Guardians Of Purity

Author : Julie Hiramine
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1616388552
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guardians of Purity written by Julie Hiramine and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This world we live in is reaching into the hearts and minds of our children, shaping and molding them into a replica of its values, trends, and worldviews. Guardians of Purity gives you practical advice to help you stand against these destructive cultural influences

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710740
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purity written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book “So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.

Author : Mustapha Bouktab
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2322493422
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guardian of the present written by Mustapha Bouktab and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in a universe where the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred, offering a tale that is both spellbinding and enlightening. The central characters in this fantastic autofiction, imbued with a palpable humanity, stand like intangible walls against the dark forces, driven by an unshakeable quest for the peace of civilisations. Where universal love transcends barriers, it becomes more than a feeling: it becomes a power capable of illuminating souls and changing destinies. Embark on a journey of initiation, rich in mysticism, where each stage is a resonance of the sacrifices, passions and determinations that unite the protagonists from the farthest reaches of the Earth. Under the aegis of the Guardian of the Present, Moussafir, explore the twists and turns of the past. This exploration will lead you to question the veracity of history as it has been passed down, perhaps revealing buried truths. As the pages turn, key figures from the sacred texts emerge, not just as witnesses to their time, but as mirrors, reflecting bold ideas and provoking deep introspection.

Author : Colleen M. Yim
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761837756
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veiled Gurus written by Colleen M. Yim and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the social reality of a Hindu woman's involvement in the transmission of religious knowledge. The two-year ethnographic study traces the steps of Dalit women in an urban village in New Delhi, India, in which Dr. Yim explores the mother's role in life cycle rituals, festivals, vrats (ritual fasts), and daily life. In this study, Yim attempts to bridge the gap between the word of religious texts and the reality of the women's lives. Despite the tradition of religious texts to overlook the role of women as teachers, this study found that women are the primary agents of religious knowledge transmission. The Dalit women in this study convey their erudition through informal education, such as observation; worship; imitation; and family responsibilities. The implications of this study are not only to validate informal education as an effective means of teaching, but to confirm the central role Hindu women have in the transmission of religious knowledge to their children.

Author : Martin J. Beck Matuštík
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841224X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specters of Liberation written by Martin J. Beck Matuštík and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specters of Liberation argues that dissent against the New World Order is possible through a collaboration of critical postmodern social theory and existential philosophy. It integrates those Western, Eastern European, and postcolonial approaches to democratic theory that provide the best alternatives to today's nationalist and racial conflicts and offer the best prospects for a free world. Rigorously argued and written in an impassioned voice, it examines multidimensional specters of liberation and resources for democratic change after 1989. Inspired by the persistence of the Marcusean Great Refusal, Matustik takes up a wide variety of issues, ranging from the encounter between critical social theory and existential philosophy found in the works of Herbert Marcuse to the contributions of Czech existential phenomenology to democratic theory, with attention to the works of Havel.

Author : Karl R. Popper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158134
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Society and Its Enemies written by Karl R. Popper and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel. In a substantial new introduction written for this edition, acclaimed political philosopher Alan Ryan puts Popper's landmark work in biographical, intellectual, and historical context. Also included is a personal essay by eminent art historian E. H. Gombrich, in which he recounts the story of the book's eventual publication despite numerous rejections and wartime deprivations.

Author : Edward White Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addresses on the Acts of the Apostles written by Edward White Benson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eleazar S. Fernandez
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606082361
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Theology of Struggle written by Eleazar S. Fernandez and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theology of Struggle is a genuinely popular Fillipino theology rooted in the history and culture of a people who have endured colonial oppression at the hands of Spain, North America, and Japan, as well as neo-colonialism and home grown dictatorship. Because Christianity has played a role in assisting the history of oppression in the Phillippines, a theology of struggle must include a struggle in theology, to wrest Christian symbols from the hands of the oppressors and return them to the poor. This theology, which is otherwise expressed in articles, poems, art, and action, receives its first systematic treatment in Toward a Theology of Struggle. In Part On, Fernandez establishes the historical and cultural context out of which the Theology of Struggle has emerged. Part Two represents Fernandez's own constructive work, in which he shows how a theology of struggle must address the quest for identity and peoplehood. In Part Three, Fernandez explores the question of theological method, outlining the areas of convergence and distinction between the Theology of struggle and other Third World theologies, as well as setting forth the distinctive challenge that this theology of the Philippines poses to the authority and dominance of Western theology as a whole.

Author : Zacharoula A. Petraki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110260972
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Philosophical Language written by Zacharoula A. Petraki and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close analysis of the Republic's diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato's remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic's prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato's distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within his Republic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415282365
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Society and Its Enemies written by Karl Raimund Popper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popper's legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. Available here in a special single volume edition.