Download or read book The Natural Order of Human Events written by Vincenzo Spiaggi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family members of the Secretary General of the United Nations are murdered in a homicide bombing in Jerusalem. Overcome with grief, the Secretary General then takes his own life. His successor, Mikki Paarsalu of Estonia, vows to reform the corrupt international organization; but during his acceptance speech, he steps on a few toes and makes a few enemies. Th e Natural Order Of Human Events chronicles the efforts of Paarsalus enemies as they try to teach him a lesson for his public humiliation of them. Those enemies include a powerful mullah at a mosque in Boulder, Colorado, and a Middle Eastern ambassador to the United Nations. Th e story also tracks the efforts of Paarsalus friends as they try to protect him from his enemies. Working in his behalf are: Johnny Skull, who is on his own mission of revenge; a U.S. Congressman and an Israeli Mossad agent; Jimmie Masroun, a co-ed at the University of Wyoming, and her Italian cousin Fannie Scalisi; Saundra Jessup and Paul Davidson, reporters for The Sheridan County Sunrise, an award-winning weekly newspaper in the Village of Story, Wyoming; and, members of World Interconnect, or WI-7, an international terrorist-tracking organization, which includes Jenny Jessup, a new recruit. WI-7 believes that the Yemeni jihadist, Abu Zulu, is the man behind the plot to harm Paarsalu and the hunt for Abu Zulu begins.
Download or read book The Meaning of Human Existence written by Edward O. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence—from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.
Download or read book Gersonides on Providence Covenant and the Chosen People written by Robert Eisen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gersonides was one of the intellectual giants of the medieval Jewish world, a thinker of remarkable diversity and ingenuity. In the light of Gersonides' thought on providential suffering and on inherited providence, this book analyzes his position on one of the cardinal principles of Judaism: the concept of the Chosen People.
Download or read book Law and Economy in Planning written by Walter Firey and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginnings of human association, social planning has been an accepted method for effecting improvements in community, regional, and national life. In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft of planning and establish a relationship between practice and first principles. In this study he investigates basic elements of this framework existing in two normative orders: the state, in which a collectivity has the obligation to enforce obedience; and the market, in which the individual has the right to be rational. These normative orders, whose laws are formulated in the disciplines of jurisprudence and economics, have a common concern with the utilization of scarce means to given ends. These orders, the state and the market, are formulated by the art of planning and have a common relationship to the natural order, which cannot be planned, but only predicted, and which is explained by the science of planning. To bridge the gap between the natural order and the normative order is the function of a philosophy of planning, for which an intellectual framework—of necessity interdisciplinary—is essential. This study is the culmination of several years of research in the fields of planning and social theory. During the course of this research Firey came to appreciate more and more keenly the need for an interdisciplinary formulation of the planning process and, with this, the need for a philosophical foundation for interdisciplinary work. A year’s fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford gave him the opportunity to develop his ideas bearing on this subject and to put them in writing.
Download or read book A Carousel of Sorts written by Grant Guimont and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Carousel of Sorts is a dizzying leap into the shallow end of the pool of life. The story embraces the enormity of the world and the underlying idiosyncrasies that connect us all in the end. And perhaps along the way, on the wings of the fabled Carik birds from the tale, some of those answers will appear somewhere amidst the infinite spectrum between Bob Dylan’s song lyrics and the ingredients to Cocoa Puffs cereal. Sawyer Redwine, happens upon his own chance at redemption by stumbling into the life of Ashton James during a robbery. They hightail their lives across country in order to create a fresh start careening into Blaiku “Willy” Williams, the final piece in this triangle of fate. From the festive weirdness of a religious carnival located in Iowa to the eccentric values of a cosmetics mogul in Minneapolis, the triumvirate’s journey unfolds under a tabloid, fashion reporter’s eyes. Interwoven in the trio’s new America are an angel who appears to be Ted Nugent, a Mafia hitman trying to become a rodeo clown, an elderly woman who speaks only through Hallmark cards, and an obsessive narrator with a bloated ego and a magically spiked six-pack of beer.
Download or read book The Radical written by Sidney H. Morse and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sacred Fragments written by Neil Gillman and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern Jew, living in a world of shattered beliefs and competing ideologies, is often confronted with questions of faith. Sacred Fragments is for those who still care enough to continue the struggle. In forthright, nontechnical language the author addresses the most difficult theological questions of our time and shows that there are still viable Jewish answers for even the greatest skeptics.
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Download or read book Epistemology II written by Ramona Cormier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of Messrs Clay Benton and Barrow on the Subject of the Annexation of Texas to the United States written by Henry Clay and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Universal History Its Method and Its Relation to the Physical Sciences written by James Clarke Welling and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book KARMIC RELATIONSHIPS VOLUME 2 written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws of reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of certain named historical figures. In Rudolf Steiner's words, the study of karma is '…a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of existence, for within the sphere of karma and the course it takes lie those processes which are the basis of the other phenomena of world-existence...' In this second volume of the series, Rudolf Steiner considers individual karmic relationships in history - for example Marx and Engels - as well as surveying karma in human life, the shaping of karma after death, and the "cosmic form" of karma.
Download or read book The Meaning of Life written by Albert Edwin Keigwin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Metropolitana Plates to Mixed Sciences Vol 5 and 6 written by Edward Smedley and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
