Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, `Soul Mountain` is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a `reprieve from death` and had been thrown back into the world of the living.Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat...
ISBN: 9780007119233
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2023
`This didn`t feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.`Being sixteen is always difficult, but it`s even more so when there`s a Death in the family. Susan hasn`t exactly had a normal upbringing, with a skeletal grandfather who rides a white horse and wields a scythe.When Death decides he needs a well-earned break, he leaves Susan to take over the family business. The only problem is, everyone mistakes her for the Tooth Fairy . . .Well, not the only problem. There`s a new, addictive music in Discworld. It`s lawless. It changes people. It`s got a beat and you can dance to it.It`s called Music With Rocks In. And it won`t fade away . . .Soul Music is the third book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld...
This is a story about sex and drugs and Music With Rocks In.Well……one out of three ain’t bad.Being sixteen is always difficult, even more so when there’s a Death in the family. After all, it`s hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe. Especially if he decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, so that you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy.And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It`s lawless. It changes people. It`s got a beat and you can dance to it.It`s called Music With Rocks In.And it won`t fade away.
ISBN: 9780552167550
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
Outlines the principles and mechanics of the soul body, the spiritual vehicle that enables individual consciousness to survive the body's death • Shows that the ancient Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this spiritual practice • Reveals modern science as only now awakening to this ancient sacred science Ancient peoples the world over understood that individual consciousness is rooted in a universal field of consciousness and is therefore eternal, surviving the passing of the physical body. They engaged in spiritual practices to make that transition maximally auspicious. These practices can be described as a kind of alchemy, in which base elements are discarded and higher levels of...
"The landscape of the Soul is a feral hunting ground of shadows and light, each morphing into translucent bodies of nourishment or destruction, depending upon the topographic Vision of the desert dweller. Entering the Desert explores the Terra Incognito of the Soul and reveals a primordial vision of a Pagan Sacramental Gnosticism of alchemical nature which if understood can open up the doorways to the Inner Sanctuary of Sacramental Vision. "
В первом томе дилогии авторы Дамьен Мешери и Сильвен Ромье исследовали первые три игры серии Souls. А эта книга рассказывает уже о двух других популярных играх компании FromSoftware – Bloodborne и Dark Souls III. Они тоже отличаются высокой сложностью и уникальными мирами, которые заворожили миллионы геймеров. Авторы изучат каждый аспект этих завораживающих игр, включая их лор, историю, персонажей, музыку и геймплей, а также...
ISBN: 9785041232689
Издательство:
Эксмо
Дата выхода: декабрь 2023
Восстановите связь с природой и верните целостность своему "я" при помощи мистического иллюстрированного руководства по самопознанию и внутренней трансформации! Его авторы – специализирующаяся на духовных практиках Лорен Алетта и художница-дизайнер Тэган Суини, ранее создавшие вместе колоду Lumina tarot и оракул Connected & Free, представили весь наш жизненный опыт как четыре времени года: зиму, весну, лето и...
ISBN: 9785041155209
Издательство:
Эксмо
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2020
"Повелители лишаются своих тронов".Отправляйтесь вместе с пилигримами в последнее путешествие, встретьте конец времен в землях, где стоит королевство Лотрик. Пройдите дорогой негорящей проклятой нежити, чтобы увидеть великолепную архитектуру и убранство таких локаций, как замок Лотрик, заледеневшие улицы Иритилла, пик Древних драконов и храм Глубин; изучите детали эскизов таких боссов, как Безымянный...
ISBN: 9785919963462
Издательство:
ЭксЭл Медиа
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2023
A course for young adults and adults, New Total English has been completely revised and updated to make it even more engaging and easy to use. With its clearly defined learning objectives and authentic content, New Total English includes new reading and listening texts, new video clips and a completely revised grammatical, lexical and pronunciation syllabus. Real solutions to real needs. The New Total English Workbook contains a wide variety of practice exercises that review all the language areas studied in the Students` Book: Grammar, vocabulary and functional language exercises help to consolidate and extend new language covered in the Students` Book. Extra practice in reading, listening and pronunciation extends learners` skills....
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6741-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A course for young adults and adults, New Total English has been completely revised and updated to make it even more engaging and easy to use. With its clearly defined learning objectives and authentic content, New Total English includes new reading and listening texts, new video clips and a completely revised grammatical, lexical and pronunciation syllabus. Real solutions to real needs. The New Total English Workbook contains a wide variety of practice exercises that review all the language areas studied in the Students` Book: Grammar, vocabulary and functional language exercises help to consolidate and extend new language covered in the Students` Book. Extra practice in reading, listening and pronunciation extends learners` skills....
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6742-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A course for young adults and adults, New Total English has been completely revised and updated to make it even more engaging and easy to use. With its clearly defined learning objectives and authentic content, New Total English includes new reading and listening texts, new video clips and a completely revised grammatical, lexical and pronunciation syllabus. Real solutions to real needs. Providing solutions to the challenges teachers and students face every day, New Total English includes useful Writing and Pronunciation banks as well as new digital components to enhance the learning experience.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6716-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
