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Hatha Yoga Pradipika Hatha Yoga Pradipika is among the most influential surviving texts on hatha yoga. The text describes asanas, purifying practices, shatkarma, mudras, finger and hand positions, bandhas, locks, and pranayama, breath exercises. T...

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I boken om vikingarna berättas bland annat om senare års utgrävningar i Ryssland och Ukraina. Dessa har ökat vår kunskap betydligt om hur vikingarna levde. Genom brev skrivna på näver som grävts fram ur jorden vid en flodbank, kan vi urskilja ensk...

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Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Sciascia: "... ho impiegato addirittura un anno, da un'estate all'altra, per far più corto questo racconto. Ma il risultato cui questo mio lavoro di...

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Hanna Hellquist är med sina 25 år DAGENS NYHETERS yngsta kåsör och har på kort tid skaffat sig en stor läsekrets av inte minst unga människor, som annars inte så ofta läser kåserier. På ljudboken som omfattar ett fyrtiotal kåserier från DN, får vi...

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Pranayama Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning breath or life force. The Indian tradition of Hatha Yoga makes use of various pranayama techniques. Many of these practices are known for their overall health benefits especially for those practicing ...

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"Lo hobbit" è il libro con cui Tolkien ha presentato per la prima volta, nel 1937, il foltissimo mondo mitologico del Signore degli Anelli, che ormai milioni di persone di ogni età, sparse ovunque, conoscono in tutti i suoi minuti partic...

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Efter den framgångsrika landstigningen i Normandie i juni 1944 hoppades de allierade på ett snabbt slut på kriget. Engelska trupper svepte upp genom Belgien och en stor del av Holland. Men man kom att i Arnhem möta ett mycket starkt motstånd trots...

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Nej! Den växande populismen är ingen gåta. Högerpopulismen är precis det som världens alla marknadsliberaler bett om när de vägrat se konsekvenserna av ökad ojämlikhet och otrygghet. Populistiska manifestet är en stridsskrift som slår åt alla håll...

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Ingmar Bergman skrev sina memoarer under slutet av 1980-talet. De gavs ut på en rad språk och blev omedelbart en stor framgång. Laterna magica ger en rundmålning av 1900-talets mest framgångsrika svenska konstnärskap. Vi får följa Ingmar Bergman f...

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A collection of jazz age stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, portraying so vividly the decadent side of the American dream. This collection of stories includes: The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders,...

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A collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of The Great Gatsby, portraying so vividly the decadent side of the American dream. This collection of stories is divided into three sections: My Last Flappers, Fantasies, Unclassifie...

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Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite exploring the New York cafe society scene during the Jazz Age. The story follows his relationship with his wife, Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters ...

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This Side of Paradise follows life of Amory Blaine, an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and formulates his own philosophy of romantic egoism. The novel explores post war uncertainties, the theme of love, greed and ...

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Hatha Yoga Pradipika is among the most influential surviving texts on hatha yoga. The text describes asanas, purifying practices, shatkarma, mudras, finger and hand positions, bandhas, locks, and pranayama, breath exercises. The book explains the ...

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali contain a collection of 196 Indian sutras on the theory and practice of yoga. The Yoga Sutras were compiled by sage Patanjali who synthesized and organized knowledge about yoga from older traditions. Hindu tradition ho...

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Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning breath or life force. The Indian tradition of Hatha Yoga makes use of various pranayama techniques. Many of these practices are known for their overall health benefits especially for those practicing various fo...

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What is known as Gnani Yoga or Yoga of Wisdom deals with the scientific and intellectual knowing of the great questions regarding Life and what lies back of Life-the Riddle of the Universe. This book gives the highest Yogi teachings regarding the ...

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Each branch of Yoga is but a path leading towards unfoldment, development, and growth. What is known as Raja Yoga deals with the Mind, its control, its development. He who wants to develop his will-power and mental faculties, unfolding the inner s...

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Like most of Dickens's early works, the novel has a contemporary setting. Much of the action takes place in London, with several chapters taking place in Dickens's birthplace of Portsmouth, as well as settings in Yorkshire and Devon. Nickleby is t...

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Orphaned by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's mysterious absence, Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in the care of Mrs Mann. He is later sent to a workhouse and from there escapes to London. He meets Artful Dodger in L...

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Dickens wrote this book for his own children trying to cultivate interest in both history and literature. A Child's History was included in the curricula of British schoolchildren for more than a hundred years, well into the 20th century.

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A Tale of Two Cities is one of few works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens. The text relies much on The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle as a historical source. Dickens wrote in his Preface to Tale that no one can hope to add ...

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Barnaby Rudge is Dickens' first historical novel set in revolutionary times similarly to his other historical text A Tale of Two Cities. Barnaby Rudge, a simpleton, wanders in and out of the story with his pet raven, Grip. Barnaby's mother begins ...

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Dostoevsky was 27 years old when he wrote this story. It revolves around two young men, true soul mates, who live in each other's pockets, sharing a flat, social and emotional joys and setbacks. They are young professionals of the time contemplati...

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Our protagonist Arkady is 19 years old. He is a young intellectual of Dostoevsky's era, yet Arkady's ideas of life resonate surprisingly well with modern generation of millennials and overall rejection of consumerism. Arkady's form of rebellion ag...

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Ivan Ivanovitch is a frustrated writer. One day he attends the funeral of a casual acquaintance and falls to contemplation in the graveyard. He hears the voices of the recently deceased and buried, and he listens to their conversation. They discus...

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The original iconic work of Fyodor Dostoevsky telling a thrilling story of mental anguish and moral dilemmas experienced by an inexperienced murderer. Raskolnikov, a former law student who lives in extreme poverty in a tiny, rented room in Saint P...

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A fictional town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted revolution, orchestrated by master conspirator Pyotr Verkhovensky. A mysterious aristocratic figure dominates, exercising an extraordinary influence over the hearts...

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The Eternal Husband is one of the very few works of Dostoevsky with humorous content, love triangle, and most complete structures of narrative development.

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Alexei is hopelessly in love with Polina, the General's stepdaughter. She asks him to go to the town's casino and place a bet for her. After hesitations, he succumbs and ends up winning at the roulette table. He returns to her the winnings but she...

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