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Nanci Kincaid's As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me is the touchingly honest story of Berry Jackson, a young teenager growing up Pinetta, Florida, home to two churches, a school, and a gas station. Berry spends her days soaking up the lives of her parents, Ford and Ruthie, her brothers Sowell and Wade, and an amusing array of neighbors that include a wayward preacher, a shotgun toting father of six, and the town's (relatively) wealthy businessman. As Berry navigates her way through young adulthood, she unearths a number of truths and lies that will ultimately serve as the foundation for her sense of self. ("It was not really that I longed to be pretty so bad, I swear, it was that I longed to be real. In Pinetta it seemed like being pretty was the one thing guaranteed to make a girl real.")
The book starts off slowly, and some readers may find themselves losing interest in Kincaid's descriptions of Pinetta's long, hot summer days and their inhabitants. However, once the town is hit by a powerful tornado and Berry's father disappears with the town beauty, the pace picks up and readers are rewarded for their perserverance with an exciting tale of mystery and intrigue. The plot thickens when a chain gang rolls into town to help rebuild the roads and the school, and a certain convict steals the heart of Berry and the rest of the townsfolk. Even after his awful crime is revealed, the people of Pinetta can't help but keep a place for him in their hearts.
Kincaid does a commendable job of getting inside 13-year-old Berry's 13-year-old and showing us how no experience is ever truly black or white. In fact, Kincaid is so talented that by the end of the novel, while allegiances may have shifted a bit one way or another, readers will have a hard time saying goodbye to Berry and her supporting cast of memorable characters. --Gisele Toueg
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Nanci Kincaid's As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me is the touchingly honest story of Berry Jackson, a young teenager growing up Pinetta, Florida, home to two churches, a school, and a gas station.Berry spends her days soaking up the lives of her parents, Ford and Ruthie, her brothers Sowell and Wade, and an amusing array of neighbors that include a wayward preacher, a shotgun toting father of six, and the town's (relatively) wealthy businessman. As Berry navigates her way through young adulthood, she unearths a number of truths and lies that will ultimately serve as the foundation for her sense of self. ("It was not really that I longed to be pretty so bad, I swear, it was that I longed to be real. In Pinetta it seemed like being pretty was the one thing guaranteed to make a girl real.")The book starts off slowly, and some readers may find themselves losing interest in Kincaid's descriptions of Pinetta's long, hot summer days and their inhabitants. However, once the town is hit by a powerful tornado and Berry's father disappears with the town beauty, the pace picks up and readers are rewarded for their perserverance with an exciting tale of mystery and intrigue. The plot thickens when a chain gang rolls into town to help rebuild the roads and the school, and a certain convict steals the heart of Berry and the rest of the townsfolk.Even after his awful crime is revealed, the people of Pinetta can't help but keep a place for him in their hearts.Kincaid does a commendable job of getting inside 13-year-old Berry's 13-year-old and showing us how no experience is ever truly black or white. In fact, Kincaid is so talented that by the end of the novel, while allegiances may have shifted a bit one way or another, readers will have a hard time saying goodbye to Berry and her supporting cast of memorable characters. --Gisele Toueg
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Southern Lit at its best........2006-08-31
This is the kind of book that I never want to end. Southern writing at its best. Miss Kincaid definately knows her southern people and southern humor. The characters in this wonderful book will stay with me for a long time. Berry is precious. I wanted to be her friend & help her along the difficult paths that she had to take. Please more like this Ms. kincaid.
I HAVEN'T MET A NANCI KINCAID BOOK I HAVEN'T LIKED YET !!!!.......2006-08-08
This author certainly knows her stuff! This is one of the best books ever -- Berry and her family have a crazy cast of characters as their neighbors in this half-horse town.
I was hooked on the first page. The story moves, is continually interesting, and FUNNY. This is one of those books that you can't put down and when you MUST put it down, you can't stop thinking about it. Then, you get your housework done and go right back to it!
You can feel the sweat on your own skin, hear the bugs buzzing in your ears, and ride out a hurricane with the characters. The characters are wonderful, each and every one of them.
Ms. Kincaid has a gift and you should open up this book and treat it like a present that has been handed to you on a silver platter. Enjoy it, spread the word, pass it on.
Berry would thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks -- Pam
Southern Lit as it should be.......2005-08-05
I absolutely loved this book!
I used to read a lot of Southern Lit, but too many authors today seem to think that being from the South and putting race in the book somewhere (preferably in a heavy-handed way) makes their books "Southern". In my opinion, Lewis Nordan is one of the few today who do it right. Now I have to add Nanci Kincaid to that list.
This book, is a classic example of the genre. The characters could have fallen straight out of a Welty work. Further, the situations in the small town of Pinetta rang true to me. I had no trouble picturing any of the events happening in the small Southern town I grew up in -- right down to the polite competition between the Baptists and the Methodists. Ms. Kincaid never really played that up, but anyone who grew up in a town like mine could easily identify.
Finally, the book was just plain well written. I was hooked right from the beginning -- a beautiful description of the constant, yet fruitless, quest to find a cool spot in a Southern summer. From there it just got better.
I won't claim that it's another "Mockingbird", but if you like the classic Southern Lit of Welty, Capote, or McCullers I think you'll enjoy this one as well.
As Hot as it was, you should thank me.......2005-07-11
Amazing. Wonderful. Read it.
One of the best books of 2005........2005-06-19
Flawed? Aren't we all.
All of the books I've read this year have flaws, though some are national prize contenders. I haven't heard this book mentioned as a contender, but for me it is thus far the year's most engaging novel.
Some books I admire for their artful qualities even though they don't engage me emotionally, like good dancers you dance with and admire, even though you could never fall in love with them.
Some of them are like an unsatisfactory blind date, books that might make a good read for someone else, but they are not for you.
Once in a blue moon a book comes along that you really fall in love with, that makes you care about the characters and what happens to them. This is such a book for me. It may or may not be for you.
The writing is beautiful, filled with southern humor and insights and things that ring true. The only thing I wished for is that I had it in hardcover, but perhaps that is also part of the book's simple charm here. A casual looking and unpretentious trade paperback with easy to read print and an author's afterward that explains the history behind it. Easy to open, easy to read, easy to love.
It is multilayered--that is to say, the author adroitly uses figurative language, symbolism, and nuances to convey her ideas to those to who can see them. But it is not necessary to see these things to adore this truely rendered narrative voice that trumps any plot flaws that anyone might see in it. Love is like that. And I will never forget this one.
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When Melanie Paxton takes over as a manager of a vintage clothing shop in a small, New England town, she makes the bold decision to add a selection of sex toys and fetish merchandise to her inventory. Sales skyrocket, and so does Melanie's popularity, as she teases sexy secrets out of the town's residents. It seems she can do no wrong, until she enters into an unorthodox domestic partnership with her former college professor and his wife - both spanking fans. Then the gossip starts - about Mel's wild past and her particular experimental brand of sexuality. However, she finds an unlikely - and very hunky - ally called Nathan who works in the history museum next door. The course is set for a curious alliance - the sassy sexpert and the antiquities scholar!
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Heavy on the S/M with some sweet kisses.......2004-11-02
This book had a good wardrobe, great sex, and some excellent tidbits of polyamourous romance. Lots of spanking and some other BDSM moments which I didn't think that I would care for, but they were highly arousing.
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Fundamentals of Switching Theory and Logic Design: A Hands on Approach
Jaakko T. Astola , and
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Switching theory and logic design provide mathematical foundations and tools for digital system design that is an essential part in the research and development in almost all areas of modern technology. The vast complexity of modern digital systems implies that they can only be handled by computer aided design tools that are built on sophisticated mathematical models. Fundamentals of Switching Theory and Logic Design is aimed at providing an accessible introduction to these mathematical techniques that underlie the design tools and that are necessary for understanding their capabilities and limitations. As is typical to many disciplines a high level of abstraction enables a unified treatment of many methodologies and techniques as well as provides a deep understanding of the subject in general. The drawback is that without a hands-on touch on the details it is difficult to develop an intuitive understanding of the techniques. We try to combine these views by providing hands-on examples on the techniques while binding these to the more general theory that is developed in parallel. For instance, the use of vector spaces and group theory unifies the spectral (Fourier-like) interpretation of polynomial, and graphic (decision diagrams) representations of logic functions, as well as provides new methods for optimization of logic functions. Consequently, Fundamentals of Switching Theory and Logic Design discusses the fundamentals of switching theory and logic design from a slightly alternative point of view and also presents links between switching theory and related areas of signal processing and system theory. It also covers the core topics recommended in IEEE/ACM curricula for teaching and study in this area. Further, it contains several elective sections discussing topics for further research work in this area
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The senior engineer's "bag of tricks," on power supplies made available in the form of an easy-to-read book!
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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The task-switching paradigm provides an opportunity to study whether oscillatory relations in neuronal activity are involved in switching between and maintaining task sets. The EEG of subjects performing an alternating runs [Rogers, R.D., Monsell, S., 1995. Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 124, 207-231] task-switching task was analyzed using event-related potentials, the lateralized readiness potential, instantaneous amplitude and the phase-locking value [Lachaux, J.P., Rodriguez, E., Martinirie, J., Varela, F.J., 1999. Measuring phase synchrony in brain signals. Human Brain Mapping 8, 194-208]. The two tasks differed in the relevant modality (visual versus auditory) and the hand with which responses were to be given. The mixture model [de Jong, R., 2000. An intention driven account of residual switch costs. In: Monsell, S., Driver, J. (Eds.), Attention and Performance XVII: Cognitive Control. MIT Press, Cambridge] was used to assign pre-stimulus switch probabilities to switch trials based on reaction time; these probabilities were used to create a fast-slow distinction between trials on both switch and hold trials. Results showed both time- and time-frequency-domain effects, during the intervals preceding stimuli, of switching versus maintenance, response speed of the upcoming stimulus, and response hand. Of potential importance for task-switching theory were interactions between reaction time by switch-hold trial type that were found for a frontal slow negative potential and the lateralized readiness potential during the response-stimulus interval, indicating that effective preparation for switch trials involves different anticipatory activity than for hold trials. Theta-band oscillatory activity during the pre-stimulus period was found to be higher when subsequent reaction times were shorter, but this response speed effect did not interact with trial type. The response hand of the upcoming task was associated with lateralization of pre-stimulus mu- and beta-band amplitude and, specifically for switch trials, beta-band phase locking.
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Switching hands.(FIREARMS TACTICS): An article from: Law Enforcement Technology
Lindsey Bertomen
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Title: Switching hands.(FIREARMS TACTICS)
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Switching Hands
Alaine Hood
Manufacturer: Virgin Black Lace
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This full-color graphic novel re-tells the story of police Lt. Win Bear, who while investigating the murder of a university physicist, gets blown "sideways in time" and finds himself in a technologically advanced, fabulously wealthy world where government is nearly extinct and everyone carries guns.
This provocative story was originally a prose novel published in 1980, now updated by Smith with 185 pages of eye-popping drawings by Bieser in a 192-page trade paperback volume.
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Excellent Comic.......2007-05-07
I had read the novel first, and so I was a bit skeptical when I read the comic version. I was very amazed to see so much from the novel included in the comic version. After reading the comic version, I could not recall that anything had been left out. Very well done and entertaining. The illustrations were well done and quite similar to what I had visualized in my imagination while reading the novel.
In this era of so many comics being turned into big screen movies, I cannot wait for the movie version.
Liberty entertained.......2007-01-25
Probably the best book on liberty and freedom has been transformed into a beautifully illustrated Graphic Novel. Scott Beiser teams with the author of the original book L. Neil Smith, to create a new and stylishly updated version of the original novel. Beiser's artwork jumps off the page with depth and clarity, evoking feelings of immersion into this world. If I could dive in and live there I would. Excellent!
Best comic I've read this decade.......2006-06-14
This graphic novel has to be considered both as an SF/Action-Adventure story, and as a piece of Libertarian propaganda.
As SF, it's colorfully imaginative, and runs with a theme previously used in L. Sprague De Camp's Wheels of If and the TV show Sliders (with a dash of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia thrown in). The story is usually fast paced, but there are a few points where the propaganda acts like an unwelcome speed-bump (as when the medic spends two pages preaching to our Gulliver character about the psychological problems of pacifists who won't bear arms in self-defense). The art is eye-catching, and filled with whimsical background touches (e.g. the cameo appearances by Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Olsen, Peter Parker, and Billy & Mandy).
The Probability Broach is also largely successful as Libertarian propaganda (more successful than the environmental propaganda in Callenbach's Ecotopia, which shares a similar narrative structure). The alternate history of the "over the rainbow" world has plenty of shocks for casual readers, and encourages them to delve with an open-mind into real-world history regarding the Whiskey Rebellion and minor American politicians like Albert Gallatin. More importantly, its alternate world is largely plausible, especially to readers who have already been steeped in the works of Hayek, Virginia Postrel, Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman, or who have already been persuaded by themes in Reason Magazine or John Stossel reports.
There remain gaps in the argument, though: like most Libertarian fiction, marriage and children seem out-of-place in this world. As in Ayn Rand's fiction, children are typically ignored, or if they appear at all, they enter as though they'd wandered in from a Victorian-era book written for children: the children are thoughtful and well-mannered enough to handle the responsibility of gun ownership or contract law at six years of age, instead of being subject to the kind of wild passions and fits that seem to demand authoritative parenting and restraint. In a post-Columbine world, the idea of gun-toting seven year olds strikes a sour note (though there is a temptation to see the kind of private school system that would avoid creating either Columbine-style pressure cookers of forced attendance, or the petty tortures cited in privately-run British boarding schools like the one depicted in Kipling's Stalky & Co.).
Further, the graphic novel is guilty of card stacking. "Our" world is depicted as one in which every historical example of government encroachment (short of pre-Civil War slavery) is carried one step further. For example, Executive Order 6102 (a Great Depression measure that prohibited "hoarding" of gold) is not only still in force in 1987 (instead of having been repealed on Dec. 31, 1974), but has been expanded to cover other precious metals.
Finally, the propaganda doesn't seem to adequately address why anyone short of a would-be dictator would be tempted away from the Libertarian model. Marxism never arose in the alternate world (Gallatinism swept Europe instead), slave-holders were *talked* into emancipation (by a President who, historically, was one of the few Revolutionary leaders who didn't include a manumission clause in his Last Will), the Plains Indians were apparently quick to reject tribal authority and the notion that their land was Sacred (in the alternate history, Manifest Destiny continued as a series of peaceful trades of land for precious metals and "stock options"), the Tragedy of the Commons never resurfaced (perhaps the alternate world's Confederacy arrived at a common law distribution of property rights for the broadcast frequencies, ground water, and air?), and Freemasonry is the closest thing witnessed to religious extremism.
The alternate world's Confederacy participated in a few variants of the "good" wars, but always via privately raised armies of volunteers, a method that uncomfortably resembles the distinction between 2001's nation of Afghanistan and the "unaffiliated" Al-Qaeda network that it harbored. The novel is gutsy enough to directly address the security question (how does a society that doesn't believe in borders or arms control stop a foreign army from assembling within its borders?), but the answers given seem terribly weak in a post-9/11 context, and remind readers that in real world history, an organized army was able to easily defeat a rag-tag band of farmers in the Whiskey Rebellion.
But despite these open questions, the graphic novel and the society it depicts remain compelling. I look forward to reading the unabridged prose version!
Bieser Helped Bring El Neil's Story to Life!.......2005-12-31
Scott Bieser has real talent and brought the story to life with his illustrations. He mixes colors well, too, and has a real imagination for fashions that I loved (though I suspect El Neil helped him on this). He even made the gun belts, holsters, sheaths, and the like fashionable. The inside is even better than the cover art that you can see here.
I loved how he really brought the story to life. A lot of things that the characters said were emphasized by the illustrations. And who can beat a chimpanzee (chimps are full, participating members of society in the anarchistic world) in classic Mexican dress, a red wig, and trying to sell Khmer Rouge to a detective from our world (or one like it)?
The illustrations aren't perfect. IMO, Lucy Kropotkin should be darker, as she's portrayed in The American Zone. And I thought the part of Dr. Thorens asking where Dr. Olsen (that is, Clarissa--btw, guys, you get to see her naked from the back in this) got her hair programmed was either unrealistic or downright catty. Dr. Thorens' hair was much fuller, curlier, and even "more blonde" if that's possible than Dr. Olsen's was.
But in spite of the nitpicking, I give this one five stars.
Funny, scary, and I would love to move to the NAC..........2005-09-24
This graphic novel did not reflect the visions I had in my head for these characters, it more than exceeded them! In fact, the whole graphic novel was a wonderful experience, and I sincerely hope they do more in the series.
The book presents a wild vision of a world where, for example, trying to collect income tax can get you shot - by the little old lady who lives next door. Subtle little things, like happy people who do not live in poverty, self repairing windows, and oh yeah - a realiable cure for cancer make the setting in this novel rather unique. I may not totally agree with all the thoughts in this novel, but you come away from it wishing you could make *our* world more like *theirs*. If the political philosophy does not get you thinking, I do not know what will!
Highly recommended!
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The Probability Broach tells the story of Win Bear, a detective on the trail of a murder. But the trail leads him to another North America, where things are different. In a world of zeppelins and no federal government, Win solves his mystery, and things are never the same for him again.
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Reality Check.......2007-08-11
This is a wonderful book. Of course I may be a bit biased I am on my fifth or sixth copy of this book. I read the others until the pages disintegrated. Aside from the insightful politics of this book. It is just fun reading. I loaned it to a former marine buddy and he read it twice before returning. It is that kind of book. It will bring out the anarcho-capitalist in you.
Such a Creative World. What an Imagination........2007-05-07
Have you ever wonder what the world would be like if events had occurred differently? Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a truly free society -- a society where there are no restraints on research, innovation, capitalism, art, literature, entrepreneurship, business, education, medicine? The Probabilty Broach provides a fascinating look at such a society in a very entertaining plot when Detective Edward Bear inadvertantly crosses a Probability Broach to a parallel world. Detective Bear encounters not only fascinating new and alternative technology in all fields from health to electronics, but he also encounters his own parallel self, as well as gorillas and chimpanzees fully functioning in society thanks to voice implants that allow them to speak languages as well as any human.
This book has become one of my favorites.
The way things ought to be.......2007-01-03
Like all science fiction, it is political. It's an in depth analysis of what our country would be like if all who took the oath to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic really meant it.
A what if politicians were more interested in preserving our freedom than restricting it and raising taxes.
great libertarian ideas in an easy to swallow dosage!.......2004-11-24
I'm already a libertarian, so I didn't need any convincing, but converting liberals or conservatives really isn't the point of the book anyway. It's a fun science-fiction book with a libertarian cherry on top.
I'd recommend it to anyone who likes a light story filled with interdimensional travel, talking gorillas, and a fresh, if not optimistic, view of what life could be like without the mess that is our government.
In the interest of informed decisions I should also say that there is a multitude of events that positively portray the use of guns (and well explained, in my opinion) and an interestingly "adult" sex scene. Oh how I wish it weren't so, because I would love to see this book on a school summer reading list!
Portrait of the Libertarian Ideal.......2003-11-24
Oh, the story is silly and the writing is just OK, but the portrait painted of the Libertarian ideal is pretty well done. One can read this book and almost imagine living in a world where there are *really* no laws, except for those that *individuals* collectively enforce.
Actual Libertarians tend towards two camps: Limited Government and No Government. Smith is in the latter camp.
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Probability Broach
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- In the tradition of "Power of Now"
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- Honestly, the BEST book ever
- valuable contribution
- The very best enneagram book for self-unfoldment
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Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas
A. H. Almaas
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A.H. Almaas presents "the holy ideas" that are the spiritual realities of the nine personality types that the Enneagram reflects. For those unfamiliar with the Enneagram, he includes an introduction to the structure of psychological typecasting rediscovered by Oscar Ichazo, founder of the Arica School, who gives this book its high credentials by having written the Foreword. While other books on the subject explain the different characteristics and behaviors of each of the nine fixations or types, Almaas expounds here on how the disconnection from each holy idea leads to the development of its corresponding fixation. Then he provides keys to unlock them. For example, the "seven" type's holy idea is "holy wisdom," which Ichazo defines as "The awareness that reality exists as a succession of moments, each experienced as the present, and that it is only by existing in the present that the constant unfolding of the Cosmos can be experienced ... can real work be done, and results achieved." --Randall Cohan
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Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea leads to the development of its corresponding fixation, thus recognizing each types deeper psychological core. Understanding this core brings each Holy Idea within reach, so its spiritual perspective can serve as a key for unlocking the fixation and freeing us from its limitations.
Customer Reviews:
In the tradition of "Power of Now".......2007-06-07
Reading "Facets of Unity" was a transformational experience for me. I experienced my foundamental connection to all that is as I read it. Love and light became more real than the bed I was sitting on. My ego seemed transparent. I highlighted several key parts, and I regularly go back and read those when I need to reground myself and get perspective beyond my story.
NOT for beginners...........2007-03-04
If you find yourself getting caught again and feel the need for a map, please start (and may be stop) with "Wisdom of the Enneagram" by Riso & Hudson, as far as enneagram is concerned.
Honestly, the BEST book ever.......2006-10-09
This is truthfully the best book ever. If you know anything about the enneagram, this book will let you know what the enneagram is made for. Alright, it's fun to think about all the frilly little quirks inherent in the enneagram that the "other" books like to get stuck on, but this book is actually the real thing. The JUICE. The whole point lies between these covers. If you are looking at this review, you need to buy this book. Get it used if you are low on money, just get it and read it.
valuable contribution.......2006-09-25
This exploration is a most valuable contribution to the understanding of Gurdjieff's Holy Ideas. I found it to be very seminal and I am sure that for some time to come it will be an often referred source.
The very best enneagram book for self-unfoldment.......2004-07-07
Touching, warm, gentle and precise. Almaas explains how we get fixated on certain enneatypes, and also points the way out of fixations. Reaching far deeper than the 'standard' personality approaches to the enneagram, this book really opens the gates to those who are seriously pursuing the Work of self-liberation.
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