The Lazarus Effect

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The lazarus effect review........2002-04-01

In my eyes, this is a very good book. I suggest you spend a week or two to read it. You will feel better after you read is. It makes me wonder my this wasnt a hit instead of Dune. They are both outstanding books and this book gets my gratitude.

The Lazarus Effect.......2002-03-28

I feel that people everywhere should read the Pandora series. It mixes action, love, literature, and culture into an action packed yet down to earth book. I feel that Frank herbert, and Bill Ransom have created a marvelous Series that shows how people are nto what they seem.

Voidship strikes again.......2001-08-27

Unlike Dune, this series has been out of print for some time. Shame! No one does it better than Herbert but Dune-Mania has left too much of his best work unread and unknown. Dune was a masterpiece, no question. But the series devolved into action novels - the work of creating his universe did not have to be re-done so the rest was just what happens next (and as Brian continues the series, what happened before. The Voidship series is different. Beginning with Destination: Void, which establishes the premise, each novel must reestablish the world in which it is set. Each set of characters has very new hurdles and new forms of intelligent life(? at least self-awareness) to deal with, each with their own world view. A good marketing bet would be to reintroduce these novels in paperback, capitalizing on the popularity of the Dune series. Let the new generation of sf readers discover the other worlds of Frank Herbert.

A very good read!.......1999-02-20

Well I hate long reviews so here's what I have to say about The Lazarus Effect. If you read any of Peter F. Hamiltons books like The Reality Dysfunction then you should enjoy this one. It's Biotechnology vs. Technology, Mermen vs. Mutes

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Related Conditions

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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Related Conditions
Stanley N., M.D. Caroff , Paul E., Jr., M.D. Keck , and Arthur Lazarus
Manufacturer: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1585620114

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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and other hyperthermic conditions are rare complications of antipsychotic drugs that can cause discomfort, disability, and even death. As a result, every psychiatrist, physician, and mental health care professional needs to be able to spot warning signs of NMS and to administer treatment in time to prevent a fatal outcome. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Related Conditions is an important tool for clinicians, outlining a framework for understanding, diagnosing, treating, and preventing these little-understood and often overlapping disorders. This new second edition extensively updates and revises the first edition, integrating an explosion of new findings that have occurred since the earlier edition was published in 1989.

A new chapter on serotonin syndrome is particularly important, given the rise in use of serotonergic drugs such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). It is the first comprehensive review of this condition to appear in the world literature.

Other chapters focus on related conditions such as antipsychotic drug-related heatstroke, hyperthermia associated with other neuropsychiatric drugs, and malignant catatonia. The heatstroke chapter contains a detailed consideration of thermoregulatory mechanisms, the disruption of which could underlie the pathogenesis of all these conditions.

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Now in its second edition, Drugs and Human Lactation is a comprehensive guide to the content and consequences of xenobiotics and micronutrients in human milk, and remains by far the most thorough and extensive work available on this subject. The excellent methodology used for the compilation of the 1st edition has been retained.

It begins with an outline of the processes by which substances enter milk during its formation, the effects of drugs on the milk production process, the main determinants of drug excretion into milk and their disposition in the child. There follows an analysis of current data on 234 individual drugs, describing the extent of their passage into human milk, and assessing the risk to the suckling infant. Vitamins and essential trace elements, and radiopharmaceuticals are similarly reviewed. Also included is an account of the factors that influence the passage of environmental and occupational chemicals into milk. The result is a complete overview of what is known and proven, with clear pointers to matters which require further study, and brings the various subject areas up to date. Risks, uncertainties and false alarms which exist have been defined in such a way that they can be avoided.

Once again, Drugs and Human Lactation provides a comprehensive guide to the content and consequences of substances in milk. The volume will provide a rational basis for making therapeutic decisions in women who seek to breast-feed.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 6822 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A study was conducted to investigate the negative and positive consequences of natural disasters on insurance firm values. An examination of the effect of Hurricane Andrew, as well as a related change in regulation, on the stock prices of 48 public property-liability insurers revealed a significantly negative influence on insurance stocks although it was somewhat ameliorated by a smaller positive effect. Moreover, the study found industry-wide contagion effects because the impact of Andrew and the regulatory change was felt by most insurers.

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Title: Catastrophic shocks in the property-liability insurance industry: evidence on regulatory and contagion effects.
Author: Lazarus A. Angbazo
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
Volume: v63 Issue: n4 Page: p619(19)

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Discovering our true nature could be called the discovery of emptiness--of the vast stillness and loving silence that lies beyond and within all that exists. Our lives are the dance of this emptiness as it flowers into form. "Emptiness Dancing" offers dynamic teachings that come directly from this emptiness and draw the open heart into profound realization. Adyashanti reveals valuable insights and explores important themes relevant to those seeking and deepening into the Truth. He shares an enlightened perspective on the seeker's struggle, the joys and challenges of spiritual awakening, the symptoms of spiritual addiction, the essence of sacred relationship, the true meaning of enlightenment, the simple secret to being happy.

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The Brightest of Minds Writing In the Simplest of Terms.......2007-09-02

Brilliant writing doesn't lie in how profound the terms are, but rather, in the simplicity that the unfathomably profound can be expressed in. Adyashanti is gifted with the ability to accomplish the task. The light that every chapter is able to shine upon the mind is put into terminology and sentence structure so simple that any individual will be able to allow the meaning behind the words immediately have an affect on them. So simplified, so wise.

Emptiness Dancing.......2007-07-07

Adyashanti shows a fresh and impeccable clarity in this book and brilliantly leads the reader past the noise of the mind and its concepts to rediscover the constant, quiet, untaintable sense of beingness that is ever present.

Rmarkable Explanation.......2007-05-08

Adyasanti's words are simply true as trueblue, and It's clear explanation about the truth. Adya's teachings will be much appreciate from one that seeking the truth ... THAT silent, stillness, emptiness, clarity and THAT happy nowhear ... I AM THAT! "It's only true that enlightement is enlightend." OM ~ Shanti.

Adya's experience of going beyond the ego sounds real........2007-03-13

Reading Adyashante's "Emptiness Dancing" is as close to being in the state that he describes as one can get in a book. For the first time in many years of meditating, I now see that more relaxation and less "forcing something to happen" will probably get me there.

Profound insights of whom we are.......2007-01-13

Here is an example from the book on page 85. The discussion is on consciousness which is our true being and repressing negative feelings.

"When you know you are consciousness, then there's no repression, and there's no grabbing hold. It's as if you are the sky. You neither push your clouds away, nor grasp them to keep them from leaving you. The sky is inherently completely unaffected, even if the storm comes and lightning cracks and all hell breaks loose. It doesn't matter as long as the sky remembers that it's sky.

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i really love this book--changed the past 9 yrs of my life
The Cornerstone of All Subsequent Madhyamaka Research
A Strong Elixir...
A scholarly presentation of the steps leading to liberation

Meditation on Emptiness
Jeffrey Hopkins
Manufacturer: Wisdom Publications
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ASIN: 0861711106

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In bringing this remarkable and complex philosophy to life, Jeffrey Hopkins describes the meditational practices by which the Buddhist ideal of emptiness can be realized and shows that, far from being merely abstract, these teachings can be vivid and utterly practical.

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i really love this book--changed the past 9 yrs of my life.......2005-07-15

I bought this book while browsing a bookstore at a time i was going through a difficult time graduating from professional school. at the time i wantedto learn how to calm my mind. nine years after I'm still following it's advice. the majority of people i have met do not know, as i did not, what Buddhism is all about. or rather most people are misconceived about the teachings. just the words and the way things are put: powerful beautiful, clarifying, serene, calming to the mind. I wish everyone would know about emptiness.

The Cornerstone of All Subsequent Madhyamaka Research.......2001-07-19

This encyclopedic and gound-breaking work inaugurated a new era of Buddhist scholarship in the West and significantly raised the standard for the study of Buddhism. This book is based on Professor Hopkins' Ph.D. dissertation of the same name. Since writing this book he has gone on to supervise the scholarship of numerous leaders in the field of Tibetan Buddhist studies at the University of Virginia, such as Elizabeth Napper, Anne Klein, Joe Wilson, Daniel Perdue, Donald Lopez, Guy Newland, and Georges Dreyfus among others. Together these scholars have produced a body of work which gives us a context and a philosophical vocabulary with which we can plunge into the world of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. This is of immense benefit not only to scholars but to Buddhist practitioners as well. This book started it all. It is a work of amazing depth which plunges into the Tibetan exegesis of the Indian Madhyamaka meditation. This analytical meditation tradition is designed to induce, through meticulous analysis, a direct perception of the absence of the mental and perceptual distortions which are at the root of suffering. The core delusion under which all mind-posessing beings suffer is the belief that phenomena exist inherently, or independently of their causes and conditions, their parts, and their designation by a valid consciousness. The fact that they do not exist in this way is called emptiness. Indian Madhyamaka masters Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Chandrakirti, and Shantideva express this view in their works. Their analysis is picked up by great luminaries of the Ge-lug-ba tradition in Tibet, such as Dzong-ka-ba and his disciples. Professor Hopkins primarily focuses his exegesis on the practical instructions of Chandrakirti as they are espoused by Tibetan masters Jam-yang-shay-ba, Nga-wang-bel-den, and Jang-gya. It is said by some that an analytic approach to meditation is contrary to the non-dual nature of realization in the Buddhist tradition. Such a view loses sight of the fact that all of these reasonings are aimed precisely at giving rise to such a direct experience. Putting these reasonings into practice can be the basis of profound and transformative growth, but it is up to the reader to breath life into the tradition by bringing these reasonings alive for one's self. Professor Hopkins here gives us a monumental collection of reasonings as well as a supportive analysis of pertinent aspects of Buddhist philosophy and the philosophical history of the Prasangika-Madhyamaka position which can be a cornerstone of our practice as well as future scholarship. Few works before, or even since, can begin to match the ambitious nature of this work which, in my opinion, is fully realized. In this book we see the serious engagement with some questions of fundamental import continued in the West.

A Strong Elixir..........2000-05-30

A strong elixir for the path-seeking mind -- but then even elixirs can reduce the mind to a state of cataleptic numbness... Still, it broke ground...for another baker's dozen of synapse-stoking tomes of Gelugpa Madhyamaka, whose glow has warmed up many a fortunate cortex for more, and perhaps grander things...

A scholarly presentation of the steps leading to liberation.......2000-01-29

For those of you who want a thorough "intellectual" interpretation of the stages that lead to "Emptiness," this book is the best so far. It is not an instructional book but it does give a crystal clear presentation of the philosophical schools within Tibetan Buddhism. I would personally recommend this book to those who are interested in becoming familiar with the Epistemological aspects of Tibetan Buddhism.

Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamaka Insight Meditation

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Wonderful for the philosophically inclined

Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamaka Insight Meditation
Gen Lamrimpa
Manufacturer: Snow Lion Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1559391804

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Gen Lamrimpa explains in a practical and down-to-earth fasion how to analyze experience to fathom how it has been mispercieved and misunderstood because of our many delusions, and how to use Madhyamaka reasoning to experience how all things only exist as dependently related events rather than in themselves.

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Wonderful for the philosophically inclined.......2000-09-08

This book is the second collaboration between Gelukba scholar and meditator Gen Lamrimpa and B. Alan Wallace. The first, Calming the Mind, remains the single most helpful book on meditation practice that I have read. While that book focused on stablizing meditation called Calm Abiding, this book focuses on the discursive analytic meditation on empiness known as Special Insight. Also included are two very interesting brief essays on the Nyingma tantric meditation technique Dzog Chen.

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In the Vietnamese Zen tradition, mindfully chosen music and words can serve as "soothing droplets" to cool the heart. Recorded on location at Plum Village, Drops of Emptiness invites listeners into the sanctuary of this practice. These deeply felt works include the poetry of Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese folk songs and Buddhist hymns of Sister Chan Khong, and chants performed by the monks and nuns of Plum Village. An opportunity to share in musical contemplations rarely heard outside the seclusion of this cherished Zen monastery.

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Beautiful!.......2007-06-02

This is absolutely wonderful. I love that it's the practitioners of Plum Village themselves. Thich Nhat Hanh has a beautiful voice - the singers may not have perfect singing inflection, as the other reviewer mentioned, but this, to me makes it more genuine. These are monastics reverently expressing their Buddhist practice. This adds much beauty to the cd. I also highly recommend it!

what beautiful words.......2007-02-02

This cd is not for everyone in the Western world. The melodies sung here sound strange to people who are unused to Eastern modalities, and the singers' voices are older and not always perfectly inflected. Having said that, the words of the poetry are stunningly beautiful, and offer many hours of reflection, given the chance. I have this cd, and I'm buying a copy for a friend of mine who leads a centering prayer group. I heartily recommend it.

Nihilism, science, and emptiness in Nishitani: An article from: Buddhist - Christian Studies

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Nihilism, science, and emptiness in Nishitani: An article from: Buddhist - Christian Studies
Hase Shoto
Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
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Binding: Digital

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SUNYATA (EMPTINESS): An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's
<i>Encyclopedia of Buddhism</i>

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SUNYATA (EMPTINESS): An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Buddhism
ROGER R. JACKSON
Manufacturer: Macmillan Reference USA
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000K9L8SE

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The “Encyclopedia of Buddhism” provides a comprehensive overview of one of Asia's most important religious and social forces, describing the Buddhist worldview, basic teachings and practices, history, and the different schools and sects. This intriguing set illuminates a religion that is a mystery to most Westerners by exploring Buddhist scriptures, art, architecture, saints, demons, monastic orders, festivals, rites and ceremonies, as well as the different forms Buddhism has taken in different parts of the world, and how it has blended with other religions like Shinto, Confucianism, Daoism and Christianity.

Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness

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Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Manufacturer: Prajna Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NYPUGC

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Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness
VEN. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rimpoche
Manufacturer: Longchen Foundation
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ASIN: B000TJELFC

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Summer 1996) Jeffrey Hopkins on Sex, Emptiness, and Gay Tantra; Toni Packer; Walking: Meditation on the Move

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Summer 1996) Jeffrey Hopkins on Sex, Emptiness, and Gay Tantra; Toni Packer; Walking: Meditation on the Move
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Manufacturer: Buddhist Ray, Inc.
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ASIN: B000KNB64Q

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