Secret Dialogues

Author : Kenneth Serbin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822972123
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Dialogues written by Kenneth Serbin and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Dialogues uncovers an unexpected development in modern Latin American history: the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. During the brutal term of Emílio Garrastazú Médici, the Catholic Church became famous for its progressivism. However, new archival sources demonstrate that the church also sought to retain its privileges and influence by exploring a potential alliance with the military. From 1970 to 1974 the secret Bipartite Commission worked to resolve church-state conflict and to define the boundary between social activism and subversion. As the bishops increasingly made defense of human rights their top pastoral and political goal, the Bipartite became an important forum of protest against torture and social injustice. Based on more than 60 interviews and primary sources from three continents, Secret Dialogues is a major addition to the historical narrative of the most violent yet, ironically, the least studied period of the Brazilian military regime. Its story is intertwined with the central themes of the era: revolutionary warfare, repression, censorship, the fight for democracy, and the conflict between Catholic notions of social justice and the anticommunist Doctrine of National Security. Secret Dialogues is the first book of its kind on the contemporary Catholic Church in any Latin American country, for most work in this field is devoid of primary documentary research. Serbin questions key assumptions about church-state conflict such as the typical conservative-progressive dichotomy and the notion of church-state rupture during harsh authoritarian periods. Secret Dialogues is written for undergraduate and graduate students, professional scholars, and the general reader interested in Brazil, Latin America, military dictatorship, human rights, and the relationship between religion and politics.

Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0731815297
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret written by Rhonda Byrne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways, now with a new foreword and afterword. In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

Author : Gilles Deleuze
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231141352
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues II written by Gilles Deleuze and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French journalist Claire Parnet's famous dialogues with Gilles Deleuze offer an intimate portrait of the philosopher's life and thought. Conversational in tone, their engaging discussions delve deeply into Deleuze's philosophical background and development, the major concepts that shaped his work, and the essence of some of his famous relationships, especially his long collaboration with the philosopher Félix Guattari. Deleuze reconsiders Spinoza, empiricism, and the stoics alongside literature, psychoanalysis, and politics. He returns to the notions of minor literature, deterritorialization, the critical and clinical, and begins a nascent study of cinema. New to this edition is Deleuze's essay "Pericles and Verdi," which reflects on politics and historical materialism in the work of the influential French philosopher François Châtelet. An enduring record of Deleuze's unique personality and profound contributions to culture and philosophy, Dialogues II is a highly personable account of the evolution of one of the greatest critics and theorists of the twentieth century.

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989854108
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Doctrine Dialogues written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues, based on the most difficult, abstruse material of the early pages of The secret doctrine: the nature of reality, the substance of the universe, the basis and nature of consciousness, mind and matter.

Author : J.B. Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317547985
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues written by J.B. Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. He divided each dialogue into twelve parts and inserted symbols at each twelfth to mark a musical note. These passages are relatively harmonious or dissonant, and so traverse the ups and downs of a known musical scale. Many of Plato's ancient followers insisted that Plato used symbols to conceal his own views within the dialogues, but modern scholars have denied this. Kennedy, an expert in Pythagorean mathematics and music theory, now shows that Plato's dialogues do contain a system of symbols. Scholars in the humanities, without knowledge of obsolete Greek mathematics, would not have been able to detect these musical patterns. This book begins with a concise and accessible introduction to Plato's symbolic schemes and the role of allegory in ancient times. The following chapters then annotate the musical symbols in two of Plato's most popular dialogues, the Symposium and Euthyphro, and show that Plato used the musical scale as an outline for structuring his narratives.

Author : Clifford V. Johnson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262037238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialogues written by Clifford V. Johnson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects that range from the science of cooking to the multiverse. Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics like politics, books, sports, or the latest prestige cable drama. Conversations about science, he tells us, shouldn't be left to the experts. In The Dialogues, Johnson invites us to eavesdrop on a series of nine conversations, in graphic-novel form—written and drawn by Johnson—about “the nature of the universe.” The conversations take place all over the world, in museums, on trains, in restaurants, in what may or may not be Freud's favorite coffeehouse. The conversationalists are men, women, children, experts, and amateur science buffs. The topics of their conversations range from the science of cooking to the multiverse and string theory. The graphic form is especially suited for physics; one drawing can show what it would take many words to explain. In the first conversation, a couple meets at a costume party; they speculate about a scientist with superhero powers who doesn't use them to fight crime but to do more science, and they discuss what it means to have a “beautiful equation” in science. Their conversation spills into another chapter (“Hold on, you haven't told me about light yet”), and in a third chapter they exchange phone numbers. Another couple meets on a train and discusses immortality, time, black holes, and religion. A brother and sister experiment with a grain of rice. Two women sit in a sunny courtyard and discuss the multiverse, quantum gravity, and the anthropic principle. After reading these conversations, we are ready to start our own.

Author : Academy Der Sprachclub
Publisher : Academy Der Sprachclub
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversational French Dialogues For Beginners And Intermediate Students written by Academy Der Sprachclub and published by Academy Der Sprachclub. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to learn typical expressions and language spoken in France? Most language learners realize quickly the importance of finding ways to communicate with other people in their native tongue. It can be very frustrating when you cannot communicate with French people and trivial things can be a cause of major annoyance, especially when you cannot explain yourself using French. However, learning French without a proper French language learning workbook is no easy task. Probably the best way to learn French is to immerse yourself in it by reading French textbooks for adults. Have you tried reading French fiction for beginners? Reading French stories for beginners can be very entertaining and rewarding, and culturally relevant and humorous stories that are written for language learners are one of the best French language learning tools you can get! The best way to improve your French is reading a book from which you can learn realistic French conversations. This book is designed to learn French conversations, it contains: 100 French short stories for beginners and intermediate students and allows new French speakers to hone their reading skills and learn typical expressions used in daily life. This book is focused on realistic dialogue and is an excellent source to study the language, expand your vocabulary and have fun while learning French! Each story comes with an introduction in French. The French conversation is followed by an English line to line translation, a key-vocabulary section, and short learning questions. The book is divided in three parts. The first 50 short stories are most suitable for beginners, each story is followed by simple learning questions. The next 30 short stories are for intermediate students and those who are interested in reading good short stories with entertaining content. The last 20 short stories tend to be longer and are not necessarily for learners who want to learn conversations, but for those who appreciate humorous stories in French and students who need to focus on grammar and the structure of the language. In that sense the book offers the best of both worlds, combining a conversational French learning book and an entertaining French short story book for intermediate learners. Furthermore, this French conversation set book provides essential words and expressions which will enable you to get along in a French-speaking environment. So look no further! Pick up your copy of Conversational French Dialogues and start learning French right now!

Author : Linda Grote
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3710896657
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues a in Secret Place. Life is a Story - story.one written by Linda Grote and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is life really worth it? She always wonders if other people come to the same conclusion as her. Probably not. But why does it matter anyway? It isn't like life has grand plans for her. It isn't like she is missing out on anything. She can just continue living in fictional worlds and figure the rest out later. That is if life doesn't catch up to her first. Because just when she is about to give up, a mysterious person appears and reminds her of things she has long forgotten. Her story is one of suffering and hope in a world where all hope seems lost sometimes. It is a story of falling and rising again. It is a story of beauty, of strength, and of never giving up. A story we all need to hear sometimes.

Author : Jon Hargreaves
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351561421
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues " written by Jon Hargreaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both creatively original and of considerable appeal. Her music communicates with a refreshingly broad audience, and this special achievement deserves careful consideration. In the first symposium book in English to be dedicated exclusively to this single figure, scholars from both the UK and Saariaho's native Finland bring a range of perspectives to her richly varied output. Uncovering the compositional, historical, cultural and sociological issues that have resulted in such critical acclaim lies at the heart of this collection of essays. Saariaho's approach to composition is an interdisciplinary one; it embraces a number of art forms - visual, literary and musical - in works that explore a creative dialogue between image, continuity and time. While such diversity is readily accommodated in a multi-authored collection, the consistency of an underlying compositional identity and integrity is also an important trait. The grouping of these essays into three strands - 'visions', 'narratives' and 'dialogues' - reflects the wide range of Saariaho's creative preoccupations while subscribing to a carefully structured succession of commentaries.

Author : SERGI CASTILLO LAPEIRA
Publisher : Edicions Etma
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical dialogues with my friend Pi written by SERGI CASTILLO LAPEIRA and published by Edicions Etma. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Philosophical Dialogues with my Friend Pi" are an intellectual experiment, with which the author wanted to carry out an incursion into the field of artificial intelligence, to try to elucidate what the current limits of this technology are, and find out to what extent point a machine can emulate one of the most outstanding characteristics of the human condition: the ability to reason from a philosophical point of view. Throughout these pages, therefore, the reader will find a great diversity of topics and questions that have been part of philosophical work for more than 2,500 years, many of which remain without a convincing answer. It can be said, without a doubt, that the performance of artificial intelligence for this task has been surprisingly good, which leads the author to think that artificial intelligence is being improved day by day, so that, in the very near future, there will be very few areas of human reality that will not be improved by this technology. We can only hope that this improvement will contribute to filling the gaps and difficulties that human beings have faced since they appeared on this planet.