Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1841959073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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This novel is a work of extraordinary imagination and wide range. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
Author: Floyd L. Griffin Jr.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796061530
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Life: Four Quarters plus Overtime is a book created specifically with the African American community in mind. The book will examine the periods of development associated with the human life span with brief overview of the social, emotional, congenital, perceptual, and moral development specific to each life stage. The book will include cutting-edge commentary from experts in the field of psychology, public health, education, religion, genonrology, and the healing arts. Each chapter/quarter will have African American proverbs, cultural maxims, quotes, stories, and words of wisdom from black achievers, along with biblical scripture that will strengthen our faith and belief and help us interpret and experience our lives in a vastly different way. The book will conclude (Epilogue) with Mr. Griffin’s Life Four Quarters plus Overtime Memoirs.
Author: Cary Briel
Publisher: Goat House Books
ISBN: 0983845808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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Sheila and Sally Peidamont were sisters. Twins. But they weren't like any twins that you've ever known. Besides each girl's ownership of her own head and face, the two shared everything else on their body. They shared two arms and two legs, two hands and two feet. They even shared a single heart. So whether they took a simple walk across the street or a trip to the bathroom, they did it together. They had no choice in the matter, and each was always polite. Until, that is, the blind Stephen Hobbs entered their lives. Sheila and Sally saved the blind Stephen as he stood in a crosswalk, confused and distressed, at their school, and when they did everything changed. The prospect of sharing their body became far more complicated in light of what would have to be shared for Stephen. What ended up happening was something that could easily drive normal sisters apart. But as was obvious to anyone looking, Sheila and Sally were anything but normal.
Author: Richard Fortey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761185
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens. Ranging across multiple scientific disciplines, explicating in wonderfully clear and refreshing prose their findings and arguments--about the origins of life, the causes of species extinctions and the first appearance of man--Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won. Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs
Author: Peter Frase
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781688141
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism and extermininsm might actually entail. Could the current rise of the real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender's Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there's no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of "likes," wouldn't rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies are already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.
Author: Sangeeta Sharma
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1648287433
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Do you feel you are not living your - Dream Life? Do you often feel low on energy or emotionally weak, lack mental strength or lack of confidence to move forward in life? You dreamt of a different life… yet chose a safer path! You wanted to fly free… yet feel tied down! You needed to explore unknown territories… yet ended up going in circles in the same tornado! Is this the life you had envisaged? Or do you want to take a step towards leading the life that you wanted? Four Layers to Your Dream Life will help you create the life of your dreams. As you flip through the pages of this book, you will start peeling the layers covering your true self. It will connect you to your true hidden potential. It will empower you to achieve success, abundance, and happiness in all aspects of life. Clarity of thoughts, connection with the self and universe are the driving forces of this book. Go on a journey to transform your dreams into reality!
Author: Harry Calvert
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244953198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Born in Poland before World War One, Seftig Four became a classical scholar of dubious merit, moving to France in his twenties. His career there, covering some forty years, including the occupation and liberation of France, brought about much harm before his solitary death in his mid-sixties. Fours life occasioned little pleasure to anyone and no account of his life is likely to do so.The author is Professor Emeritus in Law in the University of Wales. He worked in many Commonwealth jurisdictions before settling in Wales in 1975. He lives in the Rhondda Valley with his wife, Heather, and their Welsh border collie, Coco. He is 85 years old and slowly declining.
Author: Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum
Publisher: Mosaica Press
ISBN: 1952370469
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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We all live with a deeply rooted desire to understand our unique purpose in this world. That discovery is the key to making every moment meaningful and living a truly empowered life. But are we searching in the right places? The Four Elements of an Empowered Life takes you on a journey inward — to understand your unique purpose and to discover your inner worlds, represented by the four elements of fire, wind, water, and earth. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including classic Torah texts, Kabbalistic works, psychology, and modern-day thinkers, as well as the author’s own personal experiences in Jewish education and outreach, Rabbi Buxbaum presents a close-up look at the constant struggles that are taking place within each of these inner worlds. These pages are filled with practical tools and habits that will help you master the elements and become the greatest possible version of yourself — empowering you to accomplish the mission that only you can achieve in this world.
Author: J.M.Mehta
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122310656
Category : Asramas (Four stages of life)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Four Spans of Human Life is based on the most popular Indian Philosophy of Ashram Vyavastha: Brahmacharya up to 25, Grihastha up to 55, and Vanprastha on the condition that the person must have son/sons and each son must have at least one son, and the most revered, Sanyasa, only if a person is completely detached and has no lust. It is the best arrangement that prepares one for the journey of life and leads one to pleasure, happiness, bliss and beatitude. Read and follow Four Spans of Human Life for a complete life after getting well acquainted with each Ashram.
Author: J. Hamlyn Hill
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300062924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Tatian's Diatessaron became the standard gospel among the Syriac-speaking Christians of Syria and Mesopotamia up till the fifth century. Its text spread from China to England, and maybe Iceland, and became one of the oldest witnesses to the gospels.
