Symbols,Banking,The Depression,Gnosis,Pholosophy(Compilation Torrent)

material included are:

1. The Mind’s I - by by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett (April 1, 1985)

A fascinating tour of fundamental issues too often ignored or finessed.
Philosopher scientists Hofstadtler and Dennett offer an anthology of probing essays along with their own running commentary on the the topics of identity, consciousness, and reductionism vs. holism. More compelling and less of a challenge to read than Hofstadtler's more famous book, Goëdel, Escher and Bach, it none the less guides the reader to reconsider many of his assumptions about what he is and where he fits in the world.
The book unfortunately was written just as complexity theory was maturing and Maturana's autopoetic version of consciousness was appearing in English. [See Capra's Web of Life] Its confidence in the creation of programmed Artificial Intelligence might also not withstand the arguments presented by Winograd and Flores in Understanding Computers and Cognition. I would very much like to know what these authors think of those approaches to the problem, paradigms I find more plausible and useful than anything presented here.
Still, I highly recommend the book to two classes of readers. First, those interested in a slightly incomplete survey of modern thinking about consciousness and, second, those fascinated by mental gymnastics, cerebral cleverness, and the ultimate puzzles of existence. Happily, I am firmly in both classes.

2. A Dictionary of Literary Symbols 2nd edition - by michael ferber (1999-2007)

This is the ?rst dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than
‘‘universal” psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the
literary symbols that we all frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon
gold), and gives hundreds of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary
concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible
and classical authors to the twentieth century, taking in American and
European literatures. For this new edition, Michael Ferber has included over
twenty completely new entries (including bear, holly, sun?ower, and tower),
and has added to many of the existing entries. Enlarged and enriched from
the ?rst edition, its informed style and rich references make this book an
essential tool not only for literary and classical scholars, but for all students
of literature.

3. America’s Great Depression 5th Edition - by Murray N. Rothbard (2008)

The Wall Street collapse of September–October 1929 and
the Great Depression which followed it were among the
most important events of the twentieth century. They
made the Second World War possible, though not inevitable, and
by undermining confidence in the efficacy of the market and the
capitalist system, they helped to explain why the absurdly ineffi-
cient and murderous system of Soviet communism survived for so
long. Indeed, it could be argued that the ultimate emotional and
intellectual consequences of the Great Depression were not final-
ly erased from the mind of humanity until the end of the 1980s,
when the Soviet collectivist alternative to capitalism crumbled in
hopeless ruin and the entire world accepted there was no substitute
for the market.
Granted the importance of these events, then, the failure of his-
torians to explain either their magnitude or duration is one of the
great mysteries of modern historiography. The Wall Street plunge
itself was not remarkable, at any rate to begin with. The United
States economy had expanded rapidly since the last downturn in
1920, latterly with the inflationary assistance of the bankers and
the federal government. So a correction was due, indeed overdue.
The economy, in fact, ceased to expand in June, and it was
inevitable that this change in the real economy would be reflected
in the stock market.The bull market effectively came to an end on September 3,
1929, immediately the shrewder operators returned from vacation
and looked hard at the underlying figures. Later rises were merely hiccups in a steady downward trend. On Monday October 9, for
the first time, the ticker tape could not keep pace with the news of
falls and never caught up. Margin calls had begun to go out by
telegram the Saturday before, and by the beginning of the week
speculators began to realize they might lose their savings and even
their homes. On Thursday, October 12, shares dropped vertically
with no one buying, and speculators were sold out as they failed to
respond to margin calls. Then came Black Tuesday, October 19,
and the first selling of sound stocks to raise desperately needed liq-
uidity.
So far all was explicable and might easily have been predicted.
This particular stock market corrective was bound to be severe
because of the unprecedented amount of speculation which Wall
Street rules then permitted. In 1929 1,548,707 customers had
accounts with America’s 29 stock exchanges. In a population of 120
million, nearly 30 million families had an active association with
the market, and a million investors could be called speculators.
Moreover, of these nearly two-thirds, or 600,000, were trading on
margin; that is, on funds they either did not possess or could not easily produce.

4. GNOSIS OF KALI YUGA - by S. L. Noonan (2008)

BEING A SUMMARY OF THE UNIVERSAL SCIENCE FOR THE
AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS AS EXPRESSED THROUGH
THE ESOTERIC DOCTRINE OF MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS

5. The Mystery of BANKING 2nd EDITION - by MURRAY N. ROTHBARD (2008)

Long out of print, The Mystery of Banking is perhaps the
least appreciated work among Murray Rothbard’s prodi-
gious body of output. This is a shame because it is a model
of how to apply sound economic theory, dispassionately and
objectively, to the origins and development of real-world institu-
tions and to assess their consequences. It is “institutional econom-
ics” at its best. In this book, the institution under scrutiny is cen-
tral banking as historically embodied in the Federal Reserve
System—the “Fed” for short—the central bank of the United
States.
The Fed has long been taken for granted in American life and,
since the mid-1980s until very recently, had even come to be ven-
erated. Economists, financial experts, corporate CEOs, Wall
Street bankers, media pundits, and even the small business own-
ers and investors on Main Street began to speak or write about
the Fed in awed and reverential terms. Fed Chairmen Paul Vol-
cker and especially his successor Alan Greenspan achieved mythic
stature during this period and were the subjects of a blizzard of
fawning media stories and biographies. With the bursting of the
high-tech bubble in the late 1990s, the image of the Fed as the deft and all-seeing helmsman of the economy began to tarnish. But it
was the completely unforeseen eruption of the wave of sub-prime
mortgage defaults in the middle of this decade, followed by the
Fed’s panicky bailout of major financial institutions and the onset
of incipient stagflation, that has profoundly shaken the wide-
spread confidence in the wisdom and competence of the Fed.
Never was the time more propitious for the radical and penetrat-
ing critique of the Fed and fractional-reserve banking that Roth-
bard offers in this volume.
Before taking a closer look at the book’s contents and contri-
butions, a brief account of its ill-fated publication history is in
order. It was originally published in 1983 by a short-lived and
eclectic publishing house, Richardson & Snyder, which also pub-
lished around the same time God’s Broker, the controversial book
on the life of Pope John Paul II by Antoni Gronowicz. The latter
book was soon withdrawn, which led to the dissolution of the
company. A little later, the successor company, Richardson &
Steirman, published the highly touted A Time for Peace by Mikhail
Gorbachev, then premier of the U.S.S.R. This publishing coup,
however, did not prevent this firm from also winding up its affairs
in short order, as it seems to have disappeared after 1988.
In addition to its untimely status as an orphan book, there
were a number of other factors that stunted the circulation of The
Mystery of Banking.

6. Historical Dictionary of Hume’s Philosophy Historical Dictionaries of Religions,Philosophies, and Movements - by Kenneth R. Merrill (2008)

This volume, which follows hard on the heels of publication of the final volume of the 26-volume set of Kierkegaard's writings (Princeton, 1980-2000), allows its readers to find their way quickly to relevant sources of help, elucidates Kierkegaard's central concepts, and demonstrates the contemporary relevance of his ideas (he is important because of his emphasis on human subjectivity).

7. the constitution of the united states

8. readers digest the anatomy of peace - by emery reves (1993)