Indian poetry of the classical style, kāvya, has been long ignored by western Indologists. Nowadays opinion slowly tends to change in favour of this rather extreme poetry. Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya, the poem treated in this volume is part of the tradition of epic poems or mahākāvyas. Six are recognized. The Kirātārjunīya marks the beginning of a new style of Indian poetry and represents one of the best written in this tradition. The plot is taken from the Mahābhārata.

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Killer whales are the world’s oceans and seas apex predator. For many years they were feared by mankind and therefore hated and hunted.It wasn’t until recent years that people discovered these animals were in fact extremely intelligent and highly emotional. The orca has become loved by many and studies show that these black and white giants are actually kind hearted and very interested in us.

“Orca Stories” tells some of the most amazing tales of killer whales interacting with humans....

After many years of backproblems I finally found the solution for me in a Fusion (Spondylodese. Since I missed information about what to be expected after the operation I decided to write a book about everything I experienced both before as well as after the operation. With this book I give you a glimpse in my world. How does it feel to live with immense pain 24 hours a day? And how did I experience the operation and the year after?

This book is not only helpful for patients but also for th...

In this book the old problem of the unfair distribution of wealth is again analyzed as to its root causes. Since money tends to be attracted by those who have more power then others to do so, too often resulting in a flagrantly unfair distribution of wealth where those who work hardest see the least of it, a solution is developed in which the freedom to trade and organize are protected or even enhanced while the power of everyone to be and remain free - their economic power - is equalized as ...

Renewing Capital Market Supervision addresses the core topics of supervision strategy. It enables capital market regulators and supervision agencies to systematically evaluate their strategies and tactical methods, and initiate improvements. The book's viewpoint is comprehensive and strategic, rather than technical or legal.

This compact guide discusses how to align every-day activity to the regulatory mission, consider the Big-5 approaches to supervision, work on each step in the supervision...

One day I saw the movie "Hector in search of happiness". In this movie, a psychiatrist travels the world in search of what happiness is, in order to be able to make his patients happy again.

His project fascinated me and not long after I had started my own project. For one year I have asked my friends, family & people I met two questions in either Dutch or English, the English ones being "What is your definition of happiness?" and "What to you is love?".

This book contains all the answers I...

In the spring of 1893, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine and his younger sister Princess Alix, the future wife of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, went on a holiday to the Italian cities of Florence and Venice. They admired works of art in museums and churches, rode through the parks of Florence and the surrounding hills, and enjoyed gondola rides on the canals and in the lagoon of Venice. They also spent time with relatives, including Queen Victoria, Prince and Princess Henry of Ba...

When you read this book, it is very likely that the world of Physics is still very calm. Like in the early morning, just when the sun rises. You feel peace and the birds start to wake up and you hear the first sounds breaking the silence of the night. The sounds of joy, the sounds of happiness, the sounds of peace. But it is the morning of the great battle. The battle in physics. Still everybody is asleep. There is no sign of aggression. But soon the armies will rise and the battle will be da...

When you read this book, it is very likely that the world of Physics is still very calm. Like in the early morning, just when the sun rises. You feel peace and the birds start to wake up and you hear the first sounds breaking the silence of the night. The sounds of joy, the sounds of happiness, the sounds of peace. But it is the morning of the great battle. The battle in physics. Still everybody is asleep. There is no sign of aggression. But soon the armies will rise and the battle will be da...

Mechanics Of The Quantum [MQ] searches for mechanical microprocesses of individual and collective behaviour of quanta (as building blocks of fields, mass, energy, light…) to reveal causality behind the laws of physics. The discrete MQ-model shows a 5th property.

Our reference frame from our level of scale does not allow us to interact mechanically with the smaller or smallest scales. But that doesn’t mean that things at those scales do not behave in ways similar to classical mechanical pr...