Love in the New Millennium

Love in the New Millennium
Author: Can Xue
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0300240481

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.

Rhetorics in the New Millennium

Rhetorics in the New Millennium
Author: James D. Hester
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567349918

Some of the most renowned modern practitioners of New Testament rhetorical criticism, including Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Wilhelm Wuellner and the editors themselves provide new rhetorical readings of New Testament texts. Organized into three distinct sections, Rhetorics in the New Millennium provides a cutting-edge approach to this thorny issue in biblical studies. The first section is a collection of three essays that are primarily theoretical in nature and concerned with examining general theories of rhetoric. The second section is a series of specific studies each using a different accepted theoretical model to analyze a given text. The final section presents valuable appendices which summarize information about the content of certain theoretical models of criticism. Finally, a bibliography listing a wide variety of rhetorical critical studies and reference works is included.

Man of the New Millennium

Man of the New Millennium
Author: Gregory Dark
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1846943396

Man of the New Millennium is a book for us: the millions of people who want to see the end of mancruel and the start of mankind and the probably billion or so of us in this world, exasperated and disenchanted by worn-out templates, trying to find new ones. Wrapped in the most gentle of narratives, Man of the New Millennium leads us through the maze of history's travesties and today's duplicities to a future with a future, to a future whose potential is our potential, our potential as a species, and that potential special to all of us individually. Man of the New Millennium is a search for us in an age of me; it is a text for humanity in fictional dress; it is a book which changes hope from an ill-defined aspiration to a realisable ambition. It is a book of today which guarantees a quality tomorrow. Man of the New Millennium is the third book of the trilogy which also comprises The Prophet of the New Millennium and God of the New Millennium.

Cabinet

Cabinet
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Total Pages: 506
Release: 2005
Genre: Art and society
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The Family in the New Millennium

The Family in the New Millennium
Author: Thomas B. Holman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1345
Release: 2006-12-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 031308470X

A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family—married father and mother with biological children —detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars—many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect—conclude that natural family is being threatened, and is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying. Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.

Thirst

Thirst
Author: Alan Snitow
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780787996512

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations likeNestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local watersources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking controlof public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodifywater, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinchedbackroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying todeny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their mostessential public resource. The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed howcommunities around the world are resisting the privatization andcommodification of water. Thirst, the book,picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence ofcontroversial new water wars in the United States and showing howcommunities here are fighting this battle, often against companiesheadquartered overseas. Read areview...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL

Red Alert!

Red Alert!
Author: S Scanlan
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2001-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595188052

When you are not having fun, it's very hard to transmute. Follow the story of the GFS Navarac and its transmutations, during its visit to the strange planet called Earth. Meet the humans, and other inhabitants of the planet, who help the crew of the Navarac to trace its lost sister ship. Witness the frustration of the characters, and the book, with a writer whose leadership is anything but…where was I? Adults must be accompanied by a child. (Inner-child accepted). afunnybook.com

A Theology of the Church for the Third Millennium

A Theology of the Church for the Third Millennium
Author: Kenan Osborne
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047430018

At the beginning of the new millennium, the Christian Churches are in a process of renewal. The Roman Catholic Church, since Vatican II, has been in a major stage of renewal. Contemporary globalization, multi-cultural interrelationships, and inter-religious dialogues have presented serious challenges to these renewal efforts. In this volume, I want to offer to the Catholic Renewal and from there to other denominational renewals, a view of the church from the rich tradition of Franciscan philosophy and theology. To date there are a only a few books which include small essays on this theme. This volume presents an in-depth Franciscan approach to ecclesiology.

Millennium Prophecies

Millennium Prophecies
Author: Mark Thurston
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781575661438

Examines the process used by Edgar Cayce to receive his visionary insights and his millennium prophecies, plus his links to the prophecies of Nostradamus. Reissue.