Download or read book The Humanist Re Turn Reclaiming the Self in Literature written by Michael Bryson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of perspective by covering literature written in different languages, times, and places, calling for a return to a humanism, which focuses on literary characters and their psychological and existential struggles—not struggles of competition, but of connection, the struggles of fragmented, incomplete individuals for integration, wholeness, and unity.

Download or read book Re Symbolization of the Self Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic written by I. Semetsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together popular and academic cultures, Inna Semetsky presents Tarot as a system of transformative hermeneutics for adult self-education and cultural pedagogy. Her research is a decisive and intelligent step ahead from the reductive stereotype of Tarot as fortune-telling. The fifteen life stories at the heart of the book exemplify the author’s commitment to alternative modes of education and counseling that transcend individual, cultural or language barriers. Assembling a rich array of sources, from Hermeticism to Jungian depth psychology, the philosophies of Noddings, Buber, and Deleuze, and the science of self-organization, this book opens a new path to personal and social revitalization. It should be widely read across disciplinary divides by scholars, students, and professionals alike.

Download or read book Literati and Self Re Presentation written by Martin Huang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). The author seeks for answers to the question of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingly autobiographical during the eighteenth century, even as explicitly autobiographical writing was in a decline. He suggests that several new trends in the development of the genre (such as the accelerated "literatization" process) and the changing status of literati contributed to the rise of this new feature of the novel. As office-holding became increasingly unavailable to many literati, new roles and new identities that allowed them to retain a claim to membership in the elite had to be found. The novel, with its ability to distance an author from himself, facilitated the exploration of alternative roles and identities. Through close readings of the three texts, the author examines various autobiographical strategies employed by the authors, among which "masking as other"—How the authorial self is re/presented as an other - stands out as the most significant. The book links the authors' obsession with masks both to an increasingly ambiguous sense of self-identity experienced by many literati and to the larger issue of literati self-representation. Throughout, the readings do not confine themselves to purely literary matters; they also analyze the three works as a complex artifact typical of literati "self" culture and situate them in the larger intellectual history of the period.

Download or read book When Strivings Cease written by Ruth Chou Simons and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Secures What Striving Cannot In this hustling, image-forward age of opportunity, we feel more anxious than ever. Despite all the affirming memes and self-reflections that dominate social media feeds, approval and worth often seem assigned to what we do rather than who we are. And we end up constantly feeling like we’re behind, lacking, and failing—at home, at work, with friends, with God. Ruth Chou Simons knows something about feeling measured by achievement, performance, and the approval of others. As a Taiwanese immigrant growing up between two cultures, Ruth was always on a mission to prove her worth, until she came to truly understand the one thing that changes everything: the extravagant, undeserved gift of grace from a merciful God. In When Strivings Cease, Ruth guides you on a journey to find freedom from the never-ending quest for self-improvement. She shows you how to confront the ways you look to superficial means of acceptance and belonging; find relief in realizing self-help isn’t the answer because you can’t be so amazing that you won’t need grace; stop seeing God as someone to perform for and start finding delight in responding to his welcome; and let go of trying to rely on your own strength, your own abilities, and your own savvy by truly understanding the freedom Jesus purchased for you. With personal stories, biblical insights, practical applications, and touches of original artwork by Ruth, this transformational book helps you see the beautiful truth that God’s favor is the only currency you need—because in Christ you are enough.

Download or read book The Agonizing Road to Self written by Yusuf Blanton and published by AbbottPress. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the story of Devin Smitha product of modern-day suburbia whose wholesome upbringing spirals into an American nightmareas he relentlessly seeks inner peace in a world where all that glitters truly is not gold. The book marks author Yusuf Blantons debut to the literary world, as he bravely dances the line between brutally honest memoir and riveting modern fiction. Dealing interchangeably with drug addiction, raucous sex, urban music, and the objective pursuit of spirituality, The Agonizing Road to Self seeks to turn heads, engage minds, and touch hearts. If every person on Earth wrote something this personal, forthright, and honest, we might all be able to understand one another and appreciate each others faults, downfalls, despairs, and joys. Through it all, Yusuf never fails to inspire. Mason Hall, editor If you were touched by Cupcake Browns phenomenal autobiography, A Piece of Cake, then the floodgates of compassion and hope are bound to burst open after reading Yusuf Blantons dose-of-reality debut novel. Gigi James, television writer and award-winning author of I Didnt Sign Up For This! The intensity of this book is sure to strike some chord in anyone who reads it. The Agonizing Road to Self is a powerful testament to the struggles of humanity. James Lord, Zojak Worldwide

Download or read book Self Compassion written by Dr. Kristin Neff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life. More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.

Download or read book The Re invention of the Self written by Maher Ben Moussa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Digital City written by Germaine R. Halegoua and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. They may share texts or images of themselves and these places en route or after their journey is complete. We don’t consciously reflect on these activities and probably don’t associate these practices with constructing a sense of place. Critics have argued that digital media alienates users from space and place, but this book argues that the exact opposite is true: that we habitually use digital technologies to re-embed ourselves within urban environments. The Digital City advocates for the need to rethink our everyday interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Drawing on five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placeing,” Germaine R. Halegoua shows how different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to turn urban spaces into places with deep meanings and emotional attachments. Through timely narratives of everyday urban life, Halegoua argues that people use digital media to create a unique sense of place within rapidly changing urban environments and that a sense of place is integral to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media.

Download or read book Sociological Re Imaginations in of Universities written by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi and published by Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press). This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Summer 2009 (VII, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, is devoted to the theme “Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities.” As part of the journal’s continuing series critically engaging with C. Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination,” i.e., the proposition that the best way to theorize and practice sociology is via a continual conversation between the study of one’s personal troubles and that of broader public issues, the present issue turns its attention to fostering sociological re-imaginations in and of universities. Several faculty, recent graduates or alumni, and current undergraduate students advance insightful, critical perspectives about their own learning and teaching experiences and personal “troubles,” and broader university, disciplinary, and administrative “public issues” that in their view merit immediate attention in favor of fundamental rectifications of outdated procedures and educational habita that continue to persist at the cost of more creative, and in fact more scientific and rational, approaches to production and dissemination of knowledge. Contributors include: Satoshi Ikeda, Sandra J. Song, L. Lynda Harling Stalker, Jason Pridmore, Festus Ikeotuonye, Samuel Zalanga, Donald A. Nielsen, Anne Bubriski, Penelope Roode, Belle Summer, E. M. Walsh, Ann Marie Moler, Minxing Zheng, Andrew Messing, Jillian Pelletier, Christine Quinn, Trevor Doherty, Lisa Kemmerer, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.

Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Mark Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and literary theory, the book sheds light on the intricacies and dilemmas of self-interpretation in particular and interpretive psychological enquiry more generally. The author draws upon selected, mainly autobiographical, literary texts in order to examine concretely the process of rewriting the self. Among the issues addressed are the relationship of rewriting the self to the concept of development, the place of language in the construction of selfhood, the difference between living and telling about it, the problem of facts in life history narrative, the significance of the unconscious in interpreting the personal past, and the freedom of the narrative imagination. Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award winner in 1994

Download or read book Secure Self Re Organizing of Nodes Using Closeness Technique in Cluster MANET written by C. Sathiya Kumar and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is defined as a self-configuring infrastructureless network used for communication by wireless links with the support of mobile devices. A MANET is referred to as a wireless network with independent nodes moving freely with respect to each other. Due to the independent free moves of nodes, a huge amount of packet data loss occurs in transmitting the packet from source to destination. The risk of node misbehaviour is extremely high. The unsecured ad hoc network environment is initiated due to the active nature of networks and node mobility. In addition, the task of key management is more complex in ad hoc network. Due to the nature of free moving characteristics, MANET faces improper node cooperation. The main reason behind ineffective node cooperation is presence of malicious or selfish nodes. Moreover, the existence of malicious unauthenticated nodes causes insecure communication. Hence, the proposed system aims in the development of proper node cooperation, malicious node detection and secure communication in MANET.

Download or read book 67 Morning Ritual Habits for Your Body Mind and Spirit written by Stefan James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover 67 Little Known Morning Ritual Habits For Creating An Unstoppable Day!Your morning ritual is what sets you up for having a successful day. It's one of the most important habits to cultivate, as it'll set the precedent of how your day will look. As the saying goes, "How you start the day is how you'll end the day."I believe that a successful morning ritual consists of doing at least one thing for your Body, Mind, and Spirit. You must give equal attention to all three aspects of yourself in order to maximize your performance and fulfillment.I've been practicing morning rituals since I was 17 years old. It's one of the most important habits that has shaped every aspect of my life. It's an opportunity for me to give the most valuable resource we have, our time, to myself so that I can grow to become my very best.Most people the day out of reaction. They wake up and they're immediately hitting the snooze. They are flooded with the stresses and anxieties of the day, immediately checking their inbox or social media. As a result, they're not getting the most out of themselves or the day.Over the last 15 years of my life, I've studied the habits of the most remarkable people throughout history. Those who have achieved extraordinary success, are truly fulfilled, have unstoppable confidence, an abundance of energy, are physically fit, and what anyone would consider "having it all."I've studied their habits and rituals and put them together for you in this book, 67 Morning Ritual Habits For Your Body, Mind, And Spirit so that you can benefit from them.I've personally tested and utilized ALL of these rituals in different stages of my life with incredible benefit. I'm excited to finally share them with you so that you can reap the rewards of cultivating an amazing morning ritual in your life that allows you to be at your best.

Download or read book A Self supporting Empire written by Edward Saunders and published by London : Nisbet. This book was released on 1918 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secret written by Rhonda Byrne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways, now with a new foreword and afterword. In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

Download or read book Self s Murder written by Bernhard Schlink and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but to do so he needs Self to track down a mysterious silent partner. Self takes the job, but is soon accosted by a man who frantically hands him a suitcase full of cash and speeds off in a car, only to crash into a tree, dying instantly. Perplexed, and convinced there is more to the case than he is being told, Self follows the money. Soon he finds himself traveling to eastern Germany, where he encounters some of the most unsavory villains he has met yet.

Download or read book Automated Deduction CADE 25 written by Amy P. Felty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated Deduction, CADE-25, held in Berlin, Germany, in August 2015. The 36 revised full papers presented ( 24 full papers and 12 system descriptions) were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction, including foundations, applications, implementations and practical experience.

Download or read book The Astrological Guide to Self Care written by Constance Stellas and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring activities to heal your mind, body, and soul, now you can find the perfect way to treat yourself as the stars intended with this astrological self-care guide. It’s time for a little “me” time—powered by the zodiac! By tapping into your sign’s astrological energy and personality, The Astrological Guide to Self-Care brings cosmic relief to everyone with hundreds of relaxing and rejuvenating self-care ideas tailored to your individual zodiac sign. The Astrological Guide to Self-Care provides information on taking care of yourself, the inherent intersection between self-care and astrology, background on the elements, sign-specific self-care guidance, and hundreds of activities tied to the zodiac signs. There’s no better guide to personal growth than the stars! Enjoy a facial if you’re an Aries or spend some time gardening if you’re a Taurus. Sagittarians can satisfy their wanderlust by getting lost in a good book or if you’re a Pisces, treat yourself to a pedicure. With this astrological self-care reference, you will discover the most cosmically compatible pampering routines ever.