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A new type of person is coming into incarnation right now, almost a `next step' as humanity progresses. These people are visionary and creative, progressive and independent. They carry new ways of thinking and feeling that hold great promise for the future.
You may be familiar with the concept of `Indigo children,' and never realized that there are also Indigo adults. Might you be one of them? Perhaps you have wondered why you've often felt different?
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Frustrated and dissatisfied with the `normal' world
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Not easily fitting in the system, and often feeling alone, separate, or not understood
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A pressing need to contribute to creating a better world
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A powerful longing for `something more'
Indigo Adults helps you identity if you or your children are Indigos, and can help you understand more clearly your nature and purpose here on Earth.
The authors also put into perspective the bigger picture of the changing of an Age and its effect on our current world events.
(See Appendix for list of Indigo characteristics)
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indigo adults.......2007-10-08
Indigo adults is an exceptionally informative book. It is written by persons knowledgeable of the topic. The only bone I have to pick, and it is a very minor one, is the emphasis of the paradigm shift from an astrological perspective. This perspective is fine, but that we are in a transitional phase of paradigm shifting at present is understood by many religions and philosophies. That said, the authors do beg the readers pardon as they speak of this. As an indigo adult (in the name of inclusivity) i would just like it acknowledged there are other traditions with the same belief of our present day. This book is by far the best and most solid information on the indigos that I have read. This book makes solid points that are well supported as opposed to New Age Fluff. Thank you lovely authors!
Indigo Adults.......2007-09-13
The book was so interesting that I could not put it down. It answered so many questions and in a manner making it an "easy read". The book was passed on to the next reader with many markers and underlines. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
A waste of money and time........2007-09-06
I bought it and read it all. The author has good points and ideas. However, it's vague and not well written. The book is not worth the price and it's short too. I think the author should not write anymore or find another style that flows and is more factual. There are many odd thoughts that one may wonder if the writer is insane or takes something while writing. I think there are amny other gifted true writers out there. If you want information DO NOT get this book. You'll regret it. If you do you'll see for yourself.
Indigo - no answers.......2007-04-10
Interesting book with a few cool ideas but never arrives at any kind of conclusion like: where now and how do I deal with this gift accordingly. It's just a Indigo Groupie book that goes nowhere.
Finally know where I fit.......2007-01-09
Short concise, excellent read. There is quite a lot out there for Indigo Children, but I have found little specifically targeting the Indigo Adult. For those interested in the Indigo phenomena, or who believe themselves to be an Indigo Adult this is a must read book.
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A History of Keyboard Literature: Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners presents a comprehensive and easily accessible history of literature for all stringed keyboard instruments.
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The Key to Keyboard Literature.......2000-03-27
Gordon's "History of Keyboard Literature" sits next to Grout/Palisca's "History of Western Music" on my shelf. As a student studying piano and a future educator, I have found the book to be a great resource. One who sits at the either the piano, organ, or harpsichord must be familiar with the vast history and repertoire written for keyboard instruments. The book is organized chronilogically. It begins with a very satisfying history of the development and construction of early keyboard instruments as well as a thourough overview of the role of the keyboard up to the end of the Renaissance. After this it takes a composer by composer approach chronilogically starting with Bach and Handel. Published in 1996, this book is very up to date and provides many names, especially twentieth century composers. Like any history book, this is not the final word on the subject of keyboard music, but it is an excellent first stop for whatever research one is up to. A must for any pianists shelf.
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Radical behavior is rarely acknowledged as a characteristic of the corporate world, where status quo is generally king and revolutionary thought usually banished to the fringes. In
The Age of Heretics, however, journalist Art Kleiner shows that a powerful group of progressive thinkers really did exist within the realm of traditional business during the tumultuous 1960s. These figures actually helped transform that environment just as their better-known antiestablishment allies were reshaping other institutions throughout society.
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Kleiner's book The Age of Heretics (1996, Doubleday/Currency), is a history of the thinkers and practitioners who sparked the modern organizational change movement; it was a finalist for the Edgar G. Booz award for the most innovative business book of 1996. His forthcoming book The Core Group (2003, Doubleday), is an exploration of the hidden purposes of organizations in action.
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Corporations are not here to remake the world.......2005-07-14
This book makes the false assumption that corporations 'are here to remake the world.'
The fundamental goal of corporations is profit growth. If that needs a remake of the world, they will do it, otherwise not.
By the way, this is also the aim of consultancy firms and one of the reasons why responsible officers are so suspicious of them, seeing the huge fees involved.
These officers need them if they want to implement their own policies, but need to present them as necessary measures proposed by outsiders.
The author has also no problem with an amoral market: 'selling grain overseas for a better price ... while people in the village were hungry ... You gave up your loyalty to the village for loyalty to an impersonal exchange that ... would better everyone in the long run.'
He forgets that in the short run people in the village (could) starve.
This book treats on the same level, consumer activist Ralph Nader, oil planner Pierre Wack, nonrationalist and LSD-mysticist Willis Harman, futurist Herman Kahn, social psychologist Kurt Lewin, 'kundabuffer' Ivan Gurdjieff, the developers of the 'Managerial Grid' and F-groups or the authors of the Report of the Club of Rome; all this under the superficial dressing of some Middle Age philosophies.
Some ideas developed in this book are important: democratic leadership based on dialogue, group dynamics, the importance of listening and respect, community and self-organized teams, shareholder activism or Jay Forrester's model about the interrelationship between population and economic growth, environment, technology and human aspirations.
It exposes also Herman Kahn's optimistic future where everyone would be affluent and have the chance to be educated. Kahn also didn't foresee the domination of transnational corporations.
All in all, I cannot recommend this book.
N.B. Amfortas has not been wounded by a spear in his groin, but in his genitals.
Inquiry and Inquisition.......2001-01-16
Never judge a book by its cover - particularly its blurb. On first glance, The Age of Heretics seems askew, a tract on business revolution for "corporate leaders" interested in anything but. It purportedly chronicles the "recreation" of institutions, an eccentric term when left unhyphenated. It's described in alarming code words, such as "magisterial" (read, "long"). Why would anyone bother with a book like this?
Because it's terrific. And because the bland façade is disguising a remarkable reality. The Age of Heretics offers one of the few compelling, intelligent, thoroughly researched histories of the field of organizational development. Focusing largely on the 1960s and 1970s, Art Kleiner details the origins of T-Groups, Theory X and Theory Y, scenario planning, systems thinking, and much more. He proves particularly adept at summarizing an approach or technique succinctly, as if in passing, and all the while in the context of corporate change movements. Perhaps Kleiner errs on the side of the Great Man Theory of History ("there was one man who could do it, and his name was ..."), but he does demonstrate how OD can prove revolutionary to the modern corporation. And we all know what fate befalls the revolutionary.
For that is part of Kleiner's history: how the OD early adopters so often sowed the seeds of their own downfall. Perhaps they evolved from enthusiastic to monomaniacal. Perhaps they exacerbated their cultish image by experimenting with LSD. Perhaps they merely stepped on the wrong toes. Whatever the reason, the drugs or the shoes, they blew their own trumpets, then whimpered the blues.
As the title suggests, Kleiner dubs these forerunners "heretics," and even adopts a framework of comparisons to medieval knights, millenarians, Pelagians, and the like. The comparisons don't do any harm, and may even add a soupcon of panache, although a few are a stretch. Likening twelfth-century intellectual Peter Abelard to pharmaceutically enhanced 1960s visionaries does the great philosopher a disservice, not least because he's not an ideal model of universalism and holistic thinking. One might also argue that Kleiner misrepresents Parzival's dilemma when he writes of the plight of the OD consultant who fears to lose his job. Parzival encounters an obviously suffering king and must decide whether to ask "what afflicts thee?"; the consultant encounters an organization and must first recognize that there is any affliction in the first place.
Such criticisms are minor and admiring. The Age of Heretics is what the English like to call "a rollicking good read": fast-paced, persuasive, and written for adults, not sixth-graders. (Rare is the business author who would think to describe In Search of Excellence, accurately, as Manichaean.) This is not a book for generic "corporate leaders." It's for OD professionals and agents of change. If you pitch your tent in either camp, bring this book along for companionship.
Remember the Revolution?.......2000-05-23
This book should remind anyone of an age to be in a position of significant and high-level corporate change responsibility of opportunity lost. In a societal post-culture where it's stylish to be outlandish, different, revolutionary and heretical, Kleiner illustrates for us the substantive difficulties faced by substantive revolutionary thinkers (and doers!) in developing the plans for socially responsible corporate transformation.
The Age of Heretics is almost unfairly engrossing (I read it in a single sitting). Its superb and nuanced documentation at times reads almost like an additional narrative. And Kleiner's wonderfully accessible writing makes this intellectual history of organizational development speak to those otherwise put off by the cerebral work.
Oddly, those most in need of a recovery of revolutionary spirit or heretical passion - contemporary OD/MD/HR executives- won't read it. After all, even though interesting history, it is still history and those folks are now too busy figuring out what happy face button everyone can wear for the fiscal quarter. On my read, this is the lesson of Kleiner's history; that is, abandoning the revolutionary, hopeful,Pelagian spirit and resignation to work within the system enables the system to eat you.
Also oddly, Kleiner's history will likely be dismissed by socially conscious and critically-minded business/organization/management Marxist academics, as just not explicitly critical enough of the "one-dimensionality," technocracy and precipitous consumerism of the capitalist system, which is of course what identifies the work of McGregor, Lewin and the early NTL'ers as heresy. The lesson from Kleiner's work here is that even small scale revolutionary efforts establish precedents for larger ones, and that it's better to try something than simply continue to pontificate - as academics devoted to studying the corporate organization critically are prone to do.
Consequently, both groups miss a valuable history of the connection between the serious committed efforts to change society through corporate transformation by these early renegades and the larger macro socio-philosiohical pronouncements of counterculture theorists. Indeed, Kleiner's book is voraciously consumed by an audience with a particular spirit. Unfortunately, that is few of us. I suspect I speak for all of us in that audience in suggesting that the sequel - The Hour of Reconstruction - is eagerly awaited.
If you care about business you'll love this book.......1998-08-17
Just for the record--I've worked with Art in the past. But that has nothing to do with my admiration for this book, which provides a brilliant and passionate intellectual trip through the history of corporate vitality today. This book gives the social, historical, and cultural background to the emergence of most of today's wildest corporate excursions. Above all, this book explores how business (that domain so many of us care deeply about) can regain it's "vernacular" roots--reaching back to recognize and re-form some of the meaningful "community" ties it once had. I urge anyone who cares about business as a place where personal growth takes place, where work is more than a mere job, and where groups of people achieve great things, to read this book.
I hated to see this one end!.......1998-07-17
Anyone who works in the area of organizational design or development should read this book. Art puts the history into context and let's us know the people who shaped the ideas. I loved learning about Kurt Lewin, Ron Lippet, Tom Peters...and so many others. The stories Art tells help me understand the events that shaped their lives and their thinking.
I was truly sorry when I arrived at the last chapter. I wanted to hear more.
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Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
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The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran's best-known work, The Prophet, is famous are also amply present in The Forerunner, published just 3 years earlier. Heartfelt and compassionate, it is a memorable, internationally acclaimed collection of 24 morality tales dealing with universal human concerns. Five black-and-white illustrations by the author.
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Desires In The Mist.......2006-11-10
"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born."
-Kahlil Gibran, Untitled, page 1
In reality, this book is a collection of 25 poems and parables, rather than 24. The first poem, which is untitled, is not listed in the table of contents and is not indicated as an introduction or preface. This first untitled poem appears on pages 1 and 2, and could be aptly titled, "The Forerunner".
In this first untitled poem, Gibran speaks to us in his usual, beautiful fashion of life and death, of love and desire, and of birth and rebirth. He asserts that we are all our own forerunners, meaning that we originate from nothing less than ourselves, our own spirit, and our own karma.
"Then Life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued."
-Kahlil Gibran, untitled, page 2
The Forerunner, was published three years prior to Gibran's most famous work, The Prophet. Occasionally, the poems and parables within The Forerunner are not the best examples of the highly polished writing that most are accustomed to from Kahlil Gibran. However, even the most casual reader of Gibran will find the contents worthwhile and will note that he often slightly changes style within the book. This is evident in the parable of The Scholar And The Poet, where he depicts the scholar as an all-wise, but perhaps evil, serpent. The poet, on the other hand, is symbolized as a songbird in the form of a lark. In The Scholar And The Poet, Gibran appears to be heavily influenced by The King James Bible, not only in his use of the symbol of the serpent, but also in the language the two exchange:
"Said the serpent to the lark, 'Thou flyest, yet thou canst not visit the recesses of the earth where the sap of life moveth in perfect silence.'
"And the lark answered, 'Aye, thou knowest over much, nay thou art wiser than all things wise--pity thou canst not fly.'"
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In addition to the poems and parables, The Forerunner contains five drawings created by Gibran. In a letter to May Ziadeh in 1920 he spoke of one of them in particular:
"The book, Towards God, is still in the mist factory, and its best drawing is in The Forerunner..."
Kahlil Gibran was a great master at expressing deep spiritual insight into the human condition. This book contains some of his most wonderful writings such as, "God's Fool", "The Greater Self", and "Out Of My Deeper Heart". Admirer's of Kahlil Gibran will appreciate these earlier writings. As always, Kahlil Gibran speaks to our greater selves with a profound sense of love and humility.
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forerunner.......2006-08-28
The book is phenomenal. Got the shipment within a week and a half!
The Forerunner.......2000-08-16
"The Forerunner" is a collection of poems and short stories that will leave you laughing, crying, and swimming in irony. It brings you into people's minds and emotions flawlessly to provide insights to life that you would never have imagined. One becomes the characters, instead of just reading about them. I can only go a few months before I have to read it again. It soothes the soul and leaves the mind at peace with society and nature. Quiet reflection is the only way you can end this book: it demands nothing less. This is a book that must be read.
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With her tubby blimplike “teardrop” or “body of revolution” hull, USS Albacore was the first wholly streamlined submarine. She twice claimed the record for highest submerged speeds in the world. Built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1952-53, she made 27 knots at a time when no other submarine could do much better than 18 knots submerged.
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A must have for anyone interested in the USS Albacore .......2006-02-25
Well documented, full of stories, detailled technics, the different phases and improvements...etc...Everything about this test submarine and her evolution.
Very good text.
Some nice b&w pictures.
I would have liked to see more drawings. It is the reason why I do not give a 5 stars.
I recommend this book !
Teh BesT BoOk on A $h1P EVAR!!!1!!.......2003-11-11
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The First True Submarine.......2003-03-26
The USS Albacore, preserved today at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is the prototype of the modern submarine in all respects except nuclear power. She served the US Navy as a floating test bed for numerous technological advances including the teardrop hull, single-stick control, and the towed sonar array, for nearly twenty years. This book is based on interviews with her captains, crew members, the engineers and scientists who conceived and designed her, and the shipyard workers who built her.
A VERY good book.......2001-12-14
I brought my family to the memorial at the end of our vacation. We had a great a great time. I bought the book on impulse and was rewarded with a very interesting read.
I served on submarines (SSN-703 & SSBN 626B)and I think this is a very informative book. A must read for an submarine history buff.
Great piece of Naval history in our backyard.......2000-06-26
I have been facinated with subs ever since reading about the Hunley in Clive Cussler's book Sea Hunters, so I was pleased to find the USS Albacore only 45 minutes away from my home. I have visited her on several occasions and have wanted to know about her history for some time. This book gave me just what I wanted! The photos are a great part of the book, especially the ones of her arrival in her final resting place in Portsmouth, along I-95 and Rt. 1.
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Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. In the New York Review of Books, Francis Haskell wrote, Roberto Longhi is "the most brilliant Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating powers . . . few of his very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied."
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In ancient Persia, the great prophet Zoroaster brought to his people a way of life that united them for 1000 years, and made the land now known as Iran into a fertile, prosperous region. Likewise, his example exerted a profound influence upon Plato, Aristotle, and the development of Judeo-Christian thought. Although some of these teachings have been preserved in the sacred scripture known as the Avesta, almost nothing is known about Zoroaster the man.
"Zoroaster: Life and Work of the Forerunner in Iran" is the first general-audience biography of the great Persian sage. This compelling and readable story shows how, through connecting completely with the guidance offered him by Divine Grace, the young boy Saadi matures steadily until he realizes his task and his true identity. As the long-awaited herald, Zoroaster, it was his purpose to unite the people of Persia into a belief of one God, Ahuramazda, and to announce the coming of the Son of Man, the Soashyant, who would lead this world into and through the Last Judgement. Before his arrival, the land of Persia was consumed by natural disasters that destroyed most of the people and almost all of their structures. A new society had to be built literally from the ground up, this time based upon God's Laws, rather than man's.
As we today are facing a new millennium, as natural disasters threaten our very existence, "Zoroaster: Life and Work of the Forerunner in Iran" is a book of particular relevance.
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Zoroaster: Life and Work of the forerunner in Iran.......2005-04-11
Two stars at best for a book that is almost complete fiction. The problem is that anyone who has not studied Zoroaster (Zarathustra) gross fiction and misinformation in this book might hinder them from reading other books about the Zoroastrian Faith. This would be a tragedy. Zoroaster changed the spiritual direction of Man's thought even though, like most religions, the faith headed down hill after his accent.
Worthwhile.......2001-07-13
great book if you are interested in the spiritual side and also the folklore ( not accurate but best definition I could come up with) of Zorastianism and not the historical perspective ( which is hard to validate). In addition, the book is written like a story which makes it easier to read.
Most likely, the story told and the life of zoraster may not be accurate since detailed information is not available.
The only drawback is lack of details on Avesta and the Gathas.
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This book examines social investigative reporting in American history, focusing on the years 1890-1915. Contents: Killing the Revolution; The People's Champions; To Rob the Bees; A Pandemic Invasion: "A Conspiracy of Silence", by Upton Sinclair; Treason Against the People: "The Man with the Muck-Rake," by Theodore Roosevelt; A New Social Awareness; The Final Assault; Case Reviews; Bibliography; Index.
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In ancient China, a man called Lao-Tse followed a vision of truth that culminated in one of the most sublime religious texts known to humankind: the Tao Te Ching. Its simple profundity is recognized today in every corner of the world: "The Tao which can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name which can be named is not the eternal name."
So it begins and moves gracefully through the various paradoxes of existence, harmonizing light and shadow. It is difficult for a modern reader to approach this text without wondering about the life and times of the man who wrote it.
Lao-Tse (or Lao-Tzu, as it is sometime spelled) was a name, and little more; the details of his life have been lost to history. Only the work survived...until now. Mystics of all times and places have taught that every event that has occurred is forever recorded in the annals of time. An associate of Abd-ru-shin, author of the spiritual classic In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message, has made a spiritual connection to that ageless record and here reports what it reveals about the life of the sage called Lao-Tse.
There is no indication of author in this, or any other book in Grail Foundation Press' Forerunner Series. Those who made the connection were able to see truly, and to write down what they saw, but they do not consider themselves authors of the volumes. For this reason, the books appear with the simple notation, "Received in the proximity of Abd-ru-shin through the special gift of one Called for the purpose."
The text follows chronologically through the life of Lao-Tse in a style that reveals the sage as simultaneously human and transcendent. Some of the most touching passages tell of Lao-Tse's childhood and the reactions he inspired in his often-confused parents: "Li-Fu-Tai lived in the constant expectation of discovering his ancestor in his son. At the very least, this boy was bound to be completely different from all other sons of men. He watched the child constantly, but at the same time he suffered many a disappointment. [The boy] developed exactly like other healthy children. In time he learned to walk and talk, he fell into the water and reached a fire. When he got into some childhood mischief, the father was annoyed by his son's naughtiness. But his mother tempered the punishments and softened the rebukes...To her all the child's actions...seemed to spring from the same source; an immense thirst for knowledge...He asked few question, preferring to find his answers through experiencing."
There's an immediacy in this prose, as the author who does not claim authorship transports us back through time, to witness the emergence of one of the greatest sages ever to live. This book is inspiring and compelling--worth the reading for anyone who cares about humankind's spiritual legacy.
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Sweet piece of fiction.......2000-02-05
This is a very sweet story about a time, place, and man that was the construct of the author of this book. Historians and philosophers will continue to debate whether Lao Tzu ever existed or, if the Tao Te Ching was the work of many men. This book, however, portrays a decidedly Judeo/Christian perspective to the man called Lao Tzu and his life and times. The book is inacurate in it's portayal of life and philosophy/religion during the Han Dynasty. The author clearly misrepresents the history and beliefs in ancient China in a desire to mold Chinese thinking into a monotheistic belief system. If the reader is willing to set aside the historical and philosophical truths of the Chineses culture, the story is set forth as a very sweet parable. As someone who takes the Chinese culture seriously, I was not able to do so.
Bringing to life Times Past!.......1998-11-02
On first reading, this book is a refreshing story of one of mankinds' most respected spiritual guides. The text transports one easily to ancient China, and recreates the scenes vividly! On deeper relection, the books true value becomes apparant and the deep spiritual truths become alive in the present. Great lessons for today are contained here. A book of truest insight!
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