Looking Back On The End Of The World
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| Author | : Jean Baudrillard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have surpassed history. First published in 1989, Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have surpassed history. Unlike recent works that make history end with the consumer, or project the conflict between the capitalist and the oppressed into the future, the writers in these essays perform a much more basic task: they argue that we can now think through the end of the world. The idea of a unified world, they claim, has given way to new sensibilities about history. The essays evaluate current negative obsessions such as apocalypse and the elimination of difference, and offer positive approaches to the gamble of thinking required in a society without traditional subjects and institutions. Capitalism, the book argues, has changed all the rules of the game, and any nostalgia for starting from the familiar in terms of intellectual critique is doomed. Collectively, the authors sketch the unfamiliarity of the new, those moments when our categories dissolve in the face of connections and relations that announce all sorts of ends. And other things besides. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Gunter Gebauer, Dieter Lenzen, Edgar Morin, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Paul Virilio
| Author | : Hal Lindsey |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2016-10-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0310531063 |
The impact of The Late Great Planet Earth cannot be overstated. The New York Times called it the "no. 1 non-fiction bestseller of the decade." For Christians and non-Christians of the 1970s, Hal Lindsey's blockbuster served as a wake-up call on events soon to come and events already unfolding -- all leading up to the greatest event of all: the return of Jesus Christ. The years since have confirmed Lindsey's insights into what biblical prophecy says about the times we live in. Whether you're a church-going believer or someone who wouldn't darken the door of a Christian institution, the Bible has much to tell you about the imminent future of this planet. In the midst of an out-of-control generation, it reveals a grand design that's unfolding exactly according to plan. The rebirth of Israel. The threat of war in the Middle East. An increase in natural catastrophes. The revival of Satanism and witchcraft. These and other signs, foreseen by prophets from Moses to Jesus, portend the coming of an antichrist . . . of a war which will bring humanity to the brink of destruction . . . and of incredible deliverance for a desperate, dying planet.
| Author | : Lois Lowry |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780395895436 |
Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.
| Author | : Maxine Brown |
| Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2009-12-30 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1557289344 |
Revealing, entertaining window on the music of the ’50s and ’60s
| Author | : Rumaan Alam |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062667653 |
Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?
| Author | : Robert Goolrick |
| Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1565126351 |
It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright, smiling children: two boys and a girl. They lived on a sunny street in a small college town nestled neatly in a leafy valley. They gave parties, hosted picnics, went to church—just like their neighbors. To all appearances, their life seemed ideal. But it was, in fact, all appearances. Lineage, tradition, making the right impression—these were matters of great importance, especially to the mother. But behind the facade this family had created lurked secrets so dark, so painful for this one little boy, that his life would never be the same. It is through the eyes of that boy—a grown man now, revisiting that time—that we see this seemingly serene world and watch as it slowly comes completely and irrevocably undone. Beautifully written, often humorous, sometimes sweet, ultimately shocking, this is a son's story of looking back with both love and anger at the parents who gave him life and then robbed him of it, who created his world and then destroyed it. As author Lee Smith, who knew this world and this family, observed, "Alcohol may be the real villain in this pain-permeated, exquisitely written memoir of childhood—but it is also filled with absolutely dead-on social commentary of this very particular time and place. A brave, haunting, riveting book."
| Author | : Deborah R. Geis |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
| ISBN | : 9780472066230 |
Leading critics, scholars, and theater practictioners consider the most talked-about play of the 1990s
| Author | : Reza Pakravan |
| Publisher | : Summersdale |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-02-09 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9781849539678 |
Steve and I clutched hands -- his right in my left -- and then we simultaneously pushed down with our feet. Cogs clicked, wheels turned, and we were on our way. We left Nordkapp within minutes. Cape Town was only 18,000 kilometres away.Deciding to break away from his comfortable lifestyle in London, Reza and his friend Steve set off from the most northerly point on mainland Europe to cycle the 11,000 miles to the other end of the planet, completely unsupported.Their expedition becomes a race against the clock, as they attempt to complete the trip in a world record of just 100 days. Battling punishing terrain and primitive roads, harsh and debilitating climates, malaria, food poisoning and heat stroke, their thrilling journey brings them face to face with some of the world's most stunning, memorable and volatile regions.This is the intensely personal story of one man's mission to create a more positive, purposeful life, and the compelling account of the epic journey he took to get there.
| Author | : Denver McGuire |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781520727608 |
This is a practical Bible-based story of the events leading to (and including) the End of the World, from a Christian's viewpoint. Much of the "story" is "narrated" by a person (from the future) who has already crossed over, now living in the Millennium (the 1000-year reign of peace on earth). That person is looking back on the End of the World as history, as he remembers it.The story then goes on to discuss what a Believer's life will be like afterward, and what Christians will be doing in eternity. This is not a dissertation on the book of Revelation, although much of Revelation is explained in story-form, written in "easy to understand" language. The narrator from the future describes World War three, the Rapture of the Saints, the three different judgments. He discusses the resurrection of the body, when the soul and spirit is rejoined with the elements of the body. There are many new jobs and new things to do in eternity, with the new (everlasting and perfect) mind and body. He describes the two different worlds, that is the physical world of space, time, planets and galaxies, and the spirit world where time exists no more, and we have a wide array of exciting things to do for eternity.The phrase "A Fresh Look" in the title is there to indicate a new and different look. It is a concise, simplified view of Bible Prophecy concerning the End of The World. The book examines anew some familiar prophecies leading to the Great Tribulation and "the Second Coming," then going further to explore life in the peaceful Millennium. It looks closely at the two contrasting worlds (physical and spiritual) and then probes (even further) into the exciting realm after the Millennium, daring to look into the Eternal State, and mankind's possible role far beyond the boundaries of Time.
| Author | : Lord Northbourne |
| Publisher | : Sophia Perennis |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780900588532 |
Collected essays on critiquing the belief in progress from a traditionalist point of view from which so-called progress oftens appears as regress.
