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John Stubbs's Donne: the Reformed Soul brings one of Britain's most famous poets - and famous periods in history - to life.John Donne's life story is inextricably tied up with the fabric of a society in the throes of religious persecution. His family had long been subject to the terror inflicted upon Catholics under the reign of Elizabeth I, and while his brother languished in prison, and his mother and uncles fled to exile in Europe, Donne was consumed by the question of his own faith and by trying to figure out what it is that connects human beings - and keeps them apart.In his biography of Donne, John Stubbs chronicles not only a long and bitter sectarian conflict, but also the love story of a young couple who broke the rules of their society, and paid the ultimate price.From the raucous streets of late sixteenth-century London to the personal and political intrigues of Donne's family and public life, from the horrors of the Reformation to the delight of Donne's poetry, John Stubbs' book is a vivid, dazzling biography of an extraordinary man, as well as a compelling portrait of England at a time of bewildering transformation.'Magnificent . . . remarkable'Daily Telegraph'Impressive . . . Fluent, assured and on fire with ideas and enthusiasm, excels at providing Donne with a living context'Miranda Seymour, Sunday TimesJohn Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was published in 2006 and won the Glen Dimplex Irish Writers' Centre New Writer of the Year and a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction. It was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

From scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from taverns to the pulpit of St Paul's, John Stubbs's "exemplary literary biography" (Harold Bloom) is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.

Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice - a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them.As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.

Through the use of case examples and careful examination, this book presents the first interdisciplinary essay collection on the study of art crime, and its effect on all aspects of the art world. Contributors discuss art crime subcategories, including vandalism, iconoclasm, forgery, fraud, peace-time theft, war looting, archaeological looting, smuggling, submarine looting, and ransom. The contributors offer insightful analyses coupled with specific practical suggestions to implement in the future to prevent and address art crime. This work is of critical importance to anyone involved in the art world, its trade, study, and security. Art crime has received relatively little attention from those who study art to those who prosecute crimes. Indeed, the general public is not well-aware of the various forms of art crime and its impact on society at large, to say nothing of museums, history, and cultural affairs. And yet it involves a multi-billion dollar legitimate industry, with a conservatively-estimated $6 billion annual criminal profit. Information about and analysis of art crime is critical to the wide variety of fields involved in the art trade and art preservation, from museums to academia, from auction houses to galleries, from insurance to art law, from policing to security. Since the Second World War, art crime has evolved from a relatively innocuous crime, into the third highest-grossing annual criminal trade worldwide, run primarily by organized crime syndicates, and therefore funding their other enterprises, from the drug and arms trades to terrorism. It is no longer merely the art that is at stake.

One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican minister--as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satires of the English language: Gulliver's Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparalleled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists.John Stubbs's biography captures the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakable attachment to an unmarried woman, his "Stella"; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all the answers.Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel--a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.

These stories are written as if they were happening to different people, but really they are happening to only one person: Micro, a remarkable human soul passing through many lifetimes, again and again, and you his faithful or not so faithful shadow-reader, tagging along behind him like Sancho Panza once, twice, now and then, or maybe only for half a page before tossing it. On these loose, non-deterministic trips neither Micro, living and re-living 16 lives from the first to the last page, nor you his shadow-reader tagging along, have to clutter up your pea-brain minds trying to remember them all. Just live them one life at a time again and again, word by word, one sentence after another, living or reading them, but always forgetting once, twice, three times. No sweat....

Ever wonder about the lost or hidden meaning of your existence on Earth? Is there even a meaning? Read "Inner Connections". Basing his discussion on more than thirty years of study and practice of the Fourth Way, the author explores one of its pivotal conceptions -- Rodney Collin's theory of six processes. Born asleep and dying that way normally, each one of us has locked up inside of us an extraordinary capacity for becoming conscious and living in a state of continuous presence. How does one find the key to unlock this? It is lost, the author tells us, somewhere among six organic processes -- growth, destruction, healing, elimination, corruption, and regeneration. One of these is a catalyst for continuous presence: Regeneration. Finding the key then means being taught how to recognize and practice this sixth process. Continually. This is the inner practical meaning of all the ancient teachings and their Schools of Awakening. But Mr. Stubbs does not stop here. He has not written an archeology textbook on ancient teachings. What is the Fourth Way, he asks. What accounts for its extraordinary attractiveness to tens of thousands of us today? One reason, he writes, is that the Fourth Way is suited to people who would like to learn how to practice regeneration, but also want to continue their daily lives as they always have. The Fourth Way connects the two worlds. Continuing the ancient tradition of teaching us how to recognize and practice the sixth process, it also takes place in everyday life. Indeed, the author tells us, its power lies precisely in the fact that everyday life contains all the raw material and lessons for waking up spiritually. By remembering to detach oneself from our everyday ordinary experiences and becoming present to them, we progress along the path of regeneration just as fast as we would in a monastery or a hermit's cave. And in some cases, perhaps even faster. Without leaving ones occupation, ones daily routines, ones family, one can still start the steep personal ascent to self-mastery. But because it takes place in everyday life, the Fourth Way is also the most difficult way. One continually forgets to follow an aim, or loses the subtle thread of what one was trying to do or falls asleep thinking one is awake. That is why a spiritual teacher and a School are necessary -- even with the Fourth Way. "Inner Connections" is truly encyclopedic. Compressed into 106 pages, it not only discusses the stages of spiritual development all of us must go through as students of the Fourth Way, it tells us how to recognize those stages. It describes the major influences guiding our progress, and the great cosmic design behind it. A tour de force of higher consciousness? Divinely inspired madness? The distilled wisdom of a Fourth Way School? All three? Illustrated with original never-before-seen diagrams of the six processes.