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Buddhism has captivated many millions of people around the world, its vitality and adaptability enabling it to transform the civilizations of India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan, and also become a lively component in the cultures of Europe, Australia, and the Americas. But have you ever wondered how a religion that doesn't even have a god could have accomplished this?

Discover why Buddhism is such an astonishingly lively and adaptable religion with this series. In just 12 accessible lectures, you'll learn how Buddhism transformed the civilizations of India and much of Asia, and has now become a vital part of Western culture.Buddhism's core philosophy, as you'll learn, is that nothing is permanent-all is change. With this in mind, you'll plunge into an introductory look at this faith. You'll unpack the Buddhist idea that all of life is "suffering" and that there is no permanent self.

The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to contemporary Earth, materialising at Gatwick Airport in the path of an oncoming aeroplane! The travellers split up in order to evade airport security, but in doing so they become embroiled in a plot to steal the personalities of young human beings.

There are seven articles in this edition: "Bombs", by Steve Coll; "Return of the Nativist", by Ryan Lizza; "Tubular", by Nancy Franklin; "Journey Into Night", by David Sedaris; "The King of Sentences", by Jonathan Lethem; "None of the Above", by Malcolm Gladwell; and "Hard Life", by David Denby

"Alien Nation" by John Cassidy; "The Soundtrack of Your Life" by David Owen; "Nostalgia" by George Saunders; "The Understudy" by David Sedaris; "Here's Why" by Malcolm Gladwell; "Drawn to Gypsies" by John Updike; and "Splitsville, U.S.A." by Nancy Franklin.

Sila voli imeet ogromnoe znachenie v zhizni cheloveka. Ot nee zavisit zdorov'e, material'noe blagopoluchie, dostizhenija v uchebe, prodvizhenie po kar'ernoj lestnice, uspehi v biznese, semejnoe schast'e. No zachastuju mnogim iz nas ne hvataet jetogo chudesnogo kachestva. My terjaem kontrol' nad svoim razumom i pozvoljaem chuvstvam brat' verh, tem samym razrushaja svoju zhizn'.

"Bewitched", by Rebecca Mead; "The Scholar", by Jeffrey Toobin; "Small Change", by Malcolm Gladwell; "Influencing People", by David Denby; and "Shaggy Dogs", by Nancy Franklin.

"War and Words" by Hendrik Hertzberg, "Trump v. Trump" by Mark Singer; "Postscript" by Paul Rudnick; "The Believer" by Jeffrey Goldberg; "Million-Dollar Murray" by Malcolm Gladwell; "Bauer Power" by Nancy Franklin; and "Home and Abroad" by David Denby.

"High Costs" by John Cassidy; "Wanted: S.W.F., Loves Keef" by Shauna Lyon; "Bella vs. Betty" by Kate Julian; "Strangers in Paradise" by Janet Malcolm; "Downpaging" by Ian Frazier; "Greensleeves" by Helen Simpson; "Proud Flesh" by Rebecca Mead; and "Prettier Pictures" by David Denby.

"Sacred and Profane" by David Remnick; "Shakedown Street" by Ben McGrath; "Not a Word" by Henry Alford; "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell; "The Shroud of Marin" by Tad Friend; and "Dirty Business" by David Denby.

"Crossing the Line", by Steve Coll; "Verismo", by Michael Schulman; "The Return", by David Finkel; "Man and Superman", by Malcolm Gladwell; "Varieties of Disturbance", by John Lahr; and "Spectacles", by David Denby.

"Smoke on the Water", by David Remnick; "Dream On", by Ben McGrath; "Everything, Everywhere", by Michael Schulman; "Home Economics", by James Surowiecki; "The Other Obama", by Lauren Collins; "By the Foot", by Ian Frazier; "Advanced Placement", by Janet Malcolm; and "Class Acts", by David Denby.

"Synergy with the Devil" by James Surowiecki; "Open Secrets" by Malcolm Gladwell; "How to Operate the Shower Curtain" by Ian Frazier; "Big Pictures" by David Denby; and "Under the Volcano" by Anthony Lane.

Chatsworth House during the Second World War. The Devonshire family make way for an evacuated girls' school, Chatsworth's grand interiors now converted to dormitories and classrooms. Pupils Ceri and Gwyneth explore these new surroundings and their history, above and below stairs. But a ghost story about a screaming woman on the bridge in the grounds seems disturbingly true - and all the more disturbing for the parallels it presents with the secret love affair they discover their charismatic teacher, Miss Cairns, is involved in....

"Read It and Weep" by Adam Gopnik; "Tear, Slap, Clack" by Susan Sheehan; "The Risk Pool" by Malcolm Gladwell; "Manifold Destiny" by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber; and "Borderlines" by Anthony Lane.

"Fuel Duel" by Dorothy Wickenden; "Hedgemony" by James Surowiecki; "Hollywood Heresy" by Peter J. Boyer; "Nazis Say the Darndest Things" by Andy Borowitz; "What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell; "Don't Touch That Dial" by Tad Friend; and "Sink or Swim" by David Denby.

"Rights and Wrongs", by George Packer; "Ready for Launch", by Mark Singer; "The Treatment", by Malcolm Gladwell; "The Inventor’s Dilemma", by David Owen; and "Roulette Russian", by Julia Ioffe.

Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on distant planets! In The Sensorites, the First Doctor is forced into an uneasy alliance with a race of telepathic creatures from the Sense-Sphere. In Doctor Who and the Space War, the Third Doctor finds that a full-scale war between Earth and the planet Draconia seems inevitable. In Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks, the Third Doctor and Jo discover a vast army of Daleks waiting to mobilise and conquer on the planet Spiridon.