Download or read book A Suspicious Gift written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Suspicious Gift

Download or read book Suspicious Gifts written by Malin Akerstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts have been given and received in all eras and societies; gifts are part of a universal human exchange. The importance of creating and sustaining social bonds with the help of gifts is widely acknowledged by social scientists, not only from anthropological but also from economic, sociological, and political science perspectives. Contemporary anti-corruption campaigns, however, have led gifts to be viewed with ever-increasing suspicion, because it is feared that the social bonds created by gift giving may contaminate professional decision-making. Suspicious Gifts investigates the sensitive issue of gift exchanges and how they become an object of contention. Malin akerstro;m considers the moral dilemmas presented by bribes and gift giving as experienced by Swedish aid workers and professionals working in the public sector, business, and adoption agencies. She also deals with professionals' interaction with foreign officials or contractors. Often a gift is just that, although sometimes the gift giving may be seen by others as a bribe. akerstro;m highlights the tensions between strict regulations designed to prevent corruption with the human affection for the institution of gift giving. She argues that bribes and gifts are important social phenomena because they are windows into classic sociological and anthropological research issues concerning interaction, social control, exchange, and rituals. This unique analysis will be of keen interest to all sociologists, public officials, and professionals.

Download or read book The Art of Giving and Receiving GIFT written by Rashmi Prabha and published by Rashmi Prabha. This book was released on 2024-09-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the transformative power of thoughtful giving with The Art of Giving and Receiving GIFT. This insightful guide goes beyond material exchanges, exploring the deeper emotional and spiritual meanings behind gifts. Designed for parents and caregivers, the book teaches how to instill values of generosity, gratitude, and reciprocity in children. Through engaging stories, practical tips, and reflective exercises, you'll discover how to foster a deeper appreciation for gifts based on intention and emotion rather than material value. Strengthen family bonds, nurture emotional intelligence, and learn how to turn gift-giving into a meaningful practice that enhances relationships and promotes positive energy in your home. Whether navigating peer pressure, managing unwanted gifts, or creating thoughtful exchanges, The Art of Giving and Receiving GIFT provides the tools you need to cultivate a mindset of selfless giving and heartfelt appreciation.

Download or read book The Second Algernon Blackwood Megapack written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Algernon Blackwood Megapack collects 28 more classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. Included in this volume are: SKELETON LAKE SMITH: AN EPISODE IN A LODGING-HOUSE A SUSPICIOUS GIFT THE EMPTY HOUSE THE LISTENER MAY DAY EVE CARLTON'S DRIVE IF THE CAP FITS— THE MAN WHO PLAYED UPON THE LEAF OLD CLOTHES THE ECCENTRICITY OF SIMON PARNACUTE THE GOLDEN FLY THE TRANSFER THE ATTIC THE GLAMOUR OF THE SNOW SAND H.S.H. A DESERT EPISODE BY WATER THE GOBLIN'S COLLECTION A BIT OF WOOD AN EGYPTIAN HORNET CAIN'S ATONEMENT THE OTHER WING THE DANCE OF DEATH THE GARDEN OF SURVIVAL A CASE OF EAVESDROPPING CLAIRVOYANCE And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

Download or read book Suspicious Readings of Joyce s Dubliners written by Margot Norris and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilities—produced by strange gaps, omitted scenes, and misleading narrative prompts—arouse suspicion and oblige the reader to distrust how and why the story is told. As a result, one is prompted to look into what is concealed, omitted, or left unspoken, a quest that often produces interpretations in conflict with what the narrative surface suggests about characters and events. Margot Norris's strategy in her analysis of the stories in Dubliners is to refuse to take the narrative voice for granted and to assume that every authorial decision to include or exclude, or to represent in a particular way, may be read as motivated. Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners devotes a chapter to each of the fifteen stories in Dubliners and shows how each confronts the reader with an interpretive challenge and an intellectual adventure. Its readings of "An Encounter," "Two Gallants," "A Painful Case," "A Mother," "The Boarding House," and "Grace" reconceive the stories in wholly novel ways—ways that reveal Joyce's writing to be even more brilliant, more exciting, and more seriously attuned to moral and political issues than we had thought.

Download or read book Suspicious Minds written by Joel Gold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Cover.

Download or read book God the Gift and Postmodernism written by John D. Caputo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast "reason" and"religion" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of "the modern" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertain questions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reveal the extent to which deconstruction is structured like religion. New interpretations of Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida emerge from essays and discussions with distinguished philosophers and theologians from the United States and Europe. The result is that God, the Gift, and Postmodernism elaborates a radical phenomenology that stretches the limits of its possibility and explores areas where philosophy and religion have become increasingly and surprisingly convergent. Contributors include: John D. Caputo, John Dominic Crossan, Jacques Derrida, Robert Dodaro, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Frangoise Meltzer, Michael J. Scanlon, Mark C. Taylor, David Tracy, Merold Westphal and Edith Wyschogrod.

Download or read book The Empty House written by Algernon Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Third Gift written by J. D. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the devil attacks your strength and shapes it into a weakness? J.D. Danny McCabe maintained a loving relationship with his wife for nearly twenty years before the underpinnings of their marriage, family, and world began to crumble. Their foundation had always been rooted in the mantra that trust is the bedrock of a healthy relationship. Indeed, Erin had always claimed that things wouldn't -- couldn't -- work without trust. But one day, for reasons Danny could not fathom, Erin became suspicious of his every move. Phone calls, text messages, and work emails were manufactured into proof of infidelity, drug addiction, and a network of lies. She enlisted her mother in her efforts, and together they forged the words of family, trust and honesty into a metaphorical hammer and beat him into the ground. Their accusations accumulated, twisting reality, and eventually resulting in Danny s involuntary hospitalization. Danny was pushed to the edge and was damn near ready to jump. Then, God intervened. Erin s shocking revelation, her Third Gift, lit the blind spots in his marriage that Danny had never been able to reconcile.

Download or read book Gifts Of The Holy Spirit written by Ashish Raichur and published by All Peoples Church & World Outreach, Bangalore, India. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord’s desire is for all believers to be endued with and demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit to bear witness to who He is. We are to be His witnesses everywhere, and always. The gifts of the Spirit are like our “toolbox,” containing tools given to us to manifest the power of the Holy Spirit, so that the Lord Jesus will be glorified, and people will be touched, ministered to, and transformed, everywhere we go. The Holy Spirit distributes and manifests these gifts as He wills. But as co-workers with Him, we must earnestly desire these gifts and we must learn how to yield, cooperate, and properly release these gifts so that people will be ministered to as He desires, and Jesus will be glorified. Often, because we do not know how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, we either quench, grieve or even resist His expressions through us. This book is intended to be a simple and easy to use training manual to help believers understand and learn how to flow with the Holy Spirit to release the gifts of the Spirit. The goal is to see believers moving and releasing the gifts of the Spirit regularly, anywhere, and at any time as the Spirit of the Lord moves through them. Watch our online Sunday Church service live stream every Sunday at 10:30am (Indian Time, GMT+5:30). Spirit filled, anointed worship, Word and ministry for healing, miracles and deliverance. YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/allpeopleschurchbangalore WEBSITE: https://apcwo.org/live Our other websites and free resources: CHURCH: https://apcwo.org FREE SERMONS: https://apcwo.org/sermons FREE BOOKS: https://apcwo.org/books DAILY DEVOTIONALS: https://apcwo.org/resources/daily-devotional JESUS CHRIST: https://examiningjesus.com BIBLE COLLEGE: https://apcbiblecollege.org E-LEARNING: https://apcbiblecollege.org/elearn COUNSELING: https://chrysalislife.org MUSIC: https://apcmusic.org MINISTERS FELLOWSHIP: https://pamfi.org CHURCH APP: https://apcwo.org/app CHURCHES: https://apcwo.org/ministries/churches This book may be freely used by individuals, small groups, churches, and ministries, for non-commercial purposes. These are not to be sold and must be distributed freely.

Download or read book Lives Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages written by Julie Barrau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new take on the identities and life histories of medieval people, in their multi-layered and sometimes contradictory dimensions.

Download or read book Labor Pain written by Chioma A. A. Menakaya and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents! Have you ever wondered what went wrong with your child or blamed yourself for your children's difficulties? Have you battled with the "should haves" and the "should have nots"? The book Labor Pain is a thought-provoking analytical search for answers to the parent-child relationship. It's the author's inner conflicts and questions raising her children in a different cultural environment than the one she was raised in, as a single parent, a product of divorce, a Christian, and in a time of big cultural change. Her book explores the roles and conflicts between culture, religion, personality, and socioeconomic factors in the parent-child dyad and parenting. The highs and lows of parenting and the many twists, turns, and rest stops on her spiritual journey as a parent.Her book explores the real human struggles in stories, proverbs, poems, and other narratives. Using Psalm 127:3-5 that declares that children are a gift and a reward from God as its framework, the challenging questions become the following: Why is parenting hard? Who or what is to blame for parent-child relationship difficulties? What constitutes a healthy relationship? What is good or bad parenting? Chioma A. A. Menakaya invites the readers to journey along with her, and as they do, make their own discoveries or gain insight to help them deal with or appreciate their own journey as parents. The author hopes that children reading this book will gain an understanding from the parents' perspective. The book also provides useful tools for child welfare workers, psychologists, family advocates, and counselors dealing with migrant families and understanding the role of culture and religion in parenting. Journey along. About the Author Chioma is a mother of three who resides in Howard County, Maryland. She had a broad and extensive career in banking and financial services before moving into the public sector. Chioma is a member of Women's Business Enterprise. She owns several small businesses including a non-profit organization, Care Connect International Inc., whose mission is to help the less privileged in the community they serve ease some of their economic burdens. She understands that ignorance is crippling, thus, she never ceases in her pursuit for knowledge. Adroit in researching, analyzing, and understanding the legal, ethical, political, religious, and socioeconomic environments, she uses her book series "Just from my Heart" the tales of her personal journey, in an interdisciplinary approach to seek answers to the hard questions that tug at her heart. As life happens and as the human mind is a constant battlefield, her writings delve into the core of human relationships and life dilemmas to help bring perspective to the "Why?" of how things are. As a Christian, Chioma seeks solace and serenity in God through the turbulent waters of her life and when things do not just make sense. In Christ alone, her present help in surmounting the many curve balls life has thrown at her. Chioma wins because God always wins.

Download or read book The Charitable Tax Exemption written by John D Colombo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of tax-exempt status for nonprofit "charitable" organizations is well established, and few would argue with the principle. But the tax-exempt sector of the economy is vast and rapidly growing, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars of tax revenue. At the same time, we have no consensus on what purpose the charitable tax exemption serves, let alone agreement on what constitutes a charity. In this important addition to the theory of tax law, Colombo and Hall develop an original "donative" theory that links the charitable tax exemption to the ability of an organization to derive donative support from the community. Their theory not only makes intuitive sense but also receives support from economic, political, and moral theory. Its implications would rationalize the charitable tax exemption, comport with legal precedent, and simplify the administration of the law. The Charitable Tax Exemption is a major contribution to the theory of tax law and should be essential reading for a wide range of lawyers dealing with taxes. It will also be enlightening for anyone involved in the operation of a nonprofit organization

Download or read book Ghost Supernatural Mystic Tales Vol 4 written by Algernon Blackwood and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 contains ten thrilling tales. Walk the corridors of the ‘Empty House’ and feel the goose bumps rise. Explore the ‘Haunted Island’ and the ‘Wood of the Dead’, but remember to look over your shoulder. Mysticism and cosmic experiences feature, as well as the more traditional elements of the horror story.

Download or read book The Essential Algernon Blackwood Collection written by Algernon Blackwood and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 1948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one essential collection, the best books by Algernon Blackwood: The Centaur The Damned The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories The Extra Day Four Weird Tales The Garden of Survival The Human Chord The Man Whom The Trees Loved A Prisoner In Fairyland The Wendigo

Download or read book Themelios Volume 35 Issue 1 written by D. A. Carson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themelios is an international, evangelical, peer-reviewed theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Themelios is published three times a year online at The Gospel Coalition (http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/) and in print by Wipf and Stock. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. Themelios began in 1975 and was operated by RTSF/UCCF in the UK, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The editorial team draws participants from across the globe as editors, essayists, and reviewers. General Editor: D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Managing Editor: Brian Tabb, Bethlehem College and Seminary Consulting Editor: Michael J. Ovey, Oak Hill Theological College Administrator: Andrew David Naselli, Bethlehem College and Seminary Book Review Editors: Jerry Hwang, Singapore Bible College; Alan Thompson, Sydney Missionary & Bible College; Nathan A. Finn, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Hans Madueme, Covenant College; Dane Ortlund, Crossway; Jason Sexton, Golden Gate Baptist Seminary Editorial Board: Gerald Bray, Beeson Divinity School Lee Gatiss, Wales Evangelical School of Theology Paul Helseth, University of Northwestern, St. Paul Paul House, Beeson Divinity School Ken Magnuson, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Jonathan Pennington, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary James Robson, Wycliffe Hall Mark D. Thompson, Moore Theological College Paul Williamson, Moore Theological College Stephen Witmer, Pepperell Christian Fellowship Robert Yarbrough, Covenant Seminary

Download or read book Currencies of Imagination written by Ivan V. Small and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively significant and contribute important economic inputs. Yet beyond capital transfer, these diasporic remittance economies offer insight into an unfolding transformation of Vietnamese society through the extension of imaginations and ontological possibilities that accompany them. Currencies of Imagination examines the complex role of remittances as money and as gifts that flow across, and mediate between, transnational kinship networks dispersed by exile and migration. Long distance international gift exchanges and channels in a neoliberal political economy juxtapose the increasing cross-border mobility of remittance financial flows against the relative confines of state bounded bodies. In this contradiction Ivan V. Small reveals a creative space for emergent imaginaries that disrupt local structures and scales of desire, labor and expectation. Furthermore, the particular characteristics of remittance channels and mediums in a global economy, including transnational mobility and exchangeable value, affect and reflect the relations, aspirations, and orientations of the exchange participants. Small traces a genealogy of how this phenomenon has shifted through changing remittance forms and transfer infrastructures, from material and black market to formal bank and money services. Transformations in the affective and institutional relations among givers, receivers, and remittance facilitators accompany each of these shifts, illustrating that the socio-cultural work of remittances extends far beyond the formal economic realm they are usually consigned to.