The heart is the locus of the person- emotional, physical, and moral. But over and above all these dimensions, the heart is also the place of spiritual encounter with God. There are many ways to open one's heart. The heart is opened in those who love, and yet the heart is injured in those who sorrow. It is a deep well, and he who plumbs its depths can find spiritual wonders. Since God is constantly inviting each person to open his heart, he also wishes to heal those whose hearts have been bruised or injured by the hardships of life. Drawing freely from the writings of Scripture, the saints, and even Pascal, the author offers an initiation into this spirituality of the heart born out of the traditions of Orthodox Christianity. About the Author: Archpriest Michel Evdokimov is the author of numerous publications on Russian spirituality and Orthodoxy and is longtime professor of comparative literature at the University of Poitiers. In addition to his pastoral and teaching activities, Fr Michel also serves as the president of the Commission on Inter-Church Relations as part of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in France. About the Translator: Professor Anthony P. Gythiel (1930-2014), great friend and collaborator with St Vladimir's Seminary Press, translated over a dozen works of Orthodox theology, including Ouspensky's Theology of the Icon, also available from SVS Press.

Are you looking for droids, Wookies, humanoids, and other galactic beings to help create an amazing Star Wars party? Then you've come to the right place! Now Star Wars fans of any age can cook food that is truly out of this world. This intergalactic cookbook features healthy snacks, delicious dishes, sweet treats, and easy-to-use recipes that will entice even the pickiest eaters. Here's my rundown of some of most popular Star Wars recipes across the internet and the galaxy!All recipes with pictures. May the Force (and the food) be with you.

RFID and the Internet of Things shows how RFID has transformed the supply chain over the last decade and examines the manufacturing, logistics and retail aspects of RFID. This monograph considers the related cost/benefit of RFID in these business environments. The authors describe a vision of an "Internet of Things," where each participating object has a digital shadow with related information stored in cyberspace. RFID and the Internet of Things introduces the reader to the relevant hardware and software as well as to standards and architectures. It then present several case studies and uses cases showing how RFID can be used in manufacturing and retail with a focus on intra-enterprise applications and local benefits. The authors move further down the supply chain, discussing RFID applications in logistics and the perspectives for an Internet of Things. This is followed by a discussion of cost/benefit analyses of RFID implementations. The volume discusses possible security and privacy risks of RFID and presents several architecture proposals for a less centralized Internet of Things. The authors conclude with a summary and outlook.

The blender now has a permanent spot on kitchen counters in no small part due to the rise of smoothies as a snack fave. Strawberry is the most popular smoothie flavor, while chocolate is the milkshake fave. Although most smoothies share banana as a common ingredient, for milkshakes, it's, well, milk! (Though that milk might be in the form of ice cream.) Whether you're having your smoothie as part of breakfast or as a snack, and whether your shake is a treat or a dessert, grab a straw and enjoy.

Hot dogs belong in the pantheon of great America food items. What can be more democratic than a meal that allows people to eat what they want, the way they want? Try these one hundred dogs that celebrate America's melting pot culture.

Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), a priest assassinated after the fall of communism, is a highly regarded figure in Russian Orthodoxy. He was brought up during the War and marked by the Stalinist era. Following the completion of his theological studies in Moscow, he was appointed to various parishes around the capital, in particular Alabino and Novaia Derevnia. But his personality and influence soon brought him into conflict with the authorities and he was persistently hounded by the police and subjected to interrogations and searches of his home. Father Men was not an agitator but the embodiment of an ideal of spiritual resistance to communism effected through prayer, the liturgical and sacramental life, and the valuing of the human person

After fighting for his country, a man contracts a chronic lung infection. While confined to a hospital bed, he begins to consider his views on the world-and even wonders whether he should amend a few of them.

But changing your life is never an easy thing, especially if you're not sure how to do it and you're on your deathbed. Besides, his existence has already been full of disappointment, pain, and suffering. He's pretty sure the rest of it will be the same. Why try to change it now?

Maybe, just maybe, he still has time to choose an alternate path. When he's released from the hospital, the man decides to start a new life with what little time he has left-if he can figure out which direction to take.

Highly original and absorbing, "Goat in a Coma" takes an alternate look at our existence from the perspective of a man who could easily represent every one of us.

Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high" culture, fashioning a social identity that distinguishes blues adherents from both the discredited Soviet past and the vulgar consumerism associated with the country's Westernization. While adapting the idiom to their own conditions, Russia's bliuzmeny (bluesmen) have absorbed the blues ethos encoded in the music by their American forebears, using it to invert their social world, thus deriving dignity and satisfaction from those very things that give one the blues.Based on more than forty interviews with blues musicians and fans, nightclub managers, and others, Russia Gets the Blues reveals the fascinating history of blues in Russia, from the initial mimicry of British blues-rock to the recent emergence of a specifically "Russian blues." The gradual mastering of the idiom in Russia has been conditioned by the culture of the country's intelligentsia, a fact explaining why, on one hand, bliuzmeny feel compelled to proselytize on behalf of the music, to share with others this treasure of "world culture," while, on the other, they perform blues almost exclusively in English which almost no one understands and condemn any and all efforts to make the music commercially successful."