Author: Shushona Novos
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462807135
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Our world is poised upon a significant threshold of evolutionary thinking and being. We are the generation on the brink of creating a new spiritual paradigm, not just for one small branch or community of the global family, but truly for all humankind. The Personal Universal is a guidebook in the truest sense of the phrase, a tour manual designed to be both reference tool and inspiration upon your own evolutionary journey, your personal exploration of the Universal. This book offers sign posts, way pointers, inspiration and sound advice for anyone seeking to launch their own voyage into the realm of spirit and become intimate with the infinite. The Personal Universal offers a ticket to your own consciousness, a must have itinerary for the road trip of life. It does not dictate a fixed agenda or define a specific map or methodology but it does enable and empower all who read it to discover their own unique pathways to enlightenment. The Personal Universal is the culmination of over 25 years of guide messages designed to inspire and promote a deeper investigation into the nature of the soul and a truer understanding of the role of the Personal in the Universal realm of being. The Personal Universal is much more than a book. It is a place of union, a place of fusion, a place where destinies are fine tuned and awareness is honed. It is a lighthouse of spirit where those who are seeking can find inspiration, where those with the wisdom to question can find answers, where those that are adrift can find safe harbor and a sure anchor. It is a torch designed to set alight aspects of soul and self; it warms, it brightens and it enlightens. The Personal Universal offers motivation, stimulation, inspiration and at times, revelation.
The Personal Universal
Author: Shushona Novos
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462807135
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Our world is poised upon a significant threshold of evolutionary thinking and being. We are the generation on the brink of creating a new spiritual paradigm, not just for one small branch or community of the global family, but truly for all humankind. The Personal Universal is a guidebook in the truest sense of the phrase, a tour manual designed to be both reference tool and inspiration upon your own evolutionary journey, your personal exploration of the Universal. This book offers sign posts, way pointers, inspiration and sound advice for anyone seeking to launch their own voyage into the realm of spirit and become intimate with the infinite. The Personal Universal offers a ticket to your own consciousness, a must have itinerary for the road trip of life. It does not dictate a fixed agenda or define a specific map or methodology but it does enable and empower all who read it to discover their own unique pathways to enlightenment. The Personal Universal is the culmination of over 25 years of guide messages designed to inspire and promote a deeper investigation into the nature of the soul and a truer understanding of the role of the Personal in the Universal realm of being. The Personal Universal is much more than a book. It is a place of union, a place of fusion, a place where destinies are fine tuned and awareness is honed. It is a lighthouse of spirit where those who are seeking can find inspiration, where those with the wisdom to question can find answers, where those that are adrift can find safe harbor and a sure anchor. It is a torch designed to set alight aspects of soul and self; it warms, it brightens and it enlightens. The Personal Universal offers motivation, stimulation, inspiration and at times, revelation.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462807135
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Our world is poised upon a significant threshold of evolutionary thinking and being. We are the generation on the brink of creating a new spiritual paradigm, not just for one small branch or community of the global family, but truly for all humankind. The Personal Universal is a guidebook in the truest sense of the phrase, a tour manual designed to be both reference tool and inspiration upon your own evolutionary journey, your personal exploration of the Universal. This book offers sign posts, way pointers, inspiration and sound advice for anyone seeking to launch their own voyage into the realm of spirit and become intimate with the infinite. The Personal Universal offers a ticket to your own consciousness, a must have itinerary for the road trip of life. It does not dictate a fixed agenda or define a specific map or methodology but it does enable and empower all who read it to discover their own unique pathways to enlightenment. The Personal Universal is the culmination of over 25 years of guide messages designed to inspire and promote a deeper investigation into the nature of the soul and a truer understanding of the role of the Personal in the Universal realm of being. The Personal Universal is much more than a book. It is a place of union, a place of fusion, a place where destinies are fine tuned and awareness is honed. It is a lighthouse of spirit where those who are seeking can find inspiration, where those with the wisdom to question can find answers, where those that are adrift can find safe harbor and a sure anchor. It is a torch designed to set alight aspects of soul and self; it warms, it brightens and it enlightens. The Personal Universal offers motivation, stimulation, inspiration and at times, revelation.
A Writer's Craft
Author: Kendall Dunkelberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137610964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers. Beginning by discussing elements common to all genres, this book underscores the importance of learning good writing habits before committing to a genre, encouraging writers to look beyond their genre expectations and learn from other forms. The book then devotes one chapter to each of the major literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama and creative nonfiction. These style-specific sections provide depth as they compare the different genres, furnishing students with a comprehensive understanding of creative writing as a discipline and fostering creativity. The discussion concludes with a chapter on digital media and an appendix on literary citizenship and publishing. With exercises at the end of each chapter, a glossary of literary terms, and a list of resources for further study, A Writer's Craft is the ideal companion to an introductory creative writing class. It has been listed as one of the 'Best Books for Writers' by Poets and Writers magazine.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137610964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers. Beginning by discussing elements common to all genres, this book underscores the importance of learning good writing habits before committing to a genre, encouraging writers to look beyond their genre expectations and learn from other forms. The book then devotes one chapter to each of the major literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama and creative nonfiction. These style-specific sections provide depth as they compare the different genres, furnishing students with a comprehensive understanding of creative writing as a discipline and fostering creativity. The discussion concludes with a chapter on digital media and an appendix on literary citizenship and publishing. With exercises at the end of each chapter, a glossary of literary terms, and a list of resources for further study, A Writer's Craft is the ideal companion to an introductory creative writing class. It has been listed as one of the 'Best Books for Writers' by Poets and Writers magazine.
The Situation and the Story
Author: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466819014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466819014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
High Ground Coward
Author: Alicia Mountain
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385454
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil, leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious, even the softest part,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting,” leaving us “ravenous, but gradually.” Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut. From “Scavenger” We three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say there are stores beneath the floor. Potatoes and shallots, hard-necked garlic streaked purple, jars beside jars, themselves each staving globes of suction. Preservation, a guardian hunger. In the evening I whisper to the boiled beet, like a naked organ in my flushed hand: You are ground blood, you are new born, you have never been nothing— thawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb handpull shedscrub mouthsweet and again.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385454
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil, leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious, even the softest part,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting,” leaving us “ravenous, but gradually.” Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut. From “Scavenger” We three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say there are stores beneath the floor. Potatoes and shallots, hard-necked garlic streaked purple, jars beside jars, themselves each staving globes of suction. Preservation, a guardian hunger. In the evening I whisper to the boiled beet, like a naked organ in my flushed hand: You are ground blood, you are new born, you have never been nothing— thawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb handpull shedscrub mouthsweet and again.
Small Days and Nights
Author: Tishani Doshi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526603772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2020 'An astonishing novel that is beautifully written but underpinned by a quiet simmering anger about injustice and unrealistic expectations of a family – and of life in contemporary India' Peter Frankopan 'A shattering study of disaffection and belonging ... This is a concise novel of staggering depth ...Disturbing, deep and utterly extraordinary' Bidisha, Observer An Irish Times Book of the Year 2019 Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an unexpected inheritance. First, there is the strange pink house, blue-shuttered, out on a spit of the wild beach, haunted by the rattle of fishermen in their catamarans. And then there is the sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent her life in a residential facility. Soon Grace sets up a new and precarious life in this lush, melancholy wilderness, with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an ever-multiplying litter of puppies. Here in Paramankeni, with its vacant bus stops colonised by flying foxes, its temples and step-wells shielded by canopies of teak and tamarind, where every dusk the fishermen line the beach smoking and mending their nets, Grace feels that she has come to the very end of the world. But Grace's attempts to play house prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury and bewilderment of life with Lucia. Luminous, funny, surprising and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526603772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2020 'An astonishing novel that is beautifully written but underpinned by a quiet simmering anger about injustice and unrealistic expectations of a family – and of life in contemporary India' Peter Frankopan 'A shattering study of disaffection and belonging ... This is a concise novel of staggering depth ...Disturbing, deep and utterly extraordinary' Bidisha, Observer An Irish Times Book of the Year 2019 Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an unexpected inheritance. First, there is the strange pink house, blue-shuttered, out on a spit of the wild beach, haunted by the rattle of fishermen in their catamarans. And then there is the sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent her life in a residential facility. Soon Grace sets up a new and precarious life in this lush, melancholy wilderness, with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an ever-multiplying litter of puppies. Here in Paramankeni, with its vacant bus stops colonised by flying foxes, its temples and step-wells shielded by canopies of teak and tamarind, where every dusk the fishermen line the beach smoking and mending their nets, Grace feels that she has come to the very end of the world. But Grace's attempts to play house prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury and bewilderment of life with Lucia. Luminous, funny, surprising and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.
The Universal Christ
Author: Richard Rohr
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 1524762105
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 1524762105
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
How to Turbocharge Your Business
Author: Daniel R. Hardt J.D.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982201169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Developing your business by the numbers gives you a decided edge. Both employers and employees need to know if their energies match the business. Major conflicts could cause quick burnout and inadvertent sabotage of the business. The quick check allows salespeople, managers, and anyone else who deals with the public to build instant rapport. This book shows you how. Whether you use this book to set up your business or to know how to deal with the conflicts that stymie its smooth flow, you will know how to handle the challenges.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982201169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Developing your business by the numbers gives you a decided edge. Both employers and employees need to know if their energies match the business. Major conflicts could cause quick burnout and inadvertent sabotage of the business. The quick check allows salespeople, managers, and anyone else who deals with the public to build instant rapport. This book shows you how. Whether you use this book to set up your business or to know how to deal with the conflicts that stymie its smooth flow, you will know how to handle the challenges.
Universal Human
Author: Gary Zukav
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982169885
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses -- external power -- into a species that pursues authentic power -- power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers, and brought us to the edge of destruction. Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion, and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose. He illustrates how the emerging values of the spirit are changing marriages into spiritual partnerships, psychology into spiritual psychology, and transforming our everyday lives. The Seat of the Soul describes the remarkable journey to the spirit that each of us is on."--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982169885
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses -- external power -- into a species that pursues authentic power -- power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers, and brought us to the edge of destruction. Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion, and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose. He illustrates how the emerging values of the spirit are changing marriages into spiritual partnerships, psychology into spiritual psychology, and transforming our everyday lives. The Seat of the Soul describes the remarkable journey to the spirit that each of us is on."--Amazon.com.
The International Handbook on Innovation
Author: Larisa V Shavinina
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008044198X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
The breadth of this work will allow the reader to acquire a comprehensive and panoramic picture of the nature of innovation within a single handbook.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008044198X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
The breadth of this work will allow the reader to acquire a comprehensive and panoramic picture of the nature of innovation within a single handbook.
The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance
Author: Alex Rajczi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190946849
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Millions of Americans lack health insurance, and as a result, thousands suffer and die every year. Philosophers have argued that an ideal society would avoid these problems by guaranteeing universal access to health insurance, but what about concerns that a universal health insurance system would be inefficient, create excessive fiscal risk, or impose excessive taxes or other personal costs? In The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance, Alex Rajczi shows how defenders of universal health insurance can address the ethical issues raised by these objections and make the moral case for an American universal health insurance system that improves on the gains made in the Affordable Care Act. Engaging with these objections helps us uncover fascinating philosophical issues that have been previously overlooked. It also leads us to a deeper understanding of progressive and conservative views on distributive justice and provides us with a framework for examining debates about any part of the social safety net- in America and elsewhere.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190946849
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Millions of Americans lack health insurance, and as a result, thousands suffer and die every year. Philosophers have argued that an ideal society would avoid these problems by guaranteeing universal access to health insurance, but what about concerns that a universal health insurance system would be inefficient, create excessive fiscal risk, or impose excessive taxes or other personal costs? In The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance, Alex Rajczi shows how defenders of universal health insurance can address the ethical issues raised by these objections and make the moral case for an American universal health insurance system that improves on the gains made in the Affordable Care Act. Engaging with these objections helps us uncover fascinating philosophical issues that have been previously overlooked. It also leads us to a deeper understanding of progressive and conservative views on distributive justice and provides us with a framework for examining debates about any part of the social safety net- in America and elsewhere.