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Author : Nicolas Jacques
Publisher : BookCountry
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463007904
A novel about the reasoning, where women in higher Chhnang will detected one after another bizarre case. This contains a detective story you want to attract.
Author : James D. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351011594
What is the state of contemporary American morality? From their original conception in Christian scripture to their assimilation into Western culture, the 'Seven Deadly Sins' – lust, greed, envy, pride, and all the rest – have guided human morality, steering human behavior and psychology away from evil and toward a full embrace of the good. But their hold on modern life is increasingly tenuous. Indeed, one may observe that these days, deadly sin is far more common and more commonly practiced than its virtuous counterparts – humility, charity, kindness, industriousness, and chastity. Without greed, there is no economy; without anger, no politics; and without pride and envy, surely less motivation and competition would exist. James D. Wright carefully examines the complexities and ambiguities in modern society in the context of the seven deadly sins and their corresponding virtues. Are we all lost souls, condemned by our immoral deeds, or are the trappings of older sin deteriorating? Is it time, finally, to reconsider the classifications of evil and good? Wright uses each chapter to consider how the social sciences have operationalized each 'sin', how they have been studied, and what lessons have been learned over time. He reviews recent trends and contemplates the societal costs and benefits of the behaviors in question. Lost Souls emerges, then, as a meditation on contemporary sin, concluding that the line between guilt and innocence, right and wrong, is often very thin.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452965123
The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive. Between the heights of Parisian society and the criminal world lurking underneath, fate is about to catch up with Lucien de Rubempré, last seen in Lost Illusions, as his literary aspirations, his love for the courtesan Esther van Gobseck, and his scheme to marry the wealthy Clotilde become entangled in the cunning and ultimately disastrous ambitions of the Abbé Herrera, a villain for the ages. An extraordinary volume in Balzac’s vast Human Comedy (in which he endeavored to capture all of society), Lost Souls appears here in its first new English translation in half a century. Keenly attuned to the acerbic charm and subtleties of Balzac’s prose, this edition also includes an introduction presenting thorough biographical, literary, and historical context, as well as extensive notes throughout the text—an invaluable resource for today’s readers as they navigate Balzac’s copious allusions to classical and contemporaneous politics and literature.
Author : Nadifa Mohamed
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374709921
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes The Orchard of Lost Souls, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war. It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of these three women are twisted irrevocably together. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak of war. In The Orchard of Lost Souls, she returns to Hargeisa in her imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
Author : John Makeham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170487
Since the mid-1980s, Taiwan and mainland China have witnessed a sustained resurgence of academic and intellectual interest in ruxue—“Confucianism”—variously conceived as a form of culture, an ideology, a system of learning, and a tradition of normative values. This discourse has led to a proliferation of contending conceptions of ruxue, as well as proposals for rejuvenating it to make it a vital cultural and psycho-spiritual resource in the modern world. This study aims to show how ruxue has been conceived in order to assess the achievements of this enterprise; to identify which aspects of ru thought and values academics find viable, and why; to highlight the dynamics involved in the ongoing cross-fertilization between academics in China and Taiwan; and to examine the relationship between these activities and cultural nationalism. Four key arguments are developed. First, the process of intellectual cross-fertilization and rivalry between scholars has served to sustain academic interest in ruxue. Second, contrary to conventional wisdom, party-state support in the PRC does not underpin the continuing academic discourse on ruxue. Third, cultural nationalism, rather than state nationalism, better explains the nature of this activity. Fourth, academic discourse on ruxue provides little evidence of robust philosophical creativity.
Author : Chris Bliersbach
Publisher : Chris Bliersbach
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798215438497
Aja and SHIELD almost met their demise by trying to take down the Black Widow. Now a new nemesis has taken over her trafficking operation. Aja narrowly escaped dying, being incarcerated as a traitor, and suffering a catastrophic rift in her relationship with Marsha. All just to have the Black Widow avoid capture, pivot, and sell her trafficking operation to some unknown U.S. billionaire. Complicating matters, three U.S. Senators who tried to eliminate SHIELD through budget cuts are missing. Fueling rumors that they may somehow be involved in the billionaire’s nefarious operation. And then there’s the not-so-little matter of Aja’s former paramour joining the team to work on the SPIDA project. Will Aja’s former paramour be the key to making SPIDA a reality? Or will her presence corrode the bond between Aja and Marsha? And can Aja and the SHIELD team overcome their past failure, solve who’s behind the operation, and rescue the abused and exploited children? Or will this case spell doom for Aja and the SHIELD team? Aja Minor: Island of Lost Souls is the sixth book in the Aja Minor psychic crime thrillers series. Fans of fierce female protagonists with unique powers who overcome adversity will find a home in this series. A portion of the proceeds from this series are donated to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, established in 1984 to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization.
Author : Julie Ann Dawson
Publisher : Bards and Sages Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents this eclectic collection of exceptional novelettes and novellas from some of the most unique voices in the speculative genres. This diverse anthology offers readers an enticing assortment of high fantasy, alien adventure, paranormal investigations, haunts both real and imagined, and more. In Volume II: Last Chances by Michael Gardner The Good Seed by Tom Howard The Last Hunt by Claire Salcedo Justice is Blind by Dawn Vogel Indigo Alyeska by Rhonda Eikamp Rolling Reality by Margret A. Treiber Up In Smoke by Milo James Fowler The Case of the Yuletide Bride by Aaron Vlek Fire in the Woods by T.R. North Red Sun Rising by Mike Adamson The Municipality of Lost Souls by Jeannie Wycherley Zombie Island by Derek Muk Forbidden Fruit by Calvin Demmer The Thousand-Year Colony by Russell Hemmell The Mail Order Bride by Nidhi Singh A Whisper in Scales by E. K. Wagner The Soul in the Machine by Daniel Kilkelly Three Times a Ronin Shouts by S.H. Mansouri A Portrait of Life by Fred McGavran Emily in the Wall by Neil Davies The Borrowscale Defection by Susanne Dutton Blood and Sand: A Cult Love Story by Larry Griffin Metal Skin by Francis J Burns Down in the Clockwork City by Mark William Chase Let Them Eat Cake by Aaron Moskalik The Abbot's Garden by Stewart C Baker The Man that Moved the Mountain by Nestor Delfino A Totem's Tale by Beeman Post-Modem Alchemy by Michael Andre-Driussi A Christmas Tree by Rhema Sayers Unseen by Jacob Adams Unwelcome Guests by Shannon Lawrence Single Combat by David W. Landrum The Resurrection of Hasan II by Hamad Al-Rayes The Worst of Times by Elana Gomel
Author : Benny Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468588187
Those without souls are lost among a society of Angels. Terry, Sabrina, and Bella did not suspect that they were such lost souls. Reared in Jeffersonville, of north Georgia, Terry and Bella were from spiritual families; Sabrina was beautiful and street smart. In search of his wife, Sabrina, the only woman he had loved, Terry survived head trauma but lost four years of life and endured twelve years of unjust imprisonment, resulting in countless hardships and struggles in search of his soul, a worthy being. Sabrina mothered three children, two of whom were taken by the courts. She later married, mothered two more, and deserted them. Found dead but unidentified, she was buried in an unmarked grave. Bella was forced into a planned marriage by her father to her third cousin. After a year and daily prayers, she was freed by her husbands demise. But she suffered for years a life of loneliness, feeling unworthy of love.
Author : Jeannie Wycherley
Publisher : Bark at the Moon Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995781842
Vengeful souls don't stay dead They taunt the minds of the living until they throw themselves from clifftops. Yet death turns a profit when you drive ships onto rocks to plunder riches. Agatha knows one thing for sure: respect the dead. Especially those who did not die quietly. Now, a lonely witch has conjured a young sailor's soul. And woken them all. Only Agatha knows the truth. She hears it in the whispers drifting across the waves. She hears it in the crackle of the flames. And the marauders will stop at nothing to silence her. Shh ... Listen ... The Dead Are Coming ... From the Amazon bestselling author of Crone comes a thoroughly original and spellbinding piece of storytelling. The Municipality of Lost Souls is a gothic ghost story set in 1860s England with characters destined to haunt you forever. For readers of dark fantasy who love witchcraft, magic and a little spookiness. For fans of Daphe du Maurier, Laura Purcell, Michelle Paver and Stacey Halls. 'A 5-star winner from Queen of the Night Terrors' - Amazon reviewer. 'Really got my heart pounding' - Amazon reviewer. 'Female Stephen King!' - Amazon reviewer. Jeannie Wycherley is the author of several books set in East Devon, including Crone, recipient of a Chill with a Book Readers Award (2018) and an Indie B.R.A.G medallion (2017), Beyond the Veil (2018) and the bestselling Wonky Inn cozy mystery series.
Author : Ellen Schrecker
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781595586032
The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education. Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive challenges to academic freedom, beginning in the 1960s with attacks on faculty who opposed the Vietnam War, and resurfacing more recently with well-funded campaigns against Middle Eastern Studies scholars. Connecting these dots, Schrecker reveals a distinct pattern of efforts to undermine the legitimacy of any scholarly study that threatens the status quo. At the same time, Schrecker deftly chronicles the erosion of university budgets and the encroachment of private-sector influence into academic life. From the dwindling numbers of full-time faculty to the collapse of library budgets, The Lost Soul of Higher Education depicts a system increasingly beholden to corporate America and starved of the resources it needs to educate the new generation of citizens. A sharp riposte to the conservative critics of the academy by the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, The Lost Soul of Higher Education, reveals a system in peril—and defends the vital role of higher education in our democracy.
Author : William J. Baldwin
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781612830124
For two decades, William Baldwin has been a pioneer in the ever-expanding therapeutic fields of Spirit Releasement, Past Life Regression, and Soul-Mind Fragmentation. In his Florida practice, he uses these therapies routinely to help patients who suffer from Dissociative Trance and Dissociative Identity (formerly called Multiple Personality) Disorders. Healing Lost Souls explains the attributes of each therapy in everyday language, and provides dozens of case studies to illustrate its clinical use. Likening his work to the ancient practice of shamanism, Baldwin has found that psychological disorders are often rooted in past life traumas, the interference of attached entities of various origins, and the fragmentation of one’s soul. Baldwin stresses the importance of active patient participation throughout the stages of regression, as well as the need to treat encountered entities with respect, since they are often mere lost souls as bewildered and frightened as the patients themselves.
Author : Les Rolston
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781365774713
Sam Postlethwaite was a Confederate soldier buried in an unmarked grave in Rhode Island. Beginning with nothing more than a handful of dirt, author Les Rolston's innocent curiosity about this mysterious soldier's grave became a journey of thousands of miles that eventually led him to the soldier's family. The result is this factual account of Postlethwaite's odyssey and the author's determined efforts to learn his story. Other important facets of this affecting historical account are the experiences of Postlethwaite's fourteen-year-old brother, who found glory with Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; and a boy from a prominent Rhode Island family who was emotionally ruined by the Civil War. Both their families, embittered by war, were destined to merge through a Civil War romance and marriage. This book is a tribute to all of the people, Northerners and Southerners, who joined together to choose forgiveness and understanding over bitterness and hatred.
Author : Jane E. Ryan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780595750443
Broken Spirits~Lost Souls provides a rare, valuable look at a silent yet potentially deadly problem plaguing families today, Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Children born into crisis or ambivalence are vulnerable to attachment disturbances because the roots of this horrendous disorder occur when basic life enhancing needs of newborns and infants go unnoticed or unmet. Consequently, children who are victims of early neglect or trauma are at grave risk. The candid stories in Broken Spirits~Lost Souls, told by parents of disturbed youngsters, paint a clear picture of their chilling, dangerous behavior. Attachment disorder may be demonstrated by out-of-control children as young as three years old. By their teens, these kids predictably defy authority and challenge every accepted familial and societal norm. At their best, individuals with RAD represent the embryonic stages of an antisocial personality, at their worst they are full-blown psychopaths consumed by the search for another victim. RAD is not a rare phenomenon and is primarily preventable through early identification and by employing simple, sound parenting skills.
Author : Charlie Hodge,Dan McGauley
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039100442
GHOSTS HAUNT LAKEWOOD LANDS AND BLAYLOCK’S MANSION. WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY THERE? Straight out of a fairy tale or thriller movie, Blaylock's Mansion leaps into stunning view as one traverses a gentle curve in the road. Surrounded by spellbinding gardens and majestic trees, the 16,000-square-foot Tudor-Revival style architecture deep in the harsh, spectacular mountains of southeastern British Columbia captures the eye and the imagination. Selwyn G. Blaylock learned all about harsh and spectacular things. In 1899 the young metallurgist graduated from Quebec's McGill University and ventured to Trail, B.C. During the next three decades his meteoric rise to President of Consolidated Mining and Smelting (later known as Cominco) had tremendous impact around the world. Yet Blaylock was to pay a price in several ways. His life carried the great weight of expectation and demand, blended with responsibility and accountability. Some might suggest guilt. The controversial death of union organizer Ginger Goodwin remains linked to Blaylock, as does his role in ‘the bomb’ dropped on Japan. Many believed Selwyn to be a haunted man. Blaylock was not the only unique, larger-than-real-life character to live in the mansion or on the large property known as Lakewood. A number of fascinating characters also resided there before and after him. Some of them never left. From First Nation hunters, Hudson Bay Company workers, two mayors, freemasons, and a Civil War hero to a smooth-talking, high-rolling con man from California, veteran Canadian writer Charlie Hodge brings to life a variety of real and fictional characters and their common denominator in Lost Souls of Lakewood - The History and Mystery of Blaylock’s Mansion It features several spellbinding tales within the main story, each one worthy of its own novel. Lost Souls of Lakewood is a must read for anyone with an interest in history, mystery or ghosts.
Author : Michael Collins
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780222158
'The thinking man's John Grisham' New Statesman The body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, is discovered late one night in a pile of autumn leaves at the side of the road. At first it looks like a hit and run - after all, it's Halloween night and the streets have been full of children trick or treating. But how did a 3-year-old come to be alone on the dark streets at such a late hour? Lawrence, the policeman sent to investigate, finds himself under increasing pressure when it becomes clear that the chief suspect is the town's star quarterback. In the ensuing cover-up, Lawrence finds himself a pawn in the power games between the local mayor, the suspect's family, and an investigator with some personal scores to settle.