Download or read book The Meaning of These Days written by Kenneth Daniel Stephens and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the true story of a man from India who comes to the United States to go to seminary, which he finds to be both a demanding social environment and a vigorous philosophical and theological world. After four years of seminary he gets married and completes a doctorate in philosophy. Soon he finds himself in a profound spiritual crisis teaching philosophy in an ivory tower. He hears protests in the streets for civil rights, peace, and environmental integrity. Events conspire to produce a critical turning point in his story. He finally goes into the ministry but is now forced to face the terrors of his own emotional immaturity. The lessons are hard to learn and the road is steep that leads to personal and intellectual adulthood. The energy that drives The Meaning of These Days is the quest for personal, spiritual, and philosophical integrity in a world of suffering beings, both human and nonhuman. The author identifies with the magi, in W. B.Yeats' well-known poem of 1914, who search for "the uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor." Religious leaders of many backgrounds and all informed seekers after Truth in today's busy marketplace of ideas will welcome a book that combines philosophy and world theology with the spiritual life in such an engaging, poetic, and novel way.
Download or read book Children These Days written by Nicola Madge and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to be a child growing up in Britain these days? Is it a happy or anxious time? What are the best and worst aspects of being a child today? This book draws on accounts of over two thousand children and five hundred adults, to examine the present day meaning of childhood and its implications for policy and practice.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Concise Writing written by Robert Hartwell Fiske and published by Marion Street Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to clean, strong prose that lists thousands of common, wordy phrases that too many writers rely on, and offers concise alternatives.
Download or read book Kids These Days written by Karen Sternheimer and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids snatched from their bedrooms, shot at in school, fatter than ever, prone to risk-taking and cruelty_is childhood today as bad as the news accounts would have us believe? Is this generation headed for disaster? Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth critically examines the hottest news stories of the past few years to assess whether the news is really as bad as it sounds. For instance, is kidnapping by strangers really a bigger threat now than in the past? Are disputes at school now settled with guns instead of fists? And are kids, especially girls, becoming bigger bullies than ever before? Kids These Days looks at the stories that made headlines and goes deeper to explore overall trends and statistics to compare the hype to reality. The truth is, kids today do face unique obstacles and challenges, but their situation isn't nearly as dire as the compelling news accounts would have us believe. Our nation's youth have been targeted as a problem population to absolve adult responsibility for creating the often dangerous and difficult conditions many young people must endure. Kids These Days will give the reader pause and perspective to better understand the realities of the first generation to come of age in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Love in These Days written by Alec Waugh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love in These Days, first published in 1926, Alec Waugh explores themes of love, marriage and friendship in the vibrant and dynamic years of the early twenties. With his characteristic attention to detail he uses his characters to examine the social and cultural changes of the time and their impact on interpersonal affairs. 'Love in these days. How remote it was from the old and simple need by which primitive men and women were surprised into the responsibilities of parenthood. How remote too from the gilded conception of mediaeval chivalry.'
Download or read book Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent and Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad written by W. H. Morton Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kids These Days written by Marc Clearwater and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing tale of growing up in the world today, brought to you by an incredible new talent with a lot to say. This tale follows the life of a teenager as he finds trouble with the law, drugs, women, and violence. It is a fast-paced journey through a fast-paced life; presented in a first-person view with enough engaging dialogue to make you laugh, make you cry, and make you want to shout in triumph. For anyone who has ever been lost in their life, this tale is for you. Living in the world today is hard, and it's even harder to be happy, but in the end, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
Download or read book Present Day Nippon written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Roget s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases written by Peter Mark Roget and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you struggled for just the right phrase when grappling with a class assignment? Crafting an office memo, do you want greater clarity and concision? Pounding away at a last-minute blog entry, haven't you ever thought, There has to be a better word for this? Now there is. Under the time-tested and respected banner of Roget's Thesaurus, here is an array of words and their definitions organized by meaning. With this volume at your side, you need never be stalled or stymied for an appropriate expression, whether speaking of the higher reaches of philosophy or holding forth on art, music, or poetry--or other highbrow pastimes. The more you expand your vocabulary, the richer and clearer your writing and conversation will become. And the better you'll be able to say exactly what you mean, joining intellectual discussions with confidence that you've found just the right words.
Download or read book After All These Years written by Mick Foster and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s and 60s, and spans the breadth of their long career, including appearing on Top of the Pops alongside Bob Geldof and being feted by Terry Wogan, and the extraordinary moment when they found themselves at the very top of the charts, beating Take That to the number-one slot.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grammar of the English Tense System written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice. The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research. It provides not only a wealth of data but also a unique framework for the study of the English tense system, which achieves great predictive and explanatory power on the basis of a limited number of relatively simple rules. The framework provided allows for an analysis of the semantics of individual tenses which reflects the role of tenses not only in locating situations in time relative to speech time but also in relating situations in time relative to one another to form temporally coherent discourse. Attention is paid to the relations between tenses. On the one hand, we can identify sets of tenses linked to particular temporal areas such as the past or the future. These sets of tenses provide for the expression of a system of temporal relations in a stretch of discourse in which all the situations are located within the same temporal area. On the other hand, there are many contexts in which speakers might in theory choose between two or more tenses to locate a situation (e.g., when we choose between the past tense and the present perfect to locate a situation before speech time), and the book examines the difference that a choice of one or the other tense may make within a discourse context. The book moves from a detailed exploration of the meaning and use of individual tenses to a thorough analysis of the way in which tenses can be seen to function together as sets, and finally to a detailed examination of tenses in, and tenses interacting with, temporal adverbials. Original data is used frequently throughout the book to illustrate the theory discussed.
Download or read book The birth of christian religion A history written by Kovács György and published by Ad Librum Kiadó. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I dedicate this book to those who have a natural scientific interest in which events led to the development of the Christian religion, who want to know the exact chronological data of the era and would like to get a general overview of the history of Christianity. In my book, with a method based on mathematical deduction, the phenomenon of the star of Bethlehem, the time of Jesus’ birth and death, the time data of the calendar modifications introduced by Roman emperors and the dates of the main events of the Augustus age according to Christian chronology are identified so that they can be traced back to astronomical data. These results differ from those generally accepted by the analyses.
Download or read book The Lyrics 1956 to the Present written by Paul McCartney and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through his most meaningful songs. Finally in paperback and featuring seven new song commentaries, the #1 New York Times bestseller celebrates the creative life and unparalleled musical genius of Paul McCartney. Spanning sixty-four years—from his early days in Liverpool, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo career—Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics revolutionized the way artists write about music. An unprecedented “triumph” (Times UK), this handsomely designed volume pairs the definitive texts of over 160 songs with first-person commentaries on McCartney’s life, revealing the diverse circumstances in which songs were written; how they ultimately came to be; and the remarkable, yet often delightfully ordinary, people and places that inspired them. The Lyrics also includes: · A personal foreword by McCartney · An unprecedented range of songs, from beloved standards like “Band on the Run” to new additions “Day Tripper” and “Magical Mystery Tour” · Over 160 images from McCartney’s own archives Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, The Lyrics is the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
