As the world celebrates Hip Hop with the Pulitzer Prize and title of "first billionaire rapper," what is lost in the noise of recognition is the craft, artistry, and techniques of Hip-Hop music or rapping. Hailed as a "genius" by Dr. Cornel West and acknowledged as one of the most innovative musicians by Hip-Hop legends and icons of rap, O'hene Savànt redefines the rapper as an "emsee"-an artist with vision and not simply rote technique. In Becoming...

This book is for every person who lost themselves along the way. It's for the woman who made herself smaller in a marriage, the caretakers who feel invisible and exhausted, and the people who can't say no to anyone. It's for individuals who play a role in their family, at work, and with their friends but bite their tongue, keeping their true thoughts and feelings hidden. Real, Not Perfect will guide you to recover your authentic self through...

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. His many books include Redefining Ancient Orphism and Myths of the Underworld Journey. Edmonds lives in Haverford, Pennsylvania. An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic...

Dialectics of Education is a rich collection of essays analyzing both the role of education in shaping ideology in the United States and the political implications of struggles for educational justice. This book seeks to recover and reframe the dialectical materialist tradition in critical education, studies and carries this tradition forward into theory and practice relevant for today. Building on the tradition of the groundbreaking book Schooling...

Profound-In Depth-Taijiquan Theory In the last seven centuries, many songs and poems have been composed about Taijiquan. These have played a major role in preserving the knowledge and wisdom of the masters, although in many cases, the identity of the authors and the dates of origin have been lost. As lifelong pursuit, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming has translated many of these documents and according to him, believes many are incomplete for reasons relating...

Extrait: "Parmi les génies qui président aux empires du monde, Ituriel tient un des premiers rangs, et il a le département de la haute Asie. Il descendit un matin dans la demeure du Scythes Babouc, sur le rivage de l'Oxus, et lui dit: Babouc, les folies et les excès des Perses ont attirés notre colère." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique...

"Winner of the 2008 Prix François Guizot, Académie française" Lucien Jaume is a philosopher, political scientist, and historian of ideas. The author of a number of books, he is research director at France's Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po. He teaches in Paris, Rome, and Shanghai. A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential context Many American readers like to regard Alexis...

Partez à la rencontre de Ludwig van Beethoven avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Si nous ignorions tout de la vie de Beethoven, mais si son œuvre entière nous était parvenue, nous la comprendrions, nous l'aimerions peut-être moins profondément, mais cette œuvre continuerait de nous apparaître comme celle d'un des plus grands musiciens. Inversement, si un cataclysme avait anéanti la totalité de l'œuvre musicale de Beethoven, mais si l'histoire...

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Living mindfully, people in recovery can learn skills that allow them to be the people they want to be. Instead of being prisoners of harmful habits, they can consciously create healthy behaviors in support their recovery and live their lives free from active addiction. Former Buddhist monk John Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery-values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action-utilizing lessons,...