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Transcendental meditation in America
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ISBN: 1609382617 9781609382612 9781609382353 1609382358 Year: 2014 Publisher: Iowa City, IA University of Iowa Press

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"The Indian spiritual entrepreneur Maharishi Mahesh Yogi took the West by storm in the 1960's and '70's, charming Baby Boomers fed up with war and social upheaval with his message of meditation and peace. Heeding his call, two thousand followers moved to tiny Fairfield, Iowa, to set up their own university on the campus of a failed denominational college. Soon, they started a school for prekindergarten through high school, allowing followers to immerse themselves in Transcendental Meditation from toddlerhood through PhD's. Although Fairfield's longtime residents were relieved to see that their new neighbors were clean-cut and respectably dressed--not the wild-haired, drug-using hippies they had feared--the newcomers nevertheless quickly began to remake the town. Stores selling exotic goods popped up, TM followers built odd-looking homes that modeled the guru's rules for peace-inspiring architecture, and the new university knocked down a historic chapel, even as it erected massive golden-domed buildings for meditators. Some newcomers got elected--and others were defeated--when they ran for local and statewide offices. At times, thousands from across the globe visited the small town. Yet Transcendental Meditation did not always achieve its aims of personal and social tranquility. Suicides and a murder unsettled the meditating community over the years, and some followers were fleeced by con men from their own ranks. Some battled a local farmer over land use and one another over doctrine. Notably, the world has not gotten more peaceful. Today the guru is dead. His followers are graying, and few of their children are moving into leadership roles. The movement seems rudderless, its financial muscle withering, despite the efforts of high-profile supporters such as filmmaker David Lynch and media magnate Oprah Winfrey. Can TM reinvent itself? And what will be the future of Fairfield itself? By looking closely at the transformation of this small Iowa town, author Joseph Weber assesses the movement's surprisingly potent effect on Western culture, sketches out its peculiar past, and explores its possible future." -- Publisher's description.

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"The book is about the 2016 trial in Minneapolis of several Somali immigrant and Somali American men for trying to join ISIS. It examines the process of radicalization and the reasons why one of the young men chose to cooperate with the FBI and testify against his friends and family members"--


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Versuch, die harten Urtheile über die Kantische Philosophie zu mildern
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ISBN: 1496230124 1496230310 9781496230317 9781496230126 1496230302 Year: 2021 Publisher: Lincoln

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"From a hardscrabble childhood in the Great Depression on the dusty plains of rural Nebraska, Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017) rose to work for four U.S. presidents, serving in the cabinets of two of them. His challenge, posed by one of President Ronald Reagan's aides, was this: go and change the world. As U.S. trade representative he did just that, opening the global trading arena with bold efforts that led to NAFTA, the creation of the World Trade Organization, and extraordinary growth in cross-border business. Today's global trading regime began with Yeutter. A distinguished lawyer with a doctorate in economics, Yeutter also had deep business experience leading the giant futures trading organization, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now called the CME Group. But he never forgot his family's farm roots, and those roots led him to another top job as President George H. W. Bush's secretary of agriculture. Yeutter's intellectual firepower, paired with an engaging personality and a midwesterner's beaming smile, made friends and found common ground with leaders and trade officials worldwide. Although a loyal GOP leader who served as counselor to a president and head of the Republican National Committee, Yeutter was a moderate who had admirers on both sides of the aisle. This is his life story. "-- "This biography tells the life story of Nebraska native Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017), whose accomplishments in international trade, agriculture, and economics are still very prominent in today's world"--

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