Download or read book Dignity in a Teacup written by Christine Cummins and published by Arden. This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dignity in a Teacup chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counselor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island, Australia's remote Indian Ocean outpost. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories shared by hundreds of asylum seekers, Christine describes the reasons people were forced to flee their homelands. These true stories are compelling and reveal the lives of ordinary people seeking a safe new life. It's an inspiring, intimate memoir about resilience and the tenacity of love. This book fills the gap in our understanding of people pursuing protection in a conflict-ridden world.
Download or read book Learning from My Daughter written by Eva Feder Kittay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Our dependent, vulnerable, messy, changeable, and embodied experience colors everything about our lives both on the surface and when it comes to deeper concepts, but we tend to leave aside the body for the mind when it comes to philosophical matters. Disability offers a powerful challenge to long-held philosophical views about the nature of the good life, what provides meaning in our lives, and the centrality of reason, as well as questions of justice, dignity, and personhood. These concepts need not be distant and idealized; the answers are right before us, in the way humans interact with one another, care for one another, and need one another--whether they possess full mental capacities or have cognitive limitations. We need to revise our concepts of things like dignity and personhood in light of this important correction, Kittay argues. This is the first of two books in which Kittay will grapple with just how we need to revisit core philosophical ideas in light of disabled people's experience and way of being in the world. Kittay, an award-winning philosopher who is also the mother to a multiply-disabled daughter, interweaves the personal voice with the philosophical as a critical method of philosophical investigation. Here, she addresses why cognitive disability can reorient us to what truly matters, and questions the centrality of normalcy as part of a good life. With profound sensitivity and insight, Kittay examines other difficult topics: How can we look at the ethical questions regarding prenatal testing in light of a new appreciation of the personhood of disabled people? What do new possibilities in genetic testing imply for understanding disability, the family, and bioethics? How can we reconsider the importance of care, and how does it work best? In the process of pursuing these questions, Kittay articulates an ethic of care, which is the ethical theory most useful for claiming full rights for disabled people and providing the opportunities for everyone to live joyful and fulfilling lives. She applies the lessons of care to the controversial alteration of severely cognitively disabled children known as the Ashley Treatment, whereby a child's growth is halted with extensive estrogen treatment and related bodily interventions are justified. This book both imparts lessons that advocate on behalf of those with significant disabilities, and constructs a moral theory grounded on our ability to give, receive, and share care and love. Above all, it aims to adjust social attitudes and misconceptions about life with disability.
Download or read book Tea Cup Fortune Telling written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tea-Cup Fortune Telling" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Julius Seesawcer Or A Storm in a Tea cup written by Arthur Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tea Cup Fortune Telling written by Minetta and published by Digital Antiquaria. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts in the reading of tea leaves believe that this book is the only one necessary to accurately foretell the future. Perceptive individuals seeking to expand their sensitivity will appreciate the encyclopedic format and advice of noted consultant "Minetta."The book is divided into sections: Divining by the Cupdiscusses the theory and best practices for giving consultations; The Symbols describes the significance of tea-leaf accretions in an alphabetical format; The Zodiac integrates astrological elements into the art and craft of tea-leaf readings; and Numbers reveals the mystery and relevance of numerical accretions in the tea-cup.This masterfully crafted eBook faithfully preserves the first edition and its illustrations. It is fully-searchable and fully-printable. (96pp, 971 Kb)
Download or read book The Three Minute Philosopher written by Fabrice Midal and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosophy and meditation expert Fabrice Midal's The Three-Minute Philosopher includes forty brief essays for tapping into a deeper understanding of your existence, with experiences that will transform, enlighten, and invite you to see the world in a new way. Philosophy takes us by surprise. It challenges us, awakens us, and opens our minds. It does not tell us to be "wise" or to be a perfect being, but instead to nurture our own humanity. Philosophical thinking is the antithesis of the rampant dogmatism that dominates so much public discussion, of the vehemently expressed opinions of those who think they know everything and who insist you agree with them. Self-proclaimed experts tell us to listen to and obey their injunctions, but philosophers encourage us to think for ourselves. After all, philosophy addresses what makes us human and helps us navigate everyday life, from dealing with that annoying colleague at work, to the panic of realizing that your fridge is empty when guests arrive out of the blue. Fabrice Midal teaches the power of trusting in our own thoughts and strengthening our connection to humanity, as he guides us through the inspirational ideas of forty writers, artists, thinkers, and seers from Baudelaire to Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson to Toni Morrison, Pablo Picasso to James Baldwin, and of course, Socrates to Aristotle. Simple, smart, and approachable, Midal's three-minute essays ask us to step back, reflect, and meditate, and encourage us to think about the world a little differently.
Download or read book LOVE AND WAR written by Peg Sutherland and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magdalena Murphy and Clarence Stirling almost got married—fifty years ago—but one of them left the other stranded at the altar. The rest was history. The Murphys and the Stirlings were at war. Two generations later, Sandy Murphy and Drew Stirling just naturally locked horns when they were thrown together over a yogurt campaign, which prompted a renewed debate in Tyler over the wedding that never was. They were destined to feud, it seemed, and to love just as passionately as their kin. But would they at least make it to the altar?
Download or read book The Law Within written by Fuller, Bampfylde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This is Volume XI of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Written in 1926, this book is a endeavour to discover the laws which underlie human nature—to bring within the domain of scientific generalization man's various activities—whether in industry, politics or war, in self-centred, social or religious life, in science or in art.
Download or read book Fortunes in a Tea Cup written by Jane Struthers and published by Pyramid. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the magic that lies at the bottom of your teacup. In this fascinating little book, you'll find step-by-step instructions for interpreting the magic of tea leaves, tips for getting started, and useful hints to remember during readings. An illustrated directory to the meaning of 300 shapes and symbols, divided into six useful categories, will provide you with instant answers for questions about romance, travel, work, money, health, family and friends. Perfect for both beginners and experienced tea leaf readers, Fortunes in a Teacup is the essential guide to everything you need to know about the ancient power of tea leaf reading.
Download or read book Scenes of Childhood written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
Download or read book Lamp written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tea Cup Reading and the Art of Fortune Telling by Tea Leaves written by Health Research and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to tell fortunes by tea leaves. with 10 illustrations. Contents: Preface; Introduction to the Art of Divination from Tea Leaves; Ritual & Method of Using the Tea Cup; General Principles to be Observed in Reading the Cup; an Alphabetical List of.
Download or read book The ABC of Relationships Including Dating written by Dueep Jyot Singh and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Introduction Why This Tradition of Courtship? A Man’s View about Relationships Simple Little Words Suitability of Your Partner Telltale Hands Conclusion Honesty Author Bio Publisher Introduction This book is going to tell you all about the historical background and psychological background of relationships all over the world, and how they have progressed. Naturally, down the ages, ideas and conventions changed and so did traditions, but the natural instinct for a human being to find a partner most suitable for him is instinctive. And that is why you are going to know more about the cultural, traditional, psychological, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of human relationships, including the idea of dating. Most of us are familiar with the concept of dating. This is a relatively modern social concept, gaining prevalence in the 20th century, after World War II. Historically speaking, the concept of dating with the idea of boy meeting girl all alone as a part of the human courtship process was definitely not encouraged up to the 19th century, in many countries of the West and in many parts of the world, if a boy and a girl were found alone together, they were immediately married off, so that the girl’s reputation could be protected!
Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Storm in a Teacup written by Eva Naomi Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tea Cup Reading and the Art of Fortune Telling written by Tea Leaves and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearth the mystical world of tea-leaf reading and fortune-telling with "Tea Leaves: Tea-Cup Reading and the Art of Fortune-Telling." This intriguing book explores the ancient practice of tasseography, a form of divination that interprets patterns in tea leaves to predict the future. The book is a comprehensive guide that illuminates the methods and meanings behind tea-cup reading. It provides insightful knowledge on how to prepare the tea, the significance of the patterns formed by the leaves, and the art of interpreting these patterns to uncover hidden truths about one's life and future. Alongside practical instructions, the book delves into the history and cultural significance of tea-cup reading and fortune-telling, offering readers a fascinating insight into this age-old form of divination. It explores how this practice has been used throughout history to guide decisions, provide comfort, and reveal the unseen. "Tea Leaves: Tea-Cup Reading and the Art of Fortune-Telling" is not just a guidebook, but a journey into a mystical world that invites readers to tap into their intuition, explore the symbolism in everyday objects, and discover the possibility of foresight.
Download or read book Ralph Compton Shotgun Charlie written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing a man can trust is his gun in this gripping Ralph Compton western.... Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks. While Grady Haskell sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie, the ruffian pushes all feelings aside for a potentially big score. When Haskell’s bold daylight bank job in prosperous Bakersfield turns bloody, Charlie attempts to thwart the heist—and ends up the only gang member caught alive. Sentenced to swing, Charlie makes a daring escape, determined to track down Haskell and prove his innocence. But with a mysterious marshal and a party of angry townsmen hot on his heels, Charlie must track the killer thieves through a vicious winter storm in the High Sierras—before the seething posse gets the chance to hang him high. More Than Eight Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!
