Sixteen Moments

Sixteen Moments
Author: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Publisher: Divine Cool Breeze Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Sixteen key moments with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi between 1979 and 1990 and what she told us on each occasion. From the gift of clay swans, under a banyan tree on a beach at the US-Mexican border, a Mother Earth Puja in the gentle rain of suburban London, sitting for a portrait in oils in an Italian market square, a summer visit to Stonehenge, the launch and publication of The Advent with each book signed by Shri Mataji – you are there. "The complete dynamism and the memory of each moment is so deep that you will see the whole thing like a picture and the joy of that moment completely flows into you."

Billboard

Billboard
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1955-11-26
Genre:
ISBN:

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Groundless Paths

Groundless Paths
Author: Karl Brunnholzl
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 897
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0834829509

The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajñaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the prajñaparamita sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood. Groundless Paths contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries from the perspective of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. This study consists mainly of translations of Maitreya's famous text and two commentaries on it by Patrul Rinpoche. These are supplemented by three short texts on the paths and bhumis by the same author, as well as extensive excerpts from commentaries by six other Nyingma masters, including Mipham Rinpoche. Thus this book helps close a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the prajñaparamita sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. Arya Maitreya's Ornament of Clear Realization, with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries, presents the complex dynamics of the path to liberation as a succession of realizations of the empty nature of all phenomena. This presentation is a powerful antidote to whatever two-dimensional views we might hold about spiritual experience and the journey to enlightenment.

Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology

Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology
Author: Leszek Sosnowski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-08-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350321524

This volume explores the work of Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) with respect to his ontology, epistemology and aesthetics. An outstanding student of Edmund Husserl, it offers a unique tribute to one of the most important figures in contemporary philosophy. Leszek Sosnowski and Natalia Anna Michna introduce a team of renowned scholars to present new and timely readings of Ingarden's thought, placing his philosophy in a broader historical and cultural context. In doing so, they offer a cutting edge reflection on the relevance, refinement and depth of Ingarden's theory. Chapters are not only retrospective, but also set out the present and future development of philosophy inspired by his works. Reinvigorating the debate about Ingarden's phenomenological legacy and its relevance for contemporary thought, this collection of essays guides us through his place in the history of philosophy and presents new perspectives on selected aspects of his theory.

Sixteen Scandals

Sixteen Scandals
Author: Sophie Jordan
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0358206219

The youngest of four daughters, Primrose Ainsworth is used to getting lost in the shuffle. When her parents decide to delay her debut into English society, Prim hatches a plan to go rogue on the night of her sixteenth birthday. She dons a mask and escapes to Vauxhall Gardens for one wild night-- and finds a masked stranger who becomes her partner in mischief and romance. -- adapted from jacket

Moving Moments

Moving Moments
Author: Jayne Bithrey
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-03-21
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1471642437

A large step-family decide that the children would benefit from a life in the countryside with free-range chickens and organic vegetables. The town house that they live in is put up for sale and a wonderful little cottage in the country with leaded light windows and wobbly chimney pots is found. This is the hilarious account of how a rural dream almost turned into a financial nightmare.

2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments

2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments
Author: Jan Flusser
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119039355

Presents recent significant and rapid development in the field of 2D and 3D image analysis 2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments, is a unique compendium of moment-based image analysis which includes traditional methods and also reflects the latest development of the field. The book presents a survey of 2D and 3D moment invariants with respect to similarity and affine spatial transformations and to image blurring and smoothing by various filters. The book comprehensively describes the mathematical background and theorems about the invariants but a large part is also devoted to practical usage of moments. Applications from various fields of computer vision, remote sensing, medical imaging, image retrieval, watermarking, and forensic analysis are demonstrated. Attention is also paid to efficient algorithms of moment computation. Key features: Presents a systematic overview of moment-based features used in 2D and 3D image analysis. Demonstrates invariant properties of moments with respect to various spatial and intensity transformations. Reviews and compares several orthogonal polynomials and respective moments. Describes efficient numerical algorithms for moment computation. It is a "classroom ready" textbook with a self-contained introduction to classifier design. The accompanying website contains around 300 lecture slides, Matlab codes, complete lists of the invariants, test images, and other supplementary material. 2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments, is ideal for mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, software developers, and Ph.D students involved in image analysis and recognition. Due to the addition of two introductory chapters on classifier design, the book may also serve as a self-contained textbook for graduate university courses on object recognition.