Mindless
Two Views of Mind
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A scientist compares and contrasts the Buddhist theory of perception and Western neuroscience. For Buddhism, mind is awareness.
Ferdydurke
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This satire of the mindless rigidity of Polish life in the 1930s was banned there after its initial publication in 1937. The story involves a boy named Kowalski who is a student at an insanely repressive boys' school. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005.
The Center of Everything
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Evelyn Bucknow is highly intelligent, not pretty, and determined not to sink into the sea of loserhood that her relatives swim in.
Mindsword`s Story
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The Mindsword--he who wields it given mindless devotion--has been lost for years, since the Dar King`s defeat and the death of the gods.
The Midwife's Apprentice
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Set in medieval England, this is the story of a homeless, orphaned girl named Brat whose life changes when she becomes an assistant to a midwife named Jane. Although the short-tempered Jane wants a mindless assistant, someone who will anticipate h...
The Confidence Man
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A confidence man and his equally shifty victims are characters in a satirical allegory that is meant to expose what Melville saw as the smug, mindless materialism of mid-century America.