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Book Pope Francis

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  • Author : Paul Vallely
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 1472903722
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Pope Francis written by Paul Vallely and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first appearance on a Vatican balcony Pope Francis proved himself a Pope of Surprises. With a series of potent gestures, history's first Jesuit pope declared a mission to restore authenticity and integrity to a Catholic Church bedevilled by sex abuse and secrecy, intrigue and in-fighting, ambition and arrogance. He declared it should be 'a poor Church, for the poor'. But there is a hidden past to this modest man with the winning smile. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was previously a bitterly divisive figure. His decade as leader of Argentina's Jesuits left the religious order deeply split. And his behaviour during Argentina's Dirty War, when military death squads snatched innocent people from the streets, raised serious questions – on which this book casts new light. Yet something dramatic then happened to Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He underwent an extraordinary transformation. After a time of exile he re-emerged having turned from a conservative authoritarian into a humble friend of the poor – and became Bishop of the Slums, making enemies among Argentina's political classes in the process. For Pope Francis – Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely travelled to Argentina and Rome to meet Bergoglio's intimates over the last four decades. His book charts a remarkable journey. It reveals what changed the man who was to become Pope Francis – from a reactionary into the revolutionary who is unnerving Rome's clerical careerists with the extent of his behind-the-scenes changes. In this perceptive portrait Paul Vallely offers both new evidence and penetrating insights into the kind of pope Francis could become.

Book The Gordion Knot Untied

Download or read book The Gordion Knot Untied written by Merritt Munson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knots

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  • Author : David Lipset
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-05-31
  • ISBN : 1000840212
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Knots written by David Lipset and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.

Book Untying the Knot

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  • Author : Richard C. Bush
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2005-11-01
  • ISBN : 0815797818
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Untying the Knot written by Richard C. Bush and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Taiwan and China is a paradox. On the one hand, the two economies are becoming increasingly integrated, as Taiwanese companies have come to regard the mainland as the best place to manufacture their products and maintain global competitiveness. On the other hand, the long-running and changing political dispute between the two governments remains unresolved. Each side fears the intentions of the other and is acquiring military capabilities to deter disaster. In its pursuit of peace in the Taiwan Strait, the United States could get drawn into a war between the two rivals. Richard C. Bush, whose career has been dedicated to Taiwan-China issues, explores the conflicts between these nations and the difficulties that must be resolved. Disagreements over sovereignty and security form the core of the dispute. What would be the legal status and international role of the Taiwan government in a future unified China? Given China's growing military power, how could Taiwan feel secure? Complicating these issues are domestic politics and international competition, as well as misperceptions on both sides. Thus multiple obstacles prevent the two sides from even getting to the negotiating table, much less reaching a mutually acceptable resolution. For reasons of policy and politics, the United States is constrained from a central role. To begin with, it must provide China with some reassurance about its policy in order to secure cooperation on foreign policy issues. At the same time, it must bolster Taiwan's political confidence and military deterrence while discouraging provocative actions. The arcane nature of this dispute severely restricts the role of the United States as conflict mediator. But if there is to be any solution to this conflict, the comprehensive analysis that this book provides will be required reading for effective policy.

Book Conversation Analysis for Social Work

Download or read book Conversation Analysis for Social Work written by Gerald de Montigny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the stories youth in state care tell about life in their family of origin? What stories do they tell us about coming into care, living in care, and relationships with foster-parents and social workers? This book presents the stories of youth in care, though not in splendid isolation, but as interactively produced, turn by turn in interviews, and in conversations with other youth. By using tools from conversation analysis (CA), the author examines interviews with youth in care and social workers, to unfold the essential and incorrigible reflexivity of story production. CA allows us to grasp the ways that a youth’s story emerges turn by turn, and is an artefact of a social relation between a youth and an interviewer. This text provides social work readers with a sense of art, artistry, and ambiguity at the heart of social interaction. It will be required reading for all social work students and academics looking for a deeper, more philosophical understanding of the profession.

Book The Gordian Knot Untied  Or the Moral Impossibility of the Bible Being True  Being an Answer to a Work Entitled    The Gordian Knot of Infidelity        by the Rev  W  J  Kidd  Etc

Download or read book The Gordian Knot Untied Or the Moral Impossibility of the Bible Being True Being an Answer to a Work Entitled The Gordian Knot of Infidelity by the Rev W J Kidd Etc written by Theodore HALL and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tullidge s Quarterly Magazine

Download or read book Tullidge s Quarterly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supercommunity

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  • Author : E-Flux
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2017-12-05
  • ISBN : 1786633574
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Supercommunity written by E-Flux and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.” Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. “I convert care to cruelty, and cruelty back to care. I convert political desires to economic flows and data, and then I convert them back again. I convert revolutions to revelations. I don’t want security, I want to leave, and then disperse myself everywhere and all the time.”

Book Untied

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  • Author : John Roedel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-23
  • ISBN : 9781702095648
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Untied written by John Roedel and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knots in our stomachs can still be untangled. The binds we tether our hands together with can still be undone. There is still time for us to untangle rope we tied around our necks. This is the poetry of for those trying to live that is not tethered to our past mistakes or future worries. This is the poetry for anybody who wants to become unbound from their regret. This is the poetry of breaking free of all that keeps us from rising. This is the poetry of letting all that binds us slip away so we can chase the horizon. This is the poetry of how knots can become strings.

Book Our Lady  Undoer of Knots

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  • Author : Marge Steinhage Fenelon
  • Publisher : Ave Maria Press
  • Release : 2015-09-18
  • ISBN : 1594716315
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Our Lady Undoer of Knots written by Marge Steinhage Fenelon and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers 2016 Excellence in Publishing Award: Inspirational Books (Second Place). Our Lady, Undoer of Knots: A Living Novena is a unique guided meditation from veteran Catholic journalist Marge Fenelon, who has created a new devotional practice from this classic novena that is a favorite of Pope Francis. Since the seventeenth century, Catholics facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles have turned to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots through a special novena--nine days of prayer for divine intervention. Catholic columnist Marge Fenelon resurrects this ancient tradition, also known as the Unfailing Novena, by reflecting on nine sacred sites associated with Pope Francis's 2014 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Reflecting on such holy places as Bethlehem, the Mount of Olives, and the Temple Mount, Fenelon helps readers explore the "knots" or impossible situations in their own lives in order to find peace.

Book The Old World in its new Face

Download or read book The Old World in its new Face written by Henry W. Bellows and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

Book The Old World in Its New Face

Download or read book The Old World in Its New Face written by Henry Whitney Bellows and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations

Download or read book Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations written by Karen Golden-Biddle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Survey

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 756 pages

Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lucky Ten Bar of Paradise Valley

Download or read book Lucky Ten Bar of Paradise Valley written by Charles McClellan Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jean Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy

Download or read book Jean Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy written by B.C. Hutchens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy has impacted across a range of disciplines. His writings on psychoanalysis, theology, art, culture and, of course, philosophy are now widely translated and much discussed. His L'Experience de la Liberte (1988) is considered to be one of the landmarks of contemporary continental philosophy. Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy is the first genuine introduction to Nancy's ideas and a clear and succinct appraisal of a burgeoning reputation. The book summarises topically the primary conceptual areas of Nancy's thought and explores its relevance for contemporary issues like nationalism, racism and media rights. Nancy's indebtedness to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Bataille is examined as well as how his ideas compare to those of his contemporary continental thinkers. Three major areas of Nancy's work are emphasised: freedom and morality; community and politics; and arts and the media. The reader is guided through a chosen theme without being lost in a welter of allusive language, jargon is avoided where possible and when unavoidable it is clearly explained. The book concludes with a new interview with Nancy, which discusses the future of philosophy. The book will be an important addition to the readings lists for courses on contemporary continental thought and political philosophy.