Empty Moments

Empty Moments
Author: Leo Charney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822320906

An innovative reconceptualization of the defining quality of modernity and how it relates to cinema and literary theory.

All in for Him

All in for Him
Author: Dr. Molly Hein
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 166428091X

Dr. Molly Hein’s book guides readers on a reflective journey through life’s struggles and celebrations. Within the pages, Molly reflects on her own experiences including a near abduction as a child, a long-term internal battle with body image and an eating disorder, and a story that connects death and life. Readers will have opportunities to reflect on their own experiences through God’s word, reflection activities, and discussion questions. In keeping up with modern times, optional opportunities are provided to interact with the author and other readers on social media. Molly’s prayer is that together we can strengthen our faith in God while gaining a deeper understanding of his plan in our lives. With God by her side, Molly will guide the reader toward embracing God’s love by discovering ways to be all in for him and his plan in our lives.

Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation

Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation
Author: D. Zahavi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400710119

The essays collected in the present volume introduce the reader to the phenomenological work done in the Nordic countries today. The material is organized under three general headings: metaphysics, facticity, and interpretation. The volume is of interest to researchers and students working in the areas of epistemology and ontology as well as philosophy of language, history, and intersubjectivity.

The Great Within

The Great Within
Author: Han F. de Wit
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0834842076

A book for anyone who wants to understand the psychological nature of contemplative practice as a transformative process. Renowned psychologist Han de Wit explores the psychology found in age-old contemplative traditions and takes us deep into the mind of the spiritual practitioner. Using Buddhism as a framework, and drawing insights from several world religions, he demonstrates how contemplative practices can open us up to our own wisdom and compassion. The result is a vivid illumination of the process of spiritual transformation and an important contribution to contemporary psychology and psychotherapy.

Relax

Relax
Author: Mardochee Estinvil
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1728317312

Problems and pain are inevitable in life. However, how we walk through these moments and manage them make a significant difference. Relax is a Christian book that helps readers walk peacefully even in the most difficult moments in life. Relax reflects on the peace one experiences when one constantly abiding and remaining in Christ. The theological projection is often peace after deliverance or when one gets to heaven. In contrast, this book engages readers in a level of maturity in Christ and helps one build a mindset where he or she can explore God’s peace in this life, at all times, anywhere and this can begin right now. ?Relax challenges readers to stop letting oneself beaten by depression, anxiety and stress. It challenges readers to thrive in difficulties instead of allowing the difficulties to move us, similar to how the wind moves an empty plastic bag. A peace to all and for all is found only in Jesus Christ.

Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant

Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant
Author: Morganna Lambeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009239287

Heidegger has a reputation for reading himself into the philosophers he interprets, and his interpretation of Kant has therefore had little uptake in anglophone Kant scholarship. In this book, Morganna Lambeth provides a new account of Heidegger's method of interpreting Kant, arguing that it is more promising than is typically recognized. On her account, Heidegger thinks that Kant's greatest insights are located in moments of tension, where Kant struggles to articulate something new about his subject-matter. The role of the interpreter, then, is to disentangle competing strands of argument, and to determine which strand is most compelling. Lambeth traces Heidegger's interpretive method across his reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and situates Heidegger's reconstruction of Kant's best line of argument against other post-Kantian readings. She finally shows how Heidegger's deep engagement with Kant sheds light on Heidegger's own philosophical views.

Hong Kong Screenscapes

Hong Kong Screenscapes
Author: Esther M. K. Cheung
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9888028561

Global connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. Energized by transnational images and human flows from China and Asia, Hong Kong's commercial filmmakers and independent pioneers have actively challenged established genres and narrative conventions to create a cultural space independent of Hollywood. The circulation of Hong Kong films through art house and film festival circuits, as well as independent DVDs and galleries and internet sites, reveals many differences within global cultural distributions, as well as distinctive tensions between experimental media artists and traditional screen architects. Coving the contributions of Hong Kong New Wave directors such as Wong Karwai, Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, and Tsui Hark, the volume links their spirit of innovation to work by independent, experimental, and documentary filmmakers, including Fruit Chan, Tammy Cheung, Evans Chan, Yau Ching and digital artist Isaac Leung. Within an interdisciplinary frame that highlights issues of political marginalization, censorship, sexual orientation, gender hierarchies, "flexible citizenship" and local/global identities, this book speaks to scholars and students within as well as beyond the field of Hong Kong cinema. Esther M.K. Cheung is chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) at the University of Hong Kong. Gina Marchetti teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Tan See-Kam presently works and researches at the University of Macau.

Stories in Red and Black

Stories in Red and Black
Author: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2010-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292783124

The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

Design Research for Urban Landscapes

Design Research for Urban Landscapes
Author: Martin Prominski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-05-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351104225

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design. Aimed specifically at researchers completing PhD projects, supervisors and designers working in practice, it covers applied approaches to help you to use design research in your work. With fully illustrated examples of original international design research PhDs from a variety of programme types, such as individual, structured and practice-based, Design Research for Urban Landscapes offers PhD candidates and supervisors a clear foundational pathway.

Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus

Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus
Author: David J. Lull
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2007-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 155635214X

How can one preach effectively on the death of Jesus to a world jaded by stories of suffering and violence? This exegetical book -- written collectively by six authorities on Scripture -- sheds new light on the tremendous power of preaching to challenge and enlarge the world of the listeners. By probing the accounts of Jesus' death in the Gospel of Mark and in Paul's letters, 'Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus' uncovers a vision of divine power and justice that calls us to become partners in God's struggle to overcome suffering and injustice in the world. In the cross, the authors demonstrate, we as Christians are given a symbol of both weakness and defeat and of power and victor. This symbol is a magnificent reminder of the redemption and transformation of lives and situations through Christ's identification with suffering. With unusual success, the six authors have written the entire book as a group undertaking. The result is a testimony to the interrelatedness that is central to the vision of process theology. 'Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus' will be of immense help to preachers and to students and scholars of New Testament interpretation and systematic theology.