Vastralaya

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Edgar Colt

Vitor Miguel

Prisma Soulstorm

Serena

Jordan

Bruna Guedes

Husain Kothari

FRNK

Uendi Prifti

Abdul Hasib

The Book of Thoth is as much a manual for using the deck as it is a primary initiation into Hermetic philosophy and mindfulness. This is an encyclopedic volume. The deck itself, besides working as the elemental and zodiacal symbol association system of popular tradition, functions simultaneously as a Qabalistic Tree of Life and Taoist I Ching. The creation and perfection of this deck was a grand scholarly undertaking by Crowley, and while I am sure that he could have expanded this volume tenfold if he so chose, I am glad he didn't, as the complexity of symbolic associations that he presents seemingly from memory are so far-ranging and multifaceted that a reader might rightly wonder how such a comprehensive view of existence could be possible, how such a system could ever be taken up so thoroughly by a human mind.That said, its actually damn readable, and surely useful to any student of philosophy, mythology, tarot, comparative literature, or the occult.

Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like "The McLaughlin Group" reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly, the profession treats issues as complex as health-care reform and foreign policy as exercises in political gamesmanship. These are just a few of the arguments that have made Breaking the News so controversial and so widely acclaimed. Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist--and on the gaffes of colleagues from George Will to Cokie Roberts--Fallows shows why the media have not only lost our respect but alienated us from our public life. "Important and lucid...It moves smartly beyond the usual attacks on sensationalism and bias to the more profound problems in modern American journalism...dead-on."--Newsweek

Benjamin Wittes offers the first nonpartisan critique of a crucial front in America’s war on terror—the legal battles fought by and among the Bush administration, the U.S. Congress, and the Supreme CourtSix years after the September 11 attacks, America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing not to Al Qaeda but to its own failure to construct a set of laws that will protect the American people—its military and executive branch, as well as its citizens—in the midst of a conflict unlike any it has faced in the past. Now, in the twilight of President Bush’s administration, Brookings Institution fellow Benjamin Wittes offers a vigorous analysis of the troubling legal legacy of the Bush administration as well as that of the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court. Law and the Long War tells as no book has before the story of how America came to its current impasse in the debate over liberty, human rights, and counterterrorism and draws a road map for how the country and the next president might move forward. Moving beyond the stale debate between those fixated on the executive branch as the key architect of counterterrorism policy and those who see the judiciary as the essential guarantor of liberty against governmental abuses, Wittes argues that the essential problem is that the Bush administration did not seek—and Congress did not write—new laws to authorize and regulate the tough presidential actions this war would require. In a line of argument that is sure to spark controversy, Wittes reveals an administration whose most significant failure was not that it was too aggressive in the substance of its action, but rather that it tried to shoulder the burden of aggressiveness on its own without seeking the support of other branches of government. Using startling new empirical research on the detainee population at Guantánamo Bay, Wittes avers that many of the administration’s actions were far more defensible than its many critics believed and actually warranted congressional support. Yet by resisting both congressional and judicial involvement in its controversial decisions, the executive branch ironically prevented both of those branches from sharing in the political accountability for necessary actions that challenged traditional American notions of due process and humane treatment. Boldly offering a new way forward, Wittes concludes that the path toward fairer, more accountable rules for a conflict without end lies in the development of new bodies of law covering detention, interrogation, trial, and surveillance. Sure to discomfort and ignite debate, Law and the Long War is the first nonideological argument about a controversial issue of vital importance to all Americans.

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown depression? Why have the responses to date of the government and the economics profession been so lackluster? Richard Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it. No previous acquaintance on the part of the reader with macroeconomics or the theory of finance is presupposed. This is a book for intelligent generalists that will interest specialists as well.Among the facts and causes Posner identifies are: excess savingsflowing in from Asia and the reckless lowering of interest rates by theFederal Reserve Board; the relation between executive compensation, short-term profit goals, and risky lending; the housing bubble fuelled bylow interest rates, aggressive mortgage marketing, and loose regulations; the low savings rate of American people; and the highly leveraged balance sheets of large financial institutions.Posner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression: the monetarist--that the Federal Reserve Board allowed the money supply to shrink, thus failing to prevent a disastrous deflation--and the Keynesian--that the depression was the product of a credit binge in the 1920's, a stock-market crash, and the ensuing downward spiral in economic activity. Posner concludes that the pendulum swung too far and that our financial markets need to be more heavily regulated.Read Richard Posner's blog, and his latest article in The Atlantic.

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posner's book has played a major role in transforming the field of antitrust law into a body of economically rational principles largely in accord with the ideas set forth in the first edition. Today's antitrust professionals may disagree on specific practices and rules, but most litigators, prosecutors, judges, and scholars agree that the primary goal of antitrust laws should be to promote economic welfare, and that economic theory should be used to determine how well business practices conform to that goal.In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students. He updates and amplifies his approach as it applies to the developments, both legal and economic, in the antitrust field since 1976. The "new economy," for example, has presented a host of difficult antitrust questions, and in an entirely new chapter, Posner explains how the economic approach can be applied to new industries such as software manufacturers, Internet service providers, and those that provide communications equipment and services. "The antitrust laws are here to stay," Posner writes, "and the practical question is how to administer them better-more rationally, more accurately, more expeditiously, more efficiently." This fully revised classic will continue to be the standard work in the field.

Sexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don't act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived.Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner's rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs.

Posner's a very smart and objective dude, but this ain't exactly scintillating stuff being analytically rendered for the reader's edification and enlightenment. Thanks, in no small part, to my majority consumption of the Judge's verdict in the airport departure lounge and airplane cabin on my trip back to Ontario for Christmas, I was able to somewhat hold my own in discussions with my elder brother at the dinner table, for which I will most happily deliver unto this excellent-but-exceedingly-utilitarian tome a thumbs-up.This is Posner's second book on the economic crisis of 2008 and its consequences, following-up his original 2009 publication with one that not only analyses what happened from the vantage point of further and clearer information, but allows this inquisitive judge the opportunity to reflect upon what he has learned and determined in order to assemble an (admittedly brief) collection of possible reforms that he proposes could be introduced or amended to existing legislation in order to try and prevent such a catastrophic situation from reoccurring in the future. Posner finds himself in the unusual position of being a Monetarist of the Chicago school persuasion who has now emerged from the disaster of 2008 with a newfound appreciation for the insights of John Maynard Keynes on the actual workings and underpinnings of financial markets and the macroeconomies within which they operate, the requirement for government intervention in the face of slumping demand during a panic and/or crisis. In other words, he has gone from a maths-dominated modeling of efficient and perfect markets to the psychological and inductive determinations of a British polymath who understood that uncertainties and their attendant irrationalities were a commonplace and important part of how human-operated economies functioned. This binary transformation actually allows Posner to come at the material with an appreciable degree of objectivity—the reader can follow his chain of logic upon the page and see how the author can determine both the unintended and/or unwanted consequences of one specific set of actions and then those that would or might take place under the antithesis of the original proposition.The majority of the book comprises Posner's reconstruction of the crisis of 2008, with the relevant major events of each intervening period used as a springboard for the author to describe the workings of the differing financial vehicles and institutions involved and how they related to the intertwined economy of the United States and its major trading partners. Primary blame, in Posner's determination, must be placed squarely upon the Federal Reserve (and, hence, its well-known chairman Alan Greenspan) for allowing the fund rate to remain low for an extended period from 2000-2004, a decision which allowed asset price inflation to blossom, especially in the mortgage market. With monetary inflation well under control, the Fed was loathe to attempt any popping of an inflated asset bubble, preferring to deal with whatever financial fallout might occur when it inevitably imploded on its own; Posner holds this to have been remarkably short-sighted, as the preventative measures, in his calculation (and as we have seen), would have been far less expensive and recessionary than what actually transpired when things went sideways. He also sees a disastrous mixed message sent out by the Fed's decision to enable the rescuing of Bear-Stearns when it went down in March 2008, only to allow Lehman Brothers to collapse without any aide six months later. Posner deems that the Fed should have either helped both or allowed both to flounder; the message sent by the action they did undertake was an ill one—the bailout of Bear Stearns having reassured the finance industry that the Fed would not permit a prime broker to fail, when Lehman did it sent out shrieking alarm signals, to the effect that Lehman must have been insolvent and thus, in all likelihood, the other prime brokers were insolvent or in danger of such, instigating a massive run on the shadow banks. Confidence is such a crucial component of the economy, and in order to shore up the panic instilled by Lehman's implosion, the Fed had to craft quick emergency deals with the other prime brokers that were, perforce, less to the government's (and, by reasoning, the tax-paying public's) stipulations than might otherwise have been the case.Posner provides a well-structured detailing of this shadow banking industry that operated alongside, and ofttimes in competition with, the more strictly regulated commercial banking sector, and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act that removed most of the barriers between the two separate financial arms. Posner also provides a lucid explanation of the various financial instruments at play, especially concentrating upon the encompassing diversification of risk that was enabled through such creations as collateralized debt obligations, structured investment vehicles, and credit default swaps, all various mathematically complex instruments designed for speculation and/or hedging against debtors (primarily mortgagors) defaulting on their debt. Most people by now are aware of the intricate tranches of differently-rated mortgages (including the infamous subprimes) parceled out within the CDOs in order to create instruments with attractions to risk-averse investors and those seeking higher returns. This diversification also served to remove much of the hedging activities from the various bank's balance sheets, thus enabling them to leverage themselves ever higher with additional loans; Posner also points out how this diversification removed the lending institutions from contact and involvement with the individual mortgages, leaving them to be collected by third-party agencies with no direct knowledge of the mortgagors. What's more, in Posner's determination the lack of regulation upon the credit-swaps made it extremely difficult to determine how exactly they affected each bank's solvency; and this lack of information was a contributing factor to the meltdown in September 2008, one which consequently quickly proved itself to be a crisis of solvency, not liquidity.Uncertainty does abound here, and for all of the sober presentation of a case to support his own analysis of what exactly transpired, Posner is at pains to make it clear that no exact causation has been determined for the crash of 2008, and that blame has been cast in many directions, ofttimes for political opportunism. He also hesitates to condemn individual actors within the financial industry, putting forth why their actions in leveraging themselves so highly and hedging their bets with intricate instruments were rational decisions upon their part, and stressing that it is only when each of these actors is combined in a mammoth, interlinked whole that the irrationality of their positions and the potential for disaster within them becomes apparent. He lays out why the Fed's case against rescuing Lehman Brothers is non-persuasive, and is critical of the actions undertaken by the Obama Administration, particularly singling them out for not having a cohesive and consistent (and hence confidence-building) plan of action for when the new president took office; for running a stimulus that consisted of too much in the way of tax breaks (ie, money that might be hoarded instead of spent) and spending that might have a low-multiplier or go to stimulating foreign economies in lieu of American; for targeting neither sufficient infrastructure spending nor specifically economically hard-hit areas of the country; for bungling the issue of remuneration in the banking industry, sowing uncertainty and confusion by making stands on legitimate compensation scenarios whilst abandoning those in which withholdings or reductions could be well-argued; and for investing a majority of his political capital into his health insurance reform, one that not only added to the US debt-load at a particularly inopportune moment, but signaled uncertainty and hesitation to a wobbly industry that, instead, should have been provided with reassurances that fixing the economy was priority number one and that the government's full attention and resources would be concentrated on just that. He also laid down a critique of the administration's attempts to influence business decisions at GM and Chrysler during their bailout—one since obviated, I would say—as well questioning their interference within the auto-maker's bankruptcies, setting precedents that Posner believes, while perhaps worthwhile in a period of crisis, could prove economically debilitating moving forward. Above all, though, Posner exhibits frustration with the current state of political discourse in the United States, despairing that any remedial efforts to address the crisis—its causes, effects, and recovery—will be stymied by special interest groups and/or demagoguery. In Congress' refusal to countenance certain spending cuts or any tax increases Posner sees a nation that is not serious about dealing with its economic predicament.This is all of a part of the author's curious intermingling of Monetarist leanings with his newfound appreciation for Keynes: he instinctively distrusts government to make the right decisions in any industry which inherently has better access to information while acknowledging the requirement of government to act in order to stimulate demand when the uncertainties and irrationalities that flower during a depression work to prevent lending and spending, even when banks and corporations are flush with cash. Posner has learned the hard way that there is only so much that can be achieved through lowering the Federal Fund Rate and pumping liquidity into the banking system; government must do everything it can, within reason, to assure and reassure the populace that recovery is both underway and inevitable, in order to stiffen the people's resolve to resume the spending, across the board, that is so vital to moving a nation out of depression and towards a real economic recovery. The danger lies in the probability of rampant inflation when that recovery does set-in, a reality the author feels liberal critics like Stiglitz and Krugman have dismissed far too cavalierly. Indeed, the real problem for Posner, and his efforts to workout regulatory and/or legislative solutions, is that this crisis has transpired at a unique period in the United States' existence, one where its trade imbalance is immense with billions of dollars in foreign loans required daily not for any form of investment, but rather for pure consumption. This is a seemingly untenable situation, the more so with the potential for the US dollar to degrade in value and thus the (still unlikely) possibility that it will be shed as the reserve currency of the world. The vast sums of money involved, together with the growing US debt-to-GDP ratio and, perhaps most fundamentally, the incredibly complex intertwinement and economic importance of the various branches—foreign and domestic—of the powerful global financial industry, means both that the correct regulations to undertake as insurance or prevention against a future economic crisis are problematic to determine without hobbling a nation's portion of an industry vital to the currently configured global trading paradigm; and that the extent of future inflation is difficult to gauge, not to mention the greater peril of a deflationary cycle seemingly lingering in the background and the solvency issues of the shadow banks not having been credibly resolved.

Yesterday John Fontanelli was just a pizza delivery guy in New York City. One day later he's the richest man in the world. One trillion dollars - one million times one million - $1,000,000,000,000: more money than anyone could imagine. For generations the Vacchis, an old Italian family of lawyers and asset managers, had supervised the fortune as it grew over five hundred years, until one particular date that the benefactor had stipulated in his will. The youngest male descendant would be fated to oversee the fortune for the good of humanity. John relishes his new life of luxury, rubbing elbows with royalty, buying up corporations, fielding a flood of beautiful women - until one day the phone rings, and a mysterious stranger tells the trillionaire that he knows what dirty secrets lie behind the fortune...

WAS IT LUCIFER Saul Goodman was after? He was beginning to almost believe it was.But Goodman was a New York cop; only juries believed in fairy tales.And this crazy case that had fallen in his lap—the Iluminatus; did it really exist, a great and dreaded secret cult, counting kings as members over the centuries, a colossus of crime and occult conspiracy?Witchcraft or world blackmail, it was Saul Goodman's baby now, and even the President saw it his way, holding back the National Guard to give Goodman time to track down the evil behind Illuminatus—before it unleashed the anthrax plague that threatened to destroy all creatures great and small....As weirdly wonderful as the best of Vonnegut, as suspensefully off-beat as Casteneda, here comes Part II of ILLUMINATUS, a vulture's eye view of the dark side of human comedy.

This is a book that is both entertaining and thought provoking. As the title suggests, it tells of a brief history of mankind divided into three segments: cognitive revolution, agricultural revolution and technological revolution. In a way this book very much reminds me of "Justice" by Michael Sandel, in the sense that it questions my own interpretation of human civilisation. Is it justifiable that men were traditionally more superior than women? Did people become domesticated by wheat, rice &amp; potatoes in the transition into agricultural society or was it an improvement? Do modern day technologies empower people or do they enslave people? Unlike other books on human history, this book offers a new perspective into our progress as human civilisation.

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN Supplied Individually by Publisher and As Per Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively :  Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set:  Sapiens- Fire gave us power. Farming made us hungry for more. Money gave us purpose. Science made us deadly. This is the thrilling account of our extraordinary history – from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.  Homo Deus- Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond – from overcoming death to creating artificial life.  21 Lessons for the 21st Century- Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change. Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?

In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues.How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children?Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive.In twenty-one accessible chapters that are both provocative and profound, Harari builds on the ideas explored in his previous books, untangling political, technological, social, and existential issues and offering advice on how to prepare for a very different future from the world we now live in: How can we retain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching us? What will the future workforce look like, and how should we ready ourselves for it? How should we deal with the threat of terrorism? Why is liberal democracy in crisis?Harari's unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Here he invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty. When we are deluged with irrelevant information, clarity is power. Presenting complex contemporary challenges clearly and accessibly, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is essential reading.

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.

Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status. The great epidemics of the past – famine, plague and war – no longer control our lives. We are the only species in history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet, and we can no longer blame a higher being for our fate.But as our gods take a back seat, and Homo Sapiens becomes Homo Deus, what are we going to do with ourselves? How do we set the agenda for our own future without pushing our species – and the rest of the world – beyond its limits?In this vivid, challenging new book from the author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari examines the implications of our newly upgraded condition, from our dogged pursuit of status and happiness to our constant quest to overcome death by pushing the boundaries of science. He explores how Homo Sapiens conquered the world, our creation of today’s human-centred environment, our current predicament and our possible future. And, above all, he asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers?

This is a study of autobiographical writings of Renaissance soldiers. It outlines the ways in which they reflect Renaissance cultural, political and historical consciousness, with a particular focus on conceptions of war, history, selfhood and identity. A vivid picture of Renaissance military life and military mentality emerges, which sheds light on the attitude of Renaissance soldiers both towards contemporary historical developments such as the rise of the modern state, and towards such issues as comradeship, women, honor, violence, and death. Comparison with similar medieval and twentieth-century material highlights the differences in the Renaissance soldier's understanding of war and of human experience.

Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These undercover operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals, mostly royalty or the leaders of the opposing army, and against key fortified places, including bridges, mills and dams. However, because of their clandestine nature, these deeds of -derring-do- have not been studied in any detail, a major gap which this book fills. It surveys a wide variety of special operations, from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. It then analyzes in greater depth six select and exciting operations: the betrayal of Antioch in 1098; the attempt to rescue King Baldwin II from the dungeon of Khartpert in 1123; the assassination of Conrad of Montferrat in 1192; the attempt to storm Calais in 1350; the -dirty war- waged by the rulers of France and Burgundy in the 1460s and 1470s; and the demolition of the flour mill of Auriol in 1536. -A portrait of espionage, covert operations, assassination squads, and the deep penetration of seemingly invulnerable fortresses or security systems matching anything to be found in the war stories of the modern era.- MATTHEW BENNETT, SANDHURST. Professor YUVAL NOAH HARARI teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century economics and shows us how we are all on the brink of a revolution, whether we like it or not.VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Home by Salman RushdieBabies by Anne EnrightEating by Nigella LawsonDrinking by John Cheever

The first volume, in a hardcover edition for libraries, of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for readers of all ages.One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind’s creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas. Featuring 256 pages of full-color illustrations and easy-to-understand text covering the first part of the full-length original edition, this adaptation of the mind-expanding book furthers the ongoing conversation as it introduces Harari’s ideas to a wide new readership.

To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not understand a single sentence. Einstein, therefore, is great in the public eye partly because he has made revolutionary discoveries which cannot be translated into the common tongue. We stand in proper awe of a man whose thoughts move on heights far beyond our range, whose achievements can be measured only by the few who are able to follow his reasoning and challenge his conclusions. There is, however, another side to his personality. It is revealed in the addresses, letters, and occasional writings brought together in this book. These fragments form a mosaic portrait of Einstein the man. Each one is, in a sense, complete in itself; it presents his views on some aspect of progress, education, peace, war, liberty, or other problems of universal...

Mortal Kombat returns to consoles after a long hiatus featuring a return to the gruesome fatalities....

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize.

A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef and loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. While Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbour. While the two are searching the ocean far and wide, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to the sea to live their lives free again.

2003 American computer-animated family film directed by Andrew Stanton

A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.

Fleeing for their lives, a small party abandon their Civil War confederates and escape through an overgrown field. Thinking only of what lays behind, they are ambushed by two dangerous men and made to search the field. Psychedelia, madness, and chaotic forces slowly overtake the group as they question what treasure lies within the malignant field.

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Ross Geller, Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Phoebe Buffay are six twenty-somethings living in New York City. Over the course of 10 years and seasons, these friends go through life lessons, family, love, drama, friendship, and comedy.

The world is divided into four elemental nations: The Northern and Southern Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. The Avatar upholds the balance between the nations, but everything changed when the Fire Nation invaded. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, can stop them. But when the world needs him most, he vanishes. A hundred years later Katara and Sokka discover the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. Together they must help Aang master the elements and save the world.

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