Plain And Ordinary Things
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Author |
: Deborah A. Dooley |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1995-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791423204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791423202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plain and Ordinary Things by : Deborah A. Dooley
This book is about women's exploration of the relations between their private and public selves--it examines the voices with which women speak to their students, their colleagues, and themselves. The major audience is women interested in women's identity and identity construction as well as writing.
Author |
: Jill J. Duffield |
Publisher |
: Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2020-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611649802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611649803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lent in Plain Sight by : Jill J. Duffield
God is often at work through the ordinary: ordinary people, ordinary objects, ordinary grace. Through the ordinary, God communicates epiphanies, salvation, revelation, and reconciliation. It is through the mundane that we hear Gods quiet voice. In this devotion for the season of Lent, Jill J. Duffield draws readers attention to ten ordinary objects that Jesus would have encountered on his way to Jerusalem: dust, bread, the cross, coins, shoes, oil, coats, towels, thorns, and stones. In each object, readers will find meaning in the biblical account of Jesus final days. Each week, readers encounter a new object to consider through Scripture, prayer, and reflection. From Ash Wednesday to Easter, Lent in Plain Sight reminds Christians to open ourselves to the kingdom of God.
Author |
: David Hartsough |
Publisher |
: PM Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2014-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781629630519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1629630519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waging Peace by : David Hartsough
David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. It is the story of one man’s effort to live as though we were all brothers and sisters. Engaging stories on every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the major historical events of the past sixty years, including the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States and the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the Soviet Union, Kosovo, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Hartsough’s story demonstrates the power and effectiveness of organized nonviolent action. But Waging Peace is more than one man’s memoir. Hartsough shows how this struggle is waged all over the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence and war.
Author |
: Larry Dossey |
Publisher |
: Harmony |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2007-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307394750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307394751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things by : Larry Dossey
Every day modern medicine announces the arrival of yet another “wonder drug” or “miracle procedure” to a world increasingly wary of expensive high-tech cures. Drugs, transplants, and surgery don’t work for 90 percent of our aches and pains and, while we are grateful for life-saving developments, we know that most come with risks that we ignore at our peril. Long hailed as one of the founding fathers of mind-body medicine, Larry Dossey directs our attention to simple sources of healing that have been available for centuries—treasures often hidden in plain sight—from the power of optimism and of tears to speed recovery to the surprising usefulness of dirt and bugs in curing disease and infection to the benefits of doing nothing. Exploring the medical research that validates these simple remedies, Dossey encourages us to align ourselves with the wisdom of nature and allow true healing to take place. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things can transform our view of what health is all about, whether our concern is cancer or the common cold.
Author |
: Soetsu Yanagi |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2019-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780241366363 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0241366364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Beauty of Everyday Things by : Soetsu Yanagi
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and simple, sturdy and safe - the aesthetic result of wholeheartedly fulfilling utilitarian needs. They should, in short, be things of beauty. In an age of feeble and ugly machine-made things, these essays call for us to deepen and transform our relationship with the objects that surround us. Inspired by the work of the simple, humble craftsmen Yanagi encountered during his lifelong travels through Japan and Korea, they are an earnest defence of modest, honest, handcrafted things - from traditional teacups to jars to cloth and paper. Objects like these exemplify the enduring appeal of simplicity and function: the beauty of everyday things.
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Total Pages |
: 620 |
Release |
: 1845 |
ISBN-10 |
: SRLF:AX0000196204 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plain Sermons by :
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Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X001838211 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Author |
: Ted Honderich |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2014-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191023859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019102385X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Actual Consciousness by : Ted Honderich
What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousness, Ted Honderich sets out to supersede dualisms, objective physicalisms, abstract functionalism, externalisms, and other positions in the debate. He argues that the theory of Actualism, right or wrong, is unprecedented, in nine ways. (1) It begins from gathered data and proceeds to an adequate initial clarification of consciousness in the primary ordinary sense. This consciousness is summed up as something's being actual. (2) Like basic science, Actualism proceeds from this metaphorical or figurative beginning to what is wholly literal and explicit—constructed answers to the questions of what is actual and what it is for it to be actual. (3) In so doing, the theory respects the differences of consciousness within perception, consciousness that is thinking in a generic sense, and consciousness that is generic wanting. (4) What is actual with your perceptual consciousness is a subjective physical world out there, very likely a room, differently real from the objective physical world, that other division of the physical world. (5) What it is for the myriad subjective physical worlds to be actual is for them to be subjectively physical, which is exhaustively characterized. (6) What is actual with cognitive and affective consciousness is affirmed or valued representations. The representations being actual, which is essential to their nature, is their being differently subjectively physical from the subjective physical worlds. (7) Actualism, naturally enough when you think of it, but unlike any other existing general theory of consciousness, is thus externalist with perceptual consciousness but internalist with respect to cognitive and affective consciousness. (8) It satisfies rigorous criteria got from examination of the failures of the existing theories. In particular, it explains the role of subjectivity in thinking about consciousness, including a special subjectivity that is individuality. (9) Philosophers and scientists have regularly said that thinking about consciousness requires just giving up the old stuff and starting again. Actualism does this. Science is served by this main line philosophy, which is concentration on the logic of ordinary intelligence—clarity, consistency and validity, completeness, generality.
Author |
: Jan Sokol |
Publisher |
: Karolinum Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2013-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788024622293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8024622297 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thinking About Ordinary Things by : Jan Sokol
How to teach philosophy to young dissidents, excluded from higher education by the communist regime? The author of this book, Czech philosopher, former dissident, software developer and occasional politician, tries to carry over this experience into his university lectures. It is not a talk about philosophy or philosophers, but rather an invitation: its aim is first to excite the reader´s interest and to lead him or her to think philosophically by himself. In some 30 short chapters, covering a broad spectrum of topics and followed by questions, the reader is shown that philosophy is not only a special discipline, but rather a habit of thought, which can and should be applied anywhere.
Author |
: Alison Littlewood |
Publisher |
: Jo Fletcher Books |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2014-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781623658540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1623658543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Path of Needles by : Alison Littlewood
Some fairy tales are born of dreams . . . and some are born of nightmares. Chrissie Farrell is young, beautiful and about to be crowned Queen of the Dance. But on the evening of her triumph she is abducted and murdered, her body left for the police to find. With no other clues, the disturbing way in which Chrissie's body has been posed has PC Cate Corbin at a loss - until university lecturer Alice Hyland is called in. An expert on fairy tales, Alice quickly notices a connection between the murder and an obscure version of Snow White. When a second body is found, Alice is dragged further into the investigation - and only then realises that she is becoming a suspect. Now Alice must fight, not just to prove her innocence, but to protect herself: because the body count is growing and it's looking like she might be next . . . "I loved Path of Needles. Dark but satisfying, like the best chocolate" --Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of The Dark Angel