Fallen Words

Author : Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770460748

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Fallen Words by Yoshihiro Tatsumi Pdf

A NEW COLECTION OF STORIES FROM THE FOREFATHER OF THE JAPANESE LITERARY COMICS MOVEMENT In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and, of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of Gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can't extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi's love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.

Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781476771564

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Fallen Leaves by Will Durant Pdf

Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world’s greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant’s career he received numerous letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge. In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is “a thought-provoking array of opinions” (Publishers Weekly), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant’s revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant’s singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life’s journey.

Author : Kel Kade
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250293800

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Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kade Pdf

Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin, and the friends find themselves staring death in the face they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be or, failing that, how to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015014812500

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Good Words by Anonim Pdf

Author : Davi Kopenawa,Bruce Albert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674293571

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The Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa,Bruce Albert Pdf

The 10th anniversary edition A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation A New Scientist Best Book of the Year A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.” —Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review “The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.” —Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian “A literary treasure...a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.” —New Scientist A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples’ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.

Author : Henry Morgan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385360938

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The Fallen Priest. Story Founded on Fact by Henry Morgan Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Tanya Talaga
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487002275

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Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga Pdf

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.

Author : G. Campbell Morgan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725227378

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Searchlights from the Word by G. Campbell Morgan Pdf

1188 sermon suggestions -- One from every chapter in the Bible. Morgan's expositions sparkle as they enhance Bible texts from every chapter in the Bible. Concise and delightfully free of redundancy, these selections reveal the master expositor's keen, analytical insight into God's Word. To encourage preachers and Bible teachers to develop their own sermon and lesson themes creatively, the author mentions that these are sermon suggestions -- not sermons or sermon outlines. He intentionally left the notes untitled, "preferring to let the text of Scripture be their only caption." These penetrating truths, firmly anchored in Scripture, are best described by G. Campbell Morgan himself: On every page of...the "God-breathed Writings" there are many thoughts which stretch out like long, clear arms of light across the darkness, discovering things which otherwise were hidden, and often illuminating wider areas than those of the immediate context. They are searchlights. From the multitude of these, I have selected one in each chapter of the Bible. Perhaps the work will also serve to illustrate a method of showing how focal points of radiating light gather their radiance from the context.

Author : Barbara Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567508102

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How Are the Mighty Fallen? by Barbara Green Pdf

This book marries the several elements: a given text (1 Samuel), a focal character (King Saul), a spacious and creative theorist (Mikhail Bakhtin), a historical context (the collapse of monarchic Israel and the moment for return. The dilemma for the exile community is to return with royal leadership or without it); a reading challenge is: can a character be a cipher for a corporate experience (Saul represent the whole monarchic experience)? The author argues that the narrative of 1 Samuel may be read as a riddle propounding the complex story of Israel/Judah's experience with kings as an instruction for those pondering leadership choices in the sixth century. The work is an extended reflection on what went wrong with kings and why new leadership must be attempted. The extended riddle of Saul works to show how the life of the king is fundamentally destructive, not because any is malicious but because of many factors of weakness and inadequacy that will be familiar to readers.

Author : Vince Seim
Publisher : H3 Studios Inc
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780994731111

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A Fallen Redemption by Vince Seim Pdf

Book II of the Heaven, Hell, & Humanity Trilogy As angels descend from the High Heavens and the demonic armies of Hell rise from the depths, Humanity balances on the precipice of extinction. The war of immortals has returned.

Author : J C Pereira
Publisher : Joseph Pereira
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Fallen One by J C Pereira Pdf

An unusual and gifted young man is forcefully captured and dragged from the obscure wilderness where he existed in isolation, hiding from the guilt of his past violent and vindictive actions. He finds himself plunged into the sophisticated schemes of an ambitious, powerful and unscrupulous ruler. He experiences love for the first time, heart-wrenching loss, betrayal, and the total rejection of humankind. He calls out for his talented, mystic brother, whom he knows will come to his aid without fail. But will he arrive in time to save him from his wild, dark and unpredictable nature? And who will help his brother as he struggles with his troubled conscience? They are both beset by demons within. Forever the outsiders, they are laced with uncertainties as they strive to come to terms with their aggressive martial tendencies and their efforts to make sense of and fulfil their intertwined destinies.

Author : Fei Wujiyang
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647812003

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Fallen God in the City by Fei Wujiyang Pdf

The cultivation world's prodigy, Qin Xiaobai, who had a blood feud with his enemies, was sent down to the mortal world. He met five completely different women in this mortal world. They were the keys to opening the Chaos Seal ... Only by eliminating all emotions and desires could one cultivate to become an immortal?

Author : Alisa Woods
Publisher : Alisa Woods
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Blazing Dragons Box Set (Books 7-10: Fallen Immortals)—Dragon Shifter Paranormal Romance by Alisa Woods Pdf

LEKSANDER: I am a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke… and I am in love with the wrong woman. I never meant to fall for an angeling. And I wasn’t supposed to have the duty of fulfilling a ten-thousand-year-old treaty to protect humanity. But now I’m trapped between the immutable facts of magic and the irresistible force of my love. When a fae queen offers unparalleled sex and an unprecedented renewal of the treaty, the temptation is substantial. If only the prospect didn’t leave me hollow inside… ERELAH: I am Protector class, Chastity faction—an angeling whose sworn duty and greatest joy is protecting humanity. The House of Smoke is likewise a guardian, and their prince is one of my oldest friends. Any angeling worth her wings would struggle with the Sin of Envy to take my place. But they know not of Leksander’s stubbornness in refusing his duty to mate and produce a dragonling. How hard can it be to win a human’s heart? I would give my life if it would help. All depends upon this… He must win her heart or finally let her go. Her vow of Chastity means she’s never known love. Either they’ll save the mortal and immortal worlds with a Love that is True… or they’ll bring a Fall like the world has never seen. The FALLEN IMMORTALS series is a modern Beauty and the Beast story with flaming HOT dragon shifters, vengeful Dark Fae, and beguiling fallen angels. BLAZING DRAGONS BOX SET CONTAINS Books 7-10 (Loved by a Dragon, Marked by a Dragon, Claimed by a Dragon and Of Bards and Witches). See Sizzling Dragons Box Set (Books 1-3) and Flaming Dragons Box Set (Books 4-6) for the beginning of the series. THE FALLEN IMMORTALS SERIES Lucian and Arabella Kiss of a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 1) Heart of a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 2) Fire of a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 3) Leonidas and Rosalyn Chosen by a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 4) Seduced by a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 5) Touched by a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 6) Leksander and Erelah Loved by a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 7) Marked by a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 8) Claimed by a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 9) Of Bards and Witches (Fallen Immortals 10): Leonidas’s Story KEYWORDS: shapeshifter romance with sex, fairy tale romance, Beauty and the Beast, dragon shifter romance, paranormal romance, shifter romance, new adult romance, romance ebook, top romance reads, fantasy romance, paranormal elements, romance fiction, top ebooks in romance, top ebooks in paranormal, romance books, romance box set

Author : Sadie Winters
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594937705

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No Fallen Angel by Sadie Winters Pdf

Angel Khoury is sick and tired. Tired of her job dancing in a London Gentleman’s Club and sick of her troubles with women. But when Angel is offered freelance work in a sleepy little village on the southwest coast of England and ends up taking a second job at a local garden center to make ends meet, things start heating up. And soon they are sizzling. The source of the heat is Nell Frank, the blond woman who owns the garden center, whose life is complicated enough without an exotic dancer in the picture. After encounters under moonlit skies, on beautiful Cornish beaches, and in greenhouses under fragrant flowering vines, the couple must face their demons. Both have deep scars, and temptations abound. Can they overcome these obstacles for a future together? Is Nell’s lover the fallen angel she fears? Soon Angel and Nell must decide if they're ready to leave their past behind to find their happily ever after.

Author : Leo Jung
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725219731

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Fallen Angels in Jewish, Christian, and Mohammedan Literature by Leo Jung Pdf