Gangsters N Gurus

Author : Nicolai Engelbrecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1953153267

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Gangsters 'n Gurus by Nicolai Engelbrecht Pdf

Every Saint Has a Past, and Every Sinner Has a Future So much more than an astonishing autobiography, Gangsters & Gurus is a manual to experience inner freedom! Drawing from nearly unbelievable life experiences, coupled with the wisdom and experience of renowned masters and larger-than-life characters spanning India to China and beyond. You will witness an authentic journey of self-discovery, from smuggling drugs and gang violence, to supernatural experiences and revelations delivered by spiritual Masters. Having traversed the distance from the darkest depths to the brightest lights, Nicolai grounds his experience with practical day-to-day practices that are simple and easily applicable in the day to day life of anyone seeking a shift. You will be guided to break non-constructive patterns and elevate above feeling "stuck" in repetitive cycles of anxiety, negative patterns, and addiction. Nicolai is living proof that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Author : Nyame Selassie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539085430

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Gangster to Guru- a Memoir by Nyame Selassie Pdf

Child... mother... gangster... guru: a unique autobiography. "Gangster to Guru" is the true story of one woman's sojourn. It takes the reader on a compelling ride from her gun blasting days as a member of the Black Mafia in the 60's and 70's to her unpredictable and surreal transformation into a Lotus Chakra Meditation Yogini Guru. The memoir is presented with the epic excitement of a classic American gangster story, but is distinctly rooted in the reality of a Black woman's experience, as she makes her rite of passage into metaphysical oneness.

Author : Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834840485

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The Guru Drinks Bourbon? by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Pdf

Devotion to one’s teacher is the lifeblood of the Vajrayana path. Because the guru can and will use whatever means it takes to wake us up, this relationship may require us to drop our most deeply held beliefs and expectations. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse addresses some of the most misunderstood aspects of this powerful relationship and gives practical advice on making the most of this precious opportunity for transformation. Through stories and classical examples, he shows how to walk the path with eyes wide open, with critical-thinking skills sharpened and equipped to analyze the guru, before taking the leap.

Author : John Pitts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134022267

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Reluctant Gangsters by John Pitts Pdf

This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'. While the focus of the book is 'local', the processes it outlines and the effects it chronicles have both a national and international relevance. It argues that the main reason behind the emergence of the armed youth gang has been the coalesence of two previously discreet socially deviant groups; the rowdy, episodically criminal, adolescent peer group on the one hand and the locally-based organized criminal network on the other. The book analyses the impact of the globalisation of the drugs trade and the consequent shift in the focus of local organized crime from the 'blag' to the 'business'. It also discusses how socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as family and neighbourhood histories and loyalties and localized racial antagonisms all play their part in the emergence of the armed youth gang.

Author : Robert Cribb
Publisher : Equinox Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9793780711

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Gangsters and Revolutionaries by Robert Cribb Pdf

Gangsters and Revolutionaries is the first in-depth study of one of the 'people's armies' which emerged from the chaos at the close of World War II in Indonesia to join the struggle for Indonesian independence in 1945. It traces the story of the People's Militia of Greater Jakarta from its origins as a loose network of petty criminals and labor bosses in the slums of urban Jakarta and the feudal estates of the surrounding countryside, to its destruction at the hands of the Indonesian army in the late 1940s. This book examines the social basis of the Indonesian revolution, especially the ways in which the revolutionary forces made use of existing social structures in mobilizing a popular following. It also highlights the painful process by which the new Indonesian state discarded and suppressed groups which had been instrumental in its own rise to power. Archival records, contemporary newspapers and interviews with survivors have been used to shed new light on the early history of the Indonesian army, showing a tangled politics in which regular and irregular units, general staff officers and the Ministry of Defense vied for influence and struggled to formulate a strategy for guerrilla war. Gangsters and Revolutionaries introduces a host of unexpected but fascinating characters, from the cat-eating General Mustopo and the implacable Haji Darip to the gangster unit which saw service with the Dutch as Her Majesty's Irregular Troops. Robert Cribb is Senior Fellow in Indonesian History at the Australian National University. His research focuses on Indonesian national identity, mass violence, environmental politics and historical geography. He is the author of the Historical Atlas of Indonesia (2000).

Author : Thomas CAMPBELL
Publisher : WRITE OR DIE INK
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 061523898X

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SEARCH for A BLACK GODDESS: MEMOIR of a GANG MEMBER by Thomas CAMPBELL Pdf

Thomas Campbell writes with deep understanding of The Cold War, the cocaine coup of Bolivia, the murder of Che Guevara and the murkey world of mercenary terrorist. The novel was written from the confines of Thomas's prison cell and it tells how, as a pair of crooked DEA agents, Hilliard Wallace and Basil Abbott, maneuvered the Vice Lords and the Latin Kings to service an insatiable market for cocaine.After Thomas is released from prison his efforts to be published causes him to become a fugitive. In the nightmare of the chase, Thomas shares a desperate, spiritual love with passionate Dahl Ransby, an aspiring poet. Within a few pages, both sexual drama and the novel's political exposé will hook readers, as a terror-filled race provides an unforgettable climax.

Author : J. Dey
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788179928509

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Khallaas - an A to Z Guide to the Underworld by J. Dey Pdf

As a journalist on the crime beat, the author has spent long hours talking to those in uniform, those in the underworld and those in the grey zone – people who work as police informers. Much of what he has seen, heard and observed in over a decade of covering crime has found its way into print. But there’s a lot that’s spoken of in hushed tones, or buried in underworld lore. The underworld speaks its own language, and words are invented on the spur of the moment. A shooter is referred to as an “artist”, an informer is simply “zero dial”, Dubai is “Delhi”, while arrest is “get admitted”. Most of these are aimed at sending the police or adversaries on a wild goose chase. It’s a world that thrives on the spirit of enterprise, actively courts power and danger, and has conquered fear. The rules are straight and the ethics sacrosanct. The principles of ‘dhanda’ apply equally here – risk, profit and competition are at the very core. An informer will think nothing of selling precious information on a rival if it can earn him extra bucks or goodwill from the police.

Author : Josephine Metcalf,Will Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317071495

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Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player by Josephine Metcalf,Will Turner Pdf

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other. Ice-T’s iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon's manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T’s ability to inhabit conflicting pop-cultural roles including: ’hardcore’ gangsta rapper and dedicated philanthropist; author of controversial song Cop Killer and network television cop; self-proclaimed ’pimp’ and reality television house husband. As the essays in this collection detail, Ice-T’s chameleonic public image consistently tests the accepted parameters of black cultural production, and in doing so illuminates the contradictions of a society erroneously dubbed ’post-racial’.

Author : Tārana Siṅgha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Sikh gurus
ISBN : UCAL:B3937017

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Sikh Gurus and the Indian Spiritual Thought by Tārana Siṅgha Pdf

Author : David Pichaske
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441197399

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Song of the North Country by David Pichaske Pdf

A remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.

Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher : Billboard Books
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057535372

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The Billboard Book of Top 40 R & B and Hip-hop Hits by Joel Whitburn Pdf

Back in the days of Louis Jordan and Bullmoose Jackson and His Buffalo Bearcats, swing, and World War II,Billboardmagazine started keeping tabs on the best-sellers in record stores in New York City’s Harlem. That Harlem Hit Parade chart of 1942, the starting point of this book, wasBillboard’s first accounting of the growing interest in the music that would come to be known as R&B. Today, more than sixty years later, Billboard is proud to present the first edition of The Billboard Book of Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits, packed with complete, authoritative chart information on the most popular songs and artists, including everyone from the Nat King Cole Trio to Ray Charles to Mary J. Blige to Jay-Z. Great for music fans, record collectors, industry professionals, and trivia lovers, this book will answer questions, resolve arguments, and inspire new ideas. • Capitalizes on one of W-G’s top-selling titles, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits— more than 50,000 copies sold of the 7th edition! • Complete history of Top 40 R&B and hip-hop hits, covering 62 years • 300 pictures of top recording artists • Author Joel Whitburn is the leading authority on charted music

Author : Nori J. Muster
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252094996

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Betrayal of the Spirit by Nori J. Muster Pdf

Combining behind-the-scenes coverage of an often besieged religious group with a personal account of one woman's struggle to find meaning in it, Betrayal of the Spirit takes readers to the center of life in the Hare Krishna movement. Nori J. Muster joined the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)--the Hare Krishnas--in 1978, shortly after the death of the movement's spiritual master, and worked for ten years as a public relations secretary and editor of the organization's newspaper, the ISKCON World Review. In this candid and critical account, Muster follows the inner workings of the movement and the Hare Krishnas' progressive decline. Combining personal reminiscences, published articles, and internal documents, Betrayal of the Spirit details the scandals that beset the Krishnas--drug dealing, weapons stockpiling, deceptive fundraising, child abuse, and murder within ISKCON–as well as the dynamics of schisms that forced some 95 percent of the group's original members to leave. In the midst of this institutional disarray, Muster continued her personal search for truth and religious meaning as an ISKCON member until, disillusioned at last with the movement's internal divisions, she quit her job and left the organization. In a new preface to the paperback edition, Muster discusses the personal circumstances that led her to ISKCON and kept her there as the movement's image worsened. She also talks about "the darkest secret"–child abuse in the ISKCON parochial schools--that was covered up by the public relations office where she worked.

Author : Gregory David Roberts
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429908276

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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Pdf

Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of contemporary Bombay—the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam. “It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.” An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.

Author : Chris Gates, Pacific Lava School
Publisher : Anne Yang
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SAT 1200 Words in 30 Days by Chris Gates, Pacific Lava School Pdf

SAT 1200 Words in 30 Days is for students in narrow time frame to prepare tests. Its proper vocabulary and organization bring great efficiency and convenience to tens of thousands and help them up scores. In fact, it isn't simply an ebook. Based on its proven contents, Pacific Lava School offers online options to let students build vocabulary quicker and easier from www.pacificlava.com and www.ienglishtest.com. Various online courses and resources are contributed by the author, Pacific Lava School. It means what you get isn't only an ebook of word list, you also have lots of fantastic accompanied tools in word building journey. Some of them are deserved to let you know here. 1. SAT 1200 Words in 30 Days, free online course shared the same title and word list exactly as this ebook. It provides online practice. If you are ESL student, you can get explanation of each word in 20 languages. 2. DIY Vocabulary Test, free online resource. It makes dynamical test sheet to help you evaluate your level and progress anytime and anyplace. To match with this ebook's contents, please ensure to select SAT and Basic level. 3. DIY Vocabulary EBook, online resource. It is a great tool to make your own PDF word list. In DIY ebook, you can skip known word, include local explanation, and/or expand your list from basic level (1200 of this ebook) to all levels' 3600 words. Pacific Lava School appreciates every second and every coin that students invest on vocabulary building and does its best to assist them to be successful. Choose this ebook is a great start for your vocabulary building. Come on, the bright future is shining ahead!

Author : Amun
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469172033

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Carrentein Poochiona Ponderas by Amun Pdf

Volume 1: C.C.P. The Untold Story, Black Mafia: Self Made Men, Bloodline: From the Cradle to the Grave Summary: Carrentein Ponderas is a black a familys need and desire to survive in the rat race by any means necessary. From the unity, compassion, and guts of some to help others succeed arose what became known as the Black Mafia. Led by C.C.P., a mirror of S.B., he sprung up to become a shady tree for others, and with a heart bigger than they were that bred, a.k.a. urban legends, where cash ruled then, now, and forevermore. Long live the street legends of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, for the gangster living in each of us. Enjoy. Volume 2: Tru Blood: Til Death Do Us Part, Treeses Block, Ghost in the House Summary: Fetti makes mo fetti, gangsters mo gangsters. Dont hate, get like the competition or become bait. In the jungle only the strong survive. The name of the game aint checkers no mo, its check-mate. A new breed of dons run this here. Meet the new deputy mayors. They took over where the old economy left off. Not Caddys, but Benzos and Porsches are the order of the day. In their world every day is a good day to die. Their motto is watch your back money, dont get short changed. Meet the Gs of the new economy.