The Golden Milestone 4Th Edition, Russell R. Esposito

The Italian Heritage of Innovation and Contribution to Civilization

This highly acclaimed and comprehensive book offers readers over 2, 500 years of Italian and Italian-American accomplishments. The book’s 22 chapters cover every subject: art, architecture, music, fashion, science, law, culinary arts, economics, medicine, automobiles, the entertainment industry, sports, and much more. The author’s ability to blend facts with some humor and personal anecdotes make this book a joy to read. The book covers the wonders of ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy, as well as modern contributions and Nobel Prize winners. The book is illustrated and contains an astonishing collection of inventions and accomplishments. For example, Italian invented the piano, violin, opera, ballet, battery, telescope, radio, and telephone in NYC years before Alexander Bell. Discover how Enrico Fermi Ushered in the atomic age, and how Italian sculptors carved the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C. Explore the chapter on Literature to uncover the origins of many famous fairy tales (Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, etc). In the chapter on American Government, the author quotes John F. Kennedy who wrote in his book, “A Nation of Immigrants” that the great American principle, all men are created equal, originated with an Italian physician, Philip Maezzi, who was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Also learn how physicist Federico Faggin of Italy developed the world’s first computer microprocessor while working for Intel. Discover the lives of many other distinguished personalities: NYC Mayors, the President of the European Union, and the Director of the European Space Agency. The Golden Milestone has thousands of notable entries and fascinating facts. Critics agree. It is a must for anyone library.

This book also includes a unique ‘Italy Travel Guide’ supplement that combines history and attractions for over twenty cities and locations in Italy. A great virtual tour!

Words That Matter, The Oprah Magazine

A Little Book of Lessons

Oprah says she’s lived her life by quotations and saying, so to celebrate O’s 10th anniversary, the editor compiled a collection of insightful quotes drawn from the magazine’s first decade. You’ll find encouragement and advice on everything from dreaming big to aging brilliantly.

Here are some few quotes extracted from the book:

Dreaming Big, Becoming Brave.

“Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer.” –Cecil Beaton, Photographer

“Living life is a form of not being sure, not knowing what’s next or how….We guest. We might be wrong but we take leap in the dark.” –Agnes de Mille, Dancer

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” –Arthur Ashe, Tennis Champion

Connecting: Love, Sex, Friendship and Family

“All intimacy is rare – that’s what makes it precious.” –Amy Bloom, Author

“Being a good husband is like being a good stand up comic – you need ten years before you can even cal yourself a beginner.” –Jerry Siemfeld, Comedian

Honoring Your Body, Trusting Your Gut.

“Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup; it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.” –Valerie Monroe, Writer

Games People Play By Dr. Eric Berne

Games People Play
The Psychology of Human Relationships

In this book Games People Play, Dr. Eric Berne has put into context the unthinkable issues underlining the psychology of human relationships. He started the book by over viewing the human brain function, the ego states of mind, and different components of each individual’s personality before proceeding to the main menu “Games” or Transactions.

The human brain is the organ or organizer of the psychic life, and its products are organized and stored on the form of Ego States.

Psychic Attitudes: in a given individual a certain set of behaviour patterns correspond to one state of mind, while another set is related to a different psychic attitude, often inconsistent with the first. These changes give rise to the idea of the Ego States.

There are three categories of Ego states: Parent, Adult and Child

-Ego States, which resemble those of parental figure.

-Ego States which are autonomously directed toward objective evaluation of the reality.

-And Ego States, which represent archaic relics, still-active ego states which were fixated in early childhood.

These observations give rise to certain diagnostic statements, according to Dr. Berne

The complete personality of any person includes his/her Parental, Adult and Child ego states. They are carefully separated from each other, because they are often very inconsistent with each other.

Once the above roots of human behaviour are understood, the game playing or the situational part is much easier and fun to absorb. It is an excellent book, never went out of print for 40 decades straight.

Hippocrates' Quotes...

Hippocrates' Great Quotes on Health

Hippocrates of Coss was an ancient Greek physician and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the Western father of medicine in recognition of his lasting contribution to the field as the founder of Hippocratic School of Medicine.

"Rest, as soon as there is pain, is a great restorative in all disturbances of the body."
-Hippocrates

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
-Hippocrates

"Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure the patient with food."
-Hippocrates

"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
-Hippocrates

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."
-Hippocrates

"Walking is [hu]man's best medicine."
-Hippocrates

"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm."
-Hippocrates

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-Hippocrates

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
-Hippocrates

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
-Hippocrates

"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
-Hippocrates

"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
-Hippocrates

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
-Hippocrates

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
-Hippocrates

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
-Hippocrates

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
-Hippocrates

"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
-Hippocrates

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
-Hippocrates

The Human Brain Book By Rita Carter

“The Human Brain is the CEO of the Company called the Human Body”

The human brain is referred to as Executive System by psychologists and neuroscientists, because of its responsibility for planning, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, rule acquisition, initiating appropriate actions and inhibiting inappropriate actions, and selecting relevant sensory information. Undoubtedly, the brain is an amazing and precious organ; it does all the work needed in order for our body to function accordingly, hence the need to raise our curiosity about it.

The Human Brain Book is a must own family’s book because it is easily, concisely and clearly presented in a language everyone can understand. It is a colourful book with 3-D images all along. Every single aspect of the human brain is displayed from its history to the newest break through in Neuroscience, from simplicity to complexity (nerve impulse – the bionic arm/eye function). This book serves as a proof of how hard neuroscientists are working to uncover the mysteries of the human brain.

I have no words to describe how much knowledge an ordinary person can get out of this book, because it illustrates all the structures, functions and disorders of the human brain. It is truly a satiable book; it will satisfy your appetite for knowing how your brain works and breaks.

Rita Carter is a science and medical writer who contributes to many publications, including New Scientist and many newspapers. She has twice been awarded the medical Journalists’ Association prize for her outstanding contribution to medical journalism. She is the author of several books that have been published internationally, including Consciousness, Multiplicity: the new Science of Personality, and Mapping the Mind, which was shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize [now the Royal Society Prize for Science Books]. Rita also lectures about the brain at seminars, conferences, and workshops around the world.

Psychiatric Power/Knowledge By Michael Foucault

Lectures at the College de France
1973 – 1974

This astonishing book conveys collections of lectures delivered by Michael Foucault during the period of 1973-1974 at the College de France. Foucault was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the seventies and eighties, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

In the terminology of the College de France, the professors do not have students but only auditors.

Michael Foucault’s courses were held every Wednesday from January to march. The huge audiences made up of students, teachers, researchers, and the curious, including many who came from outside France, required two amphitheaters of College de France. These lectures are overwhelmingly informative and insightful.

This is absolutely a must own book, because of its richer content. It provides any reader with element of biographical, ideological, and political context about this extraordinary and controversial discipline (Psychiatry).

Psychiatric Power, the course delivered in 1973 and 1974, is edited by Jacques Lagrange

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain; they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our

The Leader Who Had No Title By Robin Sharma

A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life.


The leader who had no title is simply fabulous, elegantly and hilariously written by Robin Sharma. Exactly as the title states, Robin is kind of reminding all of us without any exception that we are accountable for our own lives’ journeys. This minute book has a wealth of insightful information about all the traits required in becoming a Leader Without a Title, stuff such as being real, authentic and certain in our deeds. The main message of leadership in this book is conveyed as a story; where a young man (the hero) meets his mentor who subsequently introduces him to the amazing four teachers. So these life’s instructors and their unique teaching methods and the young man is all what this book dissolves in (four chapters-four teachers). It’s really incredible to see how Sharma put everything in such a simplistic and meaningful four acronyms: I.M.I.G.E – S.H.I.N.E – S.P.A.R.K.S – H.U.M.A.N. This is great book for those who have the inner drive of becoming something greater in life and making a difference in their own pace, it is a true motor impulse.

In this book who will learn:

• How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position

• A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change

• The real secrets of intense innovation

• An instant strategy to build a great team and become a “merchant of wow” with your customers

• Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field

• Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unstable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life

Regardless of what you do within your organization and current circumstances of life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim the staggering power, as well as transform your life-and the world around you-in the process.


Robin Sharma is one of the world’s most highly respected leadership experts. He is devoted to mission of helping organizations develop people Who Lead Without a Title so that they win in this period of intense change. His clients include Microsoft, GE, FedEx, IBM, Nike, NASA, Yale University, and The Young Presidents Organization. Sharma’s books, such as the Monk WHO Sold His Ferrari and The Greatness Guide, have topped bestseller lists across the globe and have sold millions of copies in more than seventy languages. They have been embrace by rock stars, royalty, and many celebrity CEOs.

Sharma is also the cofounder of 960vets.com, an innovative online support resource that help U.S veterans successfully reintegrate into civil life.

Aristotle’s Endless Quotes on Life...

Aristotle on Life (Education, Knowledge, Work, Justice, Dignity, Actions, Poverty, Happiness, Friendship, Acceptance, Self-control, etc)

Aristotle ( (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings constitute a first at creating a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.


“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”

“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Law is mind without reason.”

“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

“God has many names, though He is only one being.”

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.”

“Man is by nature a civic animal.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“To perceive is to suffer.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.”

“Melancholy men are of all others the wittiest.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.”

“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.”

“Quality is not an act. It is a habit.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.”

“Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”

HOW TO BE AN EXISTENTIALIST

Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and
Stop Making Excuses
By Gary Cox

Gary Cox has just put into context the perfect philosophical book in a layman language, the language we all can comprehend. This tiny smart book with only 115 pages is mainly directed to those of us who have blurry vision in the field of Existentialism. Cox make fun of the reputation existentialism has for being gloomy and pessimistic, exposing it what it really is – an honest, uplifting and potentially life-changing philosophy! Dr.Cox couldn’t have been concise and clearer than this.

The author also is criticizing our contemporary excuse culture, urging us to face the hard existential truths of the human condition. He uncompromisingly counsel us to become tougher and more dignified, less grumbling and irresponsible, to stop chasing the rainbows and making excuses and instead to get a grip and get real. By revealing that we are all inescapably free and responsible – ‘condemned to be free’, as Sartre says – he aims to empower the reader with a sharp sense that we are each the master of our own destiny.

Gary Cox wrote his PhD on Sartre. He is the author of several books on Sartre and existentialism. He lives in Somerset where he teaches philosophy and writes.

WHY WE LOVE?

The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Helen Fisher

“If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature, read Why We love.” –E.O. Wilson, university research professor emeritus, Harvard University, author of Consilience

Who among us, humans, especially those who have been in love that have not ever asked themselves regarding those weird feelings that come with the so called falling in love high, why do we feel that way? And most of the times we were left completely wondering, without knowing what was going one within us. I had always felt that way, until the day I came across this paragraph while I was reading a random magazine, it was titled: “love addiction,” I was like WOW, “love addiction? Yes,
“Love addiction”
A brain research out in the U.K confirms that the love-bitten brain is active in the same centres that generate drug highs. Love is indeed addictive and uses the same neural mechanisms that are activated by drug dependency.

Then they proceeded to recommend books to understand love much better:

-Why We Love: the nature and chemistry of romantic love, by Helen Fisher

_Speed Dating, by Helen Fisher

It is how I discovered this fantastic and comprehensive book about love (crazy feeling). Helen meticulously gathered in details all the necessary information needed to understand romantic love, not only from the humanistic perspective, but inclusively all the living things; from the tiniest asexual plant until the last mammal. In this book you will find stuff, such as “What Wild Ecstasy”: Being in love; Animal Magnetism; Chemistry of Love; Web of Love: Lust, Romance, and Attachment; Why We Love: The Evolution of Romantic Love, and much more… This book will leave you wanting more, it is really super informative. I have not ever read a book full of stamina like this one, Why We Love?



Helen Fisher, PhD., is one of the country’s most prominent anthropologists. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Fisher has conducted extensive research on the evolution, expression, and chemistry of love. Her two most recent books, The First Sex and Anatomy of Love, were New York Times Notable Books. She grow up in Connecticut and lives in New York City.

A NEW EARTH, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth is the perfect book that teaches us how to open our eyes in order to have a much clearer look at the meaning of our own life. Only someone with the kind of neurons Eckhart Tolle has, is capable of coming up with such an insightful piece of print. This book is beyond reflection, and one of the genuine books ever read, it is real.

Tolle calls his book this amazing book “the power of now” and he breaks in down in 10 chapter for its better understanding; Chapter One: The Flowering of Human Consciousness, Chapter Two: Ego: The Current State of Humanity, Chapter Three: The Core of Ego, Chapter Four: Role-playing: The many Faces of the Ego, Chapter Five: The Pain-Body, Chapter Six: Breaking Free,
Chapter Seven: Finding Who you Truly Are, Chapter Eight: The Discovering of Inner Space, Chapter Nine: Your Inner Purpose, and finally Chapter Ten: Anew Earth.

One of the greatest insights Eckhart appoints is that most of the things we have/get in this world come in forms and they are temporary, not permanent; meaning we should not get very attach to them, and he put it this way: “This, too, will pass.”

Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who travels extensively, taking his message through the world.

THE SECRET

“Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.” – The Secret

The Secret Universal Law of Attraction written by Rhonda Byrne has been an international sensation since the publication of the Hardcover Book and the Film (DVD) in 2006. It is one of the best self-help series ever exposed in the new millennium, this incredible inspirational teaching phenomenon, undoubtedly generates a great deal of positive thinking, it is one of those books that make you think and reflect. Byrne is such a brilliant, savvy and a thoughtful author, it is hard to image how she managed to wrap up something like this, with all the quantity of knowledge and thoughts as The Secret..

There have been many versions of The Secret since the 2006, but The Secret Daily Teaching 2008 version is more appealing to me, because it conveys the collections of ideas of the greatest thinkers of the past, plus the author own insights about life, in a concise and conversational manner.

I always highly recommend The Secret Daily Teaching Book and The Secret, Audio Edition (CD) to those who like to have a reflective look at their inner selves. The Secret Daily teaching comes with 365 brand new insights that build on the secret’s powerful truths, your knowledge of the law of attraction is about to expand far beyond what you can imagine. More joy, abundance and blessing-every single day.

“Whatever feelings you have within you are attracting your tomorrow.

Worry attracts more worry. Anxiety attracts more anxiety. Unhappiness attracts more unhappiness. Dissatisfaction attracts more dissatisfaction.

AND

Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. Gratitude attracts more gratitude. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.” –The secret, page 3


Rhonda Byrne is Author, Creator, and Executive Producer of The Secret

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Books' Quotes for a Beautiful Reading

“Books are humanity in print.” –Barbara W. Tuchman

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves.” –Gilbert Highet

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” –Abraham Lincoln

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” –William Feather

“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” –Unknown

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.” –Theodore Parker

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” –Garrison Keillor

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” –Henry David Thoreau

“He that loves a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.” – Isaac Barrow

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” –Marcus Tullius

“Books give not wisdom where there none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.” –Elizabeth Hardwick

“Read the best book first or you might not have a chance to read them all.” –Henry David Thoreau

“A well-composed book is like a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”- Caroline Gordon

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” –William Styron

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” –Oprah Winfrey

“A book is the only immortality.” –Rufus Choate

“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.” –Anatole Broyard

“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” –Heinrich Heine

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde