Conversations In The House Of Life

Author : Richard Jasnow,Karl-Theodor Zauzich
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Book of Thoth
ISBN : 3447101164

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Conversations in the House of Life by Richard Jasnow,Karl-Theodor Zauzich Pdf

Conversations in the House of Life offers a new translation of a text first published as The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth (2005). The composition is a dialogue between a Master, perhaps the god Thoth himself, and a Disciple, named "The-one-who-loves-knowledge." Originally written in Demotic, the text dates to the Graeco-Roman Period (ca. 300 B.C. to 400 A.D.). The dialogue covers everything from how to hold the writing brush and the symbolic significance of scribal utensils to a long exposition on sacred geography. The work may be an initiation text dealing with sacred knowledge. It is closely associated with the House of Life, the temple scriptorium where the priests wrote their books. The 2005 publication was aimed at specialists, but Conversations in the House of Life is intended for the general reader. The revised translation reflects recent advances in our understanding of the text. The explanatory essays, commentary, and glossary help the reader explore the fascinating universe of the Book of Thoth. As a document of Late Period Egyptian thought it is of importance to all those interested in Graeco-Roman Period intellectual history; students of the Classical Hermetica will find the Book of Thoth especially intriguing. The express goal of Conversations in the House of Life is to make this challenging Ancient Egyptian composition accessible to the widest possible audience.

Author : Sarah Rozenthuler
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781780282701

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Life-Changing Conversations by Sarah Rozenthuler Pdf

Talk is our key action tool for moving forward at work and in our personal life, yet how often do we feel we've missed crucial opportunities or failed in our communication? This book explains why effective talk can be truly transformative and provides a practical guide to having the kinds of conversations that will turn your life around. Expert psychologist and coach Sarah Rozenthuler provides the seven keys to success: calling up your courage, focusing on your intention, creating positive space, speaking your truth, having a flexible style, cultivating constructive controversy, and obtaining closure. Throughout the book you will find real - life examples of problem situations, including negotiating with difficult neighbours, asking for a raise and ending a long - term relationship. The author shows through extended sample dialogue how, in each case, a difficult situation was worked through and a positive result achieved.

Author : Natasha Lunn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780593296592

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Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn Pdf

An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.

Author : Richard Jasnow,Karl-Theodor Zauzich
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Book of Thoth
ISBN : 3447050829

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The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth by Richard Jasnow,Karl-Theodor Zauzich Pdf

The composition, which the editors entitle the "Book of Thoth", is preserved on over forty Graeco-Roman Period papyri from collections in Berlin, Copenhagen, Florence, New Haven, Paris, and Vienna. The central witness is a papyrus of fifteen columns in the Berlin Museum. Written almost entirely in the Demotic script, the Book of Thoth is probably the product of scribes of the "House of Life", the temple scriptorium. It comprises largely a dialogue between a deity, usually called "He-who-praises-knowledge" (presumably Thoth himself) and a mortal, "He-who-loves-knowledge". The work covers such topics as the scribal craft, sacred geography, the underworld, wisdom, prophecy, animal knowledge, and temple ritual. Particularly remarkable is one section (the "Vulture Text") in which each of the 42 nomes of Egypt is identified with a vulture. The language is poetic; the lines are often clearly organized into verses. The subject-matter, dialogue structure, and striking phraseology raise many issues of scholarly interest; especially intriguing are the possible connections between this Egyptian work, in which Thoth is called "thrice-great", and the classical Hermetic Corpus, in which Hermes Trismegistos plays the key role. The first volume comprises interpretative essays, discussion of specific points such as the manuscript tradition, script, and language. The core of the publication is the transliteration of the Demotic text, translation, and commentary. A consecutive translation, glossary, bibliography, and indices conclude the first volume. The second volume contains photographs of the papyri, almost all of which reproduce their original size.

Author : Cary J. Martin,Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk,Koenraad Donker van Heel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004377530

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Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions by Cary J. Martin,Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk,Koenraad Donker van Heel Pdf

This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Sven Vleeming containing the contributions of thirty-eight friends and colleagues, often renowned specialists in their respective fields. This book, which includes the editions of fifty-four new texts from Ancient Egypt that date from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE, covers a very wide range of subjects in (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic and Greek papyrology. As such, it reflects the equally wide range of knowledge of the scholar to whom this book is dedicated.

Author : Jennifer Abrams
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452276502

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Having Hard Conversations by Jennifer Abrams Pdf

Speak with clarity, confidence, and courage! Many educators struggle with discussing difficult issues with colleagues. This insightful book helps readers effectively lead challenging conversations with supervisees, peers, and supervisors. Emphasizing initiative and preparation as keys to a successful conversation, the author’s step-by-step approach provides: Thought-provoking questions and first-person accounts that help build communications skills Advice on overcoming personal hesitation about expressing concerns Guidance on goal setting and choosing the best “what-where-and-when” for a productive discussion Sample scripts and other interactive tools to help educators prepare for the conversation and achieve positive outcomes

Author : Alexander Main
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000433159

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Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson by Alexander Main Pdf

Author : Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1567 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547781530

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Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon (Vol. 1-4) by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases Pdf

This edition in four volumes is a record of Napoleon's last years spent on the island of Saint Helena, documented by comte de Las Cases, Napoleons servant and unofficial secretary in exile. Las Cases began his journal on June 20, 1815, two days after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and continued it until his expulsion from St. Helena on orders of the island's governor, Hudson Lowe, at the end of the following year. The core of the work transcribes Las Cases' near-daily conversations with the former Emperor on his life, his career, his political philosophy, and the conditions of his exile. The work entered the popular imagination as something like Napoleon's own personal and political testament, and as such became a founding text in the development of the Napoleon cult and the ideology of Bonapartism.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:2828738-10

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with His Correspondence and Conversations by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555096729

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Reports from Select Committees of the House of Lords and Evidence by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Pdf

Author : Sally Rooney
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451499059

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Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Pdf

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD “Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast “The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week “Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”—New York “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher : Publishing House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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House of Life & Death by Vann Chow Pdf

Embark on an enthralling odyssey through the enigmatic realms of the afterlife in "The House of Life," where the ethereal and echoes of European colonial history converge in the East. Each year, on July 7th in the lunar calendar, the Gates of Hell swing open, granting ghosts a respite from their infernal torments for seven days. The living have dubbed this period the Yulan Festival, a time when spectral beings freely roam the earthly realm. In response to this supernatural occurrence, ingenious citizens of Hong Kong have honed their strategies to navigate these spectral encounters. The House of Life, a venerable Chinese pharmacy under the stewardship of a philanthropic luminary Master Physician, graciously welcomes hungry ghosts within its walls. Here, an opulent banquet of food, wine, and medicines serves as a diversion to appease these otherworldly visitors. In a fateful twist of fate, Elise, an ordinary city girl, meets her tragic end in a harrowing traffic accident that same night, and was brought to the the House of Life. Her arrival coincides with a tumultuous raid of the House by Manchurian warlords. It was unclear what they sought but Elise's presence had something to do with it. And thus this commence her unforgettable journey through the afterlife to save the poor souls that dwells in the House. Join Elise as she unravels the mysteries veiled between the realms of existence and transcendence, amidst a tapestry woven with magic, mythical creatures, and age-old folklore against the vibrant backdrop of Eastern history as she traverses a world teeming with peril and marvels.

Author : GEORGE. PATTISON
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198881544

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Conversations with Dostoevsky by GEORGE. PATTISON Pdf

Conversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations between George Pattison and Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The conversations deal with a range of topics including suicide, guilt, the Bible, nationalism, war, and God. The volume also includes commentaries which contextualize the issues discussed in the conversations.

Author : David Wyn Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696878

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Conversations with a Suffering Servant by David Wyn Williams Pdf

David Wyn Williams presents a literary reimagining of the Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah through the lens of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, offering insight into how the servant's prophetic characterisation dismantled an exiled nation's ideologies of suffering and called the people to understand their plight as part of a redemptive story on behalf of the nations. While Williams devotes the first half of this volume to a close examination of the scriptural servant, the second half is given wholly to the experiences and thoughts of a contemporary 'suffering servant' whom Williams interviewed throughout his final days, setting up a dialogue between the two in order to raise important questions around our corporate and individual responses to suffering. This book is a timely reflection on how an ancient people responded in faith to a national calamity, and how a prophetic figure who features in but a handful of poems inspired the nation to endure and rewrite its own narrative of suffering. The servant's example in the midst of today's uncertainties could not be more poignant.

Author : Phillip Mathai
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591604334

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From Mud House to the House of God by Phillip Mathai Pdf