City Of God

Author : Paulo Lins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408827345

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City of God by Paulo Lins Pdf

A sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. THE ORIGINAL NOVEL BEHIND 'THE GREATEST CRIME FILM OF ALL TIME' Cidade de Deus, the City of God ... welcome to one of Rio's most notorious slums. A place where the streets are awash with drugs, where violence can erupt at any moment, over drugs, money ... and love... but also where the samba beat rocks til dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. Paulo Lins was born in Rio de Janeiro and at age seven moved to the 'City of God' housing project. He escaped the cycle of violence there to become an internationally celebrated writer, and still lives in Rio. This novel is the result of extended research in the housing project where Lins was raised. He spent eight years interviewing people and researching the drug trafficking and gang warfare that marked the history of the neighbourhood in the 1970s and 80s. Based on a true story, this is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. The original novel of the hugely acclaimed film.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UOM:39015000199821

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The City of God by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Sara Miles
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848256231

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City of God by Sara Miles Pdf

City of God is a moving, prophetic account of the divine in daily life. It tells the story of one day in Sara’s ministry: Ash Wednesday, when she carries ashes out of church to public places. Sara explores the profound meanings set loose by touching the forehead of a stranger and paints an unforgettable picture of the search for God all around us.

Author : Randall Scott Ingermanson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0310247055

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Premonition by Randall Scott Ingermanson Pdf

An extraordinary stone box was recently discovered in Jerusalem---the bone-box of 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.' This is his story . . . It's the year A.D. 57 and Jerusalem teeters on the brink of revolt against Rome. James, leader of the Jewish Christian community, has an enemy in high places. And two very strange friends . . . Rivka Meyers is a Messianic Jewish archaeologist from California, trapped in first-century Jerusalem by a physics experiment gone horribly wrong. Ari Kazan is her husband, an Israeli physicist slowly coming to grips with his Jewish heritage---and with a man named Jesus he was raised to hate. With no way back to their own century, Rivka and Ari seek their niche in this doomed city of God. Ari applies his knowledge of physics to become an engineer, a man of honor. Rivka feels increasingly isolated in a patriarchal culture that treats women like children. She knows what's coming---siege, famine, fire. At first, her warnings earn her grudging respect as a 'seer woman.' But when one of her predictions misses, the city scorns her as a false prophet. Rivka knows that an illegal trial and execution awaits James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. Can she prevent this disaster? Will James believe her 'premonition'? Or is Ari right that Rivka's meddling in history will only . . . make matters worse?

Author : Juliana Barbassa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476756271

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Dancing with the Devil in the City of God by Juliana Barbassa Pdf

From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find her native city—once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and dying neighborhoods—undergoing a major change. Rio has always aspired to the pantheon of global capitals, and under the spotlight of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games it seems that its moment has come. But in order to prepare itself for the world stage, Rio must vanquish the entrenched problems that Barbassa recalls from her childhood. Turning this beautiful but deeply flawed place into a pristine showcase of the best that Brazil has to offer in just a few years is a tall order—and with the whole world watching, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Library Journal called Dancing with the Devil in the City of God “akin to Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit”—a book that “combines history and personal interviews in an informative and engaging work.” This kaleidoscopic portrait of Rio introduces the reader to the people who make up this city of extremes, revealing their aspirations and their grit, their violence, their hungers, and their splendor, and shedding light on the future of this city they are building together. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is an insider perspective from a native daughter and “a fascinating look at the people who live in and aspire to change one of the world’s most impressive cities” (Booklist, starred review).

Author : Beverly Swerling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416549215

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City of God by Beverly Swerling Pdf

He has sworn to protect the innocent through the ages... Malcolm is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinary – and dangerous – powers. When his lack of control results in a woman's death he's determined to fight his darkest desires, denying himself all pleasure...until fate sends him bookseller Claire. Yet nothing can prepare safety-conscious Claire for powerful medieval warrior Malcolm sweeping her back into his time. In this treacherous world Claire needs Malcolm to survive, but she must somehow keep him at arm's length. For Malcolm's soul is at stake – and fulfilling his desires could prove fatal...

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588361905

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City of God by E.L. Doctorow Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue. Intrigued by the mystery—and by the maverick rector and the young rabbi investigating the strange act of desecration—is a well-known novelist, whose capacious brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, filled with the sights and sounds of New York, and encompassing a large cast of vividly drawn characters including theologians, scientists, Holocaust survivors, and war veterans, City of God is a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by America’s preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time. Praise for City of God “A grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.”—The Wall Street Journal “Dazzling . . . The true miracle of City of God is the way its disparate parts fuse into a consistently enthralling and suspenseful whole.”—Time “Blooms with humor, and a humanity that carries triumphant as intelligent a novel as one might hope to find these days.”—Los Angeles Times “Radiates [with] panoramic ambition and spiritual incandescence.”—Chicago Tribune “One of the greatest American novels of the past fifty years . . . Reading City of God restores one’s faith in literature.”—The Houston Chronicle

Author : Carolyn Weber
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780830843848

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Sex and the City of God by Carolyn Weber Pdf

When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to think bigger about love. In this book we follow Weber through courtship and into marriage and parenthood. Now a literature professor, Weber reflects on her relationship with a sometimes-absent father and how that has shaped her. Through her personal story, as well as spiritual, theological, and literary reflection, Sex and the City of God explores what life looks like when we choose to love God first.

Author : Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520260627

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City of God by Kevin Lewis O'Neill Pdf

'City of God' explores the role of neo-Pentecostal Christian sects in the religious, social & political life of Guatemala. O'Neill examines one such church, looking at how its practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism.

Author : Mark Goring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798520657439

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Hold My Beer by Mark Goring Pdf

Six people escape the apocalyptic Media Reset. A great adventure!

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521468434

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Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation.

Author : David Mach
Publisher : Revolution Editions
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0954243625

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City of God by David Mach Pdf

City of God' started out as a kind of portrait of Christ on the cross, it developed quickly into not only a portrait of Jesus but also a portrait of man. When David Mach began the work, he soon realized he shouldn't keep it to himself, that it would have to be shared. Thirty artists were asked to provide artwork for each of the 'rooms' represented within the open chest of the figure on the cross. What you see in this book, therefore, is the work of thirty artists, and through them the collage has become a portrayal of the search for the soul, or at least a battleground of the senses. The artists include, among others, Adrian Mokes, Alf Lohr, Brian McCann, Dale Nicholas, David Cutts, Richard Riddick, Elaine Wilson, Harald Vlugt, Parm Rai, Peter Anderson and David Mach himself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : BL:A0022227255

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The Divine Foreknowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UOM:39015035566465

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The City of God by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) Pdf

Author : Randall Scott Ingermanson
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 0736901957

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Transgression by Randall Scott Ingermanson Pdf

While playing a virtual reality game, Rivka Meyers, an American Messianic Jew visiting Israel for an archaeological dig, becomes trapped in ancient Jerusalem, involved in a plot to destroy the spread of Christianity.