Download or read book Dissidents of Perfection written by Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Animal Realm where magic and the wild are beautifully interwoven, this book delves into the ethics of meddling with nature even if it is for a good cause. For Joey Fox and many other animals, Animal Realm is a refuge from Earth. Away from humans, it offers security that is absent on Earth. In fact, the carnivores in the Animal Realm do not even kill to eat. Instead, there is plenty of Bindarian Thistle, a food that grows on any surface, does not need any water, and morphs itself to the taste buds of the animals eating it. Joey likes the security of the Animal Realm and not the dangers of Earth. Then there is Fiona the Flamingo. She is different. She believes in nature, even if it results in lower security guarantees. The Elders of the Animal Realm have been living in blissful ignorance regarding their citizen’s sentiments towards it. And Fiona Flamingo’s escape to earth proves it. Fiona breaks the rules of the Animal Realm by escaping back to Earth. The Animal Realm is shocked—why would someone abandon a perfect land? Fiona’s escape triggered a chain of events in the Animal Realm, including the involuntary disappearance of Joey Fox. Incidentally, Amber, a human has unwittingly made it to the Animal Realm. The chaos has turned the Animal Realm upside down. The Bindarian Thistle has stopped growing, putting the lives of many animals in danger. Amber and the citizens of Animal realm must confront Fiona Flamingo’s disillusionment with “perfection” to restore normalcy in their ideal world.
Download or read book Experiencing Identity written by Ian Craib and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `I recommend this book to all readers interested in thinking about the self; I am sure that anyone who reads it will come away with some new ideas' - Therapeutic Communities This critical and comprehensive examination of the relation of theory and identity discusses definitions of identity in classical social theory, modern social theory and psychoanalysis. The introduction is a critique of existing sociological accounts of identity, arguing that these are incurably cognitive, treating the people that they study as incapable of experiencing an internal life or internal space. The book then considers the implications of this in social theory and human practice.
Download or read book The Wolves of the Radfan written by David Brown and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is not a pleasant business. People die, cut to ribbons by bullets, limbs blown off by mines and roadside bombs. Not just the soldiers, but the non-combatants: young women, the elderly and children. 1963 to 1967 saw Britain fighting in a hostile and arid country, trying to stem the expansion of communism in the Middle East. On the ground, the ordinary soldiers, infantry, gunners, engineers and armoured regiments did what the British soldier always does - getting on with the job come hell or high water! Bomber's story is written from real-life experience. Although Bomber, the main character, is fictitious, he is based on a combination of many soldiers. Many of the events took place as described but with the storyteller's licence when melting them together. The Wolves of the Radfan, the largest tribe that straddled the then-border between North and South Yemen, started the war and the British soldiers put paid to the Wolves in 1964, but then came the push by the communists from North Yemen and it was then the contest started in all the brutality that war produces. Many acts of great courage have not been mentioned in the book, especially in the period from 1963 to the end of 1964, perhaps someone else will write about that. Fact and fiction, fiction or fact? This is a story of a normal British infantryman who faced combat and it was nothing like he had ever imagined.
Download or read book The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel written by Aviezer Tucker and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2001Theory meets practice in The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel, a critical study of the philosophy and political practice of the Czech dissident movement Charter 77. Aviezer Tucker examines how the political philosophy of Jan Patocka (1907-1977), founder of Charter 77, influenced the thinking and political leadership of Vaclav Havel as dissident and president. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel is the first serious treatment of Havel as philosopher and Patocka as a political thinker. Through the Charter 77 dissident movement in Czechoslovakia, opponents of communism based their civil struggle for human rights on philosophic foundations, and members of the Charter 77 later led the Velvet Revolution. After Patocka's self-sacrifice in 1977, Vaclav Havel emerged a strong philosophical and political force, and he continued to apply Patocka's philosophy in order to understand the human condition under late communism and the meaning of dissidence. However, the political/philosophical orientation of the Charter 77 movement failed to provide President Havel with an adequate basis for comprehending and responding to the extraordinary political and economic problems of the postcommunist period. In his discussion of Havel's presidency and the eventual corruption of the Velvet Revolution, Tucker demonstrates that the weaknesses in Charter 77 member's understanding of modernity, which did not matter while they were dissidents, seriously harmed their ability to function in a modern democratic system. Within this context, Tucker also examines Havel's recent attempt to topple the democratic but corrupt government in 1997-1998. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel will be of interest to students of philosophy and politics, scholars and students of Slavic studies, and historians, as well as anyone fascinated by the nature of dissidence.
Download or read book Dissent written by Ralph Young and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, focusing on those who, from colonial times to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time, responding to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. --Publisher's description.
Download or read book Dissidents in Communist Central Europe written by Kacper Szulecki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics and culture in Central Europe.
Download or read book The Subversive Tradition in Spanish Renaissance Writing written by Antonio Pérez-Romero and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The seven texts in this cross-section of fiction and nonfiction reveal a nation at the brink of modernity, embracing revolutionary ideas and reeling in their explosive impact. The opening chapters establish the theoretical framework for Perez-Romero's analysis, describing the intellectual and social environments of medieval Spain and tracing the developments in Spanish historical and literary scholarship that point to the existence of a new path of investigation."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Cult of Perfection written by Cooper Lawrence and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Dissident written by William Safire and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's foremost political columnists ties the Book of Job to the news of the day in a provacative exploration of how we can reshape politics by following Job's empowering example.
Download or read book The Scale of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 336 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 1965.
Download or read book The Political Thought of V clav Havel written by Daniel Brennan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers Václav Havel’s body of writing as a cohesive whole offering a consistent political philosophy. This bold claim is backed up through a close examination of Havel’s plays, letters, essays and aphorisms. The political philosophy that a close reading of Havel reveals is a liberal one. However, Havel is not the run-of the-mill liberal having influences from the field of phenomenology, Masaryk, Husserl, Levinas Patočka and Heidegger which give him a nuanced view of the self. Havel sees the self as something always being formed. Hence for Havel man has an ability to ‘shake’ his current state and invite transcendence into his life. This agonistic process reveals our responsibility and liberates the self from forces which coerce behaviour.
Download or read book Perfection written by Herbert E. Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legacy of Dissent written by Donald Alan Smith and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bound photo-reduced thesis which examines the internal rebellion by Vermonters against New York's jurisdiction over the state and an external revolt from Britain which resulted in the creation of the independent state of Vermont.
Download or read book The Paradox of Perfection written by Jeffrey Reber and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody's perfect! We use these words to excuse our mistakes and console ourselves, but they don't sink in for Christian perfectionists who equate flawlessness with perfection. The Paradox of Perfection teaches that Christ doesn't command flawlessness of us, but to embrace our weaknesses as access points for his perfect love."--Back cover
Download or read book Winning Revolutions written by J. Harold Ellens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of 35 senior scholars' research, these volumes examine the psychology driving the religious, political, and economic forces that cause turbulence and violence in human society. Religious, political, and economic revolts have defined the human experience throughout history. These kinds of universal turbulence continue to be the dominate source of human suffering and perplexity during the first decade of the 21st century. What can intensive study of the psychodynamics of cultural and social eruptions tell us that may serve to move cultures around the world beyond ongoing strife? This work seeks to find out, examining the spectrum of cultural and social eruptions from ancient Jewish, Christian, and Muslim revolutions to the modern day economic and political turbulence in Eastern Europe, the Near East, and Latin America. The breadth of this three-volume set ranges from the 12th century BCE to the current struggles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria; and from the irrational violence of the French Revolution to the genuine quest for liberty of the American Revolution and the Singing Revolutions in the Baltic States in recent decades. Each volume is introduced with a description of its philosophical perspective and concludes with a brief summarization of the takeaways of the research presented.
Download or read book Studies in Perfectionism written by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield and published by Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company. This book was released on 1958 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
