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Book The Last Hand

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  • Author : Eric Wright
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2001-09
  • ISBN : 9780888822390
  • Pages : 736 pages

Download or read book The Last Hand written by Eric Wright and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Slater is sixty - the age limit for active police work. Lately, he's been a glorified receptionist for the deputy chief. But then a Toronto lawyer is murdered, and the prime suspect is a prostitute in a pair of silver boots. The case doesn't ignite any interest until high-powered lawyer Calvin Gregson shows up, supposedly on Flora's behalf, insisting the police solve the case quietly. Deputy Mackenzie figures the assignment will keep Salter temporarily occupied, and puts him on the case with a young Scotsman new to the force and city. Salter is thrilled. As he searches, he meets the law profession's elite and, among others, the victim's sister, MPP Flora Lucas. But it's the lawyer's book group that brings Salter the clues he needs to solve the case - and to discover why Gregson is so eager to wrap the case up quickly and quietly.

Book

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 336804009X
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time and Space

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-04-28
  • ISBN : 1462087337
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Time and Space written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written while in exile in the United States, Time and Space were originally intended to appear together in a single volume. Not until 1986, however, did they appear so in Spanish and not until 1988 were they published together in English. By presenting them together, Jimnez had wanted them to convey the same continuity of emotion, the same philosophical intensity, that he had experienced while writing them. All My Life, he wrote in his introduction, I have toyed with the idea of writing a continuous poem...with no concrete theme, sustained only by its own surprise, its rhythm, its discoveries, its light, its successive joys; that is, its intrinsic elements, its essence. That continuous poem is Time and Space the last book Jimnez wrote. Presented here in a bilingual edition, Time and Space will take readers of both English and Spanish on the longest and most sustained ride on the crest of poetry they will ever enjoy. The greatest poem in this Century... Octavio Paz Antonio T. de Nicols, translator and editor of Time and Space is also widely known for his highly acclaimed translation of the Juan Ramn Jimnez classic, Platero and I, as well as many other works in Spanish. His first book of poetry, Remembering the God to Come, is also being published by iUniverse.com.

Book Fundamental Theology

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  • Author : Fernando Ocariz
  • Publisher : Midwest Theological Forum
  • Release : 2020-06-26
  • ISBN : 1936045494
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Fundamental Theology written by Fernando Ocariz and published by Midwest Theological Forum. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Prologue: "We are pleased to present this revised edition of Revelation, Faith, and Credibility which was first published in 1998. . . . "We renew our desire that it will be useful for students of theology and for all those who are interested in studying the fundamentals of the Catholic Faith. Furthermore, it is our hope that it will lead the reader to a profound Christian awareness that cooperates with the grace of God in sustaining the Faith, lends reason to our hope, and helps others to receive this great gift of knowing and loving Christ."

Book Manual para proclamadores de la palabra 2015

Download or read book Manual para proclamadores de la palabra 2015 written by Raúl Duarte Castillo and published by Liturgy Training Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New History of Spanish Literature

Download or read book A New History of Spanish Literature written by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sanados Interiormente Para Escribir Una Nueva Historia

Download or read book Sanados Interiormente Para Escribir Una Nueva Historia written by Dora Gladys Salazar and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La pasión que me llevó atreves de 25 años de mi mensaje es que puedas tener LIBERTAD COMPLETA y GLORIOSA; la clase de vida que sólo el Salvador puede dar; todos los que pueda alcanzar con mi mensaje de libertad sean libres y sanados en todas sus áreas; el Poder de la Palabra de Dios puede llegar a lo más profundo del corazón y quitar toda aflicción y arrancar todas las piedras quemadas y llevarse toda cenizas del pasado. Así como los terremotos dejan al descubierto las grietas geológicas, las presiones sobre nosotros nos traen verdaderos y reacciones que ponen al descubierto grietas de nuestro carácter que no siempre estamos dispuestos a admitirlo, la verdadera medida de crecimiento y madures en nuestras vidas tiene que ver con nuestro carácter. Te invito a que leas esta historia que te alentara a seguir adelante, te reto a que escribas tu nueva historia con la pluma de Dios como pasó con las tablas que el Señor dio a Moisés, que las primeras se rompieron por la desobediencia de ellos pero como en Dios siempre tendremos la segunda oportunidad, podemos tomarla y dejarlo a Él poner esos nuevos renglones de historia escritos por su pluma y te aseguro que será lo más hermosa historia que hayas vivido.

Book An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages

Download or read book An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages written by Giuseppe Baretti and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spirit and the Church

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  • Author : J. Isaac Goff
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2018-10-01
  • ISBN : 1532651422
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Spirit and the Church written by J. Isaac Goff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit and the Church celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., who for the past six decades has carried the torch of the Franciscan theological and philosophical vision in the fields of ecclesiology, pneumatology, Mariology, and anthropology. Articles by colleagues, former students, and associates fall into three broad categories, corresponding with several of the main areas in which Fehlner has made a longstanding scholarly contribution: the Church's Magisterium and development of doctrine, anthropology,comma and creation; the relation between Mariology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology; and scholarly seeds planted by Fehlner now being cultivated and harvested by younger scholars. All of the essays in this volume engage with Fehlner, evaluate his contributions, and build upon and expand in new directions the contributions of our honoree. The essays in this volume manifest the contemporary relevance of Fehlner's Franciscan vision in terms of his invitation to renew the theology of the Church in a Marian mode in the light of Vatican II.

Book Estandares Doctrinales de Westminster

Download or read book Estandares Doctrinales de Westminster written by Iglesia Puritana Reformada en Argentina and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este es un Estándar vivificado por la Palabra VIVA de Dios. La Asamblea se reunió según a la convocación, el 1 de julio de 1643, en la Iglesia de Westminster. El Dr. William Twisse, Presidente, predicó el sermón de apertura tomado de la promesa preciosa de Cristo, No os dejaré huérfanos. Estas palabras eran como manzanas de oro con figuras de plata, en aquellos tiempos de confusión triste. Una semana después volvieron a reunirse, cuando el juramento fue administrado a cada miembro presente, en las palabras siguientes: Yo, -- --, declaro solemne y seriamente, ante la presencia del Dios Todopoderoso, que en esta Asamblea, de la cual yo soy un miembro, no mantendré nada en asuntos de doctrina, más de lo que yo creo en mi conciencia ser verdad; o en puntos de disciplina, más de lo que yo conciba que conduzca más para la gloria de Dios, y para el bien y la paz de Su Iglesia. Este juramento se leyó todos los lunes por la mañana para refrescar la memoria y revivir la conciencia.

Book Evangelization and Cultural Conflict in Colonial Mexico

Download or read book Evangelization and Cultural Conflict in Colonial Mexico written by Robert H. Jackson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a study published in the mid-twentieth century, French historian Robert Ricard postulated that the evangelization and conversion of the native populations of Mexico had been rapid and relatively easy. However, different forms of evidence show that the so-called “spiritual conquest” was anything but easy or rapid, and, in fact, natives continued to practice their traditional beliefs alongside Catholicism. Within several decades of initiating the so-called “spiritual conquest,” the campaign to evangelize and convert the native populations, the missionaries faced growing evidence of idolatry or the persistence of traditional religious practices and apostasy, straying from Church teachings. The evidence includes written documents such as inquisition investigations that resulted, for example, in the execution of don Carlos, the native ruler of Tezcoco, on December 1, 1539, or that uncovered evidence of systematic organized resistance to Dominican missionaries in the Sierra Mixteca of Oaxaca. Other forms of evidence include pre-Hispanic religious iconography incorporated into what ostensibly were Christian murals, and pre-Hispanic stones embedded in the churches and convents the missionaries had built. One example of this was the stone with the face of Tláloc at the rear of the Franciscan church Santiago Tlatelolco in Distrito Federal. During the course of some three centuries, missionaries from different Catholic religious orders attempted to convert the native populations of colonial Mexico, with mixed results. Native groups throughout colonial Mexico resisted the imposition of the new religion in overt and covert forms, and incorporated Catholicism into their worldview on their own terms. Native cultural and religious traditions were more flexible than the Iberian Catholic norms introduced by the missionaries. The so-called “spiritual conquest,” a term coined by Ricard, evolved as a cultural war set against the backdrop of the imposition of a foreign colonial regime. The 11 essays in this volume examine the efforts to evangelize the native populations of Mexico, the approaches taken by the missionaries, and native responses. The contributions investigate the interplay between natives and missionaries in central Mexico, and on the southern and northern frontiers of New Spain, and among sedentary and non-sedentary natives. In the end, many natives found little in the new faith to attract them, and resisted the imposition of new religious norms and way of life.

Book Searching for a New Horizon

Download or read book Searching for a New Horizon written by Trudy Broshears and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seduction and Sacrilege

Download or read book Seduction and Sacrilege written by Rebecca Haidt and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet decreasing numbers of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century readers are familiar with the novel, due to many factors including its length (six volumes), subject matter (preaching), and a legacy of critical evaluation as a narrative lacking plot and psychological depth."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Creating the Cult of St  Joseph

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  • Author : Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2006-04-02
  • ISBN : 0691096317
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Creating the Cult of St Joseph written by Charlene Villaseñor Black and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Joseph is mentioned only eight times in the New Testament Gospels. Prior to the late medieval period, Church doctrine rarely noticed him except in passing. But in 1555 this humble carpenter, earthly spouse of the Virgin Mary and foster father of Jesus, was made patron of the Conquest and conversion in Mexico. In 1672, King Charles II of Spain named St. Joseph patron of his kingdom, toppling St. James--traditional protector of the Iberian peninsula for over 800 years--from his honored position. Focusing on the changing manifestations of Holy Family and St. Joseph imagery in Spain and colonial Mexico from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, this book examines the genesis of a new saint's cult after centuries of obscurity. In so doing, it elucidates the role of the visual arts in creating gender discourses and deploying them in conquest, conversion, and colonization. Charlene Villaseñor Black examines numerous images and hundreds of primary sources in Spanish, Latin, Náhuatl, and Otomí. She finds that St. Joseph was not only the most frequently represented saint in Spanish Golden Age and Mexican colonial art, but also the most important. In Spain, St. Joseph was celebrated as a national icon and emblem of masculine authority in a society plagued by crisis and social disorder. In the Americas, the parental figure of the saint--model father, caring spouse, hardworking provider--became the perfect paradigm of Spanish colonial power. Creating the Cult of St. Joseph exposes the complex interactions among artists, the Catholic Church and Inquisition, the Spanish monarchy, and colonial authorities. One of the only sustained studies of masculinity in early modern Spain, it also constitutes a rare comparative study of Spain and the Americas.

Book The Resilient Apocalypse

Download or read book The Resilient Apocalypse written by Julia A. Kushigian and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, frightful images of chaos and death are inclusive and interrelated, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality ("never seen or experienced before," "the mother of all battles," "I am the only one who can fix it"). This investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities when images remain unfulfilled in a proscribed End. By redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, the Apocalypse suggests bewildering complexities as it trains its lens on New Beginnings. Here analysis explores resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America, Spain and Latin@ communities in the US. Whether revealed through gilded illustrations, messianic chronicles, poetry, Baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality and spirituality in film or intimidating immigrant photos, apocalyptic examples explode notions of final moments. The Resilient Apocalypse ironically performs as both an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). This study argues for a strategy that listens to and keeps the enemy "in sight and in mind," a method for grappling with and engaging difference by decolonizing the politics of the End. It reformulates an incomplete, mythical, and uncanny narrative into a poetics of resistance with communal solutions and obligations. When the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to impose social justice, salvation and reason, it paradoxically introduces future hope against itself. In the works of Beato de Liebana, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Cirilo Villaverde, Cristina Garcia, Martin Kohan, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Santiago Roncagliolo, Alfonso Cuaron, etc., rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews and arrive at sustainable plans of action for negotiating the afterward. By bracketing the finality of the End and proposing a tension between conflict archaeology and the transcendence of opposition through renovation, salvation or hope, this study reveals how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimizing each other. Ultimately, The Resilient Apocalypse traces a compelling narrative theory of unfulfilled promise that forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self during intervals of fear.

Book Erasing Public Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph A. Young
  • Publisher : Mercer University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780881460766
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Erasing Public Memory written by Joseph A. Young and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Race in the Humanities conference, held in Nov. 2001 at Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Download or read book The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a seminal work of literature from the 14th century, renowned for its rich storytelling and vivid portrayal of human life. Set against the backdrop of the Black Death in Florence, the book comprises one hundred tales told by ten young people—seven women and three men—who flee the plague-ridden city for the safety of a secluded villa in the countryside. Each day, over the course of ten days, the group entertains themselves by each telling a story on a chosen theme, ranging from tales of love and adventure to stories of wit and morality. The Decameron offers a fascinating glimpse into medieval society, showcasing a wide spectrum of human experiences and emotions. Boccaccio's masterful narrative skill brings to life a diverse array of characters and settings, blending humor, tragedy, and romance. The stories reflect the complexities of human nature and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. "The Decameron" is celebrated for its literary innovation, rich character development, and insightful commentary on society. It remains a timeless classic that continues to captivate readers with its enduring themes and captivating storytelling.