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Author |
: David Webster |
Publisher |
: John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 99 |
Release |
: 2012-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780994895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780994893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dispirited by : David Webster
Dave Webster’s book is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality makes us confused, apolitical and miserable - whether that spirituality is from conventional religious roots, from a new-age buffet of beliefs, or from some re-imagined ancient system of belief. Looking beyond this dismissal, the book looks towards atheistic existentialism, Theravada Buddhism and political engagement as a means to imagine what a post-spiritual world view could look like. ,
Author |
: Luisa M. Perkins |
Publisher |
: Zarahemla Books |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2012-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780984360369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0984360360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dispirited by : Luisa M. Perkins
Cathy sees things that are invisible to everyone else. Her new stepbrother's bizarre behavior. A ghostly little boy. An abandoned house in the woods. But she doesn't see how they're all connected. And what she doesn't see might just kill her.
Author |
: Douglas John Hall |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2012-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781621893745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 162189374X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waiting for Gospel by : Douglas John Hall
"Christianity, as faith centered in Jesus as the Christ came to be called, got a foothold in the world, and for a vital and vocal minority changed the world, because it proclaimed a message that awakened men and women to possibilities for human life that they had either lost or never entertained. That message the first Christian evangelists (and Jesus himself, according to the record) called euangellion--good news, gospel. For its first two or three hundred years, Christianity was largely dependent for its existence upon the new zest for life that was awakened in persons who heard and were, as they felt, transformed, by that gospel; and at various and sundry points in subsequent history the Christian movement has found itself revitalized by the spirit of that same 'good news' in ways that spoke to the specifics of their times and places. "The lesson of history is clear: the challenge to all serious Christians and Christian bodies today is not whether we can devise yet more novel and promotionally impressive means for the transmission of 'the Christian religion' (let alone this or that denomination); it is whether we are able to hear and to proclaim . . . gospel! We do not need statisticians and sociologists to inform us that religion--and specifically our religion, as the dominant expression of the spiritual impulse of homo sapiens in our geographic context--is in decline. We do not need the sages of the new atheism to announce in learned tomes (and on buses!) that 'God probably does not exist.' The 'sea of faith' has been ebbing for a very long time." --from the Introduction
Author |
: David Webster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1846947022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781846947025 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dispirited by : David Webster
How spirituality makes us stupid, selfish and unhappy
Author |
: Edward Gorey |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 70 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0151004153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780151004157 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Haunted Tea-cosy by : Edward Gorey
In his Preface to "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens wrote that he tried "to raise the Ghost of an Idea" with readers and trusted that it would "haunt their house pleasantly". In December 1997, 154 Christmases later, the "New York Times Magazine" asked its own Edward Gorey to refurbish this enduring morality tale. The result is this "dispirited and distasteful diversion for Christmas". Illustrations.
Author |
: Denis Boyles |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307389787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307389782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everything Explained That Is Explainable by : Denis Boyles
Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles’s work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world.
Author |
: Nancy Stieber |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 1998-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226774171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226774176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam by : Nancy Stieber
Winner of the 1999 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. During the early 1900s, Amsterdam developed an international reputation as an urban mecca when invigorating reforms gave rise to new residential neighborhoods encircling the city's dispirited nineteenth-century districts. This new housing, built primarily with government subsidy, not only was affordable but also met rigorous standards of urban planning and architectural design. Nancy Stieber explores the social and political developments that fostered this innovation in public housing. Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, Stieber examines how government supported large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role as architects in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and the role of art in society. Stieber emphasizes the tensions involved in making architectural design a social practice while she demonstrates the success of this collective enterprise in bringing about effective social policy and aesthetic progress.
Author |
: Jason Brennan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190846282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190846283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cracks in the Ivory Tower by : Jason Brennan
Ideally, universities are centers of learning, in which great researchers dispassionately search for truth, no matter how unpopular those truths must be. The marketplace of ideas assures that truth wins out against bias and prejudice. Yet, many people worry that there's rot in the heart of thehigher education business.In Cracks in the Ivory Tower, libertarian scholars Jason Brennan and Philip Magness reveal the problems are even worse than anyone suspects. Marshalling an array of data, they systematically show how contemporary American universities fall short of these ideals and how bad incentives make faculty,administrators, and students act unethically. While universities may at times excel at identifying and calling out injustice outside their gates, Brennan and Magness contend that individuals are primarily guided by self-interest at every level. They find that the problems are deep and pervasive:most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent; colleges and individual departments regularly make promises they do not and cannot keep; and most students cheat a little, while many cheat a lot. Trenchant and wide-ranging, they elucidate the many ways in which faculty and students alikehave every incentive to make teaching and learning secondary.In this revealing expose, Brennan and Magness bring to light many of the ethical problems universities, faculties, and students currently face. In turn, they reshape our understanding of how such high-powered institutions run their business.
Author |
: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1256 |
Release |
: 1897 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015012333897 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Author |
: A. K. Sandoval-Strausz |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541644434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541644433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Barrio America by : A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.