Sex, Money, Happiness and Death

Sex, Money, Happiness and Death 

By: Manfred Kets De Vries

There is a well-known Zen story of two traveling monks who were trying to cross a river. When they were almost across, a young woman called out to them from the bank they had just left. She said she was afraid to get into the water because of the current. “Could one of you take me to the other side?” she asked. One of the monks hesitated, but the other returned, quickly placed her on his shoulders, took her across the river, and put her down on the other side. She thanked him and went on her way. As the monks continued their journey, one of them was troubled. Finally, unable to keep quiet, he broke out, “Brother, our Zen master has taught us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!” “Brother,” the second monk replied, “I set her down on the other side: it’s you who is still carrying her.” [download]

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Popular Tyranny

Popular Tyranny 

By: Kathtryn A. Morgan

The essays collected together here originated as a series of talks presented at the conference ‘‘Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Classical Athens.’’ This volume, therefore, possesses both the strengths and the weaknesses of collected conference papers. The strength is the vigorous debate occasioned by bringing together a group of historians, archaeologists, and literary critics to discuss a topic that exerts a lively fascination for audiences both ancient and modern. A potential weakness is unevenness of coverage. This volume does not, for example, contain a detailed treatment of the theme of tyranny in Attic oratory or provide even coverage of the Thucydidean material. Nevertheless, I made the decision not to try to extend the coverage of the volume by inviting extra contributions (with the exception of the concluding essay by Robin Osborne). The reasons for this decision were twofold. [download]

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Passing The Plate

Passing The Plate

By: Chistian Smith and Michael O. Emerson 

This book attempts to help solve a riddle: why is it that American Christians give away so relatively little of their money? Contemporary American Christians are among the wealthiest of their faith in the world today and probably the most affl uent single group of Christians in two thousand years of church history. They have a lot of money as we will see in chapter 1. Nearly all American Christians also belong to churches that teach believers, as stewards of the belongings with which God has blessed them, to give money generously for the work of God’s kingdom, as we will see in appendix A. Most Christians belong to churches that teach tithing the giving of 10 percent of one’s income. Most American Christians also profess to want to see the gospel preached in the world, the hungry fed, the church strengthened, and the poor raised to enjoy lives of dignity and hope all tasks that normally require money. [download]

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Refining Processes

Refining Processes 

By: Surinder Parkash

Crude oil as produced in the oil field is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ranging from methane to asphalt, with varying proportions of paraffins, naphthenes, and aromatics. The objective of crude distillation is to fractionate crude oil into light-end hydrocarbons (Ci-C4), naphtha/gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and atmospheric resid. Some of these broad cuts can be marketed directly, while others require further processing in refinery downstream units to make them saleable. The first processing step in the refinery, after desalting the crude, is separation of crude into a number of fractions by distillation. The distillation is carried out at a pressure slightly above atmospheric. This is necessary for the following considerations: 1. To raise the boiling point of the light-end carbons so that refinery cooling water can be used to condense some of the C3 and C4 in the overhead condenser. [download]

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Sexuality in The Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Sexuality in The Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 

By: Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge

Why should we talk about sex, or  sexuality in more general terms, as a historical phenomenon? Why would such  a sordid  topic,  as some  conservative  critics might argue, and certainly have argued throughout the centuries see the long and unbroken tradition of clerical condemnation of sexuality as one of the worst sins in human life be of any relevance fo the study of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance,  and  the  early  modern  age? To raise  this  issue  also  provides  the immediate answer because no aspect of human life is meaningless, and everything we can learn about people in the past allows us to gain a more comprehensive and more complex picture, especially if our investigation leads us into the realm of people’s motifs, secret plans, hidden agendas, emotions, and dreams. If we can explain why certain actions were taken, certain laws issued, concrete institutions established, and various programs carried out we gain considerable insight into. [download]

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Living in Ancient Greece

Living in Ancient Greece 

By: Norman Banchroft Hunt

Most land suited to agriculture is found along the coastal plains and in a few area of the Peloponnese.Within the sparsely populated mountainous interior, many communities were isolated from each other, and even more so from the more inhabited coastal regions.This isolation led to societies that developed in very different ways. Climate, too, played a role in increasing social isolation. Mountain passes, blocked by snow in the extremely harsh winters, cut off communication even between neighboring valleys for several months of the year.The spring melt made the few tracks impassable for a further period. With pastoral land rare, the great plain of Thessaly was the only place for raising horses, which made Thessalians the strongest in cavalry. For much of the rest, travel and battling on foot was the norm. [download]

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