Download or read book Dreaming of Eden written by S. Thistlethwaite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to take a bite out of an apple that promised them the "knowledge of good and evil." Today, a shiny apple with a bite out of it is the symbol of Apple Computers. The age of the Internet has speeded up human knowledge, and it also provides even more temptation to know more than may be good for us. Americans have been right at the forefront of the digital revolution, and we have felt its unsettling effects in both our religions and our politics. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite argues that we long to return to the innocence of the Garden of Eden and not be faced with countless digital choices. But returning to the innocence of Eden is dangerous in this modern age and, instead, we can become wiser about the wired world.

Download or read book Eden s Dream written by Marcia King-Gamble and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the tragic loss of her fiancé, Eden Sommers heads to Mercer Island, the one place she’s always found peace. Instead of solace, she finds herself tormented by questions and a determination to find out what really happened to the man she loved. Romance is the last thing on her mind when she meets a man who reminds her of her fiancé. Although she’s attracted to the sexy stranger, she can’t help but be on guard. Is it possible to find love again, especially when her new love is keeping secrets?

Download or read book Outside the Gates of Eden written by Peter Bacon Hales and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural historian and author of Atomic Spaces offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter Bacon Hales explores those decades through a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life. Finding unexpected connections, he traces the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril. From newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests to the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the teen pop music of the Brill Building and the Beach Boys to Bob Dylan’s canny transformations; from the painful failures of communes to the breathtaking utopian potential of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation in transition as a new generation began to make its mark on the world it was inheriting. Outside the Gates of Eden is the most comprehensive account yet of the baby boomers, their parents, and their children, as seen through the places they built, the music and movies and shows they loved, and the battles they fought to define their nation, their culture, and their place in what remains a fragile and dangerous world.

Download or read book Valley of Dreams written by Sarah M. Eden and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today Bestselling author of the Longing for Home series, VALLEY OF DREAMS is a new romance novel set in the beloved world of Hope Springs. Patrick O'Connor has seen far too much of the cruel and unforgiving world. Life has beaten him down relentlessly. Out of hope and out of options, he makes the terrifying and desperate decision to return home to the family he has lied to for years, the family he knows will never forgive him. Widowed and nearly unable to care for her tiny daughter under the weight of extreme poverty, Eliza Porter jumps at the opportunity to leave behind the slums of New York City for the promise of a new life and a new beginning in the frontier town of Hope Springs. Fate tosses the two of them together more and more often, while the burden of his tightly-held secrets and the ache of her abandoned dreams pull them further and further apart. Clinging to the whispered possibility of something more than the pain life has offered them thus far will require every bit of hope they can find in this peaceful but precarious valley of dreams. Longing for Home Series: Longing for Home Hope Springs My Dearest Love Love Remains Long Journey Home Valley of Dreams

Download or read book Tibetan Buddhism Deck written by Priya Hemenway and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring equisite images of thirty-six Buddhist deities, guardian figures, and bodhisattvas from the Tibetan tradition, these cards provide an explanation of the abilities, qualities, and strengths of each, and give meditation exercises to deepen your practice of Buddhism and bring peace and understanding into your life."--Container.

Download or read book So Wild a Dream written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and daring young man, Sam Morgan leaves his home in 1820s Pennsylvania to seek adventure and a fortune in the frontier West, accompanied by a colorful assortment of companions he meets along the way.

Download or read book Dreams written by Orion and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1983-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Dreams is Orion's bedside guide to dream interpretation—including the hidden meanings and secrets. From abacus to zoo, Dreams is a concise dictionary of dreams and is your guide to understanding the knowledge that comes through to you in your dreams form the innermost depths of your being.

Download or read book Eden s Escape written by M. Tara Crowl and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eden's greatest wish has finally come true. No longer confined to her lamp, she begins a spectacular life in Manhattan with her new guardian, Pepper, a bubbly genie alum who's also a Broadway actress. Eden only gets a taste of the city's wonders before she's whisked away for a wish granting--she is still a genie with a job, after all. David Brightly isn't like other wishers Eden has met. The owner of the world's leading tech company seems more interested in tapping into the lamp's power than making his first wish. Trapped in Brightly's laboratory and unable to get to the lamp, Eden has no choice but to escape and go on the run. She finds herself on the streets of Paris, nowhere near out of danger. Brightly has half the city searching for Eden, claiming she is his kidnapped daughter. She manages to don a disguise and get word of her predicament out to the loyal genies on earth. But Paris is also headquarters of Electra, a group of former genies bent on revenge against Eden, and it seems the scheming Sylvana has teamed up with Brightly to seize the lamp's power once and for all. Eden embarks on a dangerous mission to retrieve the lamp and protect the centuries-old genie legacy. But Brightly has more tricks up his sleeve than any mortal Eden has met. Soon, every genie will have to pick a side in an epic showdown against the greatest threat the lamp has ever faced.

Download or read book DreamEden written by Linda Ty-Casper and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of Corazon Aquino's political movement in the Philippines in the 1980s. The events are portrayed through the eyes of two childhood friends, one an idealist who supports the revolution, the other a corrupt individual who opposes it.

Download or read book Barbara and the Djinn written by Barbara Eden and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young girl discovers a book that transports her to a magical land, she discovers

Download or read book Jeannie Out of the Bottle written by Barbara Eden and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved actresses, best known for her iconic role on I Dream of Jeannie The landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful blond star, Barbara Eden, for decades. Part pristine Hollywood princess and part classic bombshell, with innocence, strength, and comedic talent to spare, Barbara finally lets Jeannie out of her bottle to tell her whole story. Jeannie Out of the Bottle takes us behind the scenes of I Dream of Jeannie as well as Barbara’s dozens of other stage, movie, television, and live concert performances. We follow her from the hungry years when she was a struggling studio contract player at 20th Century Fox through difficult weeks trying to survive as a chorus girl at Ciro’s Sunset Strip supper club, from a stint as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on live TV to tangling on-screen and off with some of Hollywood’s most desirable leading men, including Elvis Presley, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, and Warren Beatty. From the ups and downs of her relationship with her Jeannie co-star Larry Hagman to a touching meeting with an exquisite and vulnerable Marilyn Monroe at the twilight of her career, readers join Barbara on a thrilling journey through her five decades in Hollywood. But Barbara’s story is also an intimate and honest memoir of personal tragedy: a stillborn child with her first husband, Michael Ansara; a verbally abusive, drug-addicted second husband; the loss of her beloved mother; and the accidental heroin-induced death of her adult son, just months before his wedding. With candor and poignancy, Barbara reflects on the challenges she has faced, as well as the joys she has experienced and how she has maintained her humor, optimism, and inimitable Jeannie magic throughout the roller-coaster ride of a truly memorable life. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including candid family pictures and rare publicity stills, Jeannie Out of the Bottle is a must-have for every fan, old and new.

Download or read book Hollywood Eden written by Joel Selvin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hollywood Eden brings the lost humanity of the record business vividly back to life ... [Selvin’s] style is blunt, unpretentious and brisk; he knows how to move things along entertainingly ... Songs about surfboards and convertibles had turned quaint, but in this book, their coolness is restored.” — New York Times From surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, and the Mama’s & the Papa’s, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959 — a class that included Jan & Dean, Nancy Sinatra, and future members of the Beach Boys — who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who invented the idea of modern California for the rest of the world. But their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later as, one by one, each met their destinies head-on. A rock ’n’ roll opera loaded with violence, deceit, intrigue, low comedy, and high drama, Hollywood Eden tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads, crashed cars, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.

Download or read book Longing for Home written by Sarah M. Eden and published by Proper Romance. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming Territory, 1870. Leaving Ireland Katie Macauley arrives in Hope Springs, a settlement harboring violence and a deep hatred of the Irish. Now she must decide whether to stay and give her heart a chance at love, or return home and give her soul the possibility of peace.

Download or read book You ve Got to Have a Dream written by Ian C. Bradley and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the musical is the "most ubiquitous and dominant cultural icon of our age," scholar Ian Bradley unpacks the theological significance of the musical. Bradley argues that musicals provide millions of people around the world not just with entertainment but also with spiritual and theological values, a philosophy of life, and an encounter with God. In addition, he offers his thoughts on what the popularity of the musical might mean for the future of the church.

Download or read book Dreams Within a Dream written by Michael Bliss and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream." Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as so pivotal in explaining the films of Peter Weir that he borrows her words to create the title of his own study of the Australian filmmaker's work. Bliss views Weir as an artist whose values are rooted in the realm of the dream, of the unconscious. Surrealistic in technique, Weir avoids the pedestrian assurances of a material realm in favor of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for him a more truthful representation of what he considers reality. For Weir, as for Plato, Bliss demonstrates, "empirical reality is nothing more than a shadow of what is real." Bliss also considers Weir's heritage. Australian cinema, Bliss explains, is characterized by melodramatic narratives born of a desire to see good and evil portrayed in striking opposition. Weir, for example, dramatizes the contradictory forces of light versus darkness, reason versus mystery, and rationality versus magic in such films as Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave. This melodramatic emphasis is evident as well in the polarized characterizations in such films as Witness, Dead Poets Society, and The Truman Show. Bliss also discusses Weir's use of another staple of Australian cinema-- "mateship," the celebration of the bond between male companions. But by making self-knowledge dependent on action involving one's friends, Weir gives mateship a new meaning. Moreover, like other Australian filmmakers, Weir emphasizes the starkness of the Australian landscape, which functions either as a hazard or a deadly challenge, at least until American mythology caused him to see nature in a more positive light. Also prominent in Weir's films is an Australian spirit of rebellion coupled with the Aussie ambivalence toward all aspects of British culture. To help explain Weir's films, Bliss looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, and also to two other prominent purveyors of myth and archetype, Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell. Virtually all Weir characters struggle toward a new mode of awareness, a psychological awareness based on archetypal truths. Many of his films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity. Weir's quest is to find out what we really know and how we know what we know.

Download or read book LUC D DREAM Learn To Control Your Dreams written by Lycariones and published by Lycariones. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The realm of dreams is an infinite universe where we spend almost half of our lives. It is also one of the most intriguing and mysterious subjects for human beings. Dreams are a part of sleep and they are imaginary experiences that occur in our brains. The experience of dreaming is something that everyone goes through, but it is understood in different ways by each individual. The main theme of our book, "Lucid Dreams," is a wonderful tool to explore the subconscious mind of a person. It is evidence of the incredible power of the human mind. During sleep, our subconscious mind presents us with unlimited potential. The dream realm is a place where we can push the boundaries of our imagination and not be limited by reality. Sometimes, it is even a brief escape from the real world to enter a perfectly crafted dream world. The exact meaning of dreams is still not fully understood, but many researchers believe that dreams are trying to tell us something. Some think that dreams reflect our mental and emotional states, while others believe that dreams are one of the phases of our brain's information processing. Dreams are often different from our conscious experiences. While dreaming, we find ourselves in a different world than what we think about. In our dreams, we sometimes see familiar people and places, but other times we encounter entirely imaginary locations and individuals. The events and dialogues we experience in our dreams can provide clues about our real-life experiences. The most intriguing aspect of dreams is the existence of "lucid dreams." A lucid dream is a state in which a person is aware that they are dreaming. In this state, a person can have control over the dream and can direct it as they wish. Experiencing lucid dreams can be quite challenging, but this ability can be learned and developed over time. While there are many theories and hypotheses about dreams, it is not possible for us to fully understand the true meaning of dreams. However, it would not be wrong to say that dreams provide us with an opportunity to look at things from different perspectives. By using this opportunity that dreams offer us, we can gain a better perspective on the problems in our lives and understand ourselves better. Lucid dreams provide an opportunity to control, explore, and navigate the dream realm. They open a door that does not limit a person's perception of reality, offering an experience beyond sleep. Those who pass through this door can realize the boundless potential within themselves and gain a better understanding of themselves and the world. In this book, you will learn everything about lucid dreams. You will discover what lucid dreams are, how they can be achieved, their benefits, history, and interesting facts. Additionally, throughout the book, you will learn and practice various lucid dream techniques and meditations in a step-by-step manner. Detailed lucid dream training is included in our book. This book, which provides an explanatory and instructive narrative on all types of dreams, including lucid dreams, will present you with all the known and hidden information about lucid dreams. Our book, "Lucid Dreaming: The Art of Dream Control," prepared based on our seven years of parapsychology experience and scientific research, wishes you successful lucid dreams and enjoyable reading...

Download or read book Illustrated Dictionary of Dream Symbols written by Joe Ibojie and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book you will refer to again and again. Clear, authoritative and as complete as possible, this book will help to open a new world of communication between you the Lord you love.See what others are saying about this great book: "When used through the Holy Spirit, it (this book) can help the reader take away the frustration of not knowing what dreams mean and avoid the dangers of misinterpretation." -Joseph Ewen Founder and Leader of Riverside Church Network Banff, Scotland, UK "This book is a treasure chest, loaded down with revelation and the hidden mysteries of God that have been waiting since before the foundation of the earth to be uncovered." -Bishop Ron Scott, Jr. President, Kingdom Coalition International Hagerstown, MD "The Illustrated Bible-Based Dictionary of Dream Symbols is much more than a book of dream symbols; it has also added richness to our reading of God's Word." -Robert and Joyce Ricciardelli Directors, Visionary Advancement Strategies Seattle, WA