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Author : Eva Roden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : OCLC:815961025
Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745659213
The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on liquid modernity have pioneered a new way of seeing the world in which we live at the dawn of the 21st Century. Our liquid modern world is characterized by the transition from a society of producers to a society of consumers, the natural extension of which is the society of perpetual debtors. The ruling idea of the society of consumers is to prevent needs from being satisfied and to create demand; its natural extension is to enable consumers to consume more by borrowing. Debt was transformed into a crucial profit-earning asset of capitalism in liquid modern times. The present-day 'credit crunch' is not the outcome of the banks' failure but rather the fruit of their success in transforming the majority of men and women, young and old, into a race of debtors. They got what they were looking for: a society of debtors whose condition of being in debt was made self-perpetuating, with more debts being offered, and more undertaken, as the only way of escaping from the debts already incurred. Starting from this reflection on the current global financial crisis and prompted by the probing questions of his interlocutor, Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo, Bauman examines in an historical perspective some of the most pressing moral and political issues of our time, from international terrorism and the rise of religious and secular fundamentalism to the decline of the nation-state and the threats posed by global warming, issues whose seriousness and urgency attest to the fact that we are living today not only on borrowed money but also on borrowed time.
Author : Harald Weinrich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226886039
Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life’s ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience. Weinrich’s analysis of the roots of the word time connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense—the crucial sense that enables the other five. Written with Weinrich’s customary narrative elegance, On Borrowed Time is an absorbing—and, fittingly, succinct—meditation on life’s inexorable brevity.
Author : Xavier Paules
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drug traffic
ISBN : 1557291756
Author : Milton C. Mallard, Jr.
Publisher : Life To Legacy LLC
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781947288034
In his debut literary rendering, Dr. Milton C. Mallard, Jr., will inspire you to make the most out of each precious moment you live. There are 1440 minutes in a day. But what if you only had 1440 minutes left to live? Would you waste time on frivolous distractions and pursuits, or would you praise and serve the living God? God’s plan for your life is to use each moment to prosper you so you can experience the abundant life. This book will help you see how God is performing what the author calls those “money can’t buy moments” for you each day. Through this inspirational book, you will see how the Lord desires to borrow some of your time and use your gifts and talents to be a blessing to others. As you read this book, you will see how giving your time and service is more rewarding than receiving material possessions or monetary wealth. The more you give to God, the more He gives back to you with blessings that far exceed earthly things. Dr. Mallard will challenge you to let the Lord borrow some of your time here on earth, so you can experience the fullness of joy both now and throughout all eternity..
Author : Paul Monette
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480473850
“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly). In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. Borrowed Time traces this love story from start to tragic finish. At a time when the medical community was just beginning to understand this mysterious and virulent disease, Monette and others like him were coming to terms with unfathomable loss. This personal account of the early days of the AIDS crisis tells the story of love in the face of death. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Borrowed Time was one of the first memoirs to deal candidly with AIDS and is as moving and relevant now as it was more than twenty-five years ago. Written with fierce honesty and heartwarming tenderness, this book is part love story, part testimony, and part requiem. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
Author : Fred Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 185480099X
Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439172506
Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
Author : Sue Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472936073
As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week 'A rich, timely study for the era of "global ageing"'- Nature The ageing of the world population is one of the most important issues facing humanity in the 21st century – up there with climate change in its potential global impact. Sometime before 2020, the number of people over 65 worldwide will, for the first time, be greater than the number of 0–4 year olds, and it will keep on rising. The strains this is causing on society are already evident as health and social services everywhere struggle to cope with the care needs of the elderly. But why and how do we age? Scientists have been asking this question for centuries, yet there is still no agreement. There are a myriad competing theories, from the idea that our bodies simply wear out with the rough and tumble of living, like well-worn shoes or a rusting car, to the belief that ageing and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In Borrowed Time, Sue Armstrong tells the story of science's quest to understand ageing and to prevent or delay the crippling conditions so often associated with old age. She focusses inward – on what is going on in our bodies at the most basic level of the cells and genes as the years pass – to look for answers to why and how our skin wrinkles with age, our wounds take much longer to heal than they did when we were kids, and why words escape us at crucial moments in conversation.This book explores these questions and many others through interviews with key scientists in the field of gerontology and with people who have interesting and important stories to tell about their personal experiences of ageing.
Author : Gregor Craigie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773102060
The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it. Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world's biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more than 100-million North Americans live in active seismic zones, many of whom do not realize the risk to their community. For more than a decade, Gregor Craigie interviewed scientists, engineers, and emergency planners about earthquakes, disaster response, and resilience. He has also collected vivid first-hand accounts from people who have survived deadly earthquakes. His fascinating and deeply researched book dives headfirst into explaining the science behind The Big One -- and asks what we can do now to prepare ourselves for events geologists say aren't a matter of if, but when.
Author : Lukas Ley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452962894
A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming–driven existential challenge. In addition to antiflooding infrastructure breaking down, vast areas of cities like Semarang and Jakarta are rapidly sinking, affecting the very foundations of urban life: toxic water oozes through the floors of houses, bridges are submerged, traffic is interrupted. As Lukas Ley shows, the residents of Semarang are constantly engaged in maintaining their homes and streets, trying to live through a slow-motion disaster shaped by the interacting temporalities of infrastructural failure, ecological deterioration, and urban development. He casts this predicament through the temporal lens of a “meantime,” a managerial response that means a constant enduring of the present rather than progress toward a better future—a “chronic present.” Building on Borrowed Time takes us to a place where a flood crisis has already arrived—where everyday residents are not waiting for the effects of climate change but are in fact already living with it—and shows that life in coastal Southeast Asia is defined not by the temporality of climate science but by the lived experience of tidal flooding.
Author : Debbie Pitts
Publisher : Author House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781452033464
My book tells how I have struggled to live from day to day since my being diagnosed at six months of age. So you know I have lived a long time with this disease. It hadn't been easy.
Author : David Reagan
Publisher : Lamb & Lion Ministries
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780945593218
Dr. David Reagan answers the following questions and many more concerning the signs of the times that point to the soon return of Jesus. Can we know the date when Jesus will return? Can we know the season of His return? What are the key biblical signs of His return? What signs, if any, have already been fulfilled? Are there any signs that are unique to our day and time? What is the most convincing sign of the Lord’s soon return? A unique feature of the book is a prophecy forum composed of 22 Bible prophecy experts who reply to 11 questions concerning the biblical signs of the times that are supposed to signal the imminent return of Jesus. Experts included are: Daymond Duck, Gary Fisher, Jim Fletcher, Ray Gano, Al Gist, Phillip Goodman, J.R. Hall, Mark Hitchcock, David Hocking, Ken Humphries, Terry James, Nathan Jones, Jack Kinsella, Tim LaHaye, Jan Markell, Caryl Matrisciana, Don McGee, Dennis Pollock, Ron Rhodes, August Rosado, Bill Salus, and Brian Thomas.
Author : Robert Manne
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781743820391
Are we living on borrowed time? From climate change to the Murdoch empire, from refugees to WikiLeaks –Robert Manne applies his brilliant mind to the issues and people that shape our world. This provocative and informative book includes essays on Donald Trump’s links to Russia, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership, the ideas driving Islamic State, and Jonathan Franzen’s views on climate activism. In the title essay, Manne shares a life-altering personal story that is frank, moving and unforgettable. Robert Manne is emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. His books include The Petrov Affair, The Culture of Forgetting, Left, Right, Left, Making Trouble and The Mind of the Islamic State. He has written three Quarterly Essays and is a regular contributor to the Monthly and the Guardian.
Author : Kaye Maree Love
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481734110
Hes charming, hes handsome and a seemingly normal guy. He dreamt of graduating from college, getting married and living happily ever after. Mr. Kenzel Mack seems to have his life all together when hes faced with the choice of whether to live or die. He finds himself a fatherless child at the age of 10; being raised by a mother who was not able to show him how to love, and he was constantly betrayed by a friend who was nothing more than a jealous enemy. A riveting story of a young man whose life was spiraling out of control due to inner demons he could not fight alone. Then his life was touched by an angel sent by God, named Jacinth. Kenzel would soon find out that he was living on borrowed time.
