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Wisdom wrote: "Wisdom Publications | 2 comments Can someone please update the description for How to Wake Up (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...) to read:Intimately and without jargon, "How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow," describes the path to peace amid all of life’s ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow. This opens the door to a kind of wellness that goes beyond circumstances. Actively engaging life as it is in this fashion holds the potential for awakening to a peace and well-being that are not dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. This is a practical book, containing dozens of exercises and practices, all of which are illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from the author’s experience.
Thanks in advance!
PS I have updated this in the publisher data feed, but I'm not sure when/if that gets updated in GoodReads. "
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Can someone please update the description for The Far Left: An Expose Of The Extreme Left In Britain to the below, which is from the back of the book (I have it in front of me), but doesn't appear to be available on the internet anywhere, so I just typed it up. I will be adding this to Amazon too:"The Far Left poses a real and growing thread to British society. For many years 'the Left' has signified a collection of eccentric fringe groups, rarely taken seriously by the public or those in politics. But recent events have revealed a number of highly organized, secretive and determined parties whose declared aim is to overthrow the British democracy.
In this extensive and controversial survey of the Far Left in Britain Blake Baker exposes in detail the workings of the largest parties - the WRP, the SWP, the IMG, the Militant Tendency and the Communist Party. He investigates their role in unions, their finances, and their disturbing international connections. He shows how agitators now crop up everywhere - in the civil service, in education, in the anti-nuclear movement, and in the press and media. And in organized politics too, where their most successful and most serious infiltration has been through the Militant Tendency into the Labour Party.
The larger parties and the numerous smaller offshoots and factions often feud as fiercely with each other as with their Establishment enemies. But they share a common aim: to bring about the collapse of the established order and institute a workers' State. The Far Left makes no attempt to conceal these revolutionary designs in its newspapers and publications. And yet many people are totally unaware of these orchestrated plans to destroy British society as we know it. This challenging book should startle and concern anyone who cares about the future of Britain.
Blake Barker was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He joined the Daily Telegraph in 1954, has been chief correspondent in Germany, chief industrial correspondent and is now special writer to the Editor. He lives in London with his wife and children."
I've added the book blurb but moved the author reference to the author profile. OK?https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Thanks. It has been commented that I used a thread for another book to get my post updated. I am very sorry. It was suggested I start new threads, which is fine, but I cannot start threads - their is no option too?
Intimately and without jargon, "How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow," describes the path to peace amid all of life’s ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow. This opens the door to a kind of wellness that goes beyond circumstances. Actively engaging life as it is in this fashion holds the potential for awakening to a peace and well-being that are not dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. This is a practical book, containing dozens of exercises and practices, all of which are illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from the author’s experience.
Thanks in advance!
PS I have updated this in the publisher data feed, but I'm not sure when/if that gets updated in GoodReads.