The
Southern Cross Review e-Book Library
All the e-books in this library are
FREE.
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The e-books
available in our library, according to category, are:
Social Science/Education
"Favela
Children - A Brazilian Diary"
by Ute Craemer. 181 pages.
A moving description of Ute Craemer's experiences as a long time social
worker in the favelas of Brazil.
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"Rich in Spirit - Life in the Favelas of Brazil"
by Ute Craemer. 53 pages.
A long-awaited update to the above book, showing the encouraging growth and development of Ute Craemer's and her co-workers' work a quarter of a century later.
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"Los niños entre luz y sombras"
por Ute Craemer. 134 pages.
El único libro de Ute Craemer en Español - en el cual ella describe sus experiencias humanas y pedagógicas con los niños y adultos en las favelas de Brasil.
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"Basic Issues
of the Social Question"
by Rudolf Steiner. 81 pages.
Rudolf Steiner's basic book about his concept of a tripartite society
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"The Soul of
Man under Socialism"
by Oscar Wilde. 26 pages.
In a brilliant essay, the arch-individualist Oscar Wilde gives us his
view of a kind of utopian socialism.
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"Civil
Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau. 28 pages.
Thoreau's famous essay was the inspiration for Gandhi, Martin Luther King and
others.
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"Walden - or, Life in the Woods"
by Henry David Thoreau. 160 pages.
Thoreau's enormously influential description of his attempt to live by himself accompanied only by his thoughts, nature and Walden Pond.
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"Areopagitica"
by John Milton. 33 pages.
A speach for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the parliament of England. Milton's impassioned plea against government and church censorship.
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"Letters Against the War"
by Tiziano Terzani. 107 pages.
An eloquent appeal for peace and a harsh criticism of the Bush administration's march in the opposite direction. No American or British print publisher dared to publish it.
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Anthroposophy
"The Philosophy of Freedom"
by Rudolf Steiner. 134 pages.
Rudolf Steiner's early (1894) groundbreaking philosophical work on the nature of freedom and thinking. It demonstrates the fact of freedom — the ability to think and act independently — as a possibility for modern consciousness. It can lead the reader to the experience of living thinking by which all human activity may be revitalized.
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"How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds - A Modern Path of Initiation"
by Rudolf Steiner. 109 pages.
Rudolf Steiner's basic book on initiation into knowledge of the spiritual world.
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"Anthroposophical Guidelines"
by Rudolf Steiner. 114 pages.
The Guidelines were written between February 1924 and March 1925 for members of the Anthroposophical Society. A new translation by Frank Thomas Smith
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"Christianity as Mystical Fact"
by Rudolf Steiner. 109 pages.
Much of Rudolf Steiner's subsequent career was dedicated to developing the concepts contained in this book. A must for anyone interested in a lucid introduction to Steiner's spiritual research on Christianity.
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"Mysticism at the Dawn of the New Age"
by Rudolf Steiner, with an introduction by Paul Allen. 111 pages.
Ostensibly an essay about certain European mystics in history, Steiner also elucidates the relation between his Philosophy of Freedom and its mystical as well as philosophical essence.
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"Manifestations of Karma"
by Rudolf Steiner. 134 pages.
What karma means to individuals, communities, the earth, the universe and spiritual beings.
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"Spiritual Cosmology"
by Rudolf Steiner. 22 pages.
Three lectures given in Berlin in 1904, when Rudolf Steiner was the secretary general of the German Theosophical Society. How the world and the cosmos began and how humankind evolved with them.
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"The Fifth Gospel"
by Rudolf Steiner. 43 pages.
Five lectures given in Oslo, Norway in 1913 to members of the Anthroposophical Society, in which Steiner relates his clairvoyant vision of Jesus of Nazareth's life between the ages of 12 and 30, a period not covered in the other gospels.
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"Anthroposophy and Anti-Semitism"
by Manfred Leist, Lorenzo Ravagli, Hans-Jürgen Bader. 106 pages.
A detailed refutation of false allegations that Rudolf Steiner was an anti-Semite.
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"Anthroposophy and Alchemy"
by Keith Francis. 38 pages.
Three lectures by Keith Francis at the Anthroposphical Society in New York.
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"Rudolf Steiner Enters My Life"
by Friedrich Rittelmeyer. 56 pages.
Friedrich Rittelmeyer was a leading figure in the Lutheran Church in Germany. After getting to know Rudolf Steiner and Anthropossphy personally, he became a founder of the Christian Community. Here he describes conversations with Rudolf Steiner and his impressions of a man he considered to be one of the most important of his time.
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Philosophy
"Phaedo"
by Plato, 40 pages.
Socrate's last dialogue, on the day of his death, in which he "proves" the immortality of the soul.
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Essays
"On the Side of the Losers"
by Gaither Stewart, 99 pages.
Foreign affairs,
history, literary and political personalities and the world in general through
the eyes of an observer who, thanks to his professional journalistic and
writing experience, has seen it all.
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Science
"Putting Soul
into Science"
by Michael Friedjung.
Astro-physicist Friedjung gives an in-depth view, in terms accessible to the
non-scientist, of what modern science could be.
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Short Fiction
"The Girl in
the Floppy Hat and other Stories"
by Frank Thomas Smith. 122 pages.
A cool collection of short fiction.
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"Tales from
Marta's Notebook"
by Paul Holler. 25 pages.
Four timeless stories about a lady observing life from her window on the world.
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Children's
Corner
"The Magic
Mound"
by Frank Thomas Smith. 130 pages.
A charming, magical tale for children and adults alike. Originally published in Argentina in a print Spanish edition, this is the only available English edition.
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"Pegasus, the
Winged Horse and other stories"/"Pegaso, el caballo alado y otros
cuentos"
by Frank Thomas Smith. 87 pages.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) stories for children.
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Modern Fiction
"Miryam"
by Luise Rinser. 144 pages.
Mary Magdalene narrates her life with Jesus of Nazareth from when they were children, through the three years of his mission on earth, his passion and resurrection. This is the story of a woman in love with a god, but who doesn't want to recognize him as such until it inevitably becomes all too clear.
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"The Free World"
by Robert Zimmer. 115 pages.
The world has changed. If money is the root of all evil, why not simply eliminate it? Men and women now work for each other instead of monetary gain. But it's not that simple. See what would happen to people without that crutch. A utopian novel, true, but one that makes you think.
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"Who Killed Jack Robinson?"
by Frank Thomas Smith. 54 pages.
Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, asks Private Investigator Darrell Stark to investigate a threat to Jackie Robinson's life. Someone, it seems, wants to prevent him from playing in the major leagues.
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"All Caesar's Men"
by Gaither Stewart. 134 pages.
What could happen in a right-wing dominated Italy tending towards fascism. Characters who live, love, die and change sides overnight.
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"The Fractal
Murders"
by Mark Cohen. 232 pages.
An engrossing murder mystery with fractal math providing the clues.
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"Labyrinth"
by Gaither Stewart. 157 pages.
A confused boy falls into the deadly web of terrorism.
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"The Russian
Flask (Containing the Confessions of Daniel Sarandon)"
by Gaither Stewart.
A reluctant cold war spy/journalist confesses.
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Fiction
Classics
"1984"
by George Orwell. 186 pages.
Orwell’s classic novel describing the conditions in a fictitious
dictatorship in which everyone is at the mercy of Big Brother – in body, soul
and spirit.
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"The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes". Volume I
by Arthur Conan Doyle. 118 pages.
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"The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes" Volume 2
by Arthur Conan Doyle. 90 pages.
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"The Sorrows of
Young Werther"
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 71 pages.
Goethe's youthful story that transformed German literature.
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"The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz"
by L. Frank Baum. 122 pages.
A classic American fairy tale. If you've only seen the movie and never read
the book, don't hesitate.
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Poetry
“The Collected Poems"
by William Butler Yeats, 476 pages.
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“Circles – Selected Poems”
by Frank Thomas Smith, 54 pages.
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