Download or read book The First Five Hundred at the New Millennium written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love in the New Millennium written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.
Download or read book Rhetorics in the New Millennium written by James D. Hester and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most renowned modern practitioners of New Testament rhetorical criticism, including Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Wilhelm Wuellner and the editors themselves provide new rhetorical readings of New Testament texts. Organized into three distinct sections, Rhetorics in the New Millennium provides a cutting-edge approach to this thorny issue in biblical studies. The first section is a collection of three essays that are primarily theoretical in nature and concerned with examining general theories of rhetoric. The second section is a series of specific studies each using a different accepted theoretical model to analyze a given text. The final section presents valuable appendices which summarize information about the content of certain theoretical models of criticism. Finally, a bibliography listing a wide variety of rhetorical critical studies and reference works is included.
Download or read book Man of the New Millennium written by Gregory Dark and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man of the New Millennium is a book for us: the millions of people who want to see the end of mancruel and the start of mankind and the probably billion or so of us in this world, exasperated and disenchanted by worn-out templates, trying to find new ones. Wrapped in the most gentle of narratives, Man of the New Millennium leads us through the maze of history's travesties and today's duplicities to a future with a future, to a future whose potential is our potential, our potential as a species, and that potential special to all of us individually. Man of the New Millennium is a search for us in an age of me; it is a text for humanity in fictional dress; it is a book which changes hope from an ill-defined aspiration to a realisable ambition. It is a book of today which guarantees a quality tomorrow. Man of the New Millennium is the third book of the trilogy which also comprises The Prophet of the New Millennium and God of the New Millennium.
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Download or read book The Family in the New Millennium written by Thomas B. Holman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family—married father and mother with biological children —detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars—many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect—conclude that natural family is being threatened, and is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying. Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.
Download or read book Thirst written by Alan Snitow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations likeNestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local watersources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking controlof public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodifywater, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinchedbackroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying todeny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their mostessential public resource. The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed howcommunities around the world are resisting the privatization andcommodification of water. Thirst, the book,picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence ofcontroversial new water wars in the United States and showing howcommunities here are fighting this battle, often against companiesheadquartered overseas. Read areview...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL
Download or read book Red Alert written by S Scanlan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you are not having fun, it's very hard to transmute. Follow the story of the GFS Navarac and its transmutations, during its visit to the strange planet called Earth. Meet the humans, and other inhabitants of the planet, who help the crew of the Navarac to trace its lost sister ship. Witness the frustration of the characters, and the book, with a writer whose leadership is anything but…where was I? Adults must be accompanied by a child. (Inner-child accepted). afunnybook.com
Download or read book Millennium Prophecies written by Mark Thurston and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the process used by Edgar Cayce to receive his visionary insights and his millennium prophecies, plus his links to the prophecies of Nostradamus. Reissue.
Download or read book A Theology of the Church for the Third Millennium written by Kenan Osborne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the new millennium, the Christian Churches are in a process of renewal. The Roman Catholic Church, since Vatican II, has been in a major stage of renewal. Contemporary globalization, multi-cultural interrelationships, and inter-religious dialogues have presented serious challenges to these renewal efforts. In this volume, I want to offer to the Catholic Renewal and from there to other denominational renewals, a view of the church from the rich tradition of Franciscan philosophy and theology. To date there are a only a few books which include small essays on this theme. This volume presents an in-depth Franciscan approach to ecclesiology.
Download or read book Priesthood in a New Millennium written by R. David Cox and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book examines priestly identity as it has evolved within Anglicanism over the last 15 years, including the ways in which the once nearly synonymous terms “English” and “Anglican” diverged over the years. In the process, the author delineates an intellectual and social history of modern Anglicanism.
Download or read book Everyone Else Must Fail written by Karen Southwick and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2003-12-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Southwick’s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison’s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison’s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America’s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps it constantly on the edge of both success and disaster. The hostile bid for PeopleSoft is just the most recent example. With one clever strategic move, Larry Ellison threw much of the business software field into play. The saying “It’s not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail” has been so often used by or associated with Ellison that most people think it originated with him. It’s actually attributed to Genghis Khan, but it’s a dead-on way to describe not only the way Ellison thinks about competitors but the way he runs Oracle. His weapons are not marauding hordes, but Oracle’s possession of database technology that is crucial for keeping mission-critical information flows working at thousands of organizations, corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. Inside Oracle, Ellison has time and again systematically purged key operating, sales, and marketing people who got too powerful for his comfort. Most notable was Ray Lane, Oracle’s president for nine years, who was widely credited with bringing order out of the chaos that was Oracle in the early nineties and growing it into a ten billion dollar company. Ellison got rid of the one key person who was building confidence with Wall Street, business partners, and customers that Oracle was no longer flying by the seat of its pants and had its act together. Ellison’s mania for absolute control and his inability to coexist with the very lieutenants who bring much-needed stability to the company have brought Oracle to the brink of collapse before, and may well do it again. Ellison is a throwback to an earlier, much more freewheeling version of capitalism, the kind practiced by the nineteenth-century robber barons who ran their companies as private fiefdoms. Larry Ellison is one of the most intriguing and dominant leaders of a major twenty-first-century corporation, and Everyone Else Must Fail raises the question of whether Oracle’s products and the reliance placed in them by so many are too important to be subject to the whims of one man. While giving credit to Ellison’s brilliance and devotion, the book sounds a warning about an ingenious man’s tendency to be his own company’s worst enemy.
Download or read book How Religion Evolved written by Brian J. McVeigh and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did many religious leaders—Moses, Old Testament prophets, Zoroaster—claim they heard divine voices? Why do ancient civilizations exhibit key similarities, e.g., the “living dead” (treating the dead as if they were still alive); “speaking idols” (care and feeding of effigies); monumental mortuary architecture and “houses of gods” (pyramids, ziggurats, temples)? How do we explain strange behavior such as spirit possession, speaking in tongues, channeling, hypnosis, and schizophrenic hallucinations? Are these lingering vestiges of an older mentality? Brian J. McVeigh answers these riddles by updating “bicameralism.” First proposed by the psychologist Julian Jaynes, this theory postulates that an earlier mentality existed: a “human” (the brain’s left hemisphere) heard voices of “gods” or “ancestors” (the brain’s right hemisphere). Therefore, ancient religious texts reporting divine voices were recountings of audiovisual hallucinations—a method of social control when early populations expanded. As growing political economic complexity destabilized god-governed states in the late second millennium BCE, divine voices became inadequate. Eventually, humans had to culturally acquire new cognitive skills (modern religions) to accommodate increasing social pressures: selves replaced the gods and history witnessed an “inward turn.” This psychological interiorization of spiritual experience laid the foundations for the world’s great religions and philosophies that arose in India, China, Greece, and the Middle East in the middle of the first millennium BCE.
Download or read book Introduction to the Old Testament written by Anthony R. Ceresko and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying Norman Gottwald's thesis on Israel's origins, Cereski argues that Israel was formed through a process of social revolution, inspired by the memory of runaway slaves and their worship of a God whose cult mandated radical social equality and justice.
Download or read book Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations written by Anne Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE.
Download or read book A New Missionary Era written by Padraig Flanagan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS Preface, by Anthony Bellagamba, IMC Part One: Mission in the World Today 1. Conversion and Mission, by Enda McDonagh 2. New Challenges--New Hopes, by Donal Dorr 3. The Message of Puebla, by Marcos McGrath 4. The Church in Latin America, by Jose Comblin 5. The Future of Mission in Asia, by Parmananda Divarkar 6. The Church in Africa, by Brian Hearne Part Two: Pastoral Aspects of Mission 7. The Church, the Icon of the Trinity, by Brian Hearne 8. Mission Today, by Walbert Buhlmann 9. Dialogue with Other Religions, by Parmananda Divarkar 10.ÊRecognizing Our God, by Priscilla Sequeira 11.ÊChristian Witness in Today's World, by Cahal Daly 12.ÊThe Role of Women in the Church, by Mary Motte 13.ÊBasic Christian Communities, by Brian Hearne 14. Basic Communities--The African Experience, by Raphael Ndingi 15. A Layman's View of the FutureÊof Mission, by August Vanistaendal Part Three: The Spiritual Life ofÊthee Missionary 16.ÊMissionary Spirituality, by Walbert Buhlmann 17.ÊA Missionary Reflection from St. John, by John Quinlan 18.ÊFaith--A Personal Encounter, by Finbarr Connolly 19.ÊPoverty in the Church, by Jose Comblin Part Four: The Challenge of Justice 20.ÊFrom Development to Justice, by Richard Quinn 21.ÊThe National Security State, by Jose Comblin 22.ÊThe Situation of Violence, by Jose Comblin 23.ÊLove of God Leads to Justice, by Peter J. Butelezi Part Five: Making the ChurchÊIncarnate 24.ÊInculturation, by Parmananda Divarkar 25.ÊIncarnating the Message of Christ in Different Cultures, by Walbert Buhlmann
Download or read book Conserving Natural Value written by Holmes Rolston and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent introduction to the ethical and philosophical values at stake in biological conservation, this book familiarizes readers with the general issues and possible solutions to the problems societies face in simultaneously conserving nature and promoting culture.
