City Of Man

Author : Michael Gerson,Peter Wehner
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575679280

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City of Man by Michael Gerson,Peter Wehner Pdf

An era has ended. The political expression that most galvanized evangelicals during the past quarter-century, the Religious Right, is fading. What's ahead is unclear. Millions of faith-based voters still exist, and they continue to care deeply about hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage, but the shape of their future political engagement remains to be formed. Into this uncertainty, former White House insiders Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner seek to call evangelicals toward a new kind of political engagement -- a kind that is better both for the church and the country, a kind that cannot be co-opted by either political party, a kind that avoids the historic mistakes of both the Religious Left and the Religious Right. Incisive, bold, and marked equally by pragmatism and idealism, Gerson and Wehner's new book has the potential to chart a new political future not just for values voters, but for the nation as a whole.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1978-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226777016

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The City and Man by Leo Strauss Pdf

Originally published in 1964 by The University Press of Virginia.

Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781885767554

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Heroes of the City of Man by Peter J. Leithart Pdf

"[Analyzes specific ancient epics and Greek dramas in the light of Christian beliefs. Ancient poets and playwrights discussed: Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.]"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Donald B. Redford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400834556

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City of the Ram-Man by Donald B. Redford Pdf

A richly illustrated history that sheds light on ancient Egypt across the millennia In this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries—including many of his own—to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the "fornicating ram who mounts the beauties." Excavation by Redford and his colleagues over the past two decades has cast a flood of light on this strange center of worship and political power located in the Nile Delta. A sweeping chronological account filled with photographs, drawings, and informative sidebars, City of the Ram-Man is the first history of Mendes written for general readers. Founded in the remote prehistoric past, inhabited continuously for 5,000 years, and abandoned only in the first-century BC, Mendes is a microcosm of ancient Egyptian history. City of the Ram-Man tells the city's full story—from its founding, through its development of a great society and its brief period as the capital of Egypt, up to its final decline. Central to the story is millennia of worship dedicated to the lascivious ram-god. The book describes the discoveries of the great temple of the ram and the "Mansion of the Rams," where the embalmed bodies of the avatars of the god were buried. It also discusses ancient Greek reports that these ram-gods occasionally ritually fornicated with women. Vividly written and informed throughout by Redford's intimate knowledge of the remains of Mendes, City of the Ram-Man is a unique account of a long-lost monument of Egyptian history, religion, and culture.

Author : Gerald D. Suttles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0226781933

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The Man-Made City by Gerald D. Suttles Pdf

With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.

Author : Raghavan Iyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOM:39015001680779

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Parapolitics by Raghavan Iyer Pdf

Author : Geremie R. Barmé,Geremie Barmé
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674069091

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The Forbidden City by Geremie R. Barmé,Geremie Barmé Pdf

The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries. Over the past century it has led a reduced life as the refuge for a deposed emperor, as well as a heritage museum for monarchist, republican, and socialist citizens, and it has been celebrated and excoriated as a symbol of all that was magnificent and terrible in dynastic China’s legacy.

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674727700

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Metamorphoses of the City by Pierre Manent Pdf

Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, from ancient city-states and empires to a universal church and the nation-state. But the nation-state is nearing the end of its line, Pierre Manent says, and what will supplant it remains to be seen.

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455540020

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The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Pdf

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

Author : Paolo Soleri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1883340012

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Arcology by Paolo Soleri Pdf

Author : Roger Huang,Susanna Foth Aughtmon
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434707161

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Chasing God by Roger Huang,Susanna Foth Aughtmon Pdf

Chasing God is Roger Huang's gritty, heartfelt story of obedience to God's call to follow Him into the heart of the city. That mission can inspire you! Leaving behind his abusive home in Taiwan, Roger discovered both the American Dream and his French bride, Maite. A dramatic event took place before his very eyes and prompted Roger to rethink his future and his calling. As a couple, Roger and Maite chose not to ignore the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco's most impoverished district, the Tenderloin. Since founding City Impact, Roger has led many in discovering the power of prayer, fasting, and serving hands-on in a community starved for hope. Chasing God is a testimony to God's miraculous provision and will challenge you to consider how to serve and care for your own city and community.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678185

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.

Author : Louis Markos
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830875290

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From Achilles to Christ by Louis Markos Pdf

"The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact." --C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian perspective. From the battles of Achilles and the adventures of Odysseus to the feats of Hercules and the trials of Aeneas, Markos shows how the characters, themes and symbols within these myths both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the story of Jesus Christ--the "myth made fact." Along the way, he dispels misplaced fears about the dangers of reading classical literature, and offers a Christian approach to the interpretation and appropriation of these great literary works. This engaging and eminently readable book is an excellent resource for Christian students, teachers and readers of classical literature.

Author : Philip Bess
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 193223697X

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Till We Have Built Jerusalem by Philip Bess Pdf

“The city comes into existence . . . for the sake of the good life.” So wrote Aristotle nearly 2,400 years ago, articulating an idea that prevailed throughout most of Western culture and the world until the environmental consequences of the Industrial Revolution called into question the goodness of traditional urban life. Urban history ever since—from England’s early-nineteenth-century hygiene laws to mid-twentieth-century modernist architecture and planning to today’s New Urbanism—has consisted of efforts to ameliorate the consequences of the industrial city by either embracing or challenging the idealization of nature that has followed it. Architect Philip Bess’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem puts forth fresh arguments for traditional architecture and urbanism, their relationship to human flourishing, and the kind of culture required to create and sustain traditional towns and city neighborhoods. Bess not only dissects the questionable intellectual assumptions of contemporary architecture, he also shows how the individualist ethos of modern societies finds physical expression in contemporary suburban sprawl, making traditional urbanism difficult to sustain. He concludes by considering the role of both the natural law tradition and communal religion in providing intellectual and spiritual depth to contemporary attempts to build new—and revive existing—traditional towns and cities, attempts that, at their best, help fulfill our natural human desires for order, beauty, and community.

Author : Paolo Soleri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0927015161

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Arcology by Paolo Soleri Pdf