Download or read book The Classical World written by Nigel Spivey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly investigation into the Classical roots of Western civilization, taking the reader on an illuminating journey from Troy, Athens, and Sparta to Utopia, Alexandria, and Rome. An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centered on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilization. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilization, Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of Athens and Sparta, the diffusion of classical ideals across the Mediterranean world, Classical science and philosophy, the eastward export of Greek culture with the conquests of Alexander the Great, the power and spread of the Roman imperium, and the long Byzantine twilight of Antiquity.
Download or read book Confronting the Classics written by Mary Beard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.
Download or read book God s Grandeur and Other Poems written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent sample of strikingly original poems includes The Wreck of the Deutschland, "Carrion Comfort," "The Caged Skylark," and more.
Download or read book The Grandeur of God written by Joseph Durepos and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." Gerard Manley Hopkins Wisdom from the greatest spiritual writers of the two-thousand-year Catholic tradition "The Grandeur of God "collects classic readings that give readers a sense of the depth, beauty, and richness of Catholic spiritual writing. These selections resonate with the truth expressed famously by the great Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." They resonate with the sacramental, Catholic vision that sees God in all things. While not comprehensive or exhaustive, the book does offer readers a starting point on their journey into the vast storehouse of Catholic writing."The Grandeur of God "is organized chronologically, beginning with St. Paul and ending with writings from Pope John Paul II, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, and Henri Nouwen. Also included are selections from Thomas Aquinas, Dorothy Day, Hildegard of Bingen, Ignatius Loyola, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, Thomas Merton, Oscar Romero, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mother Teresa, and Therese of Lisieux.
Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Indulgent Interior Life Seasons of the Deep written by Janis Constable and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indulgent interior life is an impassioned prayer life—alive with questions, and wonder, and prayerful conversations with God. And it is driven by a decidedly seeking spirit. My Indulgent Interior Life is a seasons-based prose and photography collection—a collage of works curated for the contemplative soul. Spacious, intensely colorful and deep, its pages breathe wonder, beckoning you into your interior-most depths. Come! Open this book! Open yourself, body, mind, and spirit, and breeze gently into a deeply contemplative space where time blissfully lingers, where time literally stands still. Let nuances of humility, authenticity, and clarity of thought grace your very being. Let new perspectives and ancient Celtic wisdom stir you into your own questions and queries. May you be awed into prayer. May you be awed into the breath of Amen.
Download or read book Delusions of Grandeur written by Chris Andoe and published by Cahokia Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not since Charles Bukowski have I found myself so submerged into the life and times of so many colorful characters. Acclaimed writer Chris Andoe brings a modern flair to such a missing style of literature today. I felt intrigued, enlightened, dirty, amused, outraged, betrayed and in awe of all that is Delusions Of Grandeur." - Karla Templeton, Vital Voice Oklahoma native Chris Andoe has lived from San Francisco to New York, but for nearly twenty years has remained captivated by the drama, culture, and tragedy of the haunted old river city of St. Louis, a place he's likened to Sunset Boulevard's Norma Desmond, simultaneously celebrating yet mourning a glorious past. Delusions of Grandeur is a compilation of tales and snippets of many lives and characters whose stories entertain standing alone and enrapture woven together. From a deranged conman penetrating the highest reaches of state politics to shocking headlines of a 'human slaughter chamber' on the East St. Louis riverfront, Andoe has collected and craftily chronicled the whole spectrum of the St. Louis LGBT community and beyond, and the outcome is nothing short of page turning. Often mired in controversy for his unflinching style, "Emperor of St. Louis" Chris Andoe is a columnist for Vital Voice.
Download or read book Songs and Stories from Tennessee written by John Trotwood Moore and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poet and the Fly written by Robert Hudson and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flies are the most ubiquitous of insects: buzzing, minuscule, and seemingly insignificant, they've been both plagues and minor annoyances for millennia. Rather than ignore these incredibly mundane and seemingly insignificant creatures, poets spanning centuries--from the seventeenth to the twentieth--and continents--from North America to Asia--have found that these ordinary bugs in fact illuminate deep spiritual mysteries. In this revelatory book, Robert Hudson considers seven poets, each of whom wrote a provocative poem about a fly. These poets--all mystics in their own way--ponder the simple fly and come to astounding conclusions. Considering Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and several other poets, The Poet and the Fly brings together the poetry, the flies, and the poets' own lives to explore the imaginative, and often prophetic, insights that come from the startling combination of poetry and flies. Ultimately, the message each poet offers to us through the fly is as relevant today as it was in their own time: the miracle of existence, the gift of mortality, the power of the imagination, the need for compassion, the existence of the soul, the mystery of everything around us, and the sacramental, grace-giving power of story.
Download or read book The sermons and other practical works written by Ralph Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sermons and Other Practical Works of R E Besides His Poetical Pieces To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Author s Life and Writings by J Fisher Edited by J Newlands written by Ralph Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opinion of Mankind written by Paul Sagar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern state What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's long-underappreciated contributions to the history of political thought, The Opinion of Mankind considers how, following Thomas Hobbes's epochal intervention in the mid-seventeenth century, subsequent thinkers grappled with explaining how the state came into being, what it fundamentally might be, and how it could claim rightful authority over those subject to its power. Hobbes has cast a long shadow over Western political thought, particularly regarding the theory of the state. This book shows how Hume and Smith, the two leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment, forged an alternative way of thinking about the organization of modern politics. They did this in part by going back to the foundations: rejecting Hobbes's vision of human nature and his arguments about our capacity to form stable societies over time. In turn, this was harnessed to a deep reconceptualization of how to think philosophically about politics in a secular world. The result was an emphasis on the "opinion of mankind," the necessary psychological basis of all political organization. Demonstrating how Hume and Smith broke away from Hobbesian state theory, The Opinion of Mankind also suggests ways in which these thinkers might shape how we think about politics today, and in turn how we might construct better political theory.
Download or read book The Complete Works written by Thomas Dick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The True Grandeur of Nations written by Charles Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Thomas Dick written by Thomas Dick and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Treasure in an Earthen Vessel written by Martin Angelo Recio and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you spiritual life seems to ebb and flow, or to run out with the tide; turning to the reading of Treasure in an Earthen Vessel can reawaken your spiritual life and restore the force of your Christian Faith. Here you will find rest for your soul; in quietness and confidence you will find your spiritual strength. You will gain new insights and fresh spiritual concepts on Second Corinthians. Images of your past religious experiences will awaken, and your remembrance of Jesus' love and devotion will stir.
