The Blood Of The Poor

Author : Léon Bloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955392013
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood of the Poor written by Léon Bloy and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood of the Poor (originally Le Sang du pauvre), by Catholic writer Léon Bloy, is perhaps the hardest to read of Léon Bloyʼs writings, as it goes straight to the heart of the matter of what is wrong in the world. It is hard to read, emotively, because it gives the honest reader no room for cover, no space for shelter, no shadow of a tree to hide behind. With avarice as its subject, it is a dark poem in prose, a sermon in the style of Savonarola, with the biting satire of a Jonathan Swift. "The Blood and the Flesh of the Poor are the only aliments that can nourish, the substance of the rich being a poison and a putrefaction. It is therefore a necessity of hygiene that the poor be devoured by the rich who find that very good, and who ask for it again. Rich children are fortified by the juice of the poorsʼ flesh, and the rich manʼs cuisine is endowed with concentrate of the poor." "You believe yourselves to be innocent because you have not slit somebodyʼs throat, as yet, I want to believe; because you have not forced open somebodyʼs door nor scaled his wall in order to despoil him of his possessions; because finally you have not transgressed human laws too visibly. You are so gross, so carnal, for you do not conceive of a crime that cannot be seen. But I say to you, my very dear brother, that you are a plant, and that that assassin is your flower." "It is true that there are refuges: drunkenness, prostitution of the body, suicide, or madness. Why would the dance not continue?"

Author : Godfrey Blount
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The blood of the poor, an introduction to Christian social economics written by Godfrey Blount and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520257111
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partner to the Poor written by Paul Farmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Paul Farmer is one of the most extraordinary people I've ever known. Partner to the Poor recounts his relentless efforts to eradicate disease, humanize health care, alleviate poverty, and increase opportunity and empowerment in the developing world. It will inspire us all to do our parts."--William J. Clinton "If the world is curious about Paul Farmer, there is a reason for that. No one has done more than he has in bringing modern medicine to the poor across the globe and no one has exceeded him in making us appreciate the diverse barriers that prevent proper medicine from reaching the underdogs of the world. In this wonderful collection of essays, putting together Paul Farmer's writings over more than two decades, we can see how his far-reaching ideas have developed and radically enhanced the understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare in the uneven world in which we live. This is an altogether outstanding book."--Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Economics "To delve into these pages is to join one of the world's great explorers on an epic life journey--to grapple with culture, poverty, disease, health care, ethics, and ultimately our common humanity in the Age of AIDS. Paul Farmer is a pioneer, guide, and inspiration at a time of unprecedented contrasts: between wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, health and disease, compassion and neglect. His medical expertise, anthropological vision, and unflinching decency have helped to recharge our world with moral purpose."--Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University "Wow! Perfect for teaching. This is more than vintage Farmer. Editor Haun Saussy knows Farmer's work inside out and has assembled and organized 25 classic articles that project the heart of Farmer's brilliant, radical, inspiring, eminently practical and (dare I say) genuinely subversive work."--Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend "If they gave Nobel Prizes for raising moral awareness, Paul Farmer would have won his a long time ago. For several decades now, his work has posed a challenge to anyone who dares say that radically improving the health of the world's poor can't be done. This splendid compilation of the best of his work allows us to follow a restless, creative, compassionate mind in action, in and out of prisons and barrios and mud huts and hospital wards, from Haiti to Rwanda to Moscow, never taking 'no' for an answer."--Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains "Paul Farmer is a deep scholar of Haitian society, a formidable medical anthropologist, an implacable theorist of structural violence and health as a human right, and an ethicist for whom the place of social justice in medicine and in the world is an existential need. This book is the platform of interconnected intellectual, academic, and practical engagements upon which the amazing, world-transforming life of Farmer stands."--Arthur Kleinman, author of What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger "This collection shows the impressive catalytic effects of original scholarship when combined with action, activism, and a commitment to social justice in health. Paul Farmer and his PIH colleagues have twice changed World Health Organization policies; they continue to have a lasting impact on the global health movement and on the lives of the poor.--Peter Brown, Emory University

Author : Linda Tirado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425277976
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hand to Mouth written by Linda Tirado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real-life Nickel and Dimed—the author of the wildly popular “Poverty Thoughts” essay tells what it’s like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire “DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don’t get heard from much. Now they have a voice—and it’s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it’s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don’t they get better jobs? Why don’t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don’t they borrow from their parents? Enlightening and entertaining, Hand to Mouth opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don’t have it and the people who just don’t get it.

Author : Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Publisher : Beaten Track Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786451379
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood, Bullets And Bodies written by Imani M. Tafari-Ama and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Edition The true story of Blood, Bullets and Bodies: a critical multimedia exposé about the factors subverting the political will to act in the best interest of the poor, even when explicit just cause exists for such altruistic action to take place… Blood, Bullets and Bodies is a strange and paradoxical story that needs to be read as much as it needs to be told. It is a riveting story of sex, violence, political intrigue and survival by any means necessary. The book is a literary mirror that provides a revealing and frightening reflection for a self-destructing society to see itself profiled in the throes of its own possible demise. Sure to stir controversy, the new book contains a compelling rendition of the historical circumstances that have made crime and violence – bullets, blood and dead bodies – the number one problem in late 20th and early 21st century Jamaica. Despite the historic One Love Peace Concert and the Peace Truce in 1978, young gunmen seem to have gone wild ever since. Using a variety of sophisticated methodological tools including literary sources, oral interviews, ethnographic studies and the lyrics of popular Reggae songs, Imani Tafari-Ama details the influences and implications of this violent social discourse for everyday performances of femininity and masculinity in Kingston’s inner-city environment as well as in the wider Jamaican society. Tafari-Ama’s stated objective in publishing her thesis as a book is to separate fact from fiction in order to find real and enduring solutions that will reduce the distressing flood of blood, bullets and bodies that is overflowing the streets of Kingston. She hopes that by highlighting some of the facts and exposing much of the fiction about life below the poverty line, her provocative book will be a catalyst in motivating the political and community willpower necessary to find and implement the real-time solutions that she proposes in her suggested Options for Development.

Author : Steve Corbett
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802487629
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Helping Hurts written by Steve Corbett and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 300,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.

Author : David Alsobrook
Publisher : Sovereign World Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852401665
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Blood of Christ written by David Alsobrook and published by Sovereign World Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the blood of Christ and what it means to all believers.

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Publisher : Grove Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802136756
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from the Book of Psalms written by and published by Grove Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Stanley
Publisher : Irving Risch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Works of Charles Stanley Volume One written by Charles Stanley and published by Irving Risch. This book was released on 2015-04-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway Tracts 1 The Son of God 2 The Handcuffs 3 “Smashed to Pieces” 4 The Lost Ticket 5 “Just in Time” 6 “Conversation” 7 “What a Contrast” 8 “Progress” 9 “An Interesting Question” 10 “The Explosion” 11 “I have my Ticket” 12 “Over Luggage” 13 How does a man become a Soldier? 14 The Sad, Sad Face! 15 “Must I not strive?” 16 The Lunatic and his keeper “Plain Words” 1 The Little Garden 2 Lesson from an Old Schoolmaster 3 “Conversion” 4 The Telescope 5 Redemption 6 “Life” 7 “The Justifier 8 Worship 9 The Burial of the Ethiopian 10 “The Risen Christ” 11 “The Live Bird loose” 12 The Great Supper 13 How did the Jew know his Sin was Forgiven? 14 Naaman, the Leper 15 “As it was in the days of Noah” 16 “As it was in the days of Lot” “Bread Cast Upon The Waters” 1 “Your Dying Hour” 2 “Be thou Clean” 3 “Have I repented enough? 4 “Thy Sins be Forgiven thee” 5 Two Things which God hath Joined Together 6 “Why are ye Troubled?” 7 How are you to be Saved? 8 Who is to Blame? 9 If thou knewest the Gift of God? 10 “Repentance unto Life” 11 What is Good News to a man who feels himself Lost? 12 What is Grace? 13 “Hath” and “Are” 14 “The Righteousness of God” 15 How can a Sinner be Justified? 16 How does the Believer know that he is Justified? Mephibosheth; Lame on both Feet. Ruth; or, Blessing and Rest. Job's Conversion; or, God the Justifier. Coming of the Lord, &c. With Diagram.

Author : Lance Burton
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490833153
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood of a God written by Lance Burton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2047 and the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance. Commander Tarakia Sol, a warrior-princess with the blood of a celestial coursing through her, leads a special team called Talon Squad in a fight to save humanity from a coming invasion by a race of beings in the Orion Constellation...beings who are the descendants of a former Angel and will stop at nothing to enslave all of humanity. Will all her power, training, and faith be enough to stop them? What does the revelation of their existence mean in relation to our place in the universe? The answers are within...