Origins

Origins
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008-09-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 144065154X

The chronicle of the deadly Woodbane conspiracy—as told by one of Morgan’s own ancestors—has fallen into Hunter’s and Morgan’s hands. Hunter and Morgan explore the world of these powerful witches, to find a way to vanquish them at last.

Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning

Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning
Author: Selma James
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1604867116

In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on movement experience South and North, and on a respectful study of Marx, she redefined the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as “marginal.” For James, the class struggle presents itself as the conflict between the reproduction and survival of the human race, and the domination of the market with its exploitation, wars, and ecological devastation. She sums up her strategy for change as “Invest in Caring not Killing.” This selection, spanning six decades, traces the development of this perspective in the course of building an international campaigning network. It includes excerpts from the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which launched the “domestic labor debate,” the exciting “Hookers in the House of the Lord” which describes a church occupation by sex workers, an incisive review of the C.L.R. James masterpiece The Black Jacobins, a reappraisal of the novels of Jean Rhys and of the leadership of Julius Nyerere, the groundbreaking “Marx and Feminism,” and more. The writing is lucid and without jargon. The ideas, never abstract, spring from the experience of organising, from trying to make sense of the successes and the setbacks, and from the need to find a way forward.

Heartlight

Heartlight
Author: K. Michael Curcuru
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2017-01-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1504372980

Foreword Heartlight This book will change your relationship with reality. K. Michael Curcuru bestows enlightenment in a book. What you hold in your hands doesnt just have words about light. It conveys light. This book is a touchstone. Get into it. Let it wash over you. Read aloud the exquisite passages, and relish the sparkling energy that enfolds you. This is a new literary genre: stream-of-light-consciousness writing. When I began reading Heartlight, my recovering English teacher started sputtering, Oh dear, thats what hes using as a verb? Then the beauty and flow of the book moved me into a different way of being with it. Michael really does see the world as hes written it here. He embodies radiant light. And this book imparts transformation just as Michael doesenergetically speaking because Michael is that light. He has discovered a way of gifting an enlightened level of being to you by experiencing his book. Heartlight is an energetic field. Like a magnetic field realigns poles of iron filings, you will find yourself feeling lighter, expanded, and more open-hearted and self-loving when you spend time in this book. You will absorb this book at a subatomic level. Avoid seeking the sentence structure Newtonian method. Let your right brain fall in love with this book. Use the creative, fluid, random part of you that senses wholeness rather than constructs it. As you drop into this book, you may find yourself swept away, poised on the crest of a word wave. Awash in alluring alliteration, you ask, From whence did I come? You can find your way home, Dorothy, by remembering. Heartlight is about how to be the light in the Illusion; it is how to find the light, trust the light, and be cradled by the light. As Michael would say, In-Joy! Namaste, Phyllis Kirk, JD Quantum Lite Simplified: How to Calm the Chaos

Despair and Modernity

Despair and Modernity
Author: Harsha V. Dehejia
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788120817555

Dehejia has tried to create a place within the main frame of culture and philosophy of Indian art for a legitimate analytic theory called despair. Dehejia's effort creates a space for the modern within Indian classicism by negotiating the philosophy of despair in classical terms. As a result the basic schism that has grown in recent years between the philosophy and history of modern art on the one hand and the philosophy and history of traditional arts is today cloder to being breached.

All In

All In
Author: Jonathan D Cohen
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1943859612

Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of this major economic force and cultural phenomenon. Approximately 70 percent of Americans regularly engage in some form of betting, amounting to over $140 billion in combined casino and lottery revenue every year. A hundred years ago, however, legal gambling was a rarity in the United States. A fresh take on the history of modern American gambling, All In provides a closer look at the shifting economic, cultural, religious, and political conditions that facilitated gambling’s expansion and prominence in American consumerism and popular culture. In its pages, a diverse range of essays covering commercial and Native American casinos, sports betting, lotteries, bingo, and more piece together a picture of how gambling became so widespread over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing from a range of academic disciplines, this collection explores five aspects of American gambling history: crime, advertising, politics, religion, and identity. In doing so, All In illuminates the on-the-ground debates over gambling’s expansion, the failed attempts to thwart legalized betting, and the consequences of its present ubiquity in the United States.

The Derrick Jensen Reader

The Derrick Jensen Reader
Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1609804058

In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous selections from his prescient, unflinching books on the problem of civilization and the path to true resistance. In the acclaimed A Language Older Than Words, Jensen dissects his own abusive childhood to examine the pathology of Western culture and shares with us the power and beauty of an alliance with the natural world. He continues to use the lens of his own experience as well as the wisdom of philosophers, activists, and teachers to expose oppression and call us to action in his other early works, Listening to the Land, A Culture of Make Believe, Strangely Like War, and Walking on Water. We see his analysis deepen when he asks us to accept that the only moral response to biocide is resistance in the two-volume Endgame, a truth he explores further in Thought to Exist in the Wild, What We Leave Behind, the graphic novel As The World Burns, and in his two novels, Songs of the Dead and Lives Less Valuable. And in Dreams, Jensen's latest work, he leads us still further toward his vision for a healed planet, freeing us to see beyond the limits of our present culture to a future luminous with meaning.

The Art of Found Objects

The Art of Found Objects
Author: Robert Craig Bunch
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1623494079

In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from formative influences and inspirations to their common engagement with found materials. Beyond the art itself, no source is more primary to understanding art and artist than the artist’s own words. After all, who can speak with more authority about the artist’s influences, motivations, methods, philosophies, and creations? Since 2010, Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty-four of Texas’ finest artists, who have responded with honesty, clarity, and—naturally—great insight into their own work. None of these interviews has been previously published, even in part. Incorporating a striking, full-color illustration of each artist’s work, these absorbing self-examinations will stand collectively as a reference of lasting value.

Hume's Theory of Consciousness

Hume's Theory of Consciousness
Author: Wayne Waxman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2003-09-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521541183

A comprehensive analysis and re-evaluation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.

For the Sake of Love

For the Sake of Love
Author: Dwan Abrams
Publisher: Urban Christian
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622860802

Xavier Roberts’ life seems to be coming together. He’s engaged to be married to an incredible woman, Summer Love, and he’s recently signed a recording contract. When he gets a surprise cancer diagnosis, however, he puts all his plans on hold and calls off the wedding. Hurt and confused, Summer pours her energy into running her company, Spa Nevaeh, but it isn’t long before she’s ready to move on. Record company executive Ryan Kennedy notices Summer, and she allows herself to explore the possibility of finding love again. When his medical treatments are complete and Xavier is healthy again, he sets out to win back his fiancée. Summer finds herself torn between the two men, and she is forced to make a difficult decision with shocking consequences. The rejected suitor has been keeping a dark secret, and Summer’s rejection forces him to reveal a sinister side that could result in deadly consequences.