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29.04.2022

“The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe” by Barry Cunliffe

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"The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe" by Barry Cunliffe
"Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south — the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks — and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather ...>>
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29.04.2022

“Plant Spirit Medicine: A Guide to Making Healing Products from Nature” by Nicola McIntosh

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"Plant Spirit Medicine: A Guide to Making Healing Products from Nature" by Nicola McIntosh
"Plant spirit medicine is essentially about “listening” to the plant spirits and how to access the healing benefits available through plants. Plant spirit medicine: what is it? Our modern world is travelling at such a speed, we have become separated from the natural world, which should be sustaining us physically, emotionally and spiritually. This book is about reconnecting with nature and the plants in our environment; it's also about learning to listen to the plants and applying what they have to tell us to mend that disconnection. Indigenous peoples from all around the world have worked with plant spirits for thousands of years, and this is how they came to know what specific plants were ...>>
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29.04.2022

“Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong” by Acharya Prashant

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"Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong" by Acharya Prashant
"The meaning of Karma stands distorted by centuries of misplaced fictionalization. Karma remains a disquieting enigma to the few who refuse to accept compromised notions. This book is for them. If to live rightly is to act rightly, what then is right action? This has tormented us since ages. The scriptures answer this, but without stooping from their cryptic heights. Nor do they advise how their ancient words apply to the present. Acharya Prashant's work provides the missing link. He imparts clarity, leaving nothing to conjecture or belief. The book demolishes the myths surrounding action and decision by bringing to focus the actor, rather than action. When we ask, 'What to do?', the book handholds ...>>
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29.04.2022

“Cunning” by Don Herzog

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"Cunning" by Don Herzog
"Want to be cunning? You might wish you were more clever, more flexible, able to cut a few corners without getting caught, to dive now and again into iniquity and surface clutching a prize. You might want to roll your eyes at those slaves of duty who play by the rules. Or you might think there's something sleazy about that stance, even if it does seem to pay off. Does that make you a chump? With pointedly mischievous prose, Don Herzog explores what's alluring and what's revolting in cunning. He draws on a colorful range of sources: tales of Odysseus; texts from Machiavelli; pamphlets from early modern England; salesmen's newsletters; Christian apologetics; plays; sermons; philosophical ...>>
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