Jonas

Author : Stephen Dau
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110156105X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Jonas written by Stephen Dau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate-foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question. Christopher's mother, Rose, has dedicated her life to finding out what really happened to her son, who disappeared after the raid in which Jonas' village was destroyed. When Jonas meets Rose, a shocking and painful secret gradually surfaces from the past, and builds to a shattering conclusion that haunts long after the final page. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about what happens when foreign disaster appears at our own doorstep. It is a rare and virtuosic novel from an exciting new writer to watch.

Author : Carla Mooney
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420502360
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonas Brothers written by Carla Mooney and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jonas Brothers gained popularity from their appearances on Disney Channel programs. In their eight years of partnership, the three brothers have sold over seventeen million records worldwide, according to Billboard. This compelling volume provides a balanced biography of the Jonas Brothers. Chapters include their early musical influences, joining the Disney family, developing their own style, and living the dream.

Author : Lewis Coyne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350102407
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hans Jonas written by Lewis Coyne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas (1903–1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah Arendt, Jonas advanced the fields of phenomenology and practical ethics in ways that are just beginning to be appreciated in the English-speaking world. Drawing here on unpublished and newly translated material, Lewis Coyne brings together for the first time in English Jonas's philosophy of life, ethic of responsibility, political theory, philosophy of technology and bioethics. In Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility, Coyne argues that the aim of Jonas's philosophy is to confront three critical issues inherent to modernity: nihilism, the ecological crisis and the transhumanist drive to biotechnologically enhance human beings. While these might at first appear disparate, for Jonas all follow from the materialist turn taken by Western thought from the 17th century onwards, and he therefore seeks to tackle all three issues at their collective point of origin. This book explores how Jonas develops a new categorical imperative of responsibility on the basis of an ontology that does justice to the purposefulness and dignity of life: to act in a way that does not compromise the future of humanity on earth. Reflecting on this, as we face a potential future of ecological and societal collapse, Coyne forcefully demonstrates the urgency of Jonas's demand that humanity accept its newfound responsibility as the 'shepherd of beings'.

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442105
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Hans Jonas (paperback) written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.

Author : Christian Wiese
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656388
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas written by Christian Wiese and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the Jewish background of an eminent philosopher

Author : Robert Lang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520323254
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heinrich Schenker, Oswald Jonas, Moriz Violin written by Robert Lang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Leah Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317546210
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Stein and Regina Jonas written by Emily Leah Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Both were religious visionaries viewed as iconoclasts in their own times. Stein, the first woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, claimed her Jewish identity while she was still a cloistered Carmelite nun. Jonas, the first woman rabbi in Jewish history, served as a rabbi in Berlin and Theresienstadt concentration camp. A study of a contemplative and a rabbi, the book ranges across many spiritual and theological questions, not least it offers a remarkable exploration of the theology of spiritual resistance. For Stein, this meant redemption and the transmutation of suffering on the cross; for Jonas, acts of compassion bring the face of God into our presence.

Author : Marc Guggenheim
Publisher : Legendary Comics
ISBN 13 : 168116017X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Adventures of Jonas Quantum written by Marc Guggenheim and published by Legendary Comics. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Comics proudly presents The Infinite Adventures of Jonas Quantum, an original sci-fi odyssey from two of the most exciting voices in superhero storytelling: Marc Guggenheim (writer/producer of the hit TV series Arrow) and visionary artist Freddie Williams II (Justice League America, The Flash, Robin, Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Meet Jonas Quantum: a maverick hyper-genius with the power to cure death in the morning, time travel in the afternoon and unlock transdimensional wormholes at night. And what have you done with your day? Blessed with the curse of infinite intelligence, there’s only one thing Jonas Quantum can’t do: play well with others. This thrilling action-adventure series spans cosmic voyages, history-changing inventions, and delusions of grandeur. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Alexander O'Hara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019085801X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus written by Alexander O'Hara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus, soon after his death in 615. He became the archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, travelled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary priest on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom. He spent the rest of his life in Merovingian Gaul as abbot of the double monastic community of Marchiennes-Hamage, where he wrote his Life of Columbanus, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography. This book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the development of the Columbanian monastic network and its relationship to its founder. The Life of Columbanus was written following a period of crisis within the Columbanian familia and it was in response to this crisis that the Bobbio community in Lombard Italy commissioned Jonas to write the work. Alexander O'Hara presents the Life of Columbanus as a subtle and clever critique of the changes and crises that had taken place in the monastic communities since Columbanus's death. It also considers the life of Jonas as reflecting many of the changing political, cultural, and religious circumstances of the seventh century, and his writings as instrumental in shaping new concepts of sanctity and community. The result of the study is a unique perspective on the early medieval Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy in the seventh century.

Author : Jennifer M. Besel
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429640111
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jonas Brothers written by Jennifer M. Besel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the life and career of the Jonas Brothers"--Provided by publisher.