Download or read book Never a Straight Path written by Frank Kolondra and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No book takes both sides of the story, as this one does, with such a healthy conviction. The story itself is unique. It flows with uninterrupted zeal, full of healthy satire and heartfelt drama. A highly entertaining sequence of events covers the span of time years before the Second World War and up to the Korean War. The main character, referring to himself as "Yours Truly", and his grandmother, live in the fairytale land of Silesia, which at this time, was split between Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. A long time ago it was governed by Queen Maria Theresa. The Grandmother teaches the main character how to stay young in appearance, physical condition and spirit, and that the long-sought Fountain of Youth is found by a simple wash in cold water, with a little twist of time and place. The world goes topsy-turvy for "Yours Truly", who stumbles from one adventure to another, with a battery of uncommon but distinctive stories and style. The writer's sentence structure does imply his European background. The entire story is a convocation of light prose, and follows a honest path diverting only in cases of self defense. Then those, intent on harm, better beware. The author doesn't let the reader read about the innumerable hardships, the way most novels are written, and only on the last page does the hero achieve the happiness he deserves. The uniqueness comes from the approach to the book. The author lets the story alternate with the hardships and happiness with success making the story much more enjoyable, until the story ends with a positive outcome. Who wants to read a book where for 499 pages the hero gets beat up, suffers unbelievable tortures, and on the last page, when by some unforeseeable luck the hero is victorious, the book ends? The highly informative and resourceful story is written for readers who care for the trials and tribulations of an individual who stumbles but always confronts the realities of life and finds his way. The story is at once humorous, then changes to dramatically desperate, but always flows interestingly from one adventure to another, as the scenario changes from one encounter to the next. This book is not filled with incalculable crimes and murders but clings to hope for the Straight Path. As life deals "Yours Truly" some serious blows, he bends like a willow in a storm to come out on top. World War II finds him in High School, from the freedom of the old Czechoslovak Republic, through the occupation by the medieval, horse drawn, Polish army, to the attacks by the German Stuka bombers. He spends the war on a German Kriegsmarine ship of war, sailing from the Bay of Helgoland to Norway's Arctic Circle. He describes the seamy hovels of Hamburg's Reperbahn, and the attacks of the English Spitfires on the warship with equal zeal. His mandate is survival and he does live to tell about it. After the war he returns home, and finds his homeland changed beyond recognition. He fights, with the Czech youth by resisting the Communists indoctrination, but the forces of the new ideology overpower him and many others with him. He escapes the horrors of the socialist system, by risking the crossing of mine fields, the bullets of the border guards, prison, or outright deportation to the Gulags in Siberia. The search for his soul and new life, forces him to explore many countries. He strives to find his place and even schemes with considerable luck until he finds his final destination. This novel follows the life of the young man, from childhood to young adulthood. It is a very interesting story with numerous exciting adventures. These take the reader from Europe to Brazil to the United States. It can also be considered a social, historical and political study, as well as an adventure and search for an anchor where he can find safe heaven. Many facets of European life and culture a

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Download or read book It is Never Too Late to Mend Musaicum Romance Series written by Charles Reade and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Fielding is an honest young man whit no luck or fortune, who dreams of winning the hand of young Susan Merton. Her father, however, doesn't want his daughter to marry a poor farmer, so George leaves to Australia to try his luck there, keeping the contact with Susan through letters. However, a ruthless squire John Meadows becomes obsessed with Susan and sabotages George intercepting letters between lovers and conspiring to have George framed and sent to jail.

Download or read book Hark Messiah Speaks written by Alvin B. Kuhn and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1895 a philosophical review of the Krishnamurti Teachings - being a critical examination of the teachings of the work of Mr. Carlo Saures entitled Krishnamurti. "As said, it will seem an invidious task to subject to devastating criticism so `sacred' a t.

Download or read book It Is Never Too Late to Mend written by Charles Reade and published by Golden Text. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This position is not so enviable as it was. Years ago, the farmers of England, had they been as intelligent as other traders, could have purchased the English soil by means of the huge percentage it offered them. But now, I grieve to say, a farmer must be as sharp as his neighbors, or like his neighbors he will break. What do I say? There are soils and situations where, in spite of intelligence and sobriety, he is almost sure to break; just as there are shops where the lively, the severe, the industrious, the lazy, are fractured alike. This last fact I make mine by perambulating a certain great street every three months, and observing how name succeeds to name as wave to wave. Readers hardened by the Times will not perhaps go so far as to weep over a body of traders for being reduced to the average condition of all other traders. But the individual trader, who fights for existence against unfair odds, is to be pitied whether his shop has plate glass or a barn door to it; and he is the more to be pitied when he is sober, intelligent, proud, sensitive, and unlucky.

Download or read book It Is Never Too Late to Mend novel written by Charles Reade and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Walking with God on the Road You Never Wanted to Travel written by Mark Atteberry and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-08-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian life isn't always a walk in the park. Children of Christian parents do die. Christian businessmen do lose their jobs. And husbands of Christian wives do cheat. Being a Christian doesn't protect you from the tough punches life throws. Taking fourteen strategies from the biblical account of the Israelite journey, Walking with God on the Road You Never Wanted to Travel offers real hope to those on an unexpected, difficult journey. For forty years the Israelites wandered through a devastating wilderness, suffering many losses, and yet learning some timeless lessons. These lessons, presented here as strategies for modern believers, are simply stated, clearly explained, and beautifully illustrated with dramatic and inspiring stories.

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Download or read book The Primrose Path A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of Fife written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Fife area of Scotland, this novel regales the readers with the life of a Scottish Earl, his family, and the servants who worked for him. The book is filled with witty dialogues exchanged by the characters, such as the following, said by Sir Ludovic to his daughter: "If you were busy, that is no reason for being sorry; but you should not forget hours—they are our best guide in life."

Download or read book A Concordance of the Qur an written by Hanna E. Kassis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword This Concordance of the Qur'an in English satisfies a paramount need of those—and there are millions of them—who have no command of the Arabic language and yet desire to understand the Qur'an. The benefit derivable from English translations of the Sacred Book is, in principle, limited because, first, the Qur'an is not a "book" but a collection of passages revealed to Muhammad over a period of about twenty-three years and, second, because the Qur'an is not really translatable. This does not mean that the Qur'an should not be translated. It does mean that translations lose much in tone and nuance, let alone the incommunicable beauty, grandeur, and grace of the original. . . . The main distinction of Hana Kassis's concordance, in my view, is that it utilizes the semantic structure of Arabic vocabulary itself in revealing the meaning of the Qur'an on any given issue, point or concept. A reader who looks in the index of this concordance for a word which he has encountered in reading an English translation of the Qur'an—the word pride, for example—is directed immediately to the roots of the Arabic, Qur'anic terms for pride. At tne entries for these Arabic roots, all the derivative forms are shown, and the verses of the Qur'an in which they appear are there listed in translation. . . . I am confident that any person who is sincerely interested in understanding the Qur'an and appreciating the nuances of its diction and shades of its meaning can satisfy his need more fully with this book than in any way short of developing a real command over the Arabic language itself. —Fazlur Rahman, Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Chicago

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Download or read book Intuition in Science and Mathematics written by Efraim Fischbein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing the present book I have had in mind the following objectives: - To propose a theoretical, comprehensive view of the domain of intuition. - To identify and organize the experimental findings related to intuition scattered in a wide variety of research contexts. - To reveal the educational implications of the idea, developed for science and mathematics education. Most of the existing monographs in the field of intuition are mainly concerned with theoretical debates - definitions, philosophical attitudes, historical considerations. (See, especially the works of Wild (1938), of Bunge (1 962) and of Noddings and Shore (1 984).) A notable exception is the book by Westcott (1968), which combines theoretical analyses with the author’s own experimental studies. But, so far, no attempt has been made to identify systematically those findings, spread throughout the research literature, which could contribute to the deciphering of the mechanisms of intuition. Very often the relevant studies do not refer explicitly to intuition. Even when this term is used it occurs, usually, as a self-evident, common sense term.

Download or read book Muhammad Encyclop dia of Seerah written by Afzalur Rahman and published by Seerah Foundation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 1527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Encyclopaedia of Seerah' is a unique approach to analyse and study the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) with an emphasis on the lifestyle of the Prophet. This Digital Edition is available in 9 Volumes.

Download or read book the Papalagi written by Elisabeth Wisler and published by MetaArt. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's normal for westerners to travel in different worlds from their own and then write about their experiences. It's a lot less common to come across someone from another world who describes what they have experienced in our world. We westerners are centered in our cultural reality and take it for granted while that of others is only considered in a peripheral way. When this viewpoint is shattered the egocentric western outlook is deeply disturbed. So, almost a century ago the German poet Enrich Sheurmann was the first, followed by millions, to delight in the reminiscences of the Tuavian Chief, who, on his return to Samoa described to his people the Westerner, the Papalagi, and how he lives. That account is certainly one that shouldn’t be forgotten on the bookshelf as having already been read. In its simplicity and frankness it is ready at any moment to shine a blessed ray of light on the clouded heart of western man. But the time of Tuavii is already long gone. The Papalagi has not stopped his mad race and his world meantime has changed. A descendant of Tuavii, Apineru, chief of a small community left his little island for about a year travelling to the west in the seventies. In Papalagi Act II, Apineru while sitting on his mat, describes what he has seen and experienced to his family members and other islanders that visit him of evenings in his hut. What is the everyday life of a westerner, what are progress, television and freedom to a man, seemingly uncultured, yet with only the good and well-being of his virgin island at heart? His style follows no logic, there’s no false pretence in his criticisms and the impressions that he communicates and the images that he describes do not follow any classical line of analysis that the Papalagi are used to. Apineru cuts through all the usual paradigms simply with the freshness of his sentiment, in the poetry and magic of his singular imagination, provoking us to smile and look beyond the daily shortcomings of so called modern life. Available in German, French and Italian. The original version of the Papalagi edited by Erich Sheurmann has been published in English by Legacy Editions in 1997, under the title Tuiavii's way. The text (no copyright) can be read also here http://www.nonduality.com/papalagi.htmIndex "The Papalagi poisons himself day after day, word after word, action after action, mouthful after mouthful. He doesn’t die straight away as was about to happen to me, but a bit by bit, day after day. In the end, he is dead even without realizing it. But now too much time has passed from the moment that the poisoning has begun and so the dead Papalagi doesn’t remember anything of how life was at the beginning. So the Papalagi behaves like the protagonist of that story that a village chief told me when he visited our island on the day I got married. It is told that a certain Ira left his island where he had his father, mother, brothers and sisters to look for pearls on other islands even though you could find marvellous pearls in the sea around his. He reached another island in his canoe and stayed there for a while finding pearls, but a bit smaller than those found around his. So he left even that island to go to another, then another again, finding pearls but always smaller. He arrived at a sixth island, and here the pearls were so small that you could hardly see them. One morning he took his canoe out and reached a seventh island. He landed and here he met some men and women to whom he immediately tried to sell his merchandise. Straightaway the islanders recognized him as the brother who had left a long time before, who, from a seeker of precious pearls, had transformed into a collector of empty shells. In fact he had returned to the island from which he had begun his adventure, but he wasn’t aware of it..." MetaArt Editions [email protected] Coming Publications: The Submarine and the Whale, by Cristelle Wells The King’s Chef, by Amussis Charisteas

Download or read book The Interpretation of The Meaning of The Holy Quran Volume 41 Surah Al Hajj written by Nasoha Bin Saabin and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have written many books and articles on various topics but since 2013, I have devoted myself fully in writing the interpretation of the Holy Quran in English and with the grace of Allah, I have completed the whole Quran on 29th October 2020 with 84 books. I believe there is a great need in the whole world for the correct interpretation of the Holy Quran to be written in English. Currently, there is a great misunderstanding about Islam among Muslims and non-Muslims globally. The misunderstanding of the meaning of the Holy Quran among Muslims will lead to the wrong practice of Islam which leads to the wrong actions of Muslims. The wrong actions of Muslims will lead to misunderstandings about Islam among Muslims and non-Muslims. The wrong actions of the Muslims have led to many miseries and wars among Muslims. The wrong actions of Muslims have also led to many wars and clashes between Muslims and non-Muslims. In order to avoid miseries, wars and clashes from taking place between the whole mankind in the whole world, the whole mankind in the whole world need to understand the true teaching of Islam. There is no other way for the whole mankind to understand the true teaching of Islam unless the whole mankind is able to read and understand the correct interpretation of the Holy Quran. The whole mankind is only able to read and understand the correct interpretation of the Holy Quran when it is written in the universal language of the world (English). For this very reason I have written the interpretation of the Holy Quran in English. Prof. Nasoha Bin Saabin