japan--written records contain a vast range of materials, often revealing sharply focused details of life and personality. Here lie startling contrasts with today's world, and even foreshadowing of the future that are equally astonishing in their familiarity. For nonliterate cultures--in the United States, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, Africa--this book draws on a wealth of archeological research, some of it made available to nonspecialists for the first time.

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Deja Vu .......2006-11-30

Really shows what a difference 1,000 years can make. The most remarkable fact this atlas brings out is the border of Eastern Germany and the Slavs is almost exactly as today's border with Poland. Can this be a coincidence or were the allied powers after WWII knowingly trying to repeat history by forcibly removing 13 million Germans from lands east of the Oder and Niesse rivers ?

An impressive, informative historical survey........2000-04-06

John Man's Atlas Of The Year 1000 provides a fine choice for the Year 2000 reader: a survey of the inventions which took place around the world at the turn of the last century. Chapters pair sidebars of information and color maps with illustrations and lively descriptions of explorations and events which affected and changed the world of the times.

book's great -- publisher isn't.......2000-02-10

This is a very enjoyable book - I bought it as background for a trip to Norway, and found the text and graphics fascinating and very well produced. I was, however, disappointed to find a missing sentence on the subject I was most interested in (the Vikings). When I spoke to the editorial department at Harvard University Press, they told me that if I wanted to find out how the section ended I would have to write to England, because they didn't know what was in the book they published! Fortunately, the customer service department rescued me from the trolls in "editorial," but I wasn't very impressed - what do they think they're selling - soap?

Brilliant performance.......2000-01-10

No book I've seen so perfectly portrays what a thousand years of human history means. It's an intriguing idea to scan, but then the sheer quality of the material John Man has found forces you to examine the work in detail after amazing detail---Chinese junks with 6 masts that could carry 500 people!

One Thousand Years of Painting: An Atlas of Western Painting from 1000 to 2000 A.D

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What A Value! Journey through Millenium of Great Painting

One Thousand Years of Painting: An Atlas of Western Painting from 1000 to 2000 A.D
Stefano Zuffi
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What A Value! Journey through Millenium of Great Painting.......2005-01-04

Zuffi takes the reader through thousand years of western painting from 1000-200 a.d.

Divided into two sections: An Atlas, comprised of 140 themes each with a double-page including commentary on 35 timeless masterpieces. Then a Meridians and Parallels section, with its useful Historic Tables, Geographic Tables and Timelines.

Writing and color graphics is exceptional, truly making this a rich and worthy resource at what a price!

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One Thousand Years of Painting: An Atlas of Western Painting from 1000 to 2000 A.D.
Stefano Zuffi
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New Age Jive Turkey Fails to Prove the Existence of the Soul

Interesting view but not very convincing

Aleph... Isness, just is.

Lucid book to investigate into the origin of everything...

The SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul
Fred Alan Wolf
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New Age Jive Turkey Fails to Prove the Existence of the Soul.......2003-12-20

This book was recommended to me by a long-time Alcoholics Anonymous member who is very interested in spirituality. I was therefore very disappointed when, after an interesting exposition of Aristotle and Plato's views on the soul, the author went off on a rampage through ancient Egyptian beliefs, the Qabala, Frank Tipler and "The Physics of Immortality", the Big Bang and the Big Crunch, the Self vs. the Soul, the Buddha and his teachings, Hermes the trickster, ch'i and yin and yang, Kepler, Jung, and Pauli. Somewhere early on in this mess he casually states that he has proven that individual souls don't exist and there is only one cosmic soul which is mysteriously linked with the vacuum of space (which in quantum physics is an active place). His assertions about quantum physics seem to agree with other material I have read but his explanations of how they connect to or illustrate the existence of the Soul are not persuasive. This book suffers from Cosmic Allness. Spare yourself a New Age mindache and take a pass.

Interesting view but not very convincing.......2001-05-26

I hoped this book will give me more solid response to questions I had about the soul, mind etc but I think it is more like anthromorphism. There are assumptions that seem to be taken as definite such as closed end cosmolgy, separation of body and soul or mind which is controversial. The idea of soul is mainly built upon collapse of wave function or rather conciousness. I was intrigued that when a robot tests something it could be registering of both results ie, the wave function does not collapse if it is a robot doing the measurement. there is proof of uniqness of the soul in the creation, that is difficult to comprehend i read it many times but the result is interesting, there goes judea-Christian belief and comes Buddha. It is a book that you should read back and forth many times and contemplate, it is worthed and also read Descrates Error.

Aleph... Isness, just is........2001-02-05

If this book is accepted, it could be revolutionary. A masterpiece--talk about uniting Science and Religion!!! By the time you read just the first chapter your mouth will water for more as you wonder, "By the time I finish this will I finally have an answer to the eternal burning questions?" Well, you will have Fred Alan Wolf's answer, to God, the soul, existence, and so on. He had some difficulty and struggle to write a SCIENTIFIC account of the soul. Science is supposed to only deal with things that can be sensed and directly observed, isn't it? So what place does it have on the soul other than maybe denying its existence? Well, we've never found the soul because we've been asking the wrong questions. We have the wrong idea about the "ghost in the machine." We have the wrong conceptions about many things, Soul, Matter, Self, Conciousness, all different, though related, phenomena. He gives a tour through all past contemplations on the nature of the soul's physics. It starts off with a juxtaposition of Thomas Aquinas' and Aristotles' soulish ideas. Then it goes from Plato, to ancient Egypt, to the Qabala. (Providing us with a modern quantum physics interpretation of the Eden story) Fred not only turns to modern science theories, but also Buddhist teachings. The two fields of knowledge on agree on much more than you would ever think. Even the Dalai Lama has said that it could be possible for a soul to incarnate a computer!! Now, I'm not exactly scientifically inclined... and alot of the chapters were deep material for me to comprehend. I never studied quantum mechanics or anything, but this all depends on your own scientific understandings. Some of it may be over your head, but maybe not then again I was up late pretty tired while reading it, Hehe. But he doesn't obfuscate anything, it will nevertheless will be very interesting. (all kinds of stuff, Zero point energy, the Dirac Sea, antimatter) Once it delves more into the Zen Buddhism which he extols, there is alot of soul philosophy. Seeing that everyone is in the illusory cycle of suffering, and that we lose contact with our souls through material addictions...to the point where we don't differentiate the self and the soul. (Which are more like reflections of one another) Such is the nature of Maya. He shows us that there is no plurality to consciousness. There is really only one soul and consciousness, the mind of God, from which we all arise.

This book is DEFINITELY worth your time. And if you don't gain anything else, one thing will atleast be the most unique theory you've every heard, in the chapter titled "Resurrection Physics."1

Lucid book to investigate into the origin of everything..........1998-11-07

Gives good insight into the Grand Truth of the origin of everything - the Universe(s), Life, Soul, Spirit, God.. from 2 perspectives - Quantum Physics & Budhism. How "Everything" is created from "Nothing" by mere reflection of "Opposites" which is the fundamental Truth held in Budhism. This is done in a pretty good convincing way. The culmination of science (observation & logic) and religion (mysticism) is going to be SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION INTO THE ULTIMATE TRUTH FOR EVER..THE GRAND UNIFICATION THEORY for Science which is indeed the MOST IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION for Science is only a stepping stone to understand the Grander and much wider ULTIMATE TRUTH about everything.. This is one of the many, many books being made available in this greatest area of research and it is a pretty good one.

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