Download or read book Lincoln s Quest for Union written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quest for Harmony written by Chuan-kang Shih and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese instead of marriage as the normal sexual and reproductive institution. Until recently, tisese was noncontractual, nonobligatory, and nonexclusive. Partners lived and worked in separate households. The only prerequisite for a tisese relationship was a mutual agreement between the man and the woman to allow sexual access to each other. In a comprehensive account, Quest for Harmony explores this unique practice specifically, and offers thorough documentation, fine-grained analysis, and an engaging discussion of the people, history, and structure of Moso society. Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork, conducted from 1987 to 2006, this is the first ethnography of the Moso written in English.
Download or read book Relationship Paradox written by Kendell Thornton and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, and how the spiritual quest for union is tempered by the human desire for freedom. Since being in an intimate relationship is not the cause of happiness, a major focus of this book is to help the readers understand the need to take responsibility for their own happiness. Only when people learn to understand their own happiness, regardless of being in a relationship, will they be able to cultivate a successful relationship because they want a relationship, and not because they think they need a relationship to be happy.
Download or read book The Quest written by Daniel Yergin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal “It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —The Financial Times This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.
Download or read book Union with God written by Gabriel Of St. Mary Magdalen and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian perfection consists in the twofold way of charity: service of neighbor and our direct quest for God's love. Many of us discover ways to love our neighbor, but few achieve intimacy with God. Why? Because we don't know how to prepare ourselves properly to reach this exalted goal. In these pages, Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen lays out for us a time-tested path toward achieving complete intimacy with God, the path first mapped out centuries ago by the Church's acclaimed master of the contemplative life, St. John of the Cross (1542-1591). St. John showed that God hungers for union with each of us but also requires arduous efforts on our part, the many details of which Father Gabriel explains in these enlightening pages. Do you perceive holiness as an unattainable goal for you? Or is fear of the fatigue of such an effort holding you back? Absorb this book, and allow gentle St. John to take you by the hand and lead you — as he has led so many others — to true intimacy with our Lord.
Download or read book The Quest for Virtue written by Alan Scott and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're striving to grow in your faith, yearning to love God more, or simply seeking a way to slow down and embrace what truly matters, this book will assist in providing yourself with the best possible gift ever - a closer relationship with God. The Quest for Virtue is filled with practical and straightforward advice for an attainable, Christ-centered life filled with more faith, simplicity, generosity, and far less complexity, all held together by a love for God. Containing all the personal joys and struggles that we all seem to have in common, it is written with a hope to challenge and inspire you. Editorial Reviews: Delightfully humorous, painfully honest and always spiritually centered, Alan Scott's The Quest for Virtue will lift you up and help you in times of need. - Laurie Hill Crosbie, M.A., author of Salvation In Indiana Alan Scott is that rare kind of writer that seeks to grow in virtue by honestly confronting our most common vices and distractions. He doesn't shy away from the struggle of everyday life, instead recognizing great potential for growth, even during our mundane or often frustrating days. If you want to start cultivating the habits of true virtue, his practical advice and words of wisdom in The Quest for Virtue is the perfect place to start. - Michael J. Lichens, editor and host of Catholic Exchange Quest for Virtue is a wonderfully written-testimony of the goodness, faithfulness, and mercy of God. It is a poignant reminder that when we allow ourselves to "be still and know that I am God," He can and will work in and through our lives. The writer echoes the words of St. Augustine's cry; my heart will not rest, O God, until it rests in you. - Br. Boltoph, O/OSB, The Order of St. Benedict, Servants of Jesus Bethlehem Priory In a world full of vice, Alan Scott shares the necessary tools with the reader to live a life of virtue. If you desire to become a happier and holier person, this book holds the road map to success. - Fr. Edward Looney, author of A Rosary Litany Grab The Quest for Virtue next time you're stressed, worried, discouraged...or about to strangle someone. Its gentle wisdom and humor will ease you back to sanity, back to the person you know you can be. Alan doesn't trumpet maxims from the mountaintop - he's struggling right there with you, but maybe a few steps ahead. This collection of essays provides guidance to those new to the spiritual journey and encouragement for those who've been on it for a while. Either way, pack this book as a trusty companion. - Rose Folsom, author of VirtueConnection.com The Quest for Virtue offers simple yet profound reminders of how we might better focus on God. Pleasant to read and insightful, Alan Scott addresses issues mothers face on a daily basis: distractions, living in the present, and patience. He presents a challenge to all aspiring saints, and every mother desiring to grow in virtue in the midst of family life. - Denise Renner, author of The Motherlands The virtue of Alan Scott's The Quest for Virtue: A Journey to Union with God lies in its simplicity, simplicity itself being one of the virtues he addresses that can best help us focus on things that truly matter the most - God and the things of God, including the right relations to ourselves and our neighbors. The Quest for Virtue is an accessible, reliable, and enjoyable guide on that journey toward God through virtue. It teems with humor, the author's heartfelt life lessons, common sense, and not-so-common insights on how to practice every day the kinds of behaviors that lead to all sorts of good and Godly habits of thinking, feeling, and doing that are the stuff of the virtues. - Kevin Vost, Psy.D., author of The One-Minute Aquinas
Download or read book The Quest for Streetcar Unionism in the Carolina Piedmont 1919 1922 written by Jeffrey M. Leatherwood and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the courtroom doors closed in 1919, the tragic Charlotte Streetcar Strike has haunted the collective memory of the Carolina Piedmont region. During a season of labor unrest, it briefly made national headlines. Five men were killed and at least twelve others were wounded by gunfire during a demonstration against Southern Public Utilities, a subsidiary of James B. Duke's Southern Power. For many who lived afterward in North Carolina's "Queen City," the strike and riot were events better left forgotten, while, for later generations, the "Battle of the Barn" has become an item of curiosity.As the centennial approaches, this book represents the result of over ten years' worth of primary research about the Charlotte Streetcar Strike, a story that rightfully belongs to a larger narrative about the AFL's campaign to organize transportation workers among the textile mill towns of North and South Carolina. Prior to the 1919 Charlotte Strike, the national streetcar union had overcome fierce anti-labor sentiment, from South Carolina's state capital of Columbia to the Upcountry citadel of Spartanburg. To AFL organizers, Charlotte represented the last link in the Piedmont chain.
Download or read book There Is Power in a Union written by Philip Dray and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience. In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only restores to our collective memory the indelible story of American labor, it also demonstrates the importance of the fight for fairness and economic democracy, and why that effort remains so urgent today.
Download or read book The Quest for Truth written by F. Leroy Forlines and published by Randall House Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable tool seriously discusses profound truths that apply to every facet of life. Biblical truth should be made applicable to the total personality. The "inescapable questions of life" are answered from the standard of God's authoritative Word.
Download or read book The Spirituality of Music written by Selina Thielemann and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Aims At The Inner Soul And Accordingly The Essays Are Centered Around Music As A Cosmic Energy And Its Role And Functions In The Game Plan Of Creation. Discovers Music As A Spiritual Activity. Also Contains Poetic Quotes Reflecting The Spirit Of Bauls Of Bengal.
Download or read book Jesus and the Quest for Meaning written by Thomas H. West and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to introducing theology As God's self-communication to humans, Jesus is the key to the human search for meaning, argues Thomas West. He therefore introduces the practice of theology through Christology. From the question of personal meaning and self-constitution and their relationship to transcendent meaning and value, he proceeds to discuss the figure and import of Jesus and then the ethical imperative engendered through encounter with him. Fresh and clear, West's book is an invitation to grapple with one's religious commitments, especially in light of recent insights in biblical studies and Continental, feminist, and liberation theologies. This new text will prove an engaging and effective introduction to theological thinking for both undergraduates and Christian adults.
Download or read book Stalin s Quest for Gold written by Elena Osokina and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods. Initially, only foreigners were allowed to shop in Torgsin, but the acute demand for hard-currency revenues forced Stalin to open Torgsin to Soviet citizens who could exchange tsarist gold coins and objects made of precious metals and gemstones, as well as foreign monies, for foods and goods in its shops. Through her analysis of the large-scale, state-run entrepreneurship represented by Torgsin, Elena Osokina highlights the complexity and contradictions of Stalinism. Driven by the state's hunger for gold and the people's starvation, Torgsin rejected Marxist postulates of the socialist political economy: the notorious class approach and the state hard-currency monopoly. In its pursuit for gold, Torgsin advertised in the capitalist West, encouraging foreigners to purchase goods for their relatives in the USSR; and its seaport shops and restaurants operated semilegally as brothels, inducing foreign sailors to spend hard currency for Soviet industrialization. Examining Torgsin from multiple perspectives—economic expediency, state and police surveillance, consumerism, even interior design and personnel—Stalin's Quest for Gold radically transforms the stereotypical view of the Soviet economy and enriches our understanding of everyday life in Stalin's Russia.
Download or read book A Quest for Time written by Gary Cross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Download or read book Lost Kingdom written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history. Spanning over 500 years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin exploited existing forms of identity, warfare, and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. An authoritative and masterful account of Russian nationalism, Lost Kingdom chronicles the story behind Russia's belligerent empire-building quest.
Download or read book The Quest for Eastern Christians written by Francis Millet Rogers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most writers have considered that the great European explorations during the Age of Discovery were motivated primarily by a thirst for knowledge of other lands, desire for international trade, or missionary zeal. Professor Rogers demonstrates that there was another significant reason why Europeans traveled to the East during the lade medieval and Renaissance period. This was the dream of a Christian Indies, which in turn led to a quest for the Christians of the Farther East. The author specifically seeks to establish a direct relation between the knowledge of Indian and Ethiopian Christians which was available in Jerusalem from early Christian times onward and which returning pilgrims disseminated in the West, and the presence of the Portuguese in South India and the Ethiopian highlands in the early sixteenth century.
Download or read book The Quest for Anna Klein written by Thomas H. Cook and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of WWII, a wealthy young New Yorker is drawn into an international plot by an alluring and dangerous woman: “Captivating.” —Kirkus Reviews It’s 1939 and the world is on the brink of war, but Thomas Danforth is in New York City living a charmed life. The well-traveled son of a wealthy importer, he’s in his twenties and running the family business, looking forward to a bright future. Then, during a dark, snowy walk along Gramercy Park, a friend makes a fateful request—and involves Thomas in a dangerous plot that could change the fates of millions. Thomas is asked to open up his secluded Connecticut mansion to a mysterious woman who will receive training in firearms and explosives. Thus begins an international scheme carried out by the captivating Anna Klein which will ensnare Thomas in more ways than one. When it all goes wrong and Anna disappears, he will travel far from home once again, but this time, into a war-torn world that is much more dangerous, in this story by an Edgar Award–winning author known for his “piercing thrillers” (Daily News, New York). “No other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Thomas H. Cook.” —Chicago Tribune “Laced with dozens of intriguing historical anecdotes.” —Kirkus Reviews “Cook’s work is elegant, philosophical, and literary. This book is to be treasured, and is bound to earn him new readers. Grade A.” —The Plain Dealer
Download or read book Quest for Flight written by Gary B. Fogel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery’s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation. As a scientist researching the laws of flight, Montgomery invented basic methods of aircraft control and stability, refined his theories in aerodynamics over decades of research, and brought widespread attention to aviation by staging public demonstrations of his gliders. After his first flights near San Diego in the 1880s, his pursuit continued through a series of glider designs. These experiments culminated in 1905 with controlled flights in Northern California using tandem-wing Montgomery gliders launched from balloons. These flights reached the highest altitudes yet attained, demonstrated the effectiveness of Montgomery’s designs, and helped change society’s attitude toward what was considered “the impossible art” of aerial navigation. Inventors and aviators working west of the Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century have not received the recognition they deserve. Harwood and Fogel place Montgomery’s story and his exploits in the broader context of western aviation and science, shedding new light on the reasons that California was the epicenter of the American aviation industry from the very beginning.
