Author: Daniel Fanous
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780881416497
Category : Patriarchs and patriarchate
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Fr Daniel Fanous details the life of Pope Kyrillos, a key figure in recent Coptic history, drawing on unpublished archival materials and documents"--
Author: David Nasaw
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143124072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends, Nasaw tells the story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars and the Cold War, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive the history of the American century. "Riveting . . . The Patriarch is a book hard to put down . . . As his son indelibly put it some months before his father was struck down: 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your county.' One wonders what was going through the mind of the patriarch, sitting a few feet away listening to that soaring sentiment as a fourth-generation Kennedy became president of the United States. After coming to know him over the course of this brilliant, compelling book, the reader might suspect that he was thinking he had done more than enough for his country. But the gods would demand even more." - New York Times Book Review
Author: Daniel Fanous
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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople)
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823238857
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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As this new volume of his writings reveals, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has continually proclaimed the primacy of spiritual values in determining environmental ethics and action. For him, the predicament we face is not primarily ecological but in fact spiritual: The ultimate aim is to see all things in God, and God in all things.
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374708886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For fans of Aleksandar Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives is simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo with the family dog, leaving behind all else they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir. The Bookof My Lives, Hemon's first book of nonfiction, defies convention and expectation. It is a love song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer—and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader—a different person, with a new way of looking at the world—when you've finished. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Author: Zi SeLiuSu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636543626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 649
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She was a proud, aloof, talented, and elegant princess who was unrivalled in the world. She was the princess of the Sky Rain Nation, loved and doted upon by thousands, and all the men were proud to be able to see her once. Of course, she didn't care about them; he was a devilish, ruthless, dark, murderous man. He was a hero of the country who made his enemies tremble in fear, but he loved her deeply, tenderly, and with great care. However, everything appeared to be on the surface. She loved him wholeheartedly; he had plotted and sought her home! In an instant, the country fell. From the princess to the imperial concubine to the lowly servant, she endured it and kept a low profile. She lived in a lowly position in his imperial harem just to avenge her country. When they met again, he would be the cold-hearted emperor while she would be the unparalleled beauty who would bring chaos to the world ...
Author: Emily Grosholz
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567921557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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There are two topics that seem largely unexplored by American poets of our time. One is the deep attachment parents (and perhaps most especially working parents) form for their infants and how they perceive their children (perhaps as Blake saw them) with all the wisdom of their innocence. The second is the relationship of science, mathematics and metaphysics to our everyday life. Here is a book that explores, and to some degree attempts to define, the writer's investigations in those two domains, one stemming from her experience as a mother, the other from her profession as a philosopher of science. And it is this juxtaposition of maternal emotion and detached, almost clinical, analysis that provides Grosholz's wonderful new collection with such grace and such power.
Author: Stephen M. Meawad
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1647123135
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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A contemporary model of spiritual struggle shifts the emphasis from virtue’s acquisition to its pursuit Beyond Virtue Ethics offers a distinctive approach to virtue ethics, arguing not simply for the importance of “struggle” to virtue ethics, but that “struggle” itself is a manifestation of virtue. In doing this, Stephen M. Meawad offers a way of thinking about virtue not simply as a perfected state, but as a state that is to a greater or lesser degree a manifestation of the ideal itself, which is not attainable. Meawad affirms the concept of the unity of virtues—that is, the idea that a virtue is not a virtue unless united with other perfected virtues—which is found in God. Insofar as humans grow in unity with God, they too participate in the unity of virtues, although always to an imperfect extent. Meawad rejects a division between ethics and spirituality and provides two concrete examples of this suggested model. The first is the application of this model to the body and its implications for contemporary sexual ethics. The second is a reintegration of ethics and Scripture through the contemporary application of an ancient Patristic divine reading. This book establishes for readers a contemporary model of spiritual struggle, defining it as the exertion of effort in all conceivable dimensions—physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual—with the intent to attain a semblance of, knowledge of, and intimacy with Jesus Christ.
Author: Ye FenFan
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649755538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 929
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Xin An, a famous surgeon from a traditional Chinese medicine family with a bright future, had been secretly murdered for breaking a fake medicine deal. When he woke up again, he was in another world. It was a world where there were no men or women, only males and females. As for her, she was a rare female. Her face was covered with strange veined patterns cursed by the Beast God and evaded by her clansmen like a plague. This was not the worst case scenario. The clan had made a rule that if she was unable to find a partner that could accept her within half a year, she had to leave this place!
