Download or read book In Praise of Love written by Alain Badiou and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless

Download or read book The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life written by Colin S. Smith and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the Ten Commandments help you finally break through? Do you struggle with time? With a temper? With dishonesty or discontentment? Whatever it is, find help where it may surprise you: the Ten Commandments. In The10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life, pastor Colin Smith opens up the Ten Commandments to show how there is more to them than meets the eye. Moving from dos and don’ts to matters of the heart, they become barometers of your love for God. You’ll discover areas of your life that are out of sync with His will, and you’ll receive wisdom for living in greater love, strength, and freedom in Christ. Includes a 30-page study guide ideal for personal or group use, helping you take the next steps toward joyful submission to God’s Word.

Download or read book In Love and Struggle written by Stephen M. Ward and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was influential in the early stages of what would become the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for racial and urban struggles during one of the most active social movement periods in recent U.S. history. Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses' lives, highlighting the vital contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking. At once a dual biography of two crucial figures and a vivid portrait of Detroit as a center of activism, Ward's book restores the Boggses, and the intellectual strain of black radicalism they shaped, to their rightful place in postwar American history.

Download or read book The Refugees written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautiful and heartrending” fiction set in Vietnam and America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker) In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Viet Thanh Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This incisive collection by the National Book Award finalist and celebrated author of The Committed gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her with a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of migration. “Terrific.” —Chicago Tribune “An important and incisive book.” —The Washington Post “An urgent, wonderful collection.” —NPR

Download or read book Struggles written by Craig Groeschel and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all love the benefits of technology and social media, but even with the incredible upsides, many of us suspect there are unintended negative consequences that are beyond our control. We’ve lost perspective, even perhaps ourselves. In this relevant and life-changing new book, New York Times bestselling author and pastor of LifeChurch.tv Craig Groeschel encourages readers who are hungry to regain control over their lives and put Christ first again. He walks them though biblical values that all Christ followers know are essential, but are even more important for the maxed out, selfie-centered world we live in. The more you compare, the less satisfied you are. The more we interact online, the more we crave face to face intimacy, but the harder it is to have. The more filtered our lives become, the harder it is to be authentic. The more information about the pain in the world we’re exposed to the more difficult it is to care. It’s time to refresh and rediscover our understanding for today’s world the biblical principles that life with Christ brings: contentment, intimacy, authenticity, compassion, rest and more. Groeschel taps some of the most up to date studies on the effects of social media on our emotions and our friendships, and shows us through real-life illustrations how we struggle and how we can overcome our struggles with Jesus’ life-changing gospel message. With helpful appendices like the 10 Commandments of Using Social Media to Strengthen Your Faith, a challenge to go on Technology Fasts, and Creating Safeguards for Your #Struggles, you’ll find #Struggles to be just the guide to bring balance and real-life engagement to your everyday living.

Download or read book Soft Petal Poems With Heartfelt Love written by Lana C. Kuystermans and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book holds every loving relationship we possibly have encountered throughout our lives. People that we grow up with or people that touch our lives on our life's journey are probably mentioned somewhere in these pages. Love is God's water and with it we grow into the people we are now. This little book is a bouquet to all the family and friends we all need and have. It is also a reminder of our Lord's tender, compassionate love that keeps the world turning, whether in nature, relationships or faith. May your heart be touched by that very special someone in your life. God Bless. God is Love.

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Download or read book Mental Struggles and Biblical Truths written by Keri Payne and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Keri was saved at the age of 9 and brought up in a Christian home the events of being diagnosed with major depressive disorder, panic disorder and complex post traumatic stress disorder in her late 30's left her broken and truly questioning her faith in God. Did my level of faith control my mental health? Was my mental health issues a punishment because I lacked enough faith in God? Was the help I was receiving from man measuring up to how God wants me to heal? This book is a product of the peace and answers she found to these questions and more within Gods word.

Download or read book The Song at Mid night written by Mary Jane Mathews Adams and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unplugging Power Struggles written by Jan Faull and published by Parenting Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have a strong need to be in control of their own lives. Power struggles between parents and children most often occur in the toddler and teen years, but can happen at any time. This book is for parents whose children push for control beyond the limits of their development and maturity or beyond the parents' comfort level.Without clear guidance from parents, children flounder. However, children who are allowed to make some decisions are more willing to go along with parents when it comes to big decisions concerning safety, values, and conduct. Everyone benefits when a battle of wills can be avoided.

Download or read book Pluralistic Struggles in Gender Sexuality and Coloniality written by Erika Alm and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations, the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial struggles, and events beyond, nearby, and in between organizations, states, and national territories. The collection represents a variety of disciplines, and different theoretical conceptualizations of politics, feminist theory, and postcolonial and queer studies. Students and researchers with an interest of queer studies, gender studies, critical whiteness studies, and civil society studies will find this book an invaluable resource.

Download or read book Love Songs and Bugle Calls written by Virginia Frazer Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Struggles After the Struggle written by David Kaulemu and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Owning Our Struggles written by Minaa B. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the power of collective healing in this research-based and real-world guide to moving past trauma and adversity—together. Adversity comes in many forms, and can make us feel alone in our pain, even years after the fact. But as wellness coach and licensed therapist Minaa B. observes, we can’t heal in isolation. The best way to move past individual trauma is through connection and community—healing ourselves and one another. In this powerful and practical guide, Minaa shares therapeutic tools, client stories, and actionable insights to help you on your healing journey, along with reflections from her personal experiences. Each chapter focuses on a common emotional struggle—from overcoming dysfunctional family patterns to developing emotional maturity, finding our village, navigating racial trauma, and moving past isolation and despair. Through her unique mix of deeply honest personal stories, proven practices, and prompts for writing and reflection, Minaa helps readers finally face their struggles, get unstuck, and transform their thinking—to claim agency in their own lives and circumstances, and to use that power to help heal a broken world.

Download or read book Dead Men s Struggles written by J. Doherty and published by J Robert Doherty. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for those men who have accepted Jesus' call. Who have picked up their cross and followed. And found the road is steeper than it looked. The cross is heavier. That although Jesus promised His yoke is easy and His burden is light, sometimes dropping to our knees and asking our Lord and Savior for His help is much, much harder than carrying the burden. This book is for every Christian man who wonders if he's on the right track. Wonders if he's the only one. Wonders how come everyone else seems to have it so together. Wonders why everyone else is getting ahead. Wonders how to keep the balls in the air, the engine red-lining, the wheels turning. Wonders if the thoughts he has or the actions he's taken are unique, forgivable, fathomable. This book is for the Christian man who struggles with pornography. The Christian man who struggles with anger and frustration. The Christian man who has thought about leaving his family. Or cheating on his wife. This book is for the man who just can't take the reins of his family and be its spiritual leader. If you are a Christian man who is never tempted, never tortured, never unsure, never mistaken, never wrong, never proud, never tired... this book is not for you. If you are a man who deep down wants to be a man of God but you are not sure how, this book is for you. If you are a man who struggles to be the man you know God wants you to be, this book is for you. If you've done something stupid and wonder how you can call yourself a Christian... this book is for you. This is a book for Christian men who wonder how to be a good a Christian husband and father and a man of God in a fallen world. It is for Christian women who would like insight into the trials and triumphs their husbands, sons and fathers are dealing with. This is a book that will help you towards becoming the man God dreams of you being.

Download or read book Marxist Feminist Theories and Struggles Today written by Khayaat Fakier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vital new collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of Capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labour relationships. Leaving behind former overtly structuralist thinking, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today interweaves strands of ecofeminism and intersectional analyses to develop an understanding of the relations of production and the production of nature through the interdependencies of gender, class, race and colonial relations. With contributions and analyses from scholars and theorists in both the global North and South, this volume offers a truly international lens that reveals the the vitality of contemporary global Marxist-Feminist thinking, as well as its continued relevance to feminist struggles across the globe.

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