Download or read book Compassion Magic Turning Tragic into Triumph written by Virginia Sampson and published by Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compassion Magic written by Virginia Hunter Sampson and published by Hugo House Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Magic of Compassion in Your Life Turn heartache and tragedy into triumph and love Virginia Hunter Sampson arrived at a place in her life where she was burdened with heartache, guilt, and regret. Having just divorced her third husband, she was at a crossroads she could become a victim to it all or find a more positive road out. The victim route would be easy after a life of domestic violence, divorce, and the unimaginable grief of losing one husband to Lou Gehrig s disease. As she navigated a long three-year journey into the depths of grief, she found herself once again in an untenable position. Two of her four children turned to drugs and alcohol to handle the emotional devastation. What do you do when it looks like life has beaten you down? Journey with Virginia as she discovers one of life s greatest healing balms: the magic of compassion, both for herself and for others. Compassion transformed her life. It can transform yours. Find out how Virginia discovered how to tap into its power. Together we can build families, communities, and businesses with a foundation of compassion."

Download or read book Sex Cells and Same Sex Desire written by David A Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new book explores the myriad aspects of biological theories of sexual preference. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire describes, reviews, and questions recent biological research on sexual preference from the point of view of knowledgeable scientists and of scholars in the social sciences and humanities representing the emerging field of gay studies. The issues involved have a vibrant history, are wide-ranging, and remain the objects of much controversy. This book demystifies biological research on sexual preference and makes it accessible to readers unfamiliar with biological and medical research. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire is divided into several sections, each of which is introduced by an explanation of key concepts and terms found in that section. The book begins with a discussion of the history of biological theories and sociocultural concepts of gender and sexuality. The next 3 sections explore specialized areas of biological science and related issues: genetics and evaluation, hormones and the endocrine system, and brain physiology and structure. A final section discusses social stigma, science, and medicine. A glossary of terms used by the authors is included, so readers may look up those that may be unfamiliar.

Download or read book The Magic Boat written by Tom Seidmann-Freud and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories and poems, together with a puzzle and a Punch-and-Judy play, illustrated with movable pictures, by the artist niece of Sigmund Freud.

Download or read book Another Love Discourse written by Edie Meidav and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyric novel about the play of grief, empathy, new and old love, and the quest to overcome blindness in human relations. Caught in the cross-currents of a fraught divorce and a new love, the death of her mother, and a global pandemic, a writer plunges into an obsession with the work of 1960s French philosopher Roland Barthes. Her struggles to make sense of his work and life—and of what can happen to a woman's settled life in a single harrowing year—result in an engrossing, funny, earthy, and innovative lyric work. The quest for authenticity in motherhood, sexuality, and tenancy on the earth and in the home, as well as the unusual lyric form, make the novel unified in spirit yet transdisciplinary in approach.

Download or read book Life Is Magic written by Jon Dorenbos and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds.” —Ellen DeGeneres An extraordinary and empowering story of resilience, forgiveness, and living a life of purpose in the face of unfathomable obstacles. You may know him as an NFL All-Pro or as a world-class magician who made the finals of America’s Got Talent, but Jon Dorenbos says that what he does is not who he is. He is someone who coached himself, at the most tender of ages, to turn tragedy to triumph. One morning in August 1992, when Jon was twelve years old and living a seemingly idyllic childhood in suburban Seattle, he woke up for baseball camp. His dad waved goodbye. Later that day, Jon heard the news: his father had murdered his mother in the family’s three-car garage. In an instant, his life had shattered. He’d essentially been orphaned. Thrust into foster care while his father stood trial for murder, Jon struggled. Left to himself, he discovered an unlikely escape performing magic tricks. If you found a way to alter your reality, after your dad—your hero—killed your mom, wouldn’t you cling to it too? Then came football, which provided a release for all of his pent-up anger. Together, magic and football saved him, leading to fourteen NFL seasons on the gridiron and raucous sleight of hand performances to packed houses across the globe. In 2017, he was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition leaving him with a choice. To either break down or—as he’d by now long taught himself—bounce back. “Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds” (Ellen DeGeneres) and provides a roadmap for overcoming even the darkest of times. Jon’s story is poignant and powerful, told by a charismatic and optimistic man who has overcome life-or-death challenges with grace, persistence, a childlike sense of wonder…and jaw-dropping card tricks.

Download or read book Charles Dickens His Tragedy and Triumph written by Edgar Johnson and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charles Dickens was a titan of literature whose prodigious talents and vitality made his life one long--if not always happy--adventure. He was himself a Dickens character, and his world was both glittering and wrenchingly sad, immensely comic and often tragic. Many of his adventures were as ludicrous and painful as those of Pickwick, David Copperfield, or Pip. He was ambitious, and yet few more altruistic men have ever lived; proud, yet in the truest sense of the term a humble person..." - Book jacket.

Download or read book My Promised Land written by Ari Shavit and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension. We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape. Praise for My Promised Land “This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times “[A] must-read book.”—Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times “Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.”—Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.”—The Economist “One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.”—The Wall Street Journal

Download or read book Beyond Reason written by Karol Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the “secret” of large-scale form in Wagner’s music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts.

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Epic Films written by Constantine Santas and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after film came into existence, the term epic was used to describe productions that were lengthy, spectacular, live with action, and often filmed in exotic locales with large casts and staggering budgets. The effort and extravagance needed to mount an epic film paid off handsomely at the box office, for the genre became an immediate favorite with audiences. Epic films survived the tribulations of two world wars and the Depression and have retained the basic characteristics of size and glamour for more than a hundred years. Length was, and still is, one of the traits of the epic, though monolithic three- to four-hour spectacles like Gone with the Wind (1939) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) have been replaced today by such franchises as the Harry Potter films and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Although the form has evolved during many decades of existence, its central elements have been retained, refined, and modernized to suit the tastes of every new generation. The Encyclopedia of Epic Films identifies, describes, and analyzes those films that meet the criteria of the epic—sweeping drama, panoramic landscapes, lengthy adventure sequences, and, in many cases, casts of thousands. This volume looks at the wide variety of epics produced over the last century—from the silent spectacles of D. W. Griffith and biblical melodramas of Cecil B. DeMille to the historical dramas of David Lean and rollercoaster thrillers of Steven Spielberg. Each entry contains: Major personnel behind the camera, including directors and screenwriters Cast and character listings Plot summary Analysis Academy Award wins and nominations DVD and Blu-ray availability Resources for further study This volume also includes appendixes of foreign epics, superhero spectaculars, and epics produced for television, along with a list of all the directors in the book. Despite a lack of overall critical recognition and respect as a genre, the epic remains a favorite of audiences, and this book pays homage to a form of mass entertainment that continues to fill movie theaters. The Encyclopedia of Epic Films will be of interest to academics and scholars, as well as any fan of films made on a grand scale.

Download or read book Inscrutable Malice written by Jonathan A. Cook and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work. Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments. With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader's understanding of the moral, religious, and mythical dimensions of the novel. Both accessible and erudite, Inscrutable Malice will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Melville's classic whaling narrative.

Download or read book Lectures on Poetry written by Joseph Trapp and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lectures on Poetry: Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford" by Joseph Trapp refer to the author's work on the epics of Virgil. In these lecture, he aimed to educate his audiences, both in person and on paper, as to the art of poetry. From how it began to comparing it with more visual mediums. the book is still a useful tool for literary students, aspiring poets, and those curious to learn about this genre.

Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Shakespeare.

Download or read book The Power of Beauty written by S. R. Jaye and published by Three Jays Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a world of dark enchanted forests, beasts, curses waiting to be broken, light and dark magic, forbidden love, palace intrigue, and the age-old struggle of good and evil as darkness and winter threaten the mortal and fae realms… Beasts come in many forms. Some of them exceedingly beautiful. Some of them diabolically dangerous… Rescued from her enemy the Fairy Queen, Maisie is thrust into the intrigue, vanity, and nefarious plots of the High Court of the Mortal Realm. Although she is the handsome young High King’s selectress, and rightful fiancée, she interrupts his plans for himself and the kingdom. And he is not amused… There are dark forces afoot in the kingdom, forces that will never accept a queen from The Outlands. The Fairy Queen wants Maisie dead. Darkness lurks in every corner. Maisie’s light magic is muted in the Mortal Realm. Prince Rylan is turning into a beast at the hands of the Fairy Queen. And Maisie’s treacherous betrothal ring is whispering darkness… In a realm where beauty is power, everyone is out to destroy the truest beauty. Beware The Power of Beauty.

Download or read book The Wrong Throne written by S.R. Jaye and published by Three Jays Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely original fairy tale retelling. A combination of Beauty and the Beast, Tamlin, and The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife. Beasts come in many forms, some of them exceedingly beautiful. Some of them powerful and exceptionally dangerous… Rescued from the Fairy Queen by the Seelie King, Maisie is thrown into the High Court of the Mortal Realm at the feet of the High King, Kylan. Although she is his selectress, and rightful fiancée, it’s immediately clear that she has interrupted his plans for himself and the kingdom. And he is not amused… Maisie’s beauty and light powers tempt Kylan. But her presence threatens to destroy a powerful alliance Kylan is on the verge of making. As much as he needs her power now that Rylan is missing, as much as he wants her… Maisie is in danger and in desperate need of allies. There are forces in the kingdom that will never accept a queen from The Outlands. The Fairy Queen still wants her dead. Darkness lurks in every corner. Maisie’s light magic is muted in the Mortal Realm. Rylan is turning into a beast at the hands of the Fairy Queen. And the treacherous betrothal ring is whispering darkness…