The journey in trying to make it to the top, the various stages of doubt that every die-hard go-getter goes through. What does a youngster think of his goals? The mental state during the highs and especially the lows, when the grass looks greener on the other side or when just existing seems more content than actually living. Do you work on your dreams or go to that party where your friends were going to meet up? The moments when a accomplishment seems so close but doesn't happen, how do you ...

These anthologized columns and periodicals revolve around the authors cultural intake between the autumn of 2013 and the summer of 2014.

Amongst the fifty-plus recent films reviewed here are Lars von Trier s Nymphomaniac and Abdellatif Kechiche s La Vie d'Adèle (a.k.a. Blue is the Warmest Color), whose unflinching sex scenes polarized audiences and critics alike; and Noah, Darren Aronofsky s cinematic adaptation of Genesis, in which nudists Adam and Eve are shunned from the Garden of Eden ...

It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner introduced the breaking idea 'threefolding' of human life. The fundamentals are autonomy of cultural life (based on freedom), social life (based on equality), and economic life (based on brotherhood). He repeatedly emphasized that the threefolding of the social organism is absolutely necessary for the future of our society. Otherwise we inevitably face cultural death and social chaos. During his life Steiner did his utmost to realise this, but he exp...

With three of the pentomino letters you can make FUN. With all twelve pentominoes you can make a lot more fun. This exceptional book abounds with fanciful congruences, enclosures, tilings and a host of combinatorial squares: ConMagic, EyeMagic, GeoMagic and SymMagic. Many of the results are far from trivial, obtained by extensive research and programming. Their complete uselessness and beauty compete fiercely with each other. Almost every page bears witness to that by colourful figures. You a...

Hundreds of books on motorcycle racing have been published. Usually provided with beautiful photos. They are often sublime action photos, taken by professional photographers. Images from the paddocks are often in the minority. The booklet “With the camera in the paddock” fills this gap by presenting pictures of a pur sang enthusiast about the period 1961 until 1975. The photographer in question, Klaas Tjassens, has knowledge and a love for motorcycles, plus a nose for beautiful technology...

Touch of Heaven is a story about Ellen, a 23-years-old Armenian woman living in Yerevan, who has just started working as a fashion designer. She grew up being very popular with lots of friends, and was almost engaged to the love of her life. Everything in her life seemed perfect until the day she got into an accident which left her in a coma. From that moment on, her soul has been wondering out of her body and she continuously lives in a world that is between death and life. Heaven would gran...

I welcome you in this way of marriage. A marriage that comprises Chaos, beauty and structure. A marriage where desire is the natural thread within the desire to act from a personal experience.

If every signified evoked by reading or hearing any signifier is indeterminate, it makes no sense to formulate a semiotics cum philosophy that attempts to prove the correctness of the proposition that every signified is indeterminate, since that proof uses signifiers.

Those who proclaim as their unshakeable conviction that man (= every human being) is only consciousness, as the most famous structuralists and Derrida with in their wake the deconstructionists do, and that consequently only subj...

I have worked for 28 years in the Spanish building industry as an architectural designer/project manager, and I have seen it all. You will be surprised what can come across your path when you start your journey to purchasing a property in Spain. I have inspected many properties before, and unfortunately also some áfter the purchase. When viewing properties, people tend to look at the view and forget to look at the house. With the information I provide, you will not forget to look at the mos...

The composition of our brain of a human part of consciousness and analytical thinking, and a primal brain where the primary life functions are regulated, is the cause of many misunderstandings in our thinking and opinions over all kinds of things.

For example, we consider cultural matters like painting and music to be high-quality activities, whereas they are based only on physical-chemical processes that are not properly understood by the human part of our brain and therefore highly assesse...