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' You don't seek guidance from those drunken men So why insist they mend their rags again? God's lovers stand beyond all faiths as they Are shown by God Himself a higher way' Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment In particular it focuses on the struggle against the self & how to choose the right companions in order to progress along the mystical path By interweaving amusing stories & profound homilies Rumi instructs his followers in a style that still speaks directly to us In this volume stories such as ' Moses & the Shepherd' ' The Foolhardy Man who Trusted a Bear's Good Intentions' & ' Mo'awiya & Satan' are among the most popular in the entire Masnavi The most influential Sufi poem ever written the six books of the Masnavi are often called 'the Qur'an in Persian' Self-contained as well as continuing the journey along the spiritual path Book Two is here translated into rhyming couplets in the style of Jawid Mojaddedi's prize-winning translation of Book One ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

' Joking is teaching so take care to listen
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Miracle-worker or man of straw? Count Alessandro Cagliostro was a cult figure of European society in the tumultuous years leading to the French Revolution An alchemist healer & freemason he inspired both wild devotion & savage ridicule
- as well as novels by Alexandre Dumas a drama by Goethe & Mozart's opera The Magic Flute Cagliostro's sincere belief in the magical powers including immortality conferred by his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry won him fame but made him dangerous enemies too His celebrated travels through the Middle East & the capitals of Europe ended abruptly in Rome in 1789 where he was arrested by the Inquisition & condemned to death for heresy The Masonic Magician tells Cagliostro's extraordinary story complete with the first English translation of the Egyptian Rite ever published The authors examine the case made against him that he was an impostor as well as a heretic & find that the Roman Church & history itself have done him a terrible injustice This engaging account drawing on remarkable new documentary evidence shows that the man condemned was a genuine visionary & true champion of Freemasonry His teachings have much to reveal to us today not just of the secrets of Freemasonry but of the mysterious hostility the movement continues to attract
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2015 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Internal Medicine Category! The Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary Illustrated Manual of Ophthalmology is the must-have medical reference book for the ever-changing field of ophthalmology Thoroughly updated to include the latest advances in the field the fourth edition of this renowned manual features high-quality color images & an intuitive design for easy comprehension & reference Ideal for ophthalmic practitioners & allied health professionals alike this indispensable resource is your comprehensive guide for the speedy diagnosis & treatment of the most common eye disorders Accurately diagnose problems through the support of full-color photographs & real case studies Rapidly locate key information with a highly templated format that

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' Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning & shows how wondrous & exciting the future will be' Walter Isaacson author of Steve Jobs Society is changing one learning algorithm at a time from search engines to online dating personalized medicine to predicting the stock market But learning algorithms are not just about Big Data
- these algorithms take raw data & make it useful by creating more algorithms This is something new under the sun a technology that builds itself In The Master Algorithm Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business politics science & war & he takes us on an awe-inspiring quest to find ' The Master Algorithm'
- a universal learner capable of deriving all knowledge from data

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THE ORIGINAL & BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY50th Anniversary Edition Afterwards when it was frankly too late descriptions were issued of the man expensive grey suit grey beret one green eye & the other black He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplices including a demonic fast-talking black cat When he leaves the asylums are full & the forces of law & order are in disarray Only the Master a man devoted to truth & Margarita the woman he loves can resist the devil's onslaught Brilliant & blackly comic The Master & Margarita was repressed by Stalin's authorities & only published after the author's death The Vintage Classic Russians Series Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution these are must-have beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy censorship & suppression to influence decades of thought & artistic expression ...

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita is a fiercely satirical fantasy that remained unpublished in its author's home country for over thirty years This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky the acclaimed translators of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina In Soviet Moscow God is dead but the devil
- to say nothing of his retinue of demons from a loudmouthed gun-toting tomcat to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev
- is very much alive As death & destruction spread through the city like wildfire condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells & body bags only a madman the Master & Margarita his beautiful courageous lover can hope to end the chaos Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign & circulated in samizdat form for decades when The Master & the Margarita was finally published it became an overnight literary phenomenon signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere This luminous translation from the complete & unabridged Russian text is accompanied by an introduction by Richard Pevear exploring the extraordinary circumstances of the novel's composition & publication & how Bulgakov drew on carnivalesque folk traditions to create his ironic subversion of Soviet propaganda This edition also contains a list of further reading & a note on the text After finishing high school Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) entered the Medical School of Kiev University graduating in 1916 He wrote about his experiences as a doctor in his early works Notes of a Young Country Doctor His later works treated the subject of the artist & the tyrant under the guise of historical characters but The Master & Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece If you enjoyed The Master & Margarita you might like Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels also available in Penguin Classics' One of the great novels of the 20th century a scary darkly comic allegory' Daily Telegraph

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons including a naked girl & a huge black cat When he leaves the asylums are full & the forces of law & order in disarray Only the Master a man devoted to truth & Margarita the woman he loves can resist the devil's onslaught ...

" My favorite novel -it&s just the greatest explosion of imagination craziness satire humor & heart" Daniel Radcliffe The devil with his retinue a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth & a startling re-creation of the story of Pontius Pilate constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove The Master & Margarita the unofficial masterpiece of twentieth-century Soviet fiction Long suppressed in its native land this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical trenchant unadulterated voice of dissent ...