Happiness is Free

Happiness is Free 

By: Hale Dwoskin and Lester Levenson

What Is Happiness? Quite simply put, happiness is you being your Self. Not the limited self that you pretend to be most of the time, but the unlimited Self that you are and have always been. This is the Self that is always effortlessly present before, during, and after everything else that appears in your experience. You are the radiant yet changeless background that allows for everything else to exist. If that is true, you may be wondering, why is it so hard to discover and why have there been so many books written on the topic including this one? The answer to that is not as simple. We have spent eons pretending to be anything but unlimited. In fact, we have become so good at this pretending to be limited that we have forgotten that it is just a game, a pretense. We now spend most of our time bolstering the illusion that we have created for ourselves, leaving very little time for the inner reflection that can set us free from this totally self-imposed and artificial sense of limitation. [download]

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Go The Fuck to Sleep

Go The Fuck to Sleep 

By: Adam Mansbach

The cats nestle close to their kittens now. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep. The windows are dark in the town, child. The whales huddle down in the deep. I’ll read you one very last book if you swear You’ll go the fuck to sleep. The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep. I know you’re not thirsty. That’s bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep. The wind whispers soft through the grass, hon. The field mice, they make not a peep. It’s been thirty-eight minutes already. Jesus Christ, what the fuck? Go to sleep. All the kids from day care are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep. [download]

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Early Education

Early Education 

By: Janet B. Mottely and Anne R. Randall

Questions about quality early childhood education (ECE) have been the subject of international OECD studies but not much related research has been done in Hong Kong (HK). The OECD studies are important as results indicate that the early years of human development affect later learning and behaviour. Findings have led to increased investment in ECE in various countries. Currently, there are generous investments for preschool improvement in HK that have one goal in common-the improvement of instruction and student learning. One underlying assumption of these new schemes is that teachers make significant contributions to school improvement. However, few efforts have been made in HK to connect existing functions of preschool improvement to major conceptions of learning that influence teaching practice. [download]

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Global Warming Trends

Global Warming Trends 

By: Julie Kerr Casper, Ph.D.

The Earth’s climate is always changing. The most obvious changes that have taken place over the course of geologic time are the shifts from glacial (ice age) periods to interglacial (non–ice age) periods. The Earth has had several “ice ages” throughout time, during which ice covered large portions of the Earth’s surface, then melted back to nearly nothing. Scientists know the Earth’s climate is always naturally changing, but with the amount of human interference today, the questions have become: How are humans changing it? Are they endangering the future? And what will the Earth be like for our children, grandchildren, and future generations? These are the very issues that I would like you the reader to ponder as you gain insight into the problem. What long-term effects will our current decisions and lifestyle choices have on future generations?. [download]  

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Die Schwalbe, die Katze, die Rose und der Tod

Die Schwalbe, die Katze, die Rose und der Tod 

By: Hakan Nesser

Im nächsten Leben möchte ich ein Olivenbaum sein. Sie machte eine vage Geste mit der Hand zum Abhang hin, über den die Dämmerung schnell hinabsank. Die können mehrere hundert Jahre alt werden, habe ich gehört. Das klingt doch beruhigend, findest du nicht? Hinterher würde ihm immer mal wieder einfallen, dass das ihre letzten Worte waren. Über den Olivenbaum und das beruhigende Gefühl. Es war sonderbar. Als trüge sie irgendetwas Großes, Sublimes mit sich auf die andere Seite. Etwas Erhabenes, die Spur einer Art Einsicht, an der es ihr eigentlich mangelte. Gleichzeitig erschien es ihm natürlich auch etwas eigentümlich, dass sie eine so allgemeine und eigentlich ja ziemlich nichts sagende Reflexion machte, direkt nach diesen schrecklichen Worten, die ihr Schicksal so definitiv besiegelten. Die ihr Leben beendeten und ihrer Beziehung ihre letztendliche Bestimmung verliehen. [download]

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Green Rider

Green Rider 

By: Kristen Britain

The granite was cold and rough against the gray cloaked man’s palms. It was good, solid granite, from the bones of the earth itself. He traced barely perceptible seams between the huge blocks of the wall. It was the seams, he believed, that held the key. The key to the wall’s destruction. The wall towered above him to some unknown height. It was many feet thick, and it followed Sacoridia’s southern border for hundreds of miles, from the EastSeato UllemBayin the west. It protected Sacoridia and the rest of the lands from Kanmorhan Vane, which in the common meansBlackveilForest. The wall had endured for a thousand years. It had been built after the Long War at the turn of the First Age. For a thousand years, the denizens of the dark forest had grown restless, had festered, trapped behind the wall. [download]

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