Visionaries In Our Midst

Author : Allison Silberberg
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761847200
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visionaries In Our Midst written by Allison Silberberg and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionaries In Our Midst is Allison Silberberg's inspiring collection of essays that profiles ordinary people who are changing our world. Silberberg shares the stories of individuals who identified critical needs in their communities and responded with courage and conviction. This is a book about those who inspire hope, those who struggle, and those who make something happen. This is a book about catalysts—those who innovate and work to build a better life for others. This is a time to discover what is possible when individuals stand up for one another. Named a Finalist for ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award for 2009 and #1 on Amazon's list of Philanthropy & Charity, Visionaries In Our Midst is a thought-provoking book that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey. For more information, please see: allisonsilberberg.com

Author : Angella M. Nazarian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614280392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women of the World written by Angella M. Nazarian and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents brief biographies on some of the most important women of the twentieth and twenty-first century, including Wangari Maathai, Frida Kahlo, Golda Meir, and Somaly Mam.

Author : Markus Poetzsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135523797
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visionary Dreariness written by Markus Poetzsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke’s and Kant’s prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life. This shift is defined as a descent from mountaintops to an encounter, in William Blake’s terms, with 'a World in a Grain of Sand.' The purpose of this book is to sift the literature of the Romantic everyday, both prose and poetry, canonical and noncanonical, for such grains. In order to define the inherently amorphous and subsumptive sphere called 'everyday life,' the author draws upon two main theoretical threads: the first, based on the phenomenological poetics of Gaston Bachelard, serves to elucidate the depth and diversity of everyday household space; the second, comprising the work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau, defines the generative potential, what de Certeau glosses as the 'everyday creativity,' of some of the most basic human activities such as walking, reading and washing, to name but a few. The role of the everyday in Romantic literature has in recent years received greater scholarly attention, particularly from critics dissatisfied with the perpetuation of what Karina Williamson characterizes as a 'debased Romanticism which rules there is a category of experience and expression which is poetic and all the rest is ordinary and inadmissible.' The present study serves to map the intersections of these categories of experience and expression—the sublime and the quotidian—and thereby to challenge our assumptions about the aesthetic value of the everyday not only in the Romantic period but also in our own.

Author : Jill Krebs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498523560
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity written by Jill Krebs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt an enchanted worldview in which the miraculous becomes everyday. Through relationships with Our Lady, their lives are enriched and even transformed. When they negotiate institutional loyalty and individual autonomy, they affirm their own authority and Catholic identity. Finally, through social media, they expand their devotional networks in ways that shift authority structures and empower individuals. Individuals engage beliefs, practices, and attitudes both arising from and resisting elements of modernity, religious pluralism and religious decline, empowerment and perceived disempowerment, tradition and innovation, and institutional loyalty and perceived disloyalty to reveal one way of understanding Catholic identity amidst the shifts and flows of modern change.

Author : Louis Breger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471078581
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freud written by Louis Breger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD "Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring, grappling with, arguing about, and learning from this absolutely fascinating book."-JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR, Necessary Losses and Imperfect Control "Written with brilliance and insight, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision takes us on a daring, at times chilling, journey to the early years of psychoanalysis, revealing both the human weaknesses and the professional triumphs of its founder. . . . Cutting away the accretions of fabrication and romance cloaking Sigmund Freud, Breger has reinstated historical honesty to its rightful, high place, but the figure who emerges at the end of this breathlessly honest biography is quite as extraordinary as the legend concocted by Freud and perpetuated by his followers. Fresh, vigorous, and lucid."-PHILIP M. BROMBERG, Ph.D., CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY "Louis Breger's fine new biography of Freud is a welcome contribution to the existing literature and a corrective to much of it. It is also one of the best intellectual histories of the origin and development of psychoanalysis I have read in recent years. Breger is to be commended for his original research, the objectivity of his views, and the elegance and grace of his writing."-DEIRDRE BAIR, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR Samuel Beckett AND AUTHOR OF A FORTHCOMING BIOGRAPHY OF CARL JUNG "Finally, the Freud biography we have long been waiting for. With the history of Europe in the background, we follow with fascination Freud's journey from an impoverished childhood filled with losses to worldly fame, ending in exile in England. We come to understand the impact of Freud's difficult personality on the development of his brilliant as well as questionable theoretical ideas. Breger writes with compassion and fairness toward Freud as well as toward the many interesting personalities who cross his life, with their complicated relationships to the great man."-SOPHIE FREUD, FREUD'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIAL WORK, SIMMONS COLLEGE "Louis Breger's magnificent book is the definitive work on the personal psychology of Sigmund Freud. it brilliantly illuminates how the darkness in Freud's vision has affected psychoanalytic history. This book will be central for psychoanalytic scholarship for decades to come."-GEORGE E. ATWOOD, Ph.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Author : John Weir Perry
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791439883
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trials of the Visionary Mind written by John Weir Perry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive summary of the author's revolutionary approach to psychosis.

Author : Lee Irwin
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791428627
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visionary Worlds written by Lee Irwin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the role and significance of imagination and the myth-making processes that engage human beings in constructing a viable, living world of meaningful relations, beliefs and social interactions.

Author : Richard C. Beacham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134356188
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adolphe Appia: Artist and Visionary of the Modern Theatre written by Richard C. Beacham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account, analysis and critical evaluation of the work of Appia demonstrates how his far-sighted imagination also embraced the fundamental reform of scenic design, the use of theatrical space, and a greatly expanded conception of the nature and possibilities of theatrical art.

Author : Corinne McLaughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871593405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practical Visionary written by Corinne McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is astounding evidence of a powerful New World growing in our midst-despite escalating worldwide crises-if you know where, and how, to look. A guide to this New World, The Practical Visionary unveils eight keys to spiritual growth and social change: how to shift from what's dying to what's being born; understand the evolutionary plan; make your livelihood a social change strategy; invoke the magic of your soul; turn within to find your higher purpose; shape your vision into an achievable mission; see money as a spiritual asset; and transform conflict into a higher synthesis. Upgrade your inner life, and join the thousands of practical visionaries worldwide who are pioneering creative solutions to today's toughest problems. Book jacket.

Author : M. J. Ryan
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573241977
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fabric of the Future written by M. J. Ryan and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thoughts on the future by female visionariesscientists, philosophers, and psychospiritual writersincludes contributions from Jean Houston, Joanna Macy, Sue Bender, Joan Borysenko, Caroline Myss, Marion Woodman, and Gloria Steinem, among others. Reprint.