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English
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Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittake, a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind).
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we’ve seen—monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe—it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. But now, neuroscientist David Perlmutter and medical anthropologist and shaman Alberto Villoldo have come together to explore the commonalities between their specialties with the aim of...
3) El Topo
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
El Topo searches the desert to defeat four master gunmen and to find enlightenment.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Two disparate Americas have always coexisted. In this thoroughly researched, engaging and ultimately hopeful story of our nation's divergent roots, Seth David Radwell clearly links the fascinating history of the two American Enlightenments to our raging political division. He also demonstrates that reasoned analysis and historical perspective are the only antidote to irrational political discourse."Did my vision of America ever exist at all, or was...
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Yet why, over three hundred...
7) The urban monk: Eastern wisdom and modern hacks to stop time and find success, happiness, and peace
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the secrets to finding an open heart, sharp mind, and grounded sense of well-being, even in the most demanding circumstances. --Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother, a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial, Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the contradictory ruler who helped elevate Prussia to a first-rate power in the eighteenth century explores such topics as his military accomplishments, his long relationship with Voltaire, and his embrace of Enlightenment philosophies.
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