Lives Lived Lives Imagined

Author : Sabrina Reed
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781772840124

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Lives Lived, Lives Imagined by Sabrina Reed Pdf

Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews’s books have earned her a place at the forefront of Canadian literature. In this first monograph on Toews’s work, Sabrina Reed examines the interplay of trauma and resilience in the author’s fiction. Reed skillfully demonstrates how Toews situates resilience across key themes, including: the home as both a source of trauma and an inspiration for resilient action; the road trip as a search for resolution and redemption; and the reframing of the Mennonite diaspora as an escape from patriarchal oppression. The deaths by suicide of Toews’s father and sister stand out as the most shocking and tragic of the author’s biographical details, and Reed explores Toews’s use of autofiction as a reparative gesture in the face of this trauma. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to both scholars and devotees of Toews’s work, Lives Lived, Lives Imagined is a timely examination of Toews’s oeuvre and a celebration of fiction’s ability to simultaneously embody compassion and anger, joy and sadness, and to brave the personal and communal oppressions of politics, religion, family, society, and mental illness.

Author : Linda Covill,Ulrike Roesler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist literature
ISBN : OCLC:743380957

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Lives Lived, Lives Imagined by Linda Covill,Ulrike Roesler Pdf

Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106017336634

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Imagined Homes by Hans Werner Pdf

A study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment.

Author : Janie Jurkovich
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 171886440X

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Live the Life You Have Imagined! by Janie Jurkovich Pdf

When Janie Jurkovich became divorced after 35 years of marriage and family devotion, she was lost. She had never truly lived the life she wanted to live.She began to read, reflect and explore ... and thus began an incredible journey."Live the Life You Have Imagined" takes you on that journey. Whether you are newly divorced, retired, widowed, ready for change, or just feeling stuck in your life, this no-nonsense, no-fluff book shows you how to start living the life you always imagined. You'll learn: * Where to begin and how to put yourself on the path to a great life.* The simple, daily activities that create a best life.* How to deal with naysayers, challenges, and the "shoulds."* Where to look for resistance and how to deal with obstacles.* Why anyone can live their best life, no matter where they are now.This book is designed for reflection and re-reading. It features discussion questions (perfect for book clubs) after each chapter to help you dig deeper and find your own ways to live your best life.About Janie JJanie J is an author, a speaker, a competitive athlete, business owner and world traveler. This is the life she imagined and it's only getting better. She continues to engage in daily reflection, reading and exploration. Discover more about her ongoing journey at www.JanieJ.net.

Author : Frances Goldin,Debby Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062305589

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Imagine by Frances Goldin,Debby Smith Pdf

The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the top one percent own as much as the bottom eighty. Government police-state spying on its citizens is pervasive. Consequently, as former President Jimmy Carter has said, "we have no functioning democracy." Imagine: Living In a Socialist U.S.A., edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith, is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri de coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. This anthology features essays by revolutionary thinkers, activists, and artists—including Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, civil rights activist Angela Davis, incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, and economist Rick Wolff— addressing various aspects of a new society and, crucially, how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.

Author : Rick Ezell
Publisher : Rick Ezell
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780999452707

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21 Days to the Life You’ve Always Imagined by Rick Ezell Pdf

The life you’ve always imagined is within your grasp. But it requires a new way of looking, thinking, and behaving. We often obsess on the life we want as obtaining certain possessions or higher status. But the life we want is much loftier than that. It hinges on undeniable traits, disciplines, and characteristics that define the soul and heart of a person. The twenty-one daily readings will help you focus on what matters most for a life that matters. The daily assignments that follow each chapter will help you implement what is lacking in your life to discover and enjoy the life you’ve always imagined.

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191622441

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Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit Pdf

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Author : Meng Wang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Bkaʼ-brgyud-pa lamas
ISBN : 9781666913460

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The Life of the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje by Meng Wang Pdf

This book examines the life of the sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.

Author : Jesper Ryberg,Torbjörn Tännsjö
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402024733

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The Repugnant Conclusion by Jesper Ryberg,Torbjörn Tännsjö Pdf

Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Applied ethics
ISBN : 9780198750673

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Applied Ethics by Peter Singer Pdf

This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor.

Author : Bernard Faure
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824893545

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The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha by Bernard Faure Pdf

Praise for the French edition “This is a book that should be read by all those who are interested, whether near or far, in Buddhism, its history and its interpretations. . . . [Faure] proposes considering the ‘Life of the Buddha’ as a kind of treasure that never ceases to be reinvented and experienced, from story to story, from language to language, from culture to culture.” —Roger-Pol Droit, Le Monde Many biographies of the Buddha have been published in the last 150 years, and all claim to describe the authentic life of the historical Buddha. This book, written by one of the leading scholars of Buddhism and Japanese religion, starts from the opposite assumption and argues that we do not yet possess the archival and archaeological materials required to compose such a biography: All we have are narratives, not facts. Yet traditional biographies have neglected the literary, mythological, and ritual elements in the life of the Buddha. Bernard Faure aims to bridge this gap and shed light on a Buddha that is not historical but has constituted a paradigm of practice and been an object of faith for 2,500 years. The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha opens with a criticism of the prevalent historicism before examining the mythological elements in a life of the Buddha no longer constrained by an artificial biographical framework. Once the search for the “historical Buddha” is abandoned, there is no longer any need to limit the narrative to early Indian stories. The life—or lives—of the Buddha, as an expression of the creative imaginations of Buddhists, developed beyond India over the centuries. Faure accordingly shifts his focus to East Asia and, more particularly, to Japan. Finally, he examines recent developments of the Buddha’s life in not only Asia but also the modern West and neglected literary genres such as science fiction.

Author : JoAnn D'Alisera
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812201727

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An Imagined Geography by JoAnn D'Alisera Pdf

For more than a decade a vicious civil war has torn the fabric of society in the West African country of Sierra Leone, forcing thousands to flee their homes for refugee camps and others to seek peace and asylum abroad. Sierra Leoneans have established new communities around the world, in London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Yet despite the great geographic range of this diaspora and the diverse ethnic backgrounds among Sierra Leoneans settled in the same communities abroad, these Africans have come to understand and express their shared identity through religious rituals, social engagements, and material culture. In An Imagined Geography, anthropologist JoAnn D'Alisera demonstrates persuasively that the long-held anthropological paradigms of separate, bounded, and unique communities, geographically located and neatly localized, must be reconsidered. Studying Sierra Leonean Muslims living in greater Washington, D.C., she shows how these immigrants maintain intense and genuine community ties through weddings, rituals, and travel, across both vast urban spaces and national boundaries. D'Alisera examines two primary issues: Sierra Leoneans' engagement with their homeland, to which they frequently traveled and often sent their children for upbringing until the outbreak of the civil war; and the Sierra Leonean interaction with a diverse, multicultural, increasingly global Muslim community that is undergoing its own search for identity. Sierra Leoneans in America, D'Alisera observes, express a longing for home and the pain of disconnection in powerful narratives about their country and about their own displacement. At the same time, however, self and communal identity are shaped by a pressing need to affiliate in their adopted country with Sierra Leoneans of all ethnic and religious backgrounds and with fellow Muslims from other parts of the world, a process that is played out against the complex social field of the American urban landscape.

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593081143

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The End of October by Lawrence Wright Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal). At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright’s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.

Author : Priscelina Patajo-Legasto
Publisher : UP Press
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789715425919

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Philippine Studies by Priscelina Patajo-Legasto Pdf

These essays by Philippine and U.S.-based scholars illustrate the dynamism and complexities of the discursive field of Philippine studies as a critique of vestiges of "universalist" (Western/hegemonic) paradigms; as an affirmation of "traditional" and "emergent" cultural practices; as a site for new readings of "old" texts and "new" popular forms brought into the ambit of serious scholarship; and as a liberative space for new art and literary genres.

Author : Albert Read
Publisher : Constable
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780349134765

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The Imagination Muscle by Albert Read Pdf

'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone - should read this book' EDWARD ENNINFUL 'An extraordinary book - an elaborate cabinet of curiosities' SPECTATOR For some, the imagination is a luxury in the modern age; something which is by turns elusive, difficult to employ and better left to others. But what is it to imagine exactly? How do we go about it, and why is it so important that we imagine for ourselves? In this insightful and life-affirming book, Albert Read puts the imagination back at the forefront of our lives. Not merely a nebulous concept reserved for artists and creatives, it is a muscle - an essential faculty of the mind to be trained and developed over a lifetime. It is boundless in its potential, infinitely rewarding and central to human achievement. Spanning pre-historic times through to the twenty-first century, The Imagination Muscle explores the genesis of ideas - from Thomas Edison's serial embracing of failure to Jane Jacobs' vision of how we should build cities together; from Steve Jobs' approach to office design to the Japanese concept of Ma. Touching on art, music, film, literature, science and entrepreneurship, this book examines how the imagination has evolved - in shape, power and pace - through the millennia. Albert Read reveals how we can harness the imagination in our day-to-day lives and why, in the new Age of Technology, it is more pressing than ever that we do so. Discover where to find ideas, how to foster skill in observation and connection, and how to be more attentive to the fluxes of our own minds. After all, as Read expertly outlines, the imagination is our supreme gift, our biggest opportunity, our greatest source of fulfilment and our most vital asset for the future.