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The Transcendental Meditation Movement

By: Dana Sawyer,Cynthia Humes

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The Transcendental Meditation Movement

By: Dana Sawyer,Cynthia Humes

This Element provides a comprehensive overview of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Movement and its offshoots. Several early assessments of the as a cult and/or new religious movement are helpful, but are brief and somewhat dated. This Element examines the TM movement's history, beginning in India in 1955, and ends with an analysis of the splinter groups that have come along in the past twenty-five years. Close consideration is given to the movement's appeal for the youth culture of the 1960s, which accounted for its initial success. The Element also looks at the marketing of the meditation technique as a scientifically endorsed practice in the 1970s, and the movement's dramatic turn inward during the 1980s. It concludes by discussing the waning of its popular appeal in the new millennium. This Element describes the social and cultural forces that helped shape the TM movement's trajectory over the decades leading to the present and shows how the most popular meditation movement in America distilled into an obscure form of Neo-Hinduism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009365509

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9781009365505

The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Sankaracarya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

By: LB Shriver,Translation by Cynthia Ann Humes

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The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Sankaracarya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

By: LB Shriver,Translation by Cynthia Ann Humes

In the late 1990's, LB Shriver traveled to India as a journalist-seeker to find answers to questions he had about Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. All proceeds from this book will go to Sacred Sun Ministries.

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214

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Lulu.com

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1304662004

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9781304662002

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future

By: Cynthia Eller

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The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future

By: Cynthia Eller

According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before recorded history. Society was centered around women, with their mysterious life-giving powers, and they were honored as incarnations and priestesses of the Great Goddess. Then a transformation occurred, and men thereafter dominated society. Given the universality of patriarchy in recorded history, this vision is understandably appealing for many women. But does it have any basis in fact? And as a myth, does it work for the good of women? Cynthia Eller traces the emergence of the feminist matriarchal myth, explicates its functions, and examines the evidence for and against a matriarchal prehistory. Finally, she explains why this vision of peaceful, woman-centered prehistory is something feminists should be wary of.

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292

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Beacon Press

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0807067938

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9780807067932

A World Divided

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 1

By: Cynthia A Sears

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A World Divided

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 1

By: Cynthia A Sears

Elizabeth’s sixteenth birthday was fast approaching and for the daughter of the King and Queen of Elnara, kingdom of the fairies and elves, that meant that she would have to attempt the magical transformation that would change her from Lady Elizabeth into Princess Elizabeth, the Fairy Princess of Elnara and the most powerful fairy alive. As if that isn’t enough, Elizabeth discovers she is expected to select her future husband, the future king of Elnara, from amongst the eligible young lords attending her birthday celebration. During the celebration, she meets Lord Edric, from remote Castle North, who has more on his mind then just meeting the enchanting Fairy Princess. Put off at first by his casual, unorthodox personality, Elizabeth finds herself drawn to the charming, handsome Lord Edric. The pair is soon plunged into a mystery that will take them over the great mountains to the north and beyond, braving deadly dragons and more. Nevertheless, they must find the answers they seek no matter what the risk, or the Fairy race will be doomed to extinction.

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669

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FriesenPress

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1460205154

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9781460205150

School-Based Audiology

By: Cynthia McCormick Richburg,Donna Fisher Smiley

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School-Based Audiology

By: Cynthia McCormick Richburg,Donna Fisher Smiley

School-Based Audiology takes the reader through the history of audiology in the schools, focusing on legislation that has shaped the face of school-based audiology as it is practiced throughout the United States. Core concepts involving academic achievement in students who are deaf/hard-of-hearing, classroom acoustics, hearing screening programs, hearing loss prevention programs, diagnostic evaluation protocols, hearing aid and FM system verification procedures, and classroom amplification are covered throughout the chapters. Concepts regarding collaboration with other school-based professionals and classroom accommodations and modifications are outlined and provide examples for real-life application. Each chapter of this textbook concludes with a list of vocabulary words and terms used in the educational environment. Practice management concepts not typically discussed in textbooks on this topic are presented, including minimum competencies, third-party billing, program outcome evaluation, mentoring, and preceptoring. Recently qualified and even seasoned audiologists will appreciate attention given to recent advances in areas like cochlear implants, auditory processing disorders, and auditory dys-synchrony as they relate to managing students with hearing loss. The varied and ever-changing roles of audiologists in the educational setting are described and highlighted with vignettes, or short personal statements describing real practitioners degree and training information, work settings, job description within their school districts, and day-to-day responsibilities. These personal accounts allow the AuD student an inside look at what audiologists do in the schools. Students are able to experience through these readings how different, exciting, and even challenging school-based positions can be. Instructors using this textbook will be able to supplement their lectures with the information described here, and will appreciate the structured approach wherein concepts contained in the chapters progressively advance in tune with the readers knowledge. Instructors goals will be met, as well as KASA requirements, because this textbook provides students the necessary knowledge needed to serve in an educational audiology position.

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Plural Publishing

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1597566950

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9781597566957

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

By: Cynthia Culver Prescott

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Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

By: Cynthia Culver Prescott

As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816549451

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9780816549450

Entertainment and Society

Influences, Impacts, and Innovations

By: Shay Sayre,Cynthia King

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Entertainment and Society

Influences, Impacts, and Innovations

By: Shay Sayre,Cynthia King

The second edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the ways that society shapes our many forms of entertainment and in turn, how entertainment shapes society. Entertainment and Society examines a broad range of types of entertainment that we enjoy in our daily lives – covering new areas like sports, video games, gambling, theme parks, travel, and shopping, as well as traditional entertainment media such as film, television, and print. A primary emphasis is placed on the impact of technological and cultural convergence on innovation and the influence of contemporary entertainment. The authors begin with a general overview of the study of entertainment, introducing readers to various ways of understanding leisure and play, and then go on to trace a brief history of the development of entertainment from its live forms through mediated technology. Subsequent chapters review a broad range of theories and research and provide focused discussions of the relationship between entertainment and key societal factors including economics and commerce, culture, law, politics, ethics, advocacy and technology. The authors conclude by highlighting innovations and emerging trends in live and mediated entertainment and exploring their implications for the future. The new edition features updated examples and pedagogical features throughout including text boxes, case studies, student activities, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading.

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Routledge

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1135839948

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9781135839949

The Transcendental Meditation Movement

By: Dana Sawyer,Cynthia Humes

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The Transcendental Meditation Movement

By: Dana Sawyer,Cynthia Humes

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Cambridge University Press

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1009365509

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The Woo-Woo Sisters' Wee Book of Wisdom

Just Some Little Life Essentials I Wish I Had Known When

By: Cynthia Ann Drew Barnes

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The Woo-Woo Sisters' Wee Book of Wisdom

Just Some Little Life Essentials I Wish I Had Known When

By: Cynthia Ann Drew Barnes

Tired of living your life by the rules you didn't make, based on how people you've never met say you should live your life, or by standards someone else has set? In The Woo-Woo Sisters' Wee Book of Wisdom: Just Some Little Life Essentials I Wish I Had Known When, Cynthia Drew Barnes, PhD, writes heartfelt messages to you: about who you really are and can become, about the life you were meant to live, about the men you love or hope to love, and about why you're really here on planet earth. Woo-woo sisters, this book will help you liberate yourselves from your own fears and from other people's expectations. Read this powerful book. Risk being just who you are and embrace all who you were truly meant to be.

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Xlibris Us

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1796082686

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9781796082685

Book's by Cynthia Humes

The Transcendental Meditation Movement

The Transcendental Meditation Movement

The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Sankaracarya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Sankaracarya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

A World Divided

A World Divided

School-Based Audiology

School-Based Audiology

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

Entertainment and Society

Entertainment and Society

The Transcendental Meditation Movement

The Transcendental Meditation Movement

The Woo-Woo Sisters' Wee Book of Wisdom

The Woo-Woo Sisters' Wee Book of Wisdom

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