Author: Daniel Greenberg
Publisher: The Sudbury Valley School
ISBN: 9781888947229
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Clearer View
Author: Daniel Greenberg
Publisher: The Sudbury Valley School
ISBN: 9781888947229
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: The Sudbury Valley School
ISBN: 9781888947229
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Clear View of the Southern Sky
Author: Mary Hood
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611175011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Clear View of the Southern Sky reveals women in the twenty-first century doing what women have always done in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. In each of the ten tales from southern storyteller Mary Hood, women have come—by circumstances and choice—to the very edge of their known worlds. Some find courage to winnow and move on; others seek the patience to risk and to stay. Along the way hearts, bonds, speed limits, fingernails, and the Ten Commandments get broken. Dust settles, but these women do not. In the title story, a satellite dish company promises that happiness—or at least access to its programming—requires just a TV and a clear view of the southern sky. The short story itself reveals the journey of a Hispanic woman whose mission is to assassinate a mass murderer, an agenda triggered by post-traumatic stress wrought by seeing the murderer's cynical grin on a news program. We follow her into the shadow of an enormous satellite dish on a roof across the street from the courthouse and ultimately into a women's prison English-as-Second-Language class where she must confront her life. She has slept but never dreamed, and now she wakes. In other stories Hood introduces us to a kindergarten teacher, stunned by a student's blurted-out question, as she discovers her deepest vocation and the mystery of its source. We meet a widow who befriends a young neighbor, only to realize they must keep secrets from each other and hold fast to their hope. A woman trucker discovers the depth of her love as she imagines her cell phone calls—and her sweetheart's own messages—winging their way, tower to tower, along her interstate route. Two stories deal with one man and two of his wives and how they learn the lessons only love can teach about the reach and limitations of ownership and forever. The collection concludes with the novella "Seambusters," in which a diverse cast of women workers in a rural Georgia mill sew camouflage for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The women are part of a larger purpose, and they know it. When the shadow of death passes over the factory, each woman and the entire community find out what it really means to have American Pride. New York Times best-selling writer and Story River Books editor at large Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the collection.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611175011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Clear View of the Southern Sky reveals women in the twenty-first century doing what women have always done in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. In each of the ten tales from southern storyteller Mary Hood, women have come—by circumstances and choice—to the very edge of their known worlds. Some find courage to winnow and move on; others seek the patience to risk and to stay. Along the way hearts, bonds, speed limits, fingernails, and the Ten Commandments get broken. Dust settles, but these women do not. In the title story, a satellite dish company promises that happiness—or at least access to its programming—requires just a TV and a clear view of the southern sky. The short story itself reveals the journey of a Hispanic woman whose mission is to assassinate a mass murderer, an agenda triggered by post-traumatic stress wrought by seeing the murderer's cynical grin on a news program. We follow her into the shadow of an enormous satellite dish on a roof across the street from the courthouse and ultimately into a women's prison English-as-Second-Language class where she must confront her life. She has slept but never dreamed, and now she wakes. In other stories Hood introduces us to a kindergarten teacher, stunned by a student's blurted-out question, as she discovers her deepest vocation and the mystery of its source. We meet a widow who befriends a young neighbor, only to realize they must keep secrets from each other and hold fast to their hope. A woman trucker discovers the depth of her love as she imagines her cell phone calls—and her sweetheart's own messages—winging their way, tower to tower, along her interstate route. Two stories deal with one man and two of his wives and how they learn the lessons only love can teach about the reach and limitations of ownership and forever. The collection concludes with the novella "Seambusters," in which a diverse cast of women workers in a rural Georgia mill sew camouflage for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The women are part of a larger purpose, and they know it. When the shadow of death passes over the factory, each woman and the entire community find out what it really means to have American Pride. New York Times best-selling writer and Story River Books editor at large Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the collection.
A Clear View
Author: Keith Ogorek
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468900080
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Everybody has one and it influences the choices we make everyday. What is it? A worldview. Philosophers have considered the significance of worldview for centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that Christians began to realize the importance of understanding this concept. Much has been written to identify different worldviews, but in this book, we examine how a person’s worldview is formed and the impact it has in key areas of life, such as money, work, sex and education. We consider different answers to significant questions such as what happens when you die; what is the nature of good and evil and how did the world begin and how will it end, to name a few. For each question, we conclude by offering an answer from a Christian worldview. Finally, we suggest how understanding these ideas more clearly will help us have a greater influence in our culture. For any one interested in becoming better equipped to reach the world around us, A Clear View is a must read.
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468900080
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Everybody has one and it influences the choices we make everyday. What is it? A worldview. Philosophers have considered the significance of worldview for centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that Christians began to realize the importance of understanding this concept. Much has been written to identify different worldviews, but in this book, we examine how a person’s worldview is formed and the impact it has in key areas of life, such as money, work, sex and education. We consider different answers to significant questions such as what happens when you die; what is the nature of good and evil and how did the world begin and how will it end, to name a few. For each question, we conclude by offering an answer from a Christian worldview. Finally, we suggest how understanding these ideas more clearly will help us have a greater influence in our culture. For any one interested in becoming better equipped to reach the world around us, A Clear View is a must read.
The London Commercial Dictionary, and Sea-port Gazetteer, Exhibiting a Clear View of the Commerce and Manufactures of All Nations; and Their Several Products
Author: William Anderson (of London.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Great Britain's Commercial Interest explained ... Second edition. With ... a clear view of the state of our plantations in America, etc
Author: Malachy POSTLETHWAYT
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A clear view of the French King's Bona Fide: or sacred regard to his ... promises and oaths in Treaties of Peace. ... To which are added the Preliminaries, settled at the Hague, 1709, and those done at London this present year. (The Idea of the Court of France, and the method of their proceedings, from the ... Peace of Nimeguen, until the spring of ... 1684. Supposed to be written by Don P. Ronquillo, the Ambassador of Spain at the Court of England. Done out of Spanish into English.).
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Remarks upon three of Mr. Ballon's ... publications; presenting ... a clear view of the ridiculous absurdity of his self-styled arguments for proof of Universal Salvation
Author: Jeremiah SHAW
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Keep Stepping - A Step-By-Step Journey to a Clearer View of Mental Well-Being
Author: Mike Owen
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398460982
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mike Owen, born with two congenital heart defects, battled with cardiac issues until the age of seven, when he underwent open heart surgery that changed his life. For the following 31 years, Mike was plagued with intense and disabling heart palpitations. In 2004, the cause of the palpitations was diagnosed and, after a short cardiac procedure, for the first time in 38 years his heart was stable. Life became easier. His confidence grew. But so did his workload. After three years of work-related stress, his heart succumbed to a new type of palpitation which would blight his life for the next four years. After taking steps to reduce the frequency and intensity of his cardiac problems, Mike finally felt like he had turned a corner. However, in 2017, he was plunged back into despair following a series of dramatic events. When his Occupational Health Doctor gave him an unexpected Mental Illness diagnosis, Mike embarked on a new path. He now had to deal with psychological issues, learn mindfulness techniques and work through the trauma of his childhood and the uncertainty of having spent so many years living with his heart problems. With his faithful dog, Coco, always by his side, Mike confronted the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness, in his own way. He found physical, emotional, and mental stability thanks to his diagnosis, and this is his uplifting story.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398460982
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mike Owen, born with two congenital heart defects, battled with cardiac issues until the age of seven, when he underwent open heart surgery that changed his life. For the following 31 years, Mike was plagued with intense and disabling heart palpitations. In 2004, the cause of the palpitations was diagnosed and, after a short cardiac procedure, for the first time in 38 years his heart was stable. Life became easier. His confidence grew. But so did his workload. After three years of work-related stress, his heart succumbed to a new type of palpitation which would blight his life for the next four years. After taking steps to reduce the frequency and intensity of his cardiac problems, Mike finally felt like he had turned a corner. However, in 2017, he was plunged back into despair following a series of dramatic events. When his Occupational Health Doctor gave him an unexpected Mental Illness diagnosis, Mike embarked on a new path. He now had to deal with psychological issues, learn mindfulness techniques and work through the trauma of his childhood and the uncertainty of having spent so many years living with his heart problems. With his faithful dog, Coco, always by his side, Mike confronted the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness, in his own way. He found physical, emotional, and mental stability thanks to his diagnosis, and this is his uplifting story.
Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment
Author: John Pittard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190051825
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs. For this reason, many have argued that the only rational response to religious disagreement is to adopt a religious skepticism that eschews confident religious belief. Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment contests this skeptical conclusion, explaining how it could be rational to maintain confident belief even in the face of the epistemic worries posed by disagreement. John Pittard argues against the commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality that underlies the case for disagreement-motivated religious skepticism, while also critiquing approaches to disagreement that allow for the unproblematic privileging of one's first-person perspective. He emphasizes the importance of having rational insight into reasons that favor one's outlook; however, he challenges narrowly intellectualist accounts of insight, arguing that many of the rational insights crucial to assessing religious outlooks are not achievable through analytical reasoning, but only through relevant emotional experiences. In the second part of the book, Pittard considers the implications that accepting the impartiality requirement favored by "disagreement skeptics" has for religious commitment. He challenges the common assumption that a commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality would rule out confident religious belief. He further argues, however, that such an impartiality commitment would likely make it irrational to pursue one's favored form of religious life and might prevent one from rationally engaging in any religious or irreligious way of life whatsoever. This troubling conclusion gives reason to hope that the arguments against impartiality are correct and that one can justify conviction despite widespread disagreement.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190051825
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs. For this reason, many have argued that the only rational response to religious disagreement is to adopt a religious skepticism that eschews confident religious belief. Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment contests this skeptical conclusion, explaining how it could be rational to maintain confident belief even in the face of the epistemic worries posed by disagreement. John Pittard argues against the commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality that underlies the case for disagreement-motivated religious skepticism, while also critiquing approaches to disagreement that allow for the unproblematic privileging of one's first-person perspective. He emphasizes the importance of having rational insight into reasons that favor one's outlook; however, he challenges narrowly intellectualist accounts of insight, arguing that many of the rational insights crucial to assessing religious outlooks are not achievable through analytical reasoning, but only through relevant emotional experiences. In the second part of the book, Pittard considers the implications that accepting the impartiality requirement favored by "disagreement skeptics" has for religious commitment. He challenges the common assumption that a commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality would rule out confident religious belief. He further argues, however, that such an impartiality commitment would likely make it irrational to pursue one's favored form of religious life and might prevent one from rationally engaging in any religious or irreligious way of life whatsoever. This troubling conclusion gives reason to hope that the arguments against impartiality are correct and that one can justify conviction despite widespread disagreement.
Visible, Vibrant and Vital
Author:
Publisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1456064193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Publisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1456064193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description