Download or read book The Hall of Light written by William Edward Soothill and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close examination of early Chinese culture, explaining the traditional ideas about monarchy, religion and worship, rituals and sacrifices, customs and other aspects that have influences the thought and behaviour of the Chinese for well over two millennia.
Download or read book Leaving the Hall Light On written by Madeline Sharples and published by Dream of Things. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving the Hall Light On charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. & ;& ;Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist, goes deep into her own well of grief to describe her anger, frustration and guilt. She describes many attempts - some successful, some not - to have her son committed to hospital and to keep him on his medication. The book also charts her and her family's redemption, how she considered suicide herself, and ultimately, her decision live and take care of herself as a woman, wife, mother and writer.& ;& ;Highly recommended if your life has been touched by bipolar disorder or suicide, this book will also inspire you to survive other tragedies.& ;& ;"A moving read of tragedy, trying to prevent it, and coping with life after." - Midwest Book Review & ;& ;"Moving, intimate and very inspiring." - Mark Shelmerdine, CEO, Jeffers Press & ;& ;"Poetically visceral, emotionally honest. I will be a better, more empathic psychiatrist, and a better person and friend after reading this extraordinary memoir." - Irvin D. Godofsky, M.D.
Download or read book Queen of Light written by Linsey Hall and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knows I'm possessed by evil... Everyone thinks that I'm a hero... that I've driven the darkness from the land. What they don't know is that I've driven it into myself. I'm fighting a curse that will lead to the death of all I love. Fortunately, my Fated Mate Iain senses something is wrong. When he learns about the curse, he vows to help. We must delve deep into the dangerous mysteries of my past in hopes of finding a cure. But as the darkness tries to drive a wedge between us, I don't know if our relationship will survive. Or if any of us will.
Download or read book In New Mexico Light written by Douglas Kent Hall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barela, a santero, is recognized by New Mexico's contemporary Hispanic artists as a major source of inspiration.
Download or read book The Mirror the Light written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze? Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.
Download or read book City of Light written by Lauren Belfer and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK It is 1901 and Buffalo, New York, stands at the center of the nation's attention as a place of immense wealth and sophistication. The massive hydroelectric power development at nearby Niagara Falls and the grand Pan-American Exposition promise to bring the Great Lakes “city of light” even more repute. Against this rich historical backdrop lives Louisa Barrett, the attractive, articulate headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls. Protected by its powerful all-male board, “Miss Barrett” is treated as an equal by the men who control the life of the city. Lulled by her unique relationship with these titans of business, Louisa feels secure in her position, until a mysterious death at the power plant triggers a sequence of events that forces her to return to a past she has struggled to conceal, and to question everything and everyone she holds dear. Both observer and participant, Louisa Barrett guides the reader through the culture and conflicts of a time and place where immigrant factory workers and nature conservationists protest violently against industrialists, where presidents broker politics, where wealthy “Negroes” fight for recognition and equality, and where women struggle to thrive in a system that allows them little freedom. Wrought with remarkable depth and intelligence, City of Light remains a work completely of its own era, and of ours as well. A stirring literary accomplishment, Lauren Belfer's first novel marks the debut of a fresh voice for the new millennium and heralds a major publishing event.
Download or read book Light of the Vedas written by Manly P. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated work, the first volume in a series on the Adepts in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition, Mr. Hall writes on the teachings of the Hindu tradition. Included is a discussion of the Bhagavad-Gita and the six systems of Indian philosophy. It is also explained how the Rishis of Old Aryavata were the first Aryan Adepts, and from them came the wonderful doctrines and teachings which the East honors today as the Light of the Vedas. The introduction gives an invaluable explanation of the numerous references throughout religious literature of the order of enlightened human beings who are the custodians of the essential wisdom of the race -- the Adepts.
Download or read book The Road to Inner Light written by Manly P. Hall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hsin lun New Treatise and Other Writings by Huan T an 43 B C 28 A D written by Timoteus Pokora and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better known in his own times than later, Huan T’an (43 BCE–25 CE) was a scholar-official, independent in his thought and unafraid to criticize orthodox currents of his time. A practitioner of the Old Text exegesis of the Classics, he maintained a position on the court during a turbulent time of political crises, uprisings, and civil war, spanning the reigns of four emperors. His principal work, Hsin-lun, differs from other books on political criticism in that it does not deal primarily with history but takes many examples from contemporary social and political life. While belonging to the Old Text group of court officials and scholars, Huan T’an differed radically from them in his stress on direct knowledge, in his range of practical experience, and in his outspoken criticism of popular opinions. He was not a systematic philosopher, but his ideas were influential in the return to a more worldly conception of Confucianism. To translate Huan T’an’s writings, one must reconstruct the texts. Timoteus Pokora uses two nineteenth-century fragments as a basis around which to orient quotations from Hsin-lun from sixty-four other sources, primarily encyclopedias and commentaries. Pokora provides notes to give context to these short references and to account for discrepancies between quotations and originals, and he includes a large index to add coherence and points of entry.
Download or read book Early Chinese Religion written by John Lagerwey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Warring States, treated in Part One of this set, there is no more fecund era in Chinese religious and cultural history than the period of division (220-589 AD). During it, Buddhism conquered China, Daoism grew into a mature religion with independent institutions, and, together with Confucianism, these three teachings, having each won its share of state recognition and support, formed a united front against shamanism. While all four religions are covered, Buddhism and Daoism receive special attention in a series of parallel chapters on their pantheons, rituals, sacred geography, community organization, canon formation, impact on literature, and recent archaeological discoveries. This multi-disciplinary approach, without ignoring philosophical and theological issues, brings into sharp focus the social and historical matrices of Chinese religion.
Download or read book Siriandol written by Lindsey Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tornado pilot. The title still blew Josh away. His anticipation had only increased since he had first learned of this possibility, and finally, the first day of classes had come. He felt like a kid again with a crazy imagination and wild dreams - only this time, they were real."Josh has entered a new world - a world of power, of great responsibility, of answers to life's unanswered questions. A world where he is able to do things he never could on Earth, like pilot a tornado. The real power, though, lies with those who obtain their own crystal of light. Josh watches as several members of his tornado pilot team earn their crystals. But Josh's own crystal seems out of reach...
Download or read book Critical Readings on Tang China written by Paul W. Kroll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.
Download or read book Chronicle Of Chaos written by Chong Jiqing and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpectedly, the Heaven Realm Lord had cast down a Flowing Fire to destroy the mortal world. Jin Jian had also been wounded by the Flowing Fire, so he sank into the Deep Sea, turned into a floating object, and started cultivating again. What kind of world was the Deep Sea, and what would Jin Jian's fate be like in the mortal world?
Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 127 NY APP 683 (Bolen v. Bolen) 127 NY APP 675 (Avery v. Starbuck) 127 NY APP 377 (Anderson v. Culver) 127 NY APP 676 (Lange v. Kearney) 127 NY APP 682 (Goetshius v. Hunt) 127 NY APP 677 (Graves v. Santway) 127 NY APP 381 (Peil v. Reinhart) 127 NY APP 682 (Green v. Griswold) 127 NY APP 397 (Woodman v. State of N.Y.) 127 NY APP 678 (Palmer v. Comm. Travelers' Mut. Acc. Ass'n.) 127 NY APP 676 (Clark v. Stewart)
Download or read book All was Light written by Alfred Rupert Hall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opticks, Newton's most popular book, is a complex work of genius and the fruit of forty years of thought and investigation. Newton devoted various periods of experimentation to this final expression of his life's work and drew on the results of successive interactions with other scientists and thinkers. This introduction to his book disentangles the different layers of Newton's thought processes in terms of his contemporary influences, and details the development of the final text. It explains problems that arose from Newton's changing ideas during the course of the book's long preparation, touching on such controversial issues of the time as the concepts of atomism, force, and the aether. The author also looks in detail at the way Newton has been interpreted both at home and abroad. This readable, non-mathematical book serves as an excellent introduction to Newton and the great achievement of Opticks and will fascinate students and general readers interested in natural philosophy and the history of science.
Download or read book Traces of Dreams written by Haruo Shirane and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of this critical figure by placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change.
Download or read book Whispers of Light written by Jennifer Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 150 years the magnificent Scarlett Hall has stood proud. However, the secrets it holds threaten to destroy it and the family who lives within. At the age of one and twenty, Widow Isabel Barnet has returned to seek refuge in her family's ancestral home of Scarlett Hall. Having experienced heartbreak and vowing to never love again, Isabel has now resigned herself to minding her younger sisters and forever remaining alone. That is until one day when her mother makes a request...Laurence Redbrook, Duke of Ludlow, feels half a man compared to others; the limp he received after a tragic accident is proof of that. Understanding that the ton whispers behind his back--and no woman would ever view him with interest--he remains alone at his estate. That is, until an important letter arrives requesting his aid.As Isabel and Laurence are joined into a marriage of convenience, Isabel begins to search for a way to escape from both a man she does not love and the secrets in her heart that threaten to destroy her. And Laurence must decide if the love he feels for Isabel is enough for her to see him as the man he wishes to be rather than the burden she is forced to carry.Whispers of Light is the exciting first book in the new Secret of Scarlett Hall series. Each novel is filled with mystery and secrets that will keep you guessing with every turn of the page to see if this hero and heroine receive their happily ever after.
