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Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074639611
Author : Paul Henderson Scott
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0854110879
Presents a collection of Scottish autobiographical essays of George Davie, David Daiches, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark, Tom Nairn, Edwin Morgan, Derick Thomson, Alastair Reid, Agnes Owens, Ronald Stevenson, Richard Demarco, Elizabeth Blackadder, Alasdair Gray, Stewart Conn, Hugh Pennington, Allan Massie, Duncan Macmillan, John Byrne, and others.
Author : Kelly E. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197516393
Spirits of the Space Age details the historical emergence of The Valley of the Dawn, a highly eclectic new religious movement known for its spectacular material culture and all-encompassing aesthetics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Kelly E. Hayes offers a narrative portrait of a new religious movement as seen in and through the lives of its founder Aunt Neiva, her most important collaborators, and contemporary adherents.
Author : Kathleen Morgan Drowne
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814209974
Author : Richard White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324004349
Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner’s jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university’s lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford’s murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city’s machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford’s imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means.
Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546328157
The Spirit of the Age: Large Print By William Hazlitt
Author : Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501702174
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe between 1200 and 1500.Since the outward manifestations of benign and malign possession were indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of bodily features and behaviors were carefully scrutinized by observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons.Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429931113
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.
Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433074796834
Author : James ELMES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018635705
Author : Richard H Horne
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1318610680
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : London : Henry Colburn
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : English essays
ISBN : OXFORD:600000629
Author : Joseph Bottum
Publisher : Image
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385521468
We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Author : Jasbinder Bilan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338571073
In contemporary India, 12-year-old Asha will journey across the dangerous Himalayas to find her missing father and save her family's home -- guided by a mythical bird and a green-eyed tiger who she believes to be the spirits of her ancestors. This is an incredibly unique debut about loss, family, buried treasure, and hope. Asha lives on a family farm with her mother in rural India in the foothills of the Himalayas. Life would be perfect if her father were with them instead of working at the factory in the faraway city. But she knows they wouldn't be able to afford their home without the money he sends home.When four months go by without a single letter, a ruthless debt collector arrives with a warning, and soon the entire world that Asha has known is threatened. Determined to save her home, Asha and her best friend must swallow their fears and set out on a dangerous journey across the Himalayas to find her father.As desperation turns to peril, Asha will face law enforcement, natural disaster, and the wild dangers of the Himalayas. But with a majestic bird and a green-eyed tiger as her guides, who she believes to be the spirits of her ancestors, she's determined to keep faith in order to save her family.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Advertising
ISBN : MINN:31951002565951K
