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Translates the cogent lessons of recent events into workable strategies for tomorrow's leaders .
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George MacDonald's classic fantasies, fairy tales, and supernatural stories are collected in three volumes This volume includes The Portent, At the Back of the North Wind, The Flight of the Shadow, and his essays, The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture and The Fantastic Imagination..
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In a world set in its twilight days, this critically acclaimed series follows Milo, a deeply troubled warrior, on his quest for redemption through a land beset by demons and the spirits of the dead..
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This book traces the origins of the insurgency in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir The first theoretically-grounded account, and the most complete, it is based on extensive interviews. Ganguly's central argument is that the insurgency can be explained by political mobilization and institutional decay. In an attempt to woo the Muslims, the government dramatically expanded literacy, mass media, and higher education. Meanwhile, fearing potential secessionist proclivities, it stifled the development of political institutions. Unable to express dissent in an institutional context, the Kashmiris resorted to violence..
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Humankind's awesome fascination with dreams and the occult is ageless Between the covers of The Interpretation of Dreams and Portents in Antiquity, readers will find some of the earliest examples of this fascination.

Collected for the first time are translations of some of the basic works used by ancient seers. Here, in their own words, are their interpretations of dreams, unraveling of signs, and their views on the significance of many kinds of unusual occurrences.

This reprint of the 1976 Samuel Stevens Hackert & Co. edition, with a new foreword by Napthali Lewis, will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, classicists, and historians of religion.

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Man's efforts to explain the act of dreaming and to interpret or rationalize its visual content are almost as old as history itself. Lewis' Dreams and Portents is the first collection to bring together a representative variety of ancient world sources of dream interpretation, divination, and astrology featuring: - Dreams and Their Interpretations including: The Egyptian Dream Book, The Babylonian-Assyrian Dream Book, Ancient Greek and Roman Literary Allusions, Early Christian Interpretations, A Christian Dream Book - Divinations, Omens, and Prodigies - Astrology, or The Stars and Their Influence - New foreword to the 1996 edition

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The Hero and the Sea: Patterns of Chaos in Ancient Myth - ISBN 0865165084
On Unbelievable Tales (Palaephatus: Peri Apiston) - ISBN 0865163200.
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It is the near future and signs of an impending global disaster are multiplying Earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions sweep the earth. As the storms and tempests rage, a series of ominous events signal the emergence of a new and terrifying force. While scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef a diver watches fascinated as a tiny light floats past him towards the surface. Moments later he is torn to pieces as the reef erupts with colossal power. On the banks of the Ganges, a young boy pauses from his back-breaking labours, transfixed by the play of a mysterious light amidst the monsoon rains, before a towering geyser of boiling water bursts from beneath the streets, scalding him to death. In the Chinese city of Kashi, travellers bring back reports of a strange light seen shining above the endless dunes of the Taklimakan Desert. And as the city's inhabitants watch for its return, the desert rises up to engulf them in a tidal wave of sand. All have seen a portent. A sign of unimaginable powers about to be unleashed. A sign that something incredible is about to begin....
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