Download or read book The Paradox of Paradise written by T. K. Rouse and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Katia Barnes has a recurring nightmare. In the dream, she is a young Victorian woman, alone in a dark house at twilight, desperately searching for something. She is caught by surprise by a man with a pistol. A chase ensues, and she is killed. Katia wakes up in terror, knowing she has just experienced this woman ́s death. The dream eventually fades away, but always remains in the back of her mind. Katia becomes a romance novelist, and after churning out the same book thirty times over, becomes disenchanted with her chosen genre. Her father dies, leaving her an unexpected legacy; an old Rosedale mansion left to him by a mysterious, unknown aunt. Immediately upon seeing the house, Katia recognizes it as the same one from her childhood dream. The Victorian house is named Eden. Inspired by its sense of mystery, Katia moves in, and starts renovations, planning to open a Bed and Breakfast. Soon, she finds out what she has in fact inherited is a former Victorian brothel. Katia also finds a trunk full of diaries, written by a woman named Adela, who lived in the house from 1899 to 1912. Katia starts reading the diaries, becoming obsessed with them. Adela was born in Cairo, Egypt, the illegitimate daughter of a British newspaper correspondent, and an Egyptian bellydancer. Her mother dies when she is a small child, and she and her brother are taken to England by their father. Victorian London is not kind to Adela, she is considered "half-African", and shunned. As a young woman, Adela journeys to Canada to start a new life. On board the ship, she meets Doctor Anthony Maxwell, a wealthy Canadian businessman, who has a unique philosophy based upon ancient Egypt. They fall in love, deciding to marry upon their arrival in Montréal. However, Adela gets more than she bargained for. Not only is Maxwell bisexual, he also has a sideline providing "courtesans" for Toronto ́s elite. Katia is engrossed by the diaries, and discovers many unusual features in the house; a secret passageway, for one. Strange paranormal experiences begin to happen. Katia calls upon her friend Raine, who is a psychic. Raine advises Katia that it is her "Karma" to clean up a mess from the past, and in doing so, she will find her own life will be changed for the better. The diaries lead Katia on a mystical journey of discovery, unveiling her family ́s hidden past. Adela ́s story reveals many "dirty secrets" of Victorian/Edwardian Toronto; a world of extremes in both wealth and poverty, widespread narcotics use, racism, and the many problems and struggles faced by women. The Paradox of Paradise is rich in substance, covering a spectrum of life topics; history, philosophy, love, heartache, sexuality, and the paranormal. Through a strange journey, the two heroines ́ lives become intertwined. Katia solves most of the mystery, except for the most important part; who killed Adela, and why? The answer comes in an ending with a twist, which does indeed change Katia ́s life. Katia discovers the meaning of "The Paradox of Paradise".

Download or read book The Paradox of Paradise written by Allan H. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paradoxes of Paradise written by Francis Landy and published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Akiba is famously reported to have said, 'Heaven forbid that any one in Israel ever disputed that the Song of Songs is holy, for the whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the writings are holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies'. This book is an extended elaboration of Rabbi Akiba's statement. It argues that the Song is a Hellenistic composition, drawing on the resources of ancient Near Eastern erotic poetry and characterized by a complex though fragile unity. Through the metaphors, the lovers progressively see themselves reflected in each other, as well as in the world about them and the poetry of love. The poem celebrates the land of Israel in spring, an ideal humanity, and a perfected language. It culminates in the contestation of love and death, and the assertion that only love survives the exigencies of time. The pervasive ambiguity of the Song, in which one never quite knows what happens, is related to the ambivalence of beauty, which is closely related to ugliness. Hence the surrealist imagery of the Song verges upon the grotesque and stretches the resources of our imagination. Through a detailed comparison with the Garden of Eden story, Landy argues that the Song is a vision of paradise seen from the outside, through the ironic poetic gaze, in a world potentially hostile or indifferent.

Download or read book Moving to the Dominican Republic written by Ross Weber and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to the Dominican Republic: The Paradox of Paradise is the hilarious yet serious story of an American moving to the Dominican Republic. It is a must read for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to live in the Caribbean. Ross Weber uses humor and real life experiences to describe the culture shock and other setbacks of making the transition from living in the United States to living in the Dominican Republic. Ross includes personal stories as well as unique observations to describe the ups and downs of living on an Island. If you have visited the Dominican Republic you will love this book. If you are planning to go to the Dominican Republic, the great lessons in this book will help you prepare. If you are interested in international living, or possibly retiring in the Caribbean, this is the perfect book for you!

Download or read book The Moral Paradox of Paradise Lost written by John E. Seaman and published by Hague : Mouton. This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox written by Steven F. Butterman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a study of the characteristics that make life unique for sexual minorities in Brazil while also viewing Brazil in relation to global LGBT sociopolitical movements. It critically assesses the complex relationship(s) between the visual arts and political activism, carefully analyzing artistic, cinematic, and photographic representations of LGBTQ identities. Brazil provides a useful case to example, with the cultivation of ambiguity in contemporary (re)constructions of queer life. In this book, the author conducts the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world. This problematizes and analyzes the relationship between burgeoning critical socio-political movements and institutions and the language and new media discourses used to configure and conceptualize them. The aim of this project is to create a theoretical scholarly framework promoting linkages between political activism and academic scholarship and by using discourse analysis, the intricacies of terminology Brazilian sexual minorities adopt and adapt, illustrating the development of LGBTQ identities through performative language use.

Download or read book Paradoxes of Paradise written by Francis Landy and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1983 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a book is a little like paying court to a queen of hearts; one might lose one's head. Writing a book on the Song of Songs is especially perilous, since it concerns that which is most painful to man, his most profound gifts, his unfathomable beauty. Writing such a book necessitates distance, separating oneself from what is said, allowing the poem to speak for itself through you, as through others. But it is also a self-discovery; we find ourselves spoken there. A confused bundle of personae, afloat in the twentieth century, hears himself in eternity. Every poet, and I would say every serious writer, writes with his life, as the rollcall of suicides among contemporary poets testifies. Certainly this writer has written with and for his life. Each one of my friends, and all who have aided me in this project, has fulfilled the commandment of piqquay nefe§, saving the soul, literally opening the eyes of the soul. It has been the source of much anticipatory pleasure to acknowledge these debts. First I would like to thank the Sussex University authorities, who have patiently extended my deadline year after year, and thus shown their trust in me; also my affection for the university itself - my sorrow too for its straits - for its unique creativity and its encouragement of imaginative adventure among its graduate students; it was truly good fortune that brought me here. In particular, there are my supervisors: Professor David Daiches, now retired, who made me feel at home, and whose humility and humanity I shall remember with pleasure; and Rev. Dr. Michael Wadsworth, for the extraordinary thoroughness of his comments, his constant support and concern. I feel especial gratitude to Mr. Gabriel Josipovici, who read all the chapters, and whose incisive and constructive criticism proved decisive; and, in a different mode, to the editors of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and to my publisher, Dr. David Gunn, who relieved the isolation that pervades graduate studies. Quite apart from their ultimate responsibility for this work, I wish to thank my parents for their excellent proofreading. To Dr. Jonathan Magonet lowe almost - iv - everything. The Prior and friars of Hawkesyard Priory gave me shelter through a particularly excruciating writing block. I have benefitted greatly from the sympathetic advice and generous time of an Egyptologist, Miss Alison Roberts, and hope that our association will continue. I wish to thank Miss Katherine Schardt and, more than I can say, Mrs Rushi Ledermann for their insight and affection.

Download or read book The Paradox of Paradise written by Richard A. Geudtner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dawn of Global Sense written by Judah Freed and published by . This book was released on 1914-12-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these times that try our souls, THE DAWN OF GLOBAL SENSE reveals how authority addiction and alpha male rule have driven us to ravage our planet and sacrifice liberty for security. Offering realistic hope of recovery, journalist Judah Freed shows that an awakening into global consciousness is rapidly reaching a tipping point -- empowering us to change the world from within ourselves.Through stories from his life and from history, Freed masterfully exposes the roots of tyranny and proves enlightenment is spreading. He documents the growing ranks of more than 500 million people on earth who see they are part of one vast web of life. These awakened people daily make a difference in the world by shifting how they live, love, learn, work, play, pray, and vote. Their choices make global sense.Drawing on Thomas Paine's Common Sense, TEH DAWN OF GLOBAL SENSE unites personal sovereignty, social responsibility, open democracy, and ecological renewal. Judah Freed brings our highest ideals down to earth where we can use them.The 2015 edition of the book, first published in 2013, features a new cover, fewer chapters, and easier language for greater readability. The book is being issued with a new ISBN due to the significant improvements.Noted authors and activists endorsing the books of Judah Freed include Dr. Vandana Shiva, Thom Hartmann, Francis Moore Lappe, Bill McKibben, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Dr. Herb Goldberg, Pete Seeger, and others.

Download or read book The Paradox of Paradise written by William Nichols and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradox of Paradise focuses on the trajectory of urban coastal tourism in Spain from the late Franco years to the present through the lens of Spanish cultural production. "Sun and fun" destinations like Torremolinos (located in the Costa del Sol) and Benidorm (located in the Costa Blanca) established a model for urban renewal that literally built the coasts to accommodate and expand foreign tourism as the driving force of the so-called Spanish Economic Miracle. In addition to inserting the coasts into the scope of Iberian urban studies (typically dominated by studies of Madrid and Barcelona), this project breaks new ground by bringing to the fore unexplored cultural artifacts vital to the narrative of development along the coasts in Spain—in particular the ubiquitous tourist postcard, which advances not only the post-Franco economic miracle, but does so by highlighting the transformation of the actual Spanish landscape along its coasts. The Paradox of Paradise features more than twenty-five striking images of coastal Spain in the throes of its own coming of age. Author William J. Nichols has unlocked a strange, self-conscious archive that tells us as much about our own age of advertising as it does about the hotels and resorts and people on display.

Download or read book The Paradox of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost written by Frances F. Hanks and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Edge of Paradise written by Paul Frederick Kluge and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back. . . . The result is a book the New Yorker called "remarkably effective," the Economist deemed "terrific"; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be "written from the heart." The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America's presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there's no way "a big place can touch a little one without harming it."

Download or read book The Paradise Paradox written by James Matthew Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on years of experience in the Middle East, The Paradise Paradox leaves no stone unturned in a personal journey across time and dimensions, society and beliefs to explore the human quest for Paradise and perfection.

Download or read book Paradox in Paradise written by Lou L. Berthelson and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving a brutal hate crime at six months old, the Lord raised up Jeremiah White as a prophetic voice to the churches of America. The amazing story of Jeremiah White is combined with relevant commentary showing how God is revealing the Paradox in Paradise. Sometimes called the lost book, Lou Berthelson wrote the first draft in 1992. Right after he published Holiness for Theses Awesome Days. He was then called away to a twenty-five-year ministry working with kids at risk. When the Lord moved him this time, it was back to a manuscript Lou thought was outdated and lost to time. It took him five months to convert the original manuscript to work with today's software. Then came the prayer and listening to carefully prepare this book for today's' readers. You will find that this lost book was waiting on God's time, and now the time has come to understand the paradox that is the church of America."If you have been reading Erwin W. Lutzer, George Barna or Tony Campolo you need to be reading Lou Berthelson."

Download or read book Paradise Dogs written by Man Martin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Newman once had it all. But then he lost it. Now Adam yearns to reunite with his estranged wife, Evelyn, and recapture the Edenic life they once had running Paradise Dogs, the roadside hot-dog restaurant now legendary throughout central Florida. He has a few obstacles along the way. For starters, there's his impending marriage to Lily. There's also the matter of a quarter million dollars' worth of diamonds that he mislaid, along with what appears to be a shadowy conspiracy that is buying up land around the Cross-Florida Canal (and which may or may not be a product of Adam's alcohol-infused imagination). Despite his own troubles---and a brief stay in Chattahoochee---Adam looks to mentor his son, Addison, in the ways of love. Awkward, unsure, and employed as the world's least accurate obituary writer, Addison pines for a beautiful and painfully earnest linguistic student but must compete for her attention with his older and more sophisticated half brother from Evelyn's first marriage. But if anybody can set these worlds in order, it is Adam, who has an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time and allowing others to believe he's someone he's not. Whether it's delivering a baby, rescuing a marriage, or exposing a Communist conspiracy, our protagonist is up for the job. Paradise Dogs, from Georgia Author of the Year Award winner Man Martin, is a farcical tale of paradise lost, the American Dream, and the true measures of love

Download or read book The Mediation of Paradox written by Judy Louise Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paradigm Paradise Paradox written by Sharon Hare and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: