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From Santiago de Compostela in the north-west to Granada in the south-east via Madrid in the centre, Enchanting Spain reveals the fascinating breadth and depth of this exuberant country.

The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

Spanning thousands of years, this collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions. It reveals the similarities and differences among the teachings of each tradition and the development of their ideas and practices over time. Selections address a range of subjects, including sexuality and sexual pleasure, the meaning and purpose of marriage, the role of betrothal, the status of women, the place of romance, divorce, celibacy, and sexual deviance. Drawn from a variety of genres, including ritual, legal, theological, poetic, and mythological texts, the chapters present and analyze a diverse range of sources, such as the Zohar on conjugal manners, a contemporary Episcopalian liturgy for same-sex unions, Qur'anic passages on the equality of the sexes, the Ka-masu-tra on husbands, wives, and lovers, Buddhist writings on celibacy, and Confucian teachings on filial piety.

Contains essays that examine questions such as Dickens' symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry, and are concerned with such aspects of Dickens as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism.

A comprehensive guide to the Soul, this book offers an easy grasp of the true essence inside us all, commonly known as the Soul.How is the Soul incarnated and how does it play a role in our everyday lives? Illuminating in its information, this gem of a book leaves the reader with a deeper understanding of who we truly are as Souls.

This book is an engaging sample of questions John-Roger has answered over the last 30 years about soul transcendence, the spiritual nature of life, and practical spirituality. Covering subjects from angels and the souls of animals to the silent ones and the names of God, this book offers food for thought and nourishment for the soul.

In the spring of 1987, I was in Havana, Cuba, where I was participating in planning a large-scale longitudinal study of the neurophysiological, neurochemical, and behavioral characteristics of cohorts of patients with cerebrovascular disease, depression, senile dementia, schizophrenia, or learning disabilities;