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The West and ., Religion and Political Thought in World History
pdf | 11.37 MB | Author :Douglas Murray
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Updated with a new afterword by the author
'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' - Jordan B. Peterson
'[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' - Richard Dawkins
Are we living through the great derangement of our times?
In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.
One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society - from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women - Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
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Stuff Christians Like
epub | 12.05 MB | English | Author :Jon Acuff | Zondervan
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Using the same humor and honesty that galvanized more than a million online readers from more than 200 countries, speaker Jon Acuff brings his insightful take on Christianity to the book world with this new edition of Stuff Christians Like. From prayer shot blocks to Metro worship leaders, no stone is left unturned in this hilarious look at faith.
Sometimes, we fall in love on mission trips even though we know we'll break up when we get back. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. Sometimes, you think, "I wish I had a t-shirt that said 'I direct deposit my tithe' so people wouldn't judge me." Sometimes, the stuff that comes with faith is funny. This is that stuff. Jon Acuff's Stuff Christians Like is your field guide to all things Christian. In it you'll learn the culinary magic of the crock-pot. Think you've got a Metro worship...
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Jataka Tales of the Buddha An Anthology
epub | 6.41 MB | English | Author :Ken Kawasaki, Visakha Kawasaki | 9781937447007 | Ken and Visakha Kawasaki
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Whereas Western intellectuals seek the essence of Buddhism in its doctrines and meditation practices, the traditional Buddhists of Asia absorb the ideas and values of their spiritual heritage through its rich narrative literature about the Buddha and his disciples. The most popular collection of Buddhist stories is, without doubt, the Jatakas. These are the stories of the Buddha's past births, relating his experiences as he passed from life to life on the way to becoming a Buddha. At times he takes the form of a bird, at times he is born as a hare, a monkey, a prince, a merchant, or an ascetic, but in each case he uses the challenges he meets to grow in generosity, virtue, patience, wisdom, and compassion. This anthology of Jatakas, ably told by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki, remains faithful to the original yet presents the stories in clear and simple language. It thereby makes the Jatakas accessible even to young readers and to those for whom English is not their first language.
I hope that this collection of Jataka stories-entertaining, uplifting, absorbing, at times amusing, but always fascinating-will enable the modern reader to appreciate the impressive literary heritage of Buddhism and the simple beauty of its basic teachings.
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
This volume, the first of three, contains 110 stories. The entire anthology contains 217 of the original 547 Jatakas. This is not a new translation from the Pali, but rather a retelling of the stories in modern English.
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The Myth of Persecution How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
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In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.
According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today.
Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction-there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches.
The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were-and always will be-persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
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Mannerism, Spirituality and Cognition The Art Of Enargeia
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This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elements of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality.
Lynette M. F. Bosch examines the conceptual vocabulary found in sixteenth-century treatises on art from Giorgio Vasari to Federico Zuccari, which analyses how language and spirituality complement the visual styles of Mannerism. By exploring the way in which writers from Leone Ebreo to Gabriele Paleotti describe the interaction between art and spirituality, Bosch establishes a religious base for the language of art in sixteenth-century Europe.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, religious studies, and religious history.
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The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta (Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy)
pdf | 3.86 MB | Author :Chakrabarti, Arindam; Phillips, Stephen; Clooney, Francis X.
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This handbook brings together a distinguished team of scholars from philosophy, theology, and religious studies to provide the first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy.
Emphasizing the historical development of Vedantic thought, it includes chapters on numerous classical Vedantic philosophies as well as the modern Vedantic vie of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and Romain Rolland. The volume offers careful hermeneutic analyses of how Vedantic texts have been interpreted, and it addresses key issues and debates in Vedanta, including religious diversity, the nature of God, and the possibility of embodied liberation. Venturing into cross-philosophical and cross-cultural territory, it also brings Vedanta into dialogue with Saiva Nondualism as well as contemporary Western analytic philosophy.
Highlighting current scholarly controversies and charting new paths of inquiry, this is an indispensable research guide for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of Vedanta and Indian philosophy.
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The Heart Sutra A Comprehensive Guide to the Classic of Mahayana Buddhism
pdf | 4.85 MB | Author :Kazuaki Tanahashi
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The Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra is among the best known of all the Buddhist scriptures. Chanted daily by many Zen students, it is also studied extensively in the Tibetan tradition, and it has been regarded with interest more recently in the West in various fields of study-from philosophy to quantum physics. In just thirty-five lines, it expresses the truth of impermanence and the release from suffering that results from the understanding of that truth with a breathtaking economy of language. Kazuaki Tanahashi's guide to the Heart Sutra is the result of a life spent working with it and living it. He outlines the history and meaning of the text and then analyzes it line by line in its various forms (Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongolian, and various key English translations), providing a deeper understanding of the history and etymology of the elusive words than is generally available to the nonspecialist-yet with a clear emphasis on the relevance of the text to practice. It includes a fresh and meticulous new translation of the text by the author and Roshi Joan Halifax.
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A Charm School for Sissy Maids
pdf | 1.57 MB | Author :Mistress Lorelei
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Feminization, service and discipline for the aspiring sissy maid. When you enroll in Mistress Lorelei`s Charm School, you will be controlled completely. In a unique daily-submission format, Mistress Lorelei (author of Greenery Press`s `The Mistress Manual`) provides commands, exercises and hints for successful service to even the most demanding of Mistresses. Any submissive male willing to follow this program can be transformed into a dedicated panty slave and a winsome, fetching sissy maid. You`ll be amazed at the change in yourself!
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Breaking the Strongholds of Iniquity A New Testament Guide to Cleansing Your Generational Bloodline
epub | 905.48 KB | English | Author :Bill Dennington | 2020 | Destiny Image, Inc.
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Break Free of Generational Curses!
Though Jesus' sacrifice grants you entry to Heaven, it's still possible to live a life on earth in bondage.
If you are a believer who is experiencing oppression, it may be caused by spiritual legalities granting demonic access to your life through iniquity in your bloodline!
Bill Dennington is a respected Bible teacher, with a special emphasis on the New Covenant blessings available through the finished work of Jesus. In this groundbreaking book, Dennington reveals how it is possible for New Covenant believers to have open doors to the enemy through generational sin.
In Breaking the Strongholds of Iniquity, you will learn how to: [*] Recognize the "mystery of iniquity" operating in your life
[*] Overcome generational curses that try to hijack God's purposes for you
[*] Remove the spiritual roots of iniquity in your generational...
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The Little Coffee Know-It-All A Miscellany for growing, roasting, and brewing, uncompromising and unapologetic
epub | 12.47 MB | English | Author :Shawn Steiman | Quarry Books
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If they call you a know-it-all, well, you've got the last laugh - the best coffee in town!So you think you know your coffee? Consider this book your advanced degree in all things java. You may think you know the how and why of roasting and brewing, but you nerds know nothing yet. This goes even further into everyone's favorite beverage. With even deeper history, techniques, science, and tasting guides than some of the other guides, you're going to obsess over this book for the ultimate coffee lover. The Little Coffee Know-It-All is not for the faint of heart.What's the best way to store coffee and why? How do you brew the perfect cup of joe? What's the premium coffee bean in the world? What's the roast with the most? What's the real reason to use a siphon coffee maker? In The Little Coffee Know-It-All, Shawn Steiman, Hawaii's own "Doctor Coffee," answers these questions and more in a fun, playful but scientifically rigorous manner. If you are serious about your coffee, this book i...
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Walter Benjamin A Critical Life
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Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.
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The Women's Health Little Book of Exercises Four Weeks to a Leaner, Sexier, Healthier You!
epub | 17.43 MB | English | Author :Adam Campbell | Rodale
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Based on the wildly successful Women's Health Big Book of Exercises, this portable handbook offers readers step-by-step instructions (and color photos) on how to perfectly execute the best fat-torching, muscle-toning exercises ever choreographed. This essential workout guide is for any woman-from beginner to expert-who wants to lose weight fast, build strength, and tone those terrible trouble spots, namely the belly, butt, and thighs.
Complete with fast, effective workouts for home use or to take to the gym, this easy-to-tote package gives readers access to their favorite routines wherever they go. The guidebook details "main moves" for targeting each major muscle group and then sho readers variations that make the moves more challenging and effective.
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Easy Weekends
epub | 57.09 MB | English | Author :Neil Perry | 2012 | Allen & Unwin
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As Australia's best known chef, Neil Perry is often associated with the food served at his successful restaurants around Australia, from the flagship contemporary Australian fine diner Rockpool, to his popular Rockpool Bar & Grill steakhouses and the Asian flavours of Spice Temple. However this book is a celebration of cooking at home, with more than 100 recipes that focus on flavoursome food for any weekend occasion. Whether you're looking for an easy and delicious family stir-fry on a Friday night, clever ideas for Saturday dinner party menus, or preparing a slow-cooked Sunday feast for friends, this book has an inspiring and accessible recipe for you.
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The Language Hoax Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
epub | 2.16 MB | English | Author :McWhorter, John H.; | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think?
This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John McWhorter argues that while this idea is mesmerizing, it is plainly wrong. It is language that reflects culture and worldview, not the other way around. The fact that a language has only one word for eat, drink, and smoke doesn't mean its speakers don't process the difference between food and beverage, and those who use the same word for blue and green perceive those two colors just as vividly as others do.
McWhorter sho not only how the idea of language as a lens fails but also why we want so badly to believe it: we're eager to celebrate diversity by acknowledging the intelligence of peoples who may not think like we do. Though well-intentioned, our belief in this idea poses an obstacle to a better understanding of human nature and even trivializes the people we seek to celebrate. The reality -- that all humans think alike -- provides another, better way for us to acknowledge the intelligence of all peoples.
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21 Days to Master Success and Inner Peace
epub | 247.01 KB | English | Author :Wayne W. Dyer | 2011 | Hay House
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Studies have shown it takes only 21 days for a new habit to take root. If there's a spiritual interest you've always wanted to take advantage of, the answer is just 21 days away with the 21 Days to Mastery Series.
Dr Wayne W. Dyer is considered to be one of today's top spiritual teachers, known worldwide for his warm, insightful wisdom on transforming your life. This innovative new title will show you that in just 21 days you can let go of negative mindsets and move past long term problems, become open to the joy that is present all around you and find inspiration to lead the life of your dreams. The easy-to-follow principles in this short book give you all you need to find a goal in life that is spiritually fulfilling and overflowing with happiness. Living life with an open heart and a clear purpose is only 21 days away, using the 'father of self-motivation''s incredible life-lessons.
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SAT Guide Reading Strategy
pdf | 1.74 MB | Author :PrepVantage
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The SAT Reading section is one of the test's supreme challenges: for many, it is the main obstacle to securing the ideal score. Fortunately, this portion of the exam does not need to remain intimidating. With the tutorials, self-assessments, and practice tests in this book, you will be perfectly equipped to address any Reading passage. Discover the power of the PrepVantage strategies, and excel on the SAT Reading section!
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Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance
pdf | 1.26 MB | Author :Jeff Dolven
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The colorful, painterly, uplifting, and often joyous works of Henri Matisse are critical in the history of modern art. Throughout his many years as a painter, the celebrated artist kept returning to one particular subject-the windowed interior. Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View explores in depth, for the first time, the full significance of the window in Matisse's thinking about interior and exterior space.
Matisse studied and rearranged his rooms constantly; when he lived in hotels and small apartments his living quarters usually doubled as his studio. In a continuous engagement with these spaces he produced not only singular masterpieces but also developed a theme as rich as the traditional landscape or portrait. In each new phase of his art and with every change of residence, Matisse reinvented the theme of the window.
Distinguished art historian Shirley Neilsen Blum analyzes more than fifty paintings, starting with the early Studio Under the Eves (1903), a traditional darkened room with a small brilliant window, through Harmony in Red (1908), with its startling use of color, pattern, and line, to the more abstract work created during World War I such as The Piano Lesson (1916). After the war Matisse moved to Nice. Tall French windo that open upon a balcony and overlook the Mediterranean define many of the paintings from these years. By the late 1940s the window is so bound to the structure of the flattened space that it is barely differentiated from a painting or piece of tapestry hanging on the wall. The luxuriously illustrated volume culminates in one of Matisse's greatest and most original works-the Chapel of the Rosary (1947-51) at Vence-where, instead of imitating light and color in paint, he manipulated actual light through the colored glass of the windo.
This insightful volume reveals not only the key role of the windowed interior in Matisse's oeuvre but also presents an overview of the artist's remarkable and varied career, and sho how his work paved the way for some of the most radical abstract painting of the twentieth century.
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Break Your Glass Slippers
epub | 16.4 MB | English | Author :Amanda Lovelace | Andre McMeel Publishing
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"more forgetting time.
more midnight dances with yourself."
amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a new companion series, "you are your own fairy tale" the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about overcoming those who don't see your worth, even if that person is sometimes yourself. in the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character while everyone is but a forgotten footnote. even the prince.
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Mexico City Blues (Penguin Modern Classics)
epub | 794.25 KB | English | Author :Jack Kerouac | Penguin Books Ltd
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'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic.
'A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature' Allen Ginsberg
'A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas' The New York Herald Tribune
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The Calamity Form On Poetry and Social Life
epub | 1.97 MB | Author :Anahid Nersessian; | University of Chicago Press
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Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, The Calamity Form shines new light on Romantic poetry, identifying a number of rhetorical tropes used by writers to underscore their very failure to make sense of our move to industrialization. Anahid Nersessian explores works by Friedrich Hlderlin, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to argue that as the human and ecological costs of industry became clear, Romantic poetry adopted formal strategies-among them parataxis, the setting of elements side by side in a manner suggestive of postindustrial dissonance, and apostrophe, here an address to an absent or vanishing natural environment-as it tried and failed to narrate the calamities of capitalism. These tropes reflect how Romantic authors took their bewilderment and turned it into a poetics: a theory of writing, reading, and understanding poetry as an eminently critical act. Throughout, Nersessian pushes back against recent attempts to see literature as a source of information on par with historical or scientific data, arguing instead for an irreducibility of poetic knowledge. Revealing the ways in which these Romantic works are of their time but not about it, The Calamity Form ultimately exposes the nature of poetry's relationship to capital-and capital's ability to hide how it works.
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