Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live. In this series of eighteen essays, college students examine death in new ways. Their essays provide remarkable ideas about how death can transform people and societies. Alfred G. Killilea, a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, teams up with former student Dylan D. Lynch and various contributors to share insights about a multitude of issues tied to death, including terrorists, child soldiers, Nazism, fascism, suicide, capital punishment and the Black Death. Other essays explore death themes in classic and contemporary literature, such as in Dante, Peter Pan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Christopher Hitchens. Still others explore death in modern context, considering the work of Jane Goodall, the threat of death on Mount Everest, the origins of the "Grim Reaper," and how violent street gangs deal with death. At a time when American politics suffers from deep ideological divisions that could make our nation ungovernable, our mutual mortality may be the most potent force for unifying us and helping us to find common ground.

Biography, by leading expert on Austria And The Hapsburgs, Of the longest-serving public figure in the world: head of the Hapsburgs since 1922 and still alive!

"You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," Ja'Rome said to me standing tall and confident like he always did. A glass of Champagne in his hands and those beautiful dimples in his cheeks. All of those same feelings came back to me, or just that they never left. The memories of making love in his office, traveling to Madagascar just to get away from the madness. I miss him more than he'll ever know. It's been 2 years since A'oleon and Ja'Rome have seen each other. Their love set the bar high in this family about what honesty and truth really meant but that still didn't' stop the Mafia from breaking them up and leaving both heartbroken. Naomi Vasca puts herself in the middle of another dangerous love affair, one that she shouldn't stick her nose into. With her father knowing everything she's done, he cuts ties with her but only for a moment of honesty. With the Kenyan Mafia on her side, she's forced to make a choice. Will she succeed in breaking up the couple she envies, or will she fall trying? A love story so pure that even Doves would be jealous. There is nothing sexier than a man who loves the woman he's with. Embraces her, supports her, loves her and most of all? Shows her off to the world. Ja'Rome Okawmmay is many things, but a cheater isn't one of them.

Ian Cowie sheds new light on what the healing miracles of Jesus were. Re-translating the original Greek of the Gospels, he carefully dissects the actions and words of Jesus and draws conclusions which are often at odds with current interpretations. He concludes that there is no justification for saying that 'miracles' break the laws of nature, but that such events are a natural result of using untapped human and divine resources in a universe that is totally consistent.

The first part of this volume describes the arising of the bodhicitta and the bodhisattva's path to Enlightenment in a weaving together of the sublime and the inspiringly practical, and the second part is a commentary on Santideva's classic 8th-century text, the Bodhicaryavatara, based on a seminar given in 1973.

Feel the terror and anger experienced by crime victims as you read accounts of the highly charged therapy sessions at New York City’s Crime Victims’Counseling Services, the first group therapy services for crime victims of its kind. This emotionally charged book contains actual transcripts of interviews with crime victims as they explain the violations against them--their recollections of the assault itself and their feelings afterward. Their stories provide insights into the acute and profound trauma that crime victimization evokes. The helping and healing processes are a catharsis for the victim--and powerful reading for the rest of us.

How can we be happy and at the same time responsive to the suffering of others? It can be done: this is the message of the Bodhisattva ideal. For one wishing to follow this path, the development of inner calm and positivity that leads to true wisdom is balanced by a genuine and active concern for others which flowers into great compassion. Sangharakshita places the ideal of the Bodhisattva within the context of the entire Buddhist tradition. Unfolding this vision of our potential, he demonstrates how we ourselves can move towards this ideal