This comprehensive overview explores the life and philosophical contributions of American philosopher Ken Wilber, delving into his influential ideas within the realms of transpersonal and humanistic psychology. As part of the SUNY series, the book provides a detailed analysis of Wilber's thought, highlighting his impact on contemporary philosophy and psychology. It serves as an essential resource for understanding his unique perspective on human consciousness and development.
Colditz, het gevreesde Duitse krijgsgevangenenkamp met meer bewakers dan gevangenen, gold als absoluut 'escape-proof'. Daarom herbergde het binnen haar muren alle ontsnappingsdeskundigen van de geallieerde strijdkrachten die in de 4½ jaar dat Colditz als krijgsgevangenenkamp dienst deed, meer dan 300 pogingen deden hun vrijheid te herwinnen. Een authentiek verhaal over de ongelooflijke moed en vindingrijkheid van de grootste ontsnappingsclub uit de geschiedenis. Dit adembenemende boek bevat talrijke foto's uit de grandioze tv-serie die alleen al in Engeland ruim 19 miljoen kijkers aan het beeld kluisterde.
The Stands are a self-reliant family in New York City. Far from wealthy they are still reasonably content with their life until one night when their teenage daughter helps a wealthy and lonely Wall Street lawyer. Out of gratitude the lawyer showers the family with gifts and money. The Strands find their lives altered and not necessarily for the best.
Three high-powered Hollywood couples, two hot affairs, one underage Russian ex-hooker, a passionate murder—and the players’ lives are changed forever.Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees Hawaii and her champion-surfer husband, Gregg, in the middle of one of his abusive tirades and makes her way to L.A. Tall, blond, with a body to die for, it doesn’t take Cameron long to find a job at an exclusive private fitness club where she encounters LA's most important players. She has plans to open her own studio one day, and while every man she meets comes on to her, she is more focused on saving money and working hard than getting caught up in the L.A. scene of wild parties and recreational drugs.Until she meets Ryan Lambert, an extremely successful independent movie producer. Ryan is married to overly privileged Mandy Lambert, the daughter of Hamilton J. Heckerling, a Hollywood power-player son-of-a-bitch mogul. Ryan has never cheated on his demanding Hollywood Princess wife, but when he meets Cameron, all bets are off, especially since she’s seeing his best friend Don Verona, the devastatingly attractive talk-show host and legendary player.In her latest sizzling blockbuster, internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins explores what happens when lust and desire collide with marriage and power—and the results lead to murder.
Christopher Snow suffers from a rare genetic disorder - xeroderma pigmentosum - which means his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight, so his life begins at midnight. Set in the town of Moonlight Bay, a place of picturesque beauty and haunting strangeness, FEAR NOTHING is a startling and compulsive masterpiece of tension.
In the Future, Everything is Different. But Nothing Has Changed.The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet a single ray of hope remains. . .Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation - a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner -- a captive of the colony that created him -- destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And as Earth's boundaries, fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior. For David Adams has a plan -- one that will ultimately ensure the salvation of his species . . . or its annihilation.
Reliquary is the smash hit second book in the Pendergast series, from New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare... in Reliquary, from bestselling coauthors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
From the author of many bestselling books, this one focuses on the lifestyles of today's music superstars, with a legendary guitar hero, a soul superstar and a pin-up groupy. Other titles from Jackie Collins include Sinners, The Bitch and The Stud.
An audacious and suspenseful vision of the future by Joe Handeman, on the grand scale of MINDBRIDGE & THE FOREVER WAR. In a universe of strange, threatening & mutated creatures, Otto McGavin acts as undercover agent for the Confederacion. A mild, unassuming man, two years of intensive hypnotic training have turned him into a Prime Operator with TB II. His technology enables him to take on the appearance & personality of any enemy. And to protect the legal rights of humans and non-humans he is prepared to lie, cheat, steal and kill his way across the galaxy.
In the stunning title story 'Strange Highways', a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past. One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again. Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life.
A Los Angeles crime reporter whose wife and daughters were killed in a plane crash meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash while a shadowy orgaization tries to stop her.
They are dying, one by one. Wealthy, middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim . . . . "Combines the intellectual-puzzle mystery with a powerful vein of psycho-thriller suspense." -- The Washington Post Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about the Hellfire Club, where years before he met an obsessed fan of Chancel House's most successful book, Night Journey --a book that has a strange history of its own. . . . "One of the most chilling villains to come along since Hannibal Lecter." -- San Francisco Chronicle Suddenly terror engulfs Nora: She must defend herself against fantastic accusations even as a madman lies in wait. And when he springs, she will embark on a night journey that will put her victimhood to rest forever, dead or alive. . . .
Reissue of the nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes
of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
De Nederlandse Geheime Inlichtingendienst in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
432 pages
16 hours of reading
Analyse van psychologische en maatschappelijke oorzaken van geweld en agressie en bezinning op de mogelijkheid van een andere opvoeding en samenleving.
Annie, die in 1933 als baby bij een afschuwelijk weeshuis werd achtergelaten, loopt weg als zij 11 jaar is. Na veel omzwervingen wordt zij tenslotte geadopteerd door de rijkste man van Amerika.
