Author: Scheherazade Al Tellawy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465359486
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Scheherezades Al-Tellawys remarkable life story is a powerful reminder of the depth of human strength in the face of adversity - however sustained and shattering. An engaging narrative, elegantly told, An Eclipse of Destiny recounts the span from a traditional family upbringing in Western Syria to her astonishing integration into life in an Irish community. Ever human and kind in the face of prolonged suffering, Sheherezade brings tolerance and understanding to every situation - an inspirational account of the struggle for personal freedom that also draws attention to cultural divergences and convergences of two societies generally conceived to be poles apart. -Max
An Eclipse of Destiny
Author: Scheherazade Al Tellawy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465359486
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Scheherezades Al-Tellawys remarkable life story is a powerful reminder of the depth of human strength in the face of adversity - however sustained and shattering. An engaging narrative, elegantly told, An Eclipse of Destiny recounts the span from a traditional family upbringing in Western Syria to her astonishing integration into life in an Irish community. Ever human and kind in the face of prolonged suffering, Sheherezade brings tolerance and understanding to every situation - an inspirational account of the struggle for personal freedom that also draws attention to cultural divergences and convergences of two societies generally conceived to be poles apart. -Max
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465359486
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Scheherezades Al-Tellawys remarkable life story is a powerful reminder of the depth of human strength in the face of adversity - however sustained and shattering. An engaging narrative, elegantly told, An Eclipse of Destiny recounts the span from a traditional family upbringing in Western Syria to her astonishing integration into life in an Irish community. Ever human and kind in the face of prolonged suffering, Sheherezade brings tolerance and understanding to every situation - an inspirational account of the struggle for personal freedom that also draws attention to cultural divergences and convergences of two societies generally conceived to be poles apart. -Max
Islands of Destiny
Author: John Prados
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451414829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted. Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and when the Pacific tide turned in the Allies’ favor. Using archives of WWII intelligence reports from both sides, Prados offers up a compelling reassessment of the true turning in the Pacific: not Midway, but the fight for the Solomon Islands. Combat in the Solomons saw a series of surface naval battles, including one of the key battleship-versus-battleship actions of the war; two major carrier actions; daily air duels, including the aerial ambush in which perished the famous Japanese naval commander Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku; and many other hair-raising exploits. Commencing with the Allied invasion of Guadalcanal, Prados shows how and why the Allies beat Japan on the sea, in the air, and in the jungles.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451414829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted. Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and when the Pacific tide turned in the Allies’ favor. Using archives of WWII intelligence reports from both sides, Prados offers up a compelling reassessment of the true turning in the Pacific: not Midway, but the fight for the Solomon Islands. Combat in the Solomons saw a series of surface naval battles, including one of the key battleship-versus-battleship actions of the war; two major carrier actions; daily air duels, including the aerial ambush in which perished the famous Japanese naval commander Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku; and many other hair-raising exploits. Commencing with the Allied invasion of Guadalcanal, Prados shows how and why the Allies beat Japan on the sea, in the air, and in the jungles.
Slavery and the American West
Author: Michael A. Morrison
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
Eclipse
Author: Alex Croft
Publisher: Ravens Nest
ISBN: 9781543957372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life for Teresa Atkins, juggling being a single parent of three with a corporate career as Vice President of a multinational construction company--and with a new, mischievous puppy in the home--just became more complicated. Her hectic life tailspins out of control as unbeknownst to her, her unscrupulous ex-husband has his eyes on a big payday: the control of her children and their trust fund, her family's business, and a sizeable life insurance policy. Dr. Jessica Atkins, instructs her close friend, Sophia Parker of SPN Industries, to keep a protective eye on her sister, which results in barely thwarting a dire outcome. Private security contractor and explosives guru Emma Finch is tasked with keeping Teresa Atkins safe, albeit from a distance as her reluctant client refuses help. Her cushy babysitting gig turns to mayhem when Teresa's life is endangered by a duplicitous private investigator, insolent in-laws, and armed gangsters hired to terrorize her. As the situation escalates, the man who has been supporting her from afar for many months, Agent Rook, is drawn away from the safety of his desk to provide field backup hundreds of miles away. Used to being a solo operator, Emma Finch has to begrudgingly contend with relying on another. Complicating matters for Emma, her parents fly in for a conference on human rights and equality, and plan to catch up with their secretive daughter. The visitors are roped into peril as fringe group protesters target William Finch, who is the keynote speaker at the conference. Friends and family join in on the protection plans, and things heat up when one SPNI agent connects with another. Eclipse is the 5th book in the Ravens Nest series. The characters are drawn into unexpectedly haunting scenarios, encounter human traffickers, and navigate life-threatening situations as menacing third parties close in on them.
Publisher: Ravens Nest
ISBN: 9781543957372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life for Teresa Atkins, juggling being a single parent of three with a corporate career as Vice President of a multinational construction company--and with a new, mischievous puppy in the home--just became more complicated. Her hectic life tailspins out of control as unbeknownst to her, her unscrupulous ex-husband has his eyes on a big payday: the control of her children and their trust fund, her family's business, and a sizeable life insurance policy. Dr. Jessica Atkins, instructs her close friend, Sophia Parker of SPN Industries, to keep a protective eye on her sister, which results in barely thwarting a dire outcome. Private security contractor and explosives guru Emma Finch is tasked with keeping Teresa Atkins safe, albeit from a distance as her reluctant client refuses help. Her cushy babysitting gig turns to mayhem when Teresa's life is endangered by a duplicitous private investigator, insolent in-laws, and armed gangsters hired to terrorize her. As the situation escalates, the man who has been supporting her from afar for many months, Agent Rook, is drawn away from the safety of his desk to provide field backup hundreds of miles away. Used to being a solo operator, Emma Finch has to begrudgingly contend with relying on another. Complicating matters for Emma, her parents fly in for a conference on human rights and equality, and plan to catch up with their secretive daughter. The visitors are roped into peril as fringe group protesters target William Finch, who is the keynote speaker at the conference. Friends and family join in on the protection plans, and things heat up when one SPNI agent connects with another. Eclipse is the 5th book in the Ravens Nest series. The characters are drawn into unexpectedly haunting scenarios, encounter human traffickers, and navigate life-threatening situations as menacing third parties close in on them.
Imperiled Destinies
Author: Franciscus Verellen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Imperiled Destinies" examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a liturgical organization that engaged vigorously with Buddhism and transformed Chinese thinking about suffering, the nature of evil, and the aims of liberation. In the fifth century, elements of classical Daoism combined with Indian yogic practices to interiorize the quest for deliverance. The medieval record portrays a world engulfed by evil, where human existence was mortgaged from birth and burdened by increasing debts and obligations in this world and the next. Against this gloomy outlook, Daoism offered ritual and sacramental instruments capable of acting on the unseen world, providing therapeutic relief and ecstatic release from apprehensions of death, disease, war, spoilt harvests, and loss. Drawing on prayer texts, liturgical sermons, and experiential narratives, Franciscus Verellen focuses on the Daoist vocabulary of bondage and redemption, the changing meanings of sacrifice, and metaphoric conceptualizations bridging the visible and invisible realms. The language of medieval supplicants envisaged the redemption of an imperiled destiny as debt forgiveness, and deliverance as healing, purification, release, or emergence from darkness into light.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Imperiled Destinies" examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a liturgical organization that engaged vigorously with Buddhism and transformed Chinese thinking about suffering, the nature of evil, and the aims of liberation. In the fifth century, elements of classical Daoism combined with Indian yogic practices to interiorize the quest for deliverance. The medieval record portrays a world engulfed by evil, where human existence was mortgaged from birth and burdened by increasing debts and obligations in this world and the next. Against this gloomy outlook, Daoism offered ritual and sacramental instruments capable of acting on the unseen world, providing therapeutic relief and ecstatic release from apprehensions of death, disease, war, spoilt harvests, and loss. Drawing on prayer texts, liturgical sermons, and experiential narratives, Franciscus Verellen focuses on the Daoist vocabulary of bondage and redemption, the changing meanings of sacrifice, and metaphoric conceptualizations bridging the visible and invisible realms. The language of medieval supplicants envisaged the redemption of an imperiled destiny as debt forgiveness, and deliverance as healing, purification, release, or emergence from darkness into light.
Mermaid Eclipse
Author: N.E. Carlisle
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977227724
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Muriel and Morgan are twins, siblings so close that sometimes it’s a struggle to find their own identities. With their ailing mother and narcissistic father, their life is challenging enough—and then Aunt Mallory dies in a mysterious boating accident, revealing a family curse. The twins set out to uncover the truth about their family and what really happened to their aunt. They learn that everything they believe to be reality is just an illusion, and they must rely on each other and their faith to keep their family together. The one constant is their twin connection and the ocean…
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977227724
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Muriel and Morgan are twins, siblings so close that sometimes it’s a struggle to find their own identities. With their ailing mother and narcissistic father, their life is challenging enough—and then Aunt Mallory dies in a mysterious boating accident, revealing a family curse. The twins set out to uncover the truth about their family and what really happened to their aunt. They learn that everything they believe to be reality is just an illusion, and they must rely on each other and their faith to keep their family together. The one constant is their twin connection and the ocean…
Rahu and Ketu
Author: Joni Patry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549630750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book is structured to provide an understanding of Rahu and Ketu in the natal birth chart. Their placement in the zodiacal signs gives expression to the personality, and illustrates the meaning of human behavior. The houses they occupy reveal the areas of life's experience that facilitate the soul's highest growth due to past experiences in previous lifetimes. A table is provided with the sign placements of Rahu and Ketu from 1940-2040 to locate your personal placements. You will understand your own karma through the sign and house placement of Rahu and Ketu.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549630750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book is structured to provide an understanding of Rahu and Ketu in the natal birth chart. Their placement in the zodiacal signs gives expression to the personality, and illustrates the meaning of human behavior. The houses they occupy reveal the areas of life's experience that facilitate the soul's highest growth due to past experiences in previous lifetimes. A table is provided with the sign placements of Rahu and Ketu from 1940-2040 to locate your personal placements. You will understand your own karma through the sign and house placement of Rahu and Ketu.
Destiny
Author:
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434947602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434947602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Eclipse of Man
Author: Charles T. Rubin
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594037418
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able to link our minds telepathically, and will live for centuries—or maybe forever. The perfection of a “post-human” future awaits us. Or so the story goes. In reality, the rush toward a post-human destiny amounts to an ideology of human extinction, an ideology that sees little of value in humanity except the raw material for producing whatever might come next. In Eclipse of Man, Charles T. Rubin traces the intellectual origins of the movement to perfect and replace the human race. He shows how today’s advocates of radical enhancement are—like their forebears—deeply dissatisfied with given human nature and fixated on grand visions of a future shaped by technological progress. Moreover, Rubin argues that this myopic vision of the future is not confined to charlatans and cheerleaders promoting this or that technology: it also runs through much of modern science and contemporary progressivism. By exploring and criticizing the dreams of post humanity, Rubin defends a more modest vision of the future, one that takes seriously both the limitations and the inherent dignity of our given nature.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594037418
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able to link our minds telepathically, and will live for centuries—or maybe forever. The perfection of a “post-human” future awaits us. Or so the story goes. In reality, the rush toward a post-human destiny amounts to an ideology of human extinction, an ideology that sees little of value in humanity except the raw material for producing whatever might come next. In Eclipse of Man, Charles T. Rubin traces the intellectual origins of the movement to perfect and replace the human race. He shows how today’s advocates of radical enhancement are—like their forebears—deeply dissatisfied with given human nature and fixated on grand visions of a future shaped by technological progress. Moreover, Rubin argues that this myopic vision of the future is not confined to charlatans and cheerleaders promoting this or that technology: it also runs through much of modern science and contemporary progressivism. By exploring and criticizing the dreams of post humanity, Rubin defends a more modest vision of the future, one that takes seriously both the limitations and the inherent dignity of our given nature.
This Is Your Destiny
Author: Aliza Kelly
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN: 1250763150
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Your best life is written in the stars You may know what astrology is – but what does it actually do? Why is it so effective, and how can it be used as a tool for manifestation? These are the questions Aliza Kelly answers in This Is Your Destiny. Elevating astrology from horoscopes to self-actualization, Aliza goes beyond the zodiac, illuminating the universe within. As a rising star in modern spirituality, Aliza shares the wisdom of her extensive private practice, synthesizing thousands of one-on-one client sessions, intimate stories from her personal journey, and esoteric mystical knowledge to inspire readers through hands-on exercises, radical techniques, and groundbreaking insight. Whether you're a seasoned stargazer or just beginning your cosmic journey, This Is Your Destiny will invigorate you through timeless insight delivered with soul, humor, and compassion.
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN: 1250763150
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Your best life is written in the stars You may know what astrology is – but what does it actually do? Why is it so effective, and how can it be used as a tool for manifestation? These are the questions Aliza Kelly answers in This Is Your Destiny. Elevating astrology from horoscopes to self-actualization, Aliza goes beyond the zodiac, illuminating the universe within. As a rising star in modern spirituality, Aliza shares the wisdom of her extensive private practice, synthesizing thousands of one-on-one client sessions, intimate stories from her personal journey, and esoteric mystical knowledge to inspire readers through hands-on exercises, radical techniques, and groundbreaking insight. Whether you're a seasoned stargazer or just beginning your cosmic journey, This Is Your Destiny will invigorate you through timeless insight delivered with soul, humor, and compassion.