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Finding My-Self takes an occult approach to autobiography. The book quickly engages with the nature of the self which is composed of soul (or higher Self) and personality (or lower self). The nature of the personality is considered and then attention turns to the soul and how it can be invoked by meditation. Visualisation is seen as a useful means by which to stimulate the thinking process which carefully, persistently and regularly adopted can be expected to help us draw the thinker closer to the soul. Initially it may be little more than fleetingly sensed. However, a lifestyle focused on...

"Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation."
---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

"With her elegant research design and sophisticated array of anthropological and media studies approaches, Emily Chivers Yochim has produced one of the best books about race, gender, and class that I have read in the last ten years. In a moment where celebratory...

Als der zehnjährige Felix einen Penny in den Wunschbrunnen von Whittlestone wirft, rechnet er nicht damit, dass sein Wunsch in Erfüllung geht. Noch weniger aber rechnet er damit, dass der seltsame alte Mann mit der Angelrute, den er dort getroffen hat und der steif und fest behauptet, unsichtbar und ein Wunscherfüller zu sein, ihm eine Stelle als Lehrling anbietet.

Aber der Lehrling eines Wunscherfüllers zu sein, bedeutet nicht nur, die eingehenden Wünsche zu organisieren und Wünsche zu entwirren, es ist auch ein sehr gefährlicher Job! Ein Wolfsmann treibt sein Unwesen in der...

At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin's Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc's standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and...

Fully revised and updated, it addresses the major legal developments since the first edition, including key cases in relation to the expropriation of minority shareholders such as Charterhouse Capital Ltd, re Coroin, and Assenagon Asset Management SA v Irish Bank Resolution Corp Ltd. There is also discussion of cases relating to the commencement of derivative proceedings such as Kleanthous v...