Author: Alexander L. Lacson
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Alex Lacson
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This is about a man, his lost love, the imperfect world he lives in, and how he finds his true love after he discovers his true self and life’s purpose when he realized that much of the world’s imperfections are caused by lack of love for others, fueled by greed and selfishness, which cause social cancer. Anton Hinirang was unhappy for the last twenty-four years, after losing his first and only love, when Marian’s parents forced her to marry someone with money and stature. Decades later, not even success could make Anton happy. When his unhappiness was complicated by tragic events that happened to his father and two siblings, caused by his country’s social ills, it woke and changed Anton forever. It led to his self-discovery of his life’s purpose, which in turn led him to find his true love. In its core, the story is about love, how its absence can render a person’s life unhappy and miserable, and how lack of love in people’s hearts, especially among leaders, can cause poverty and misery among many in society and the world. Alex Lacson is a bestselling author in the Philippines. He is known as a builder of hope in his country, especially among the youth. Alex believes that love is the answer to most of the problems confronting humanity today; love as expressed in kindness, compassion, generosity, fairness and justice. Though a lawyer by profession, Alex’s first passion is writing. He served as a newspaper columnist for seven years. He also worked as editor-in-chief of a lawyers’ magazine for a few years before he wrote in 2005 his first book, which became an instant national bestseller in the Philippines. Alex is a graduate of the College of Law, University of the Philippines. In 2002, he took a short summer program at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. He also took a leadership training at Haggai Institute, Singapore in 2007.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593310853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author: Alexander L. Lacson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789719335726
Category : Civics, Philippine
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Author: Harry Elia
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1633383830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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7 Element Lifeforce Healing is an eclectic healing practice that fuses ancient Taoist thought with modern alternative energy practices. The difference between this healing concept and many others is that the 7 Element Lifeforce Healing concept balances and fixes weaknesses, blockages, and miscommunications of the Lifeforce. What is the Lifeforce you ask? The Lifeforce is the underlying super intelligent energy that runs your body. To understand how it works, we must first ask the question, what runs your body? Most of you would say the brain, and you would be partially right. The brain does magnificent things. It uses the nervous system and the endocrine system to balance body levels and maintain homeostasis. However, even the brain does not have the capacity to run seventy trillion cells perfectly and simultaneously. Your liver produces over fifty thousand biochemicals and does over thirteen thousand biochemical reactions to the perfect micro-milliliter. Your body right now is doing hundreds of thousands of chemical and physical reactions simultaneously to the perfect amount. No matter how sophisticated your brain is, it does not have that capacity. So what is really running your body? To answer that question, let us take a simple flower as an example. We have all seen a flower grow around an obstacle, turn, and face its petals to the sun. How does it do that? It has no brain, no nervous system, and no muscles. How does it know what to do? All living organisms have an all-knowing Lifeforce energy. It is your Lifeforce that directs the physical tissue of your body to perfect function. A prime example of this is the body’s intestinal flora. There have been many recent medical studies about the balance of the bacteria flora of the intestines and the overall health of a person. What keeps the trillions of bacteria in line doing good things for the body? A few hours after death, if the body is out in the sun, it will swell and stink. The same bacteria that were doing positive things for the body when it was alive are now eating apart the body in death. Without the Lifeforce to direct and control the bacteria, it runs rampant. There was a very recent one-hundred-seventy-three-million-dollar study funded by the National Institute of Health and included two hundred eighty top scientists from eighty research institutions around the world. The final result of this enormous scientific study was that healthy human beings coexist with at least ten thousand different species of dangerous and pathogenic microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungus, etc.). The study goes on to postulate, and I quote, “It turns out that everybody harbors low levels of bacteria and other pathogens that are known for causing specific infections and diseases, but when a person is healthy, those bugs quietly coexist with benign or helpful microbes, perhaps being kept in check by them.” Or perhaps kept in check by their balanced and fully functioning Lifeforce. Lifeforce is who you are, and it is the all-intelligent energy behind the wondrous function of the body. If your Lifeforce is balanced, then the body will function to full capacity. Using Applied Kinesiology, the I Ching 7 Element Crystal concept, and thirty years of experience, I can detect imbalances in the Lifeforce energy. To date, we have had great success in treating and healing many difficult cases. Our best results have been with allergy elimination. Through 7 Element Lifeforce Healing, I have been able to eliminate environmental and food allergies, even serious peanut allergies, without drugs not by blocking the symptoms but by alleviating the cause, which is Lifeforce imbalance.

Author: A. Kirk Best
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1683482220
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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The common laborer has been economically abused for the entire history of mankind. It is time that changed. Labor should get the recognition it deserves. Labor is the foundation of every economy by creating all of the wealth.

Author: Cyrus Dunham
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316444952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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A "stunning" (Hanif Abdurraqib), "unputdownable" (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire. How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do you know whether to believe yourself? Cyrus Dunham’s life always felt like a series of imitations—lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman. But in a culture of relentless self-branding, and in a family subject to the intrusions and objectifications that attend fame, dissociation can come to feel normal. A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Dunham’s fearless, searching debut brings us inside the chrysalis of a transition inflected as much by whiteness and proximity to wealth as by gender, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about identity. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely his, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved meditation on queerness, family, and selfhood. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the season by: Time NYLON Vogue ELLE Buzzfeed Bustle O Magazine Harper's Bazaar

Author: Shane Parrish
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593719972
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

Author: Rosie Walsh
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781529020359
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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From the bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call, The Love of My Life is a story about what happens when you discover the person you trust most in the world isn't who they say they are . . .