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Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).

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English Translation of Buber's Classic work. Well respected translator. ... Read more

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Iconic work
Thiswork is a stream of vignettes, more poetry than prose, which weaves a delicate path betwen mysticism and philosophy.There is a thread of connection between his work and that of Hannah Arendt (the Human Condition), so readers of that work may be able to appreciate Büber's beautiful work. Parts of the work can be difficult to grasp at an intellectual level. It is probably necessary to break free of the intellectual approach to fully appreciate it, because it is a work of art and emotion as much as a work of intellect.

bad binding
this is a wonderful book, and the Smith translation is fine, but this binding isn't worth the high price for this edition. While it's nice that the book is in hardcover, there's no way that it justifies the price, as the book is glued, rather than sewn, meaning that repeated readings and use will eventually result in lost pages, etc. I returned my copy. What's worse, the book appears to be photocopied, with left-hand text blocks often skewed to the printed page, and a postage stamp randomly photocopied on top of some text on p. 75. Somebody is trying to make money (off you) from this book's being past copyright.

Patience and Dedication
I have read this particular edition of I and Thou several times.The Introduction by Walter Kaufmann is superb.He accurately extracts some of the essence of Buber's text, and places it in the context of Judeo-Christian thought.I say "some of the essence" because Kaufmann would likely be the first to say that he is not an interpreter of Buber's complete vision of human relationship to the "Other."Kaufmann prepares one for the shock of Buber's direct use of simple language (at least in Kaufmann's translation) to depict one's personal relationship with another.Key to the popularity of Buber is the fact that his philosophy of human interaction applies to human-human relationships as well human-God relationships.

Beautiful path to spiritual truth
This translation gives English-speaking readers the opportunity to follow a beautiful and psychologically-sound path to spiritual truth.

Quoting from "I and Thou",

"The primary words are not isolated words, but combined words.

The one primary word is the combination I-Thou

The other primary word is the combination I-It."

This is a relational view of our individual impressions. We must necessarily express it in objective terms; that is all we have for written communication. But our individual impressions really precede the objects.

Before proceeding to where the primary words lead, I find that reading biographies of Martin Buber, rather than trying to absorb the introductory explanations of philosophers and scholars, facilitates my understanding. I think the most suitable for me is "Encounter on the Narrow Ridge", 1991, by Maurice S. Friedman.

As a Christian, I don't seek conversion to Judaism (Christianity in its origin is best understood as a sect of Judaism anyway), but the book "I and Thou" speaks to everyone. I believe that to do it full justice it must be read over and over. If we don't have time for that right now, we can at least look ahead to where it leads.

Practice in experiencing the I and Thou encounter will lead to its enrichment. Our appreciation of others will become warmer and more understanding. Finally Thou will become God. Atheists may not be willing to acknowledge this last step. But if they are truly resistant, they should understand that they have an open invitation to embrace God.

I & Thou
Friends,

If you happen to be a nature mystic, this book is inspirational.

Jim Olsen ... Read more

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Chapters: John C. Lilly, Brian Boxer Wachler, Charles Knowlton, Ian K. Smith, Robert O. Blood, Noah Martin, John Francis Eisold, Anne Schuchat, Richard S. Molony, Robert Burns. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. Lilly was a qualified physician and psychoanalyst. He made contributions in the fields of biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, computer science, and neuroanatomy. He invented and promoted the use of the isolation tank as a means of sensory deprivation. He was also a pioneer in attempting interspecies communication between humans and dolphins. His eclectic career began as a conventional scientist doing research for universities and government. But as he followed his own inquiries, Lilly delved into what mainstream science considers fringe areas. He published many books and had two Hollywood movies based loosely on his work. John Lilly was born on Jan. 6, 1915, in Saint Paul, Minnesota and showed an early interest in scientific experimentation. He studied physics and biology at the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1938. He studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942. During World War II, he researched the physiology of high-altitude flying and invented instruments for measuring gas pressure. After the war ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=265004 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 830 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies.(Book Review)
Author: Cheryl English Martin
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72Issue: 1Page: 238(3)

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This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen, and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions-all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.
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The 10th volume of this excellent annual anthology series notonly collects 39 stories and 4 poems in these overlapping genres, butreports on the year's best in books, movies, and other media. Thehorror and dark fantasy tales are by Jay Russell (family ghost),Angela Carter (fairy tale ghost), Edward Bryant (aliens), RobertSilverberg (dark goddess), Yxta Maya Murray (Southwestern folkloreghost), Thomas Ligotti (secret society), Graham Masterton (macabrerecipe book), Douglas Clegg (anguished love), Stephen Dedman (childlamia who knew Lewis Carroll), Terry Lamsley (monster"pet"), Isobelle Carmody (phoenix), Delia Sherman (witchesand wolves), Lisa Russ Spaar (Rapunzel), Neil Gaiman (queen bee),Philip Graham (oppressive angel), Terry Dowling (monomania), DennisEtchison (L.A. paranoia), Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg (ravagingbears), A. R. Morlan (rock 'n' roll sleaze), Michael Marshall Smith(entrapping relationship), and Ron Hansen (magic realism). All thedark tales are high quality, and a few are among the best in theseries so far. ... Read more

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Pretentious and Overblown
Ohhhhh.....Where to begin? I'll start with co-editor Terri Windling. Her opening essay on the year in Fantasy was almost enough to make me hurl down the book in irritation. If she said "Magic Realism" one more time....I lost track at 37. Unbearable. Just unbearable. I have a pretty steadfast rule that, no matter how bad a book may be, I read EVERY SINGLE WORD. Every word. No matter what. I had to skim through Windling's essay, because it was either skim or put my fist through the wall. "Magic Realism. Magic Realism. Magic Realism." Ugh.

Ellen Datlow's essay is slightly more interesting, and the sections on Media and Comic Books were very well done. Now, on to the stories themselves.

I've read a few of the previous Year's Best volumes, and it always bothered me how the book slants towards Fantasy over Horror (Terri Winling is the Fantasy Editor, Ellen Datlow the Horror Editor), but this edition is WAY over the top. Out of 35 stories, Windling's name is on over twenty. Her tastes run towards oblique, overwritten, pretentious tripe, and strange poetry. One of her selections, Gerald Vizenor's Oshkiwiinag: Heartlines on the Trickster Express put me beyond the newfound sacrilige of skimming. I actually had to skip the remainder of the story after five endless, pointless pages. I have never read such strange shizznit in my whole life. I literally had NO idea what he was writing about. Ugh. Another Windling pick (Among The Handlers, by Michael Bishop) is endlessly long, written in an awful hillbilly dialect, and is neither Fantasy or Horror, but IS god-awful. I'll avoid Vizenor and Bishop like the plague, thanks to these stories. We also get other Windling-picked classics like Birthdream, (A poem about childbirth, not Horror or Fantasy, but also awful. If I wanted bad poems, I'd get a poetry book.) Caribe Magico, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A travelogue. For God's sake, a travelogue! Not Horror, not Fantasy...but as Windling says...MAGIC REALISM! Code for "Pretentious story that makes no sense."), and Beckoning Nightframe by Terry Dowling, about a woman who is scared of her neighbor's open window. FOR 16 PAGES! UGH. Her only decent choice is Little Beauty's Wedding, by Chang Hwang. It's an unforgettable story.

Ellen Datlow fares better in her choices. The Secret Shih Tan (By Graham Masterson), Never Seen By Waking Eyes (By Stephen Dedman), and the grotesque Three Bears pastiche "Ursus Triad, Later" (By Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg) are all incredible, and I'm glad to have discovered writers I wasn't familiar with, but the overall feeling I had when reading the book was one of irritation with the all-encompassing pretentiousness of the package. I'd say the stinky outweighed the good by 90%. I'm VERY sorry that I'vealready purchased the next four volumes....But at least I've learned to skim & skip!

Interesting, But Not Very Horrorific
Interesting collection of writers, some famous and some unknowns, but all in all not a real page turner. Some stories I couldn't even finish I got so bored. Some were so good I got goose pimples. Go figure. ... Read more

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Contains teaching practices, evaluation practices, course plans and a selected bibliography. Forms for submitting student essays are also included. ... Read more

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For over 75 years, the prophecies and readings of Edgar Cayce - The Sleeping Prophet -have inspired millions of people around the world, and been the subject of hundreds of books.Over 50 years after his death, Cayce is still regarded as the father of the new age movement, and the foremost psychic of the 20th century. His thoughts on the soul's journey, past lives, dreams, ancient civilizations, and astrology are still closely studied by practitioners in these fields.But until now, only those who knew and studied him have been able to tell Cayce's story and philosophy.From Jess Stearn's THE SLEEPING PROPHET to Thomas Sugrue's THERE IS A RIVER, many best-selling books have sold millions of copies and touched many lives.

Now, for the first time, Edgar Cayce tells his story in his own words.Only recently discovered, this new memoir delivers Cayce's important message to the world at a most crucial time, the dawn of the 21st century.In this personal, moving story, readers learn how Cayce felt about his amazing powers.Here Cayce speaks about the angelic presence that visited his childhood Kentucky home and told him that he would become a healer to millions.We also learn about his extraordinary childhood ability to learn his school lessons simply by sleeping on his books.Cayce also addresses the devastating throat paralysis that he miraculously overcame, and how he ultimately realized that his powers could only be used to help and enable people, and not for personal profit.Cayce even gives a "behind the scenes" glimpse at his many psychic readings.

The combination of ability and humility, compassion and caring turned Cayce from social outcast to world-renowned psychic healer.Throughout his life, Edgar Cayce's was the voice people turned to for advice on issues as diverse as health and healing and philosophy and world issues.Now, Cayce speaks once more on these issues and delivers his ultimate message to humanity, for the first time.MY LIFE AS A SEER brings to life the emotional frustrations, motivations, fears and visions, of the century's premier spiritualist. ... Read more

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The Real Edgar!
As a life-long follower and adherent of Edgar Cayce and his teachings, I was elated to find this book at Amazon, having borrowed it from my public library.If you don't already know about Edgar Cayce, this is a wonderful way to come to know him.The descriptions of his childhood visions are priceless!

A rare glimpse into the mind of a great 20th-century mystic
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to see inside the mind of a great psychic?To be able to access information about people and places that reaches far beyond the physical dimension?Edgar Cayce's biography,expertly compiled by a professional journalist and editor from Cayce'snever-before-published autobiographical notes, a personal diary, andlecture records, allows us just such a rare glimpse.Cayce (1877-1945) isthe world's best-documented psychic, with over 14,000 verbatim transcriptsof 'readings' on topics ranging from health concerns, reincarnation,astrology, spiritual development, earth change predictions, and othermetaphysical topics catalogued in the Library of the Association forResearch Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, VA.

Edgar Cayce is also knownas the "Father of Holistic Medicine," whose unorthodoxnaturopathic cures, while helping many regain their health who had beengiven up as hopeless by the medical establishment, once led to his arreston grounds of practising medicine without a licence.

In "My Life Asa Seer," we get to know the Edgar Cayce who struggled with self-doubtsregarding his psychic gift, and with concerns about the impact which theinformation from his readings might have on those who sought his counsel. We meet Cayce the family man, a photographer by profession, whose deepfaith sees him through a series of defeats, including the destruction byfire of his studio; the closure, for lack of funds, of the hospital he hadspent years trying to build; an eviction from his home; and physicalinjuries suffered while being the target of a humiliating attempt to exposehim as a fraud.Through it all, Cayce remained a sincere and humbleman,who was motivated not by fame nor by riches (which eluded him all hislife), but by an overwhelming desire to serve God and help his fellow humanbeings.

"My Life As a Seer," as grandson Charles Thomas Caycesays in the foreword, represents "the first account of Edgar Cayce'slife told completely in his own words.He does not dwell on all of thepersonal aspects of his life, but focuses primarily on those experiencesthat marked him since childhood as decidedly different from anyone else inhis world."

Reading this fascinating book is the closest most of uswill come to talking with Edgar Cayce in this lifetime.

Ok, but I'd rather have it in paperback
Much of the Kirkus review was accurate, although, the point that New Agers will find little that resonates is probably the most compelling reason to buy this book. It isn't New Age mystical garbage---I wasn't levitating whenI read this book.

Cayce is a fascinating character. Because of his deepfaith, he wrestled with the concept of reincarnation and tries to reconcilea biblical explanation for what he experienced in the "life"readings. I found the final chapters of the bookmore interesting thanmuch of the rest of the book. But it deserves better treatment overall thanwas given by Kirkus. ... Read more

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Great set of books introduction the individual masters of traditional and modern jazz who have become legends in their own time. ... Read more

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Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., limitedPublication date: 1910Subjects: Conic sectionsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more