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Author | : Sesay, Mohamed Gibril |
Publisher | : Sierra Leonean Writers Series |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2015-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 999109217X |
The book tells the story of Momodu, a tale teller, and unpublished poet with a banana heart and flabby waist, weaves the interlocking stories of his younger brother, father, mother, cousin and slum friends into a tapestry that sometimes looks like a shroud, other times like a priest's holy hermit, and plenty times like the sparkling attire of a blaspheming fornicator.
Author | : Brad Warner |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608688054 |
A reader-friendly guide to Zen Buddhist ethics for modern times In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality — the realization that everything in the universe forms a single, integrated whole — is especially difficult to grasp. In The Other Side of Nothing, Zen teacher Brad Warner untangles the mystery and explains nonduality in plain English. To Warner, this is not just a philosophical problem: nonduality forms the bedrock of Zen ethics, and once we comprehend it, many of the perplexing aspects of Zen suddenly make sense. Drawing on decades of Zen practice, he traces the interlocking relationship between Zen metaphysics and ethics, showing how a true understanding of reality — and the ultimate unity of all things — instills in us a sense of responsibility for the welfare of all beings. When we realize that our feeling of separateness from others is illusory, we have no desire to harm any creature. Warner ultimately presents an expansive overview of the Zen ethos that will give beginners and experts alike a deeper understanding of one of the world’s enduring spiritual traditions.
Author | : Beverly Lanzetta |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001-02-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791449509 |
Provides an innovative theology based in mysticism, one that acknowledges the pain of spiritual repression and values religious pluralism.
Author | : KENNETH NORMAN COOK |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1329980123 |
My pen will probably never stop leaking onto paper (or fingers tapping onto a keyboard, as is more often the case) until the day I depart from the planet, so in the meantime, please enjoy the poetry, for it comes from a brain stuffed with ideas, a heart filled with a thousand emotions and fingers bursting with the need to put it all down for the world to read about.
Author | : Jacob Blumenfeld |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1785358952 |
Max Stirner’s The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806–1856), a figure that strongly influenced—for better or worse—Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emma Goldman as well as numerous anarchists, feminists, surrealists, illegalists, existentialists, fascists, libertarians, dadaists, situationists, insurrectionists and nihilists of the last two centuries. Misunderstood, dismissed, and defamed, Stirner’s work is considered by some to be the worst book ever written. It combines the worst elements of philosophy, politics, history, psychology, and morality, and ties it all together with simple tautologies, fancy rhetoric, and militant declarations. That is the glory of Max Stirner’s unique footprint in the history of philosophy. Jacob Blumenfeld wanted to exhume this dead tome along with its dead philosopher, but discovered instead that, rather than deceased, their spirits are alive and quite well, floating in our presence. All Things are Nothing to Me is a forensic investigation into how Stirner has stayed alive throughout time.
Author | : Anastasia Zadeik |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2024-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1647426693 |
A moving exploration of family, friendship, and how far we are willing to go for the ones we love, The Other Side of Nothing is a powerful read about loss, self-determination, and second chances. 2024 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist for Popular Fiction 2024 Zibby Summer Reads Selection? The day after her eighteenth birthday, Julia Reeves checks herself into a psychiatric facility, longing to find a way out of the grief and guilt that have engulfed her since her father’s untimely death. What she finds is fellow suicide attempt survivor Sam Lorenzo, a brilliant twenty-three-year-old photographer. Sam brings beauty and light back into Julia’s life, so when he asks her to escape with him on a cross-country odyssey, she agrees. Before Julia can process what she’s done, the two young lovers are on the run. When Julia’s mother, Laura, learns Julia has disappeared and authorities will do nothing to help find her, Laura forms an uneasy alliance with the sole person who has as much to lose as she does: Sam’s mother, Arabella. Armed with only a handful of clues, the two mothers embark on a journey of their own, desperately hoping to save their children before they are lost forever.
Author | : Brad Warner |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608688046 |
A reader-friendly guide to Zen Buddhist ethics for modern times In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality — the realization that everything in the universe forms a single, integrated whole — is especially difficult to grasp. In The Other Side of Nothing, Zen teacher Brad Warner untangles the mystery and explains nonduality in plain English. To Warner, this is not just a philosophical problem: nonduality forms the bedrock of Zen ethics, and once we comprehend it, many of the perplexing aspects of Zen suddenly make sense. Drawing on decades of Zen practice, he traces the interlocking relationship between Zen metaphysics and ethics, showing how a true understanding of reality — and the ultimate unity of all things — instills in us a sense of responsibility for the welfare of all beings. When we realize that our feeling of separateness from others is illusory, we have no desire to harm any creature. Warner ultimately presents an expansive overview of the Zen ethos that will give beginners and experts alike a deeper understanding of one of the world’s enduring spiritual traditions.
Author | : Lynn Leite |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2010-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1456838229 |
~ Things are not always what they seem~ Annies world is turned upside down when her best friend Jenna is killed in a car accident just before the New Year. Jenna is gone. Annie is devastated, until she finds she can some how still see Jenna. Her mind is obviously playing tricks she decides. Insane or not, at least she has her best friend back. School turns out to be another challenge. Its hard to concentrate when the best friend youre supposed to be grieving is now hanging all over Zach, the most popular guy in school. Annie, unable to look Zach in the eye, tries now to avoid a boy she and Jenna both had a crush on. Annie finds that things are not always as they seem. The first day back to school only leaves Annie with two questions. Why is Zach Calloway all of a sudden interested, when before Jenna died he didnt even know Annie existed? Even more important, why can creepy Evan Meglio from Biology class apparently see Jenna too.
Author | : Paula Poundstone |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0593444019 |
Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can’t help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, the eccentric and utterly inimitable mind of Paula Poundstone dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with surprising candor and spot-on comedic timing in this unique laugh-out-loud book. If you like Paula Poundstone’s ironic and blindingly intelligent humor, you’ll love this wryly observant, funny, and touching book. Paula Poundstone on . . . The sources of her self-esteem: “A couple of years ago I was reunited with a guy I knew in the fifth grade. He said, “All the other fifth-grade guys liked the pretty girls, but I liked you.” It’s hard to know if a guy is sincere when he lays it on that thick. The battle between fatigue and informed citizenship: I play a videotape of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer every night, but sometimes I only get as far as the theme song (da da-da-da da-ah) before I fall asleep. Sometimes as soon as Margaret Warner says whether or not Jim Lehrer is on vacation I drift right off. Somehow just knowing he’s well comforts me. The occult: I need to know exactly what day I’m gonna die so that I don’t bother putting away leftovers the night before. TV’s misplaced priorities: Someday in the midst of the State of the Union address they’ll break in with, “We interrupt this program to bring you a little clip from Bewitched.” Travel: In London I went to the queen’s house. I went as a tourist—she didn’t invite me so she could pick my brain: “What do you think of my face on the pound? Too serious?” Air-conditioning in Florida: If it were as cold outside in the winter as they make it inside in the summer, they’d put the heat on. It makes no sense. The scandal: The judge said I was the best probationer he ever had. Talk about proud. With a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore
Author | : Woody Allen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1951627377 |
The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.