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Book The Ethics and Religious Philosophy of Etty Hillesum

Download or read book The Ethics and Religious Philosophy of Etty Hillesum written by Klaas A.D. Smelik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethics and Religious Philosophy of Etty Hillesum contains the proceedings of the second international Etty Hillesum Congress at Ghent University in January 2014 and is a joint effort by fifteen Hillesum experts to shed new light on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), one of the victims of the Nazi-regime. Hillesum’s diaries and letters illustrate her heroic struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Holocaust. This volume revives Hillesum research with a comprehensive rereading of her texts. With the current rise of interest in peace studies, Judaism, the Holocaust, inter-religious dialogue, gender studies and mysticism, it is evident that this book will be invaluable to students and scholars in various disciplines.

Book Malay Images

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  • Author : Asmah Haji Omar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Malay Images written by Asmah Haji Omar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Linking Destinies

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  • Author : Peter Boomgaard
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9004253998
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Linking Destinies written by Peter Boomgaard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks. Nevertheless, it is fairly rare to find trade, cities and kinship relations as intimately linked as we have portrayed them in this volume, because they are usually classified within different sub-disciplines of history, whose practitioners are all too often not inclined to talk to people outside their own field. The Australian born historian Heather Sutherland, who recently retired from the VU university in Amsterdam, is an exception in this respect because most of her work gravitates towards an approach which aims to integrate this trinity of topics. This collection of essays, written by a number of her students and close colleagues, has taken its cue from her approach. It is not the case that all the contributions deal with all three topics but they as a collective demonstrate how flows of trade, cities—both as urban centres and nodes in wider networks—and kinship relations hang together, and how the study of one topic opens new vistas on the other two, revealing causal links that otherwise would have remained hidden. Thus, the essays in this collective volume support the idea that trade, towns and kin—although often dealt with quite separately—can be viewed as various aspects of the same networks, connecting people, places and commodities.

Book Literacy and Literacies

Download or read book Literacy and Literacies written by James Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book Sunrise Over Hell

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  • Author : Ka-tzetnik 135633
  • Publisher : W.H. Allen
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Sunrise Over Hell written by Ka-tzetnik 135633 and published by W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moni

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  • Author : Ka-Tzetnik
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780806510224
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Moni written by Ka-Tzetnik and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy struggles to survive the horrors of life in the Auschwitz concentration camp

Book Malay Words and Malay Things

Download or read book Malay Words and Malay Things written by Waruno Mahdi and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the development of German acquaintance with the Malayan world and language as reflected in publications up to 1700. Beginning with a perusal of earliest cartographic renderings and a recapitulation of economic and political circumstances of German involvement in European Far-Eastern trade after 1500, the volume proceeds to systematically inspect 16th and 17th century German travellers' memoirs and translations of foreign sources. Relevant text passages are quoted in the original with English gloss. Citations of renderings of Malay items are accompanied by transliterations in modern spelling. Ultimate and intermediate sources and the routes by which various items reached the German public are followed, as well as virtual networks of information. Etymologies of numerous real or assumed Malayisms are elaborately reinspected, and corrected where necessary. The development in usage of the acquired Malayisms after 1700, reconstructed from entries in dictionaries and encyclopaedias and through direct quotation from German literature, is shown to reflect fluctuations in public attention towards features from exotic regions.

Book Neveh Ya akov

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  • Author : Lea Dasberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9789023219606
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Neveh Ya akov written by Lea Dasberg and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opstellen opgedragen aan de Nederlandse deskundige en publicist op het gebied van de Joodse wetenschap.

Book Ahmad Rijaluddin s Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala

Download or read book Ahmad Rijaluddin s Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala written by Ahmad Rijaluddin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malay text, parallel English translation.

Book Etty Hillesum

Download or read book Etty Hillesum written by Etty Hillesum and published by Modern Spiritual Masters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a young Dutch Jewish woman, died in Auschwitz at the age of 29. This volume, drawn from her letters and diaries, lays out the themes of her distinctive and inspiring spiritual vision.

Book The Colonel

Download or read book The Colonel written by Alanna Nash and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.

Book The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creation Revisited

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  • Author : Peter William Atkins
  • Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780140174250
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Creation Revisited written by Peter William Atkins and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1994 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martyrs

Download or read book Martyrs written by Susan Bergman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of biographies of nineteen modern Christian martyrs. Examines the life and work of people that include Oscar Romero, Steven Biko, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Discusses what martyrdom means in contemporary society, focusing on what martyrdom means for contemporary Christians.

Book Aprismo

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  • Author : Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
  • Publisher : [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Aprismo written by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and published by [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wall at the Edge of the World

Download or read book The Wall at the Edge of the World written by Jim Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped inside a walled city of telepaths in the Earth's distant past, Danlo Ree feels isolated and alone, until he is kidnapped by a band of wild humans who give him a taste of freedom. Original.

Book The Penguin Companion to Literature

Download or read book The Penguin Companion to Literature written by David Daiches and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: