Download or read book Baha u llah written by Moojan Momen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide in its membership and increasingly being recognized as the youngest of the world religions, the Baha’i Faith is enjoying rapid expansion. In this captivating book, Moojan Momen gives a brief survey of the life, the works, and the teachings of Baha'u'llah, its founder. Covering the resistance he encountered - including successive forced exiles and vitriolic opposition - this is a carefully constructed account of the eventful life of this influential nineteenth-century religious figure. Comprehensive and yet concise, this is a perfect book for anyone interested in knowing more about the Baha’i Faith and its founder.

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Download or read book My Baha i Faith written by Justice St. Rain and published by SPECIAL IDEAS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Baha'i Faith is a user-friendly introduction to the teachings of the Baha'i Faith - a fairly new world religion that teaches that all the major world religions were revealed by messengers of the same God. Written in a conversational tone by a long-time Baha'i, it is geared towards a mainstream audience that has a casual interest in the Baha'i spiritual and social teachings and how they might apply to one's personal life.

Download or read book The Big Bah Ha written by C. S. E. Cooney and published by Drollerie Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrice, who only moments ago was the eldest member and leader of the Barka gang, just woke up dead. She was almost, probably, 12. Either the slap rash got her (as it gets everyone over the age of 12) or the Flabberghast got tired of waiting for her to drop dead and took her skin for a door and her bones for his stew. Who can say? What she can say is that she didn't get to wake up in heaven. Instead, she's in the Big Bah-Ha, a place that's supposed to be a comfort to children after they pass on. Only something's very, very wrong here and, despite all her bravery and cunning, she's not quite sure how to fix it, or if she'll survive the afterlife long enough to try. Advance Praise for "The Big Bah-Ha" "Physicists are discovering, to their horror, that future events cast their shadows into the past. If this be so, the fear of clowns so often seen in children may have its origin in this story. It is deep and wise and fabulous, and will leave you shuddering and strangely at peace. You could found a religion on it - or it may found a religion without you. Or found some new thing that humankind has not yet seen. Only God knows what would happen after the founding. As someone (you'll fi nd out who) says deep in the story, 'We're all clowns now.'" - Gene Wolfe, multiple award winner and author of "The Sorcerer's House" "C.S.E. Cooney is a remarkable young writer whose passion and elegance havethrilled me for some time now. I want the real world to be more like the magic she fashions and the truth she speaks. For now, we'll all have to settle for her poems and her prose."- Catherynne M. Valente, multiple award winner and author of "The Habitation of the Blessed" Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you a P.T. Barnum production of Dante's Inferno, scripted by Shel Silverstein, directed by Federico Fellini - if you can envision this unfolding around you in the Big Top, then you might have a grasp of what awaits you in C.S.E. Cooney's dizzy-giggle plunge into funhouse Hell. A cotton candy nightmare that bounces and crawls with carrion-eating clowns, murderous balloon beasts and deadly tent-spinners, "The Big Bah-Ha" wows with madcap twisted invention - and in its few short pages, you can't help but come to love its plucky, pint-sized heroes, and be moved by the big heart that's beating underneath.- Mike Allen, Nebula nominee and editor of "Clockwork Phoenix" "The Big Ba-Ha" is a macabre post-apocalyptic fairy tale, a rollicking fantasy of aband of near-feral children who brave a plague-ridden landscape on a desperate quest. To rescue one of their own, they will ally with the monstrous and enigmatic Flabberghast - who arrived only after the world ended and eats the bones of the dead - and penetrate the mystery of Chuckle City, home to ravenous packs of balloon aminals, murderous Gacy boys, and the elusive Gray Harlequin. "The Big Ba-Ha" - it's "The Goonies" meets "The Road Warrior," perfectly suited for both ordinary children and gifted adults, and one of the most original fantasies I've read in a long time.- John O'Neill, Founding Editor of "Black Gate"

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Download or read book The World s Religions written by Peter B. Clarke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume focuses on the world's religions and the changes they have undergone as they become more global and diverse in form. It explores the religions of the world not only in the regions with which they have been historically associated, but also looks at the new cultural and religious contexts in which they are developing. It considers the role of migration in the spread of religions by examining the issues raised for modern societies by the increasing interaction of different religions. The volume also addresses such central questions as the dynamics of religious innovation which is evidenced in the rise and impact of new religious and new spirituality movements in every continent.

Download or read book The Forgotten Schools written by Soli Shahvar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the nineteenth century it became evident to Iran's ruling Qajar elite that the state's contribution to the promotion of modern education in the country was unable to meet the growing expectations set by Iranian society. Muzaffar al-Din Shah sought to remedy this situation by permitting the entry of the private sector into the field of modern education and in 1899 the first Baha'i school was established in Tehran. By the 1930s there were dozens of Baha'i schools. Their high standards of education drew many non-Baha'i students, from all sections of society.Here Soli Shahvar assesses these 'forgotten schools' and investigates why they proved so popular not only with Baha'is, but Zoroastrians, Jews and especially Muslims. Shahvar explains why they were closed by the reformist Reza Shah in the late 1930s and the subsequent fragility of the Baha'is position in Iran.

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Download or read book Bone Swans written by C.S.E. Cooney and published by Mythic Delirium Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection Contains "The Bone Swans of Amandale," 2015 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella "C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse with a wink in her eye and a song in each pocket." —Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times-bestselling author of the Fairyland novels "These stories are a pure joy. C. S. E. Cooney's imagination is wild and varied, her stories bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time. Her characters are wickedly appealing, and her language—O! her language. Lush, playful, poetic, but never obscure or stilted, it makes her magic more magic, her comedy more comic, and her tragic moments almost unbearable." —Delia Sherman, author of Young Woman in a Garden: Stories "Bone Swans is a joy of feathery bones & ghoulish clowns. I adored every word. Like an eyas cries for meat, I cry for more. C.S.E. Cooney's a major talent and these are major talent stories. Who can resist hero rats, pouting swans, feral children, flying carpets and the Flabberghast? So tongue-tied am I with delight I fall back on the usual cliches: gripping, delightful, insightful, rollicking & lyrical—and yet not one cliche is to be found in Bone Swans, only stories of surpassing delicacy and wit, told by a lady of rare talent. Please, ma'am, might I have some more?" —Ysabeau S. Wilce, Andre Norton Award wining author of Flora's Dare A swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confronts both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect. World Fantasy Award winner Ellen Kushner has called Cooney's writing "stunningly delicious! Cruel, beautiful and irresistible." Bone Swans, the infernally whimsical debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, gathers five novellas that in the words of Andre Norton Award winner Delia Sherman are "bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time." Cooney's mentor, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Gene Wolfe, proclaims in his introduction that her style is so original it can only be described as "pure Cooney," and he offers readers a challenge: "Try to define that when you've finished the stories in this book." More praise for Bone Swans "Cooney's brilliantly executed collection of five stories is a delicious stew of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, marked by unforgettable characters who plumb the depths of pathos and triumph. ... All of these stories could easily serve as the foundation for novels while also working beautifully at their current length. These well-crafted narratives defiantly refuse to fade from memory long after the last word has been read." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "In five beautifully crafted stories, Cooney builds imaginary worlds full of flying carpets, fairy-tale characters, and children confronted with a postapocalyptic Earth ... Each tale packs in enough plot for a novel, with adventurous characters who brim with wit." —Library Journal, starred review "Writing without ostentation and featuring characters who may be flippant, terse, or even tongue-tied, Cooney produces memorable prose propelled by extraordinary ideas ... Faced with such twisted genius, I'll say no more!" —Locus "A fascinating mashup between the tropes and resonances of the mythic tale with the sensibilities of contemporary action-oriented fantasy: simultaneously lighthearted and serious, full of consequences but also ubiquitous happy endings." —Tor.com

Download or read book Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage written by Richard Allsopp and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.

Download or read book Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa in Carson Valley in 1859 B written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1876 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty Eighth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection of short stories brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Carrie Vaughn, Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

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