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Focus: Silicon valleys breed plastic lifestyles Focus
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My misgivings began 25,000 feet above San Jose airport. At that
height, Silicon Valley was an ugly, brown smear beside the bright
water of San Francisco Bay, about the colour and shape of an over-
ripe banana. At 10,000 feet it looked like a 60-mile long strip mall
running all the way from San Francisco in the north to San Jose in
the south.
At 5,000 feet I noticed that the traffic on the clogged highways
wasn't moving. I was making the journey from New York with a view to
perhaps settling in the area for a while and finding a job. With more
millionaires per acre than any other spot on the ...
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A Compendium of the Theological Writers of Emanuel Swedenborg.(Brief article)(Book review)
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; ...The Theological Writers of Emanuel Swedenborg Samuel M. Warren Swedenborg...The Theological Writers of Emanuel Swedenborg" includes Swedenborg's philosophical...and metaphysical researcher, Emanuel Swedenborg published more than seven thousand...
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The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies
; ...Wilkinson's The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture is just such a book...often mentioned but little understood Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Many scholars have appreciated the significance...
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Swedenborg, Emanuel: Swedenborg's Secret: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; Swedenborg, Emanuel Swedenborg's Secret: A Biography. Lars Berquist. London: Swedenborg Society, 2006. 516 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. "Lars Berquist's biography is ... a fervent attempt to rescue Swedenborg from the contempt...
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Ernst Benz. Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...Goodrick-Clarke. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2002. xxi + 536 pp...intellectual and cultural milieu that Swedenborg encountered not only in Sweden but also...Hogan, has argued persuasively that Swedenborg was also caught up in the flourishing...
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Swedenborg Foundation Premieres New Documentary.
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; Splendors Of The Spirit: Swedenborg's Quest For Insight A New Documentary...for the 150th anniversary of the Swedenborg Foundation, in 2000, this elegant...extraordinary life and ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, called by renowned Zen scholar...
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Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook.(Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook: A Research Manual)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch
; Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook William Ross...19380 9780877853275, $29.95, www.swedenborg.com Scientists and translators have...evaluating the writings of the erudite Emanuel Swedenborg for nearly three centuries. The...
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Swedenborg: Buddha of the North.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...translation of D. T. Suzuki's Swedenborg (the centerpiece of the book...translation of Suzuki's brief essay "Swedenborg's View of Heaven and `Other...the Swedish Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg so eagerly in the years between...
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A Crescendo of Celebrations Completes the Swedenborg Foundation's Sesquicentennial Year.
PR Newswire
; ...celebrations for admirers of Emanuel Swedenborg. At 600 Park Avenue, the...Edition (NCE) of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg upon the occasion of its publisher...interest in and academic study of Emanuel Swedenborg's visionary theology. Though...
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Swedenborg Oetinger Kant.(Swedenborg Oetinger Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch
; ...9780877853213, $19.95 www.swedenborg.com 1-800-355-3222 Wouter...University of Amsterdam) presents Swedenborg Oetinger Kant: Three Perspectives...scrutiny of spiritual philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg's "Secrets of Heaven", and...
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Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, and Jung.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, and Jung. By PAUL BISHOP. (Problems in Contemporary...eines Geistersehers (1766),which investigated Emanuel Swedenborg's putative clairvoyant vision of the Great Fire...
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