Contrast to popular belief, this book demonstrates that you do not have to be religious to get benefits of philosophy attached to it. Looking at a very unique angle, this book provides a path to be self control and have contentment and happiness possible even under life dilemmas that force people to seek refuge in various religions. Surprisingly, the guidance toward this independence and contentment is presented in a simple manner by observing basic life forms. The book presents several other novelty concepts in an interesting manner that can not be read elsewhere. Author admits the guilt for not only presenting an over decorated religious concept in a very simple manner but also giving a vision for readers to view beyond that concept. Hence, this book may be categorised under self development, philosophy and also under religion. The term SOVAN comes under Buddhist domain but here that term is considered as a philosophy emphasising the value of that instead of demanding respect on it. The benefit of SOVAN is assumed obvious once the term is understood. Therefore benefits those could have been overlooked are listed instead. Author proposes partial SOVAN but never recommended not to attain full SOVAN Buddhist readers will find this book interesting as this provides a fresh view on the Buddhist concepts allowing the reader to deepen his or her understanding. As for an additional service, book states possible contradictions allowing the reader to make his or her own comparisons to improve understanding.

In a searching assessment of Cambodian politics and society since the revolutionary victory in 1975, the author sets Pol Pot's experiments of 1975-1979 into their historical and theoretical contexts. A complex view of Democratic Kampuchea.

The authors of this book claim that the Turin shroud is in fact genuine and was the subject of a Vatican plot in 1988 to prove the shroud as a fake. The shroud is said to be proof that Jesus was alive when he was taken down from the cross and placed in the tomb, thus throwing doubt on the Resurrection.

This text discusses spectral graph theory.

Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression. In the three-and-a-half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from hunger and disease. A supposedly gentle, carefree land of slumbering temples and smiling peasants became a concentration camp of the mind, a slave state in which absolute obedience was enforced on the 'killing fields'. Why did it happen? How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? Philip Short, the biographer of Mao, has spent four years travelling the length of Cambodia, interviewing surviving leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge movement and sifting through previously closed archives. Here, the former Khmer Rouge Head of State, Pol's brother-in-law and scores of lesser figures speak for the first time at length about their beliefs and motives.