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This book covers the design and types of various trucks employed by the Wehrmacht.

This book explores archetypal symbolism, predictive technique, and counseling process in therapeutic astrology.

Following the Shambhala Sutra - an ancient manuscript written by Penchen Lama over two hundred years ago - Laurence Brahm started his journey to Shambhala in Lhasa and continued deep into the harsh regions of Tibet. SHAMBHALA SUTRA presents Brahm's expedition across western Tibet's Ngari region where he learned that the ancient sutra was actually a metaphorical guidebook.

In 2002, author, filmmaker and economist, Laurence Brahm, inspired by James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon and his own quest for meaning, began his search for Shangri-la. Some say that Shangri-la can be found in sacred Tibet or maybe in wild Qinghai. Others believe it can be found in artistic Yunnan in the southwest of China.

Inspired by James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Laurence Brahm went in search of the mystical realm of Shangri-la, travelling along the ancient Tea Caravan Trail in Yunnan Province of southwest China. Starting in the capital city of Kunming, Braham travelled from Dali to Lijiang through Yi to Lago Lake and to Zhongdian and Deqin and the sacred Kawagebo Mountain.

This comprehensive guide to healing synthesizes the principles and practices of Hippocratic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Persian medicine, and includes the first English translation of one of the handbooks of Avicenna, whose writings have been classics in herbal and dietetic medicine for more than 1,000 years.

This revealing text describes the exciting discovery and deciphering of the 5,000-year-old stone chambers and standing stones of pre-Celtic Ireland. At midwinter sunrise, Martin Brennan and his research partner observed a beam of light shining into the central chamber at Newgrange, illuminating a series of glyphs on the back wall.

A marvel of engineering and more versatile than a puzzle, the Ball of Whacks is comprised of 30 magnetic rhombic pyramids that can be taken apart and rearranged in endless creative ways. Designed to be a creativity workshop in a box, Ball of Whacks comes with an illustrated guidebook providing exercises for creative brainstorming.

Egyptologist Stephen S. Mehler has spent over 30 years researching the answers to these questions: Was there a advanced prehistoric civilisation in ancient Egypt?; Who were the people who built the great pyramids?; Who carved the Great Sphinx?; Did the pyramids serve as energy devices and not as tombs for kings?

Hildegard of Bingen, a major twelfth-century mystic and prophet, began having divinely inspired visions at the age of six. These visions continued throughout her life and were the source of highly honoured information on healing through a multidimensional approach to the body mind emotions and spirit.

The mystery of reincarnation has puzzled many different cultures throughout the centuries. What is reincarnation? Who will be reincarnated? What evidence is there for reincarnation? In this landmark work, Roy Stemman tackles these and other tough questions about the reincarnation phenomenon. A self-described 'sceptical believer,' Stemman examines the best case studies of reincarnation.

Morocco: Ancient cities, adobe fortresses of centuries past, fertile plains of wheat and olives, carpets of wildflowers, endless deserts, wild mountains, and isolated rural villages. And of course, the fabled open-air markets framed with stacks of woven rugs and other handicrafts, exotic scents wafting through the aisles, the hum of Arabic, Berber, French.