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Vivaldi
Album / Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico
Antonio Vivaldi was a prolific composer of operas that show off
the same magic powers of musical description familiar from his beloved Four
Seasons concertos. On her Vivaldi Album, Cecilia Bartoli
breathes fire into the elaborate displays of vocal acrobatics and emotional
intensity typical of Baroque opera. It's a head-spinning performance
accompanied by the lively Giardino Armonico. 2001 Grammy
Best Classical Vocal Performance
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Sacred
Arias
Andrea Bocelli, including Gounod's "Ave Maria".
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Verdi
Requiem
with Sir Georg Solti, Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti,
Matti Talvela
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Lotus: Santana Live
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Sacred
Fire: Live In South America
Santana
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Project Gutenberg
A grassroots e-book project, making thousands of classic texts available
for free downloads. Only includes writings that are exempt from copyright
laws.
Glassbook
has free downloadable software so you can read e-books your computer.
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The Alchemist - A Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho. A magical little book that teaches us the essential
wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn
along life's path, and above all, following our dreams.
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Conversations
with God: An Uncommon Dialog
, by Neale Donald Walsch
Conversations
With God : An Uncommon Dialogue : Book 2
Conversations
With God : An Uncommon Dialogue : Book 3
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Way of the Superior Man
: A Man's Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work,
and Sexual Desire
by David Deida
About living as a powerful, present, conscious man. "Reveals how
a man can live a life of fulfillment without compromise by relaxing
into the truth of his very being, discovering his deepest vision, and
giving his gifts without holding anything back. What emerges is a wholly
revolutionary look at what it means to be a man in today's world, as
well as an astonishingly practical guidebook to living a masculine life
of integrity, authenticity, and freedom."
Courses and Online Excerpts
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Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book
. This fun book will flex your mental muscles! (the answers
are in the back, if you can't figure one out)
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Ecotopia
What if Northern California, Oregon and Washington were to secede from
the USA, to form an ecologically-oriented country? Many ideas
on how every-day living would change for the better if we organized
our lives around ecological principles.
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How
to Solve All Your Money Problems Forever
by Victor Boc. Explains how to increase your attractive force
and decrease your repulsive force so money naturally flows into your
life.
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Rudy's
Rules for Success
by Rudy Ruettiger "Everybody dreams. Everybody. And if you're
like me, you've given up on your dreams dozens of times. Back when I graduated
third from the bottom of my class in high school, everyone told me to
forget my dream of going to Notre Dame and getting on the football team.
But I got into Notre Dame and I played football. Then they
said I should forget the looney idea of getting a movie made about
my life. I got the movie. They called it "Rudy". You can
be a Rudy, too! Never give up. Do everything in your power—and
more—to overcome obstacles you will face in your life. I'll show you
how."
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King,
Warrior, Magician, Lover
: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
by Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette.
Discusses how mature masculine energy is different from the overwhelmingly
common, immature forms. We have a shortage of mature, centered,
conscious, powerful, caring, creative male energy in our culture --
and an abundance of immature, unbalanced, abusive, demanding, demeaning,
shortsighted energy, resulting in the crisis in male identity that we
face today. This book is about our accessing the mature masculine
energies in our lives.
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Death of Common Sense
: How Law Is Suffocating America
by Philip K. Howard
This concise and eloquent manifesto shows how the excess of government
regulations does not protect Americans but instead acts as legal quicksand,
stifling growth and creating paralyzing overbureaucratization. Using
blood-boiling examples of government regulations run amok, Howard reveals
a society in which rules have replaced thinking-- allowing law to infiltrate
the nooks and crannies of everyday life.
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Ender's
Game
and Speaker
for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card.
About how we might behave towards people of cultures we truly don't
understand. Scary in that he writes how a six year old genius would
behave. Some of the best science fiction.
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A
Theory of Justice
, by John Rawls
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Secret of Inner Strength, by Chuck Norris
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Illusions: Tales
of a Reluctant Messiah,
by Richard Bach -- a delightful tale reminding us of our true nature
A Bridge Across Forever,
by Richard Bach -- about living in relationship in ways that empower
our full self-expression.
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Polar
Dance: Born of the North Wind, by Thomas D. Mangelsen
Faces
in the Forest, by Ron Hirschi, Thomas D. Mangelsen (photographer)
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Thriving
on Chaos : Handbook for a Management Revolution, by Tom Peters
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Stranger
in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein — science fiction about personal independence
and integrity, social change
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"How to
Win Friends and Influence People", Dale Carnegie -- the classic
book on simple changes to make in how you talk to people so others will
like you more, accept more of your ideas, and regard you as a leader.
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"The Friendship
Factor", Alan McGuinness
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"How I Found
Freedom in an Unfree World", Harry Browne
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"The Dancing
Wu Li Masters", Gary Zukav -- Quantum physics, wave mechanics,
relativity...without math, so it is wonderful, magical, incredible,
fascinating!
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"Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values",
Robert Pirsig -- What is Quality?
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"Free to
Choose: A Personal Statement", Milton Friedman.
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"Understanding
Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design",
Fernando Flores
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"Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin"
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"A Case
of Conscience", James Blish -- science fiction about the teachings
of faith, the teachings of science, and the inner promptings of our
humanity.
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"A Separate
Reality", "Tales of Power", "The Second Ring of
Power", "The Eagle's Gift", "The Fire From Within",
by Carlos Castaneda -- "gives us don Juan in his role as teacher,
master of sorcery and transcendental trickster--wise, infuriating, capable
of working miracles and playing practical jokes, but always seeking
the wisdom of the warrior, and teaching it by means of riveting stories
that are at once magic and art."
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