Author: Dawn Marie Daniels
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
African-American men share their feelings, concerns, situations, and advice in an anthology that captures the African-American experience, covering such topics as spirituality, sex, family, money, and power.
Souls of My Brothers
Author: Dawn Marie Daniels
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
African-American men share their feelings, concerns, situations, and advice in an anthology that captures the African-American experience, covering such topics as spirituality, sex, family, money, and power.
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
African-American men share their feelings, concerns, situations, and advice in an anthology that captures the African-American experience, covering such topics as spirituality, sex, family, money, and power.
All Souls
Author: Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807020532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
“All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael’s mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael’s older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807020532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
“All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael’s mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael’s older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”
My Brother
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466828862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466828862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Destroyer of Souls; My Brother's Keeper
Author: Jeff Racine
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110550414X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Imagine for a moment Cain were still alive. Imagine an antagonist who had been cursed by God to live endlessly as a fugitive and a vagabond until the end of time. Envision a villain who had spent countless lifetimes being shunned by all of humanity as punishment for having robbed his brother, Abel, of his time on Earth. It is unlikely one could even fathom the level of psychosis and paranoid delusional depravity such a creature would envelop. In "Destroyer of Souls; My Brother's Keeper," Van Oaks must track down and confront Cain, who has kidnapped Van's younger brother, a genetics research scientist.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110550414X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Imagine for a moment Cain were still alive. Imagine an antagonist who had been cursed by God to live endlessly as a fugitive and a vagabond until the end of time. Envision a villain who had spent countless lifetimes being shunned by all of humanity as punishment for having robbed his brother, Abel, of his time on Earth. It is unlikely one could even fathom the level of psychosis and paranoid delusional depravity such a creature would envelop. In "Destroyer of Souls; My Brother's Keeper," Van Oaks must track down and confront Cain, who has kidnapped Van's younger brother, a genetics research scientist.
Tuḥfah Yi- ʻAbbāsī
Author: Muḥammad ʻAlī Sabzvārī
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761838012
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book is one of the oldest and most important sources written on the esoteric teachings of Islam from a Shi'ite perspective. It demonstrates the Qur'anic origins of Sufism and its close relationship with Shi'ism. The book is based mainly on the teachings of the Qur'an, Hadith narrations of Shi'ite Imams, and the teachings of earlier Sufi masters. In this lies the uniqueness, authenticity, and strength of the book. Tuhfah yi-' Abbasi is written in a typical prose style of the Safavid period and is replete with Arabic words and phrases. The difficulty and dryness of the style, however, is properly compensated by timely quotation of Prophetic traditions, narrations of the Shi'ite Imams, and Sufi poetry composed by 'Attar, Rumi, Hafiz, Mansur Hallaj, as well as the author. This work conveys a universal message for all human beings, particularly at a time when Sufism and Shi'ism are misrepresented by pseudo-Sufis and extremist Shi'ite, and misunderstood by many readers in the Muslim world and in the West.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761838012
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book is one of the oldest and most important sources written on the esoteric teachings of Islam from a Shi'ite perspective. It demonstrates the Qur'anic origins of Sufism and its close relationship with Shi'ism. The book is based mainly on the teachings of the Qur'an, Hadith narrations of Shi'ite Imams, and the teachings of earlier Sufi masters. In this lies the uniqueness, authenticity, and strength of the book. Tuhfah yi-' Abbasi is written in a typical prose style of the Safavid period and is replete with Arabic words and phrases. The difficulty and dryness of the style, however, is properly compensated by timely quotation of Prophetic traditions, narrations of the Shi'ite Imams, and Sufi poetry composed by 'Attar, Rumi, Hafiz, Mansur Hallaj, as well as the author. This work conveys a universal message for all human beings, particularly at a time when Sufism and Shi'ism are misrepresented by pseudo-Sufis and extremist Shi'ite, and misunderstood by many readers in the Muslim world and in the West.
Missionary reminiscences; or, Jamaica retraced
Author: Philip Henry Cornford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Life of Bishoi
Author: Tim Vivian
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030657
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany of larger-than-life monastics lived and interacted with one another. Even then, Bishoi stood out as the founder of one of the four great monasteries of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun): those of Macarius, John the Little, Bishoi, and the Baramus. Yet in spite of Bishoi’s prominence, the various recensions of his hagio-biography have received sporadic, scattered attention. The Life of Bishoi joins other Lives of eminent monastics of early-Egyptian monasticism: the Lives of Antony, Daniel, John the Little, Macarius, Paphnutius, Shenoute, and Syncletica. These Lives are vital for what they tell us about monastic politeia (way of life), spirituality, and theology, both of the early monastics and of those who later wrote, translated, and revised the Lives. They appeared first in Greek and Coptic, and later generations translated and revised them into Syriac, Arabic and Ge‘ez (Ethiopic). This definitive volume contains the first English translation of the Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic Lives of Bishoi, each translation accompanied by an introduction that focuses on certain aspects of the source text. It also has the first transcription and English translation of an important Greek text. The General Introduction provides rich context about the texts and textual traditions in the various languages, and thoroughly revises our knowledge about the Syriac tradition, the translation of the Syriac text here now consequently providing what is the best translation in any modern language. CONTRIBUTORS Tim Vivian, California State University, Bakersfield Maged S.A. Mikhail, California State University, Fullerton Rowan Allen Greer III (1935–2014), an Episcopal priest and Walter H. Gray Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School, was author of Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church and Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present. Robert Kitchen is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada, living in Regina, Saskatchewan. He read for the D.Phil. (Oxford) in Syriac Language and Literature and has taught Syriac studies in Sweden and Austria. Apostolos N. Athanassakis was Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030657
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout the Christian east, particularly among the Copts. He lived during a remarkable era in which a litany of larger-than-life monastics lived and interacted with one another. Even then, Bishoi stood out as the founder of one of the four great monasteries of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun): those of Macarius, John the Little, Bishoi, and the Baramus. Yet in spite of Bishoi’s prominence, the various recensions of his hagio-biography have received sporadic, scattered attention. The Life of Bishoi joins other Lives of eminent monastics of early-Egyptian monasticism: the Lives of Antony, Daniel, John the Little, Macarius, Paphnutius, Shenoute, and Syncletica. These Lives are vital for what they tell us about monastic politeia (way of life), spirituality, and theology, both of the early monastics and of those who later wrote, translated, and revised the Lives. They appeared first in Greek and Coptic, and later generations translated and revised them into Syriac, Arabic and Ge‘ez (Ethiopic). This definitive volume contains the first English translation of the Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic Lives of Bishoi, each translation accompanied by an introduction that focuses on certain aspects of the source text. It also has the first transcription and English translation of an important Greek text. The General Introduction provides rich context about the texts and textual traditions in the various languages, and thoroughly revises our knowledge about the Syriac tradition, the translation of the Syriac text here now consequently providing what is the best translation in any modern language. CONTRIBUTORS Tim Vivian, California State University, Bakersfield Maged S.A. Mikhail, California State University, Fullerton Rowan Allen Greer III (1935–2014), an Episcopal priest and Walter H. Gray Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School, was author of Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church and Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present. Robert Kitchen is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada, living in Regina, Saskatchewan. He read for the D.Phil. (Oxford) in Syriac Language and Literature and has taught Syriac studies in Sweden and Austria. Apostolos N. Athanassakis was Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Elements of Souls
Author: CR Robertson
Publisher: CR Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Elements of Souls The Tourmaline kingdom has bided its time for centuries, awaiting the birth of the mystical twins prophesied over a millennia ago. Their combined power predicted to bring every realm of existence to their knees in submission. The only problem was neither knew who they were or what powers they possessed together. Will Morgan and Ethan find the answers of their ancestry in time? Now they have emerged the evil King Dubhshláine will stop at nothing to control his heirs. War is coming, the laws of nature are changing, and only the strongest can stand against the evil poised to take over the Otherworld. “Everyone believed that the world needed a hero to save them. To defeat evil, there had to be something stronger and deadlier. The world didn’t need another hero, it needed a monster to stalk the dark and kill the bogeyman” – Ethan Tourmaline. Please be advised that all my books have a happy ever after - because every character deserves to find their true love... **This book must be read as part of the series and not a stand-alone** **Graphic language with adult content**
Publisher: CR Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Elements of Souls The Tourmaline kingdom has bided its time for centuries, awaiting the birth of the mystical twins prophesied over a millennia ago. Their combined power predicted to bring every realm of existence to their knees in submission. The only problem was neither knew who they were or what powers they possessed together. Will Morgan and Ethan find the answers of their ancestry in time? Now they have emerged the evil King Dubhshláine will stop at nothing to control his heirs. War is coming, the laws of nature are changing, and only the strongest can stand against the evil poised to take over the Otherworld. “Everyone believed that the world needed a hero to save them. To defeat evil, there had to be something stronger and deadlier. The world didn’t need another hero, it needed a monster to stalk the dark and kill the bogeyman” – Ethan Tourmaline. Please be advised that all my books have a happy ever after - because every character deserves to find their true love... **This book must be read as part of the series and not a stand-alone** **Graphic language with adult content**
The Flashes Collection
Author: Said Nursi
Publisher: www.nurpublishers.com
ISBN: 9754320470
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher: www.nurpublishers.com
ISBN: 9754320470
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Young men's magazine
Author: British and foreign young men's society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description