Download or read book Society s Secret Shame written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Secret Disgrace written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author A shocking Sicilian secret… Louise Anderson's heart pounds as she approaches the imposing castello. Only the Duke of Falconari can grant her grandparents' dying wish—but this is the same man who said arrivederci without a backward glance after their night of unadulterated passion…. Caesar can't believe the woman who almost ruined his precious reputation still fiercely fires his blood. Discovering that their union created more than just salacious memories, he agrees to grant Louise's request…in exchange for a demand of his own. That she wears his band of gold!
Download or read book unKingdom Second Edition written by Mark Van Steenwyk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In unKingdom, Mark Van Steenwyk takes a hard look at the ways Christianity has become complicit in imperialism and genocide, particularly in North America. With a blend of humility, wit, and sharp critique, he proposes a prophetic way forward through practices of revolutionary repentance.
Download or read book Dying to Self and Detachment written by James Kellenberger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Beginning with an examination of humility in its general notion and as a religious virtue that detachment presupposes, Kellenberger draws on a range of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources that address the main characteristics of detachment, including the work of Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa, and Simone Weil, as well as writers as varied as Gregory of Nyssa, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, Søren Kierkegaard, Andrew Newberg, John Hick and Keiji Nishitani. Kellenberger explores the key issues that arise for detachment, including the place of the individual's will in detachment, the relationship of detachment to desire, to attachment to persons, and to self-love and self-respect, and issues of contemporary secular detachment such as inducement via chemicals. This book heeds the relevance of the religious virtue of detachment for those living in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Secret Shame 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded written by International Service Organization of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, Inc. and published by SCA International Service Org.. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As sexual compulsives, we live almost continually with shame but often are hardly aware of it. We can act out repeatedly on this secret, pervasive shame while never even knowing it’s there. By increasing our awareness of the role that long-term shame plays in our lives, we can begin to heal from its toxic effects. The eradication of shame is critical for mental health and recovery over time. SCA sponsored a three-part seminar on shame in the spring and summer of 1990, attended almost entirely by gay and lesbian members. An SCA literature committee reworked and revised the notes from these sessions over six months. The committee preparing SCA’s Recovery Book further enhanced and revised the material. This pamphlet reflects these additions and revisions.
Download or read book The Secret Book Scone Society written by Ellery Adams and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the mystery series from the New York Times-bestselling author: “Anyone who loves novels that revolve around books will savor this tasty treat.”—Library Journal (starred review) A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—all to be found within the pages of the right book… Strangers flock to Miracle Springs hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That’s Nora’s special talent—prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person’s deepest pain. So when a visiting businessman reaches out for guidance, Nora knows exactly how to help. But before he can keep their appointment, he’s found dead on the train tracks. Stunned, Nora forms the Secret, Book, and Scone Society, a group of damaged souls yearning to earn redemption by helping others. To join, members must divulge their darkest secret—the terrible truth that brought each of them to Miracle Springs in the first place. Now, determined to uncover the truth behind the businessman’s demise, the women meet in Nora’s cozy bookstore. And as they untangle a web of corruption, they also discover their own courage, purpose, and a sisterhood that will carry them through every challenge—proving it’s never too late to turn the page and start over… “Adams kicks off a new series featuring strong women, a touch of romance and mysticism, and both the cunning present-day mystery and the slowly revealed secrets of the intriguing heroines’ pasts.”—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The World s Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture written by Kaye McLelland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the ‘betwixt and between’ spaces of early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeare’s and Spenser’s liminal figures including Lavinia, Puck, and Britomart. With chapters on gender, sexuality, adolescence, madness, and physical disability, Kaye McLelland applies a bi-theoretical lens to interrogate the ways in which being simultaneously ‘neither’ and ‘both’ brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves. For many of Spenser’s and Shakespeare’s characters, the ‘in-between’ state, whether ritually or otherwise induced, transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the limen into a permanent ‘habitation’. This created space is one of great power that is feared and violently countered by those who would shut it down. Set against the literary history of Spenser’s and Shakespeare’s Ovidianism and festivity, and the historical context of the post-Reformation transformation from a tertiary to a binary model of the afterlife, this volume identifies a persistent positioning of liminal literary figures in proximity to the liminality of the dead and dying, whilst simultaneously tracing the positive ways in which these inhabitants of the powerful ‘betwixt and between’ are depicted.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mark Twain Encyclopedia written by J. R. LeMaster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide to the great American author (1835-1910) for students and general readers. The approximately 740 entries, arranged alphabetically, are essentially a collection of articles, ranging significantly in length and covering a variety of topics pertaining to Twain's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's writing reflects Samuel Clemens's personal experience, particular attention is given to the interface between art and life, i.e., between imaginative reconstructions and their factual sources of inspiration. Each entry is accompanied by a selective bibliography to guide readers to sources of additional information. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose 1832 1901 written by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of “sexual inversion,” the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience. The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.
Download or read book Emperors of Dreams written by Mike Jay and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unborn Bodies written by Margaret D. Kamitsuka and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The afterlife continues to influence Christian faith and is a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. However, a doctrine of resurrection that speaks to death in the womb has yet to be considered. Ignoring fetal death began early in Christian history. The church has struggled for settled meaning regarding issues of personhood in the womb and whether unbaptized infants are saved. Believers today deserve to know the basis for a Christian hope of heaven. They deserve a nontoxic eschatology that sustains an embodied sense of self, which is fractured by the experience of reproductive loss. They deserve to know whether assenting to the resurrection of the body--including unborn bodies--requires them to sacrifice their reproductive self-determination. The dominant Christian narrative of postmortem survival hinges on the concept of an immaterial soul that continues after death. However, the soul's apparently contented communing with God during its interim existence makes a final bodily resurrection superfluous. A soul-based approach to postmortem survival may save souls, but it does not resurrect bodies. If one can secure the plausibility of the resurrection of unborn bodies whose personhood is in doubt, then one dispenses with ensouled personhood as a requirement of resurrection. Christian materialist thought provides a metaphysical alternative to soul-based resurrection. A materialist approach to resurrection echoes the apostle Paul's powerful seed metaphor in 1 Corinthians 15. Medieval Christianity embraced metaphors of sprouting grain and budding plants. Returning to these images carries promise for rethinking resurrection in ways not dependent on an immaterial soul. Modern minds are more inclined to think of persons not as souls in bodies but as bodies that emerge into being, evolutionarily and gestationally. Philosophical theories of emergence are capturing the attention of Christian thinkers. This book's budding-emergence approach to the resurrection aims to speak concretely to the reality of death, including the death of unborn beings.
Download or read book Essays and Tales written by Joseph Addison and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Addison's collection of 'Essays and Tales' includes his most famous works, such as the character of Isaac Bickerstaff in 'The Tatler' and Sir Roger de Coverley in 'The Spectator'. This volume focuses on Addison's literary criticism and analysis of good style, taste, and principles in writing, while also containing political commentary on the state of the country. Addison's calm and benign criticism is never personal and seeks to soften the harsh lines of life, abate its follies, and inspire the temper that alone can overcome its wrongs.
Download or read book The Life and Letters of James Martineau written by James Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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