When God Talks Back

When God Talks Back
Author: T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307277275

A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.

Theatre After Empire

Theatre After Empire
Author: Megan E. Geigner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0429768494

Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new performance styles in the wake of collapsed political systems. Centering on theatrical works from the late nineteenth century to the present, twelve original essays written by prominent theatre scholars showcase the development of new work after social revolutions, independence campaigns, the overthrow of monarchies, and world wars. Global in scope, this book features performances occurring across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The essays attend to a range of live events—theatre, dance, and performance art—that stage subaltern experiences and reveal societies in the midst of cultural, political, and geographic transition. This collection is an engaging resource for students and scholars of theatre and performance; world history; and those interested in postcolonialism, multiculturalism, and transnationalism. The Introduction ("Framing Latine Theatre and Performance") of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954–1973

Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954–1973
Author: Robert S. Ross
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684173590

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other’s policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.–China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart’s policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875

Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838641187

Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875 is a volume of transcripts of conversations conducted by the nineteenth-century American philosopher and educator A. Bronson Alcott at various locations in New England and the Midwest. The transcripts have been created from unpublished manuscripts in the Alcott collection at Harvard University and Concord Free Library, as well as published contemporary articles in The Radical, New York Daily Tribune, and The Chicago Tribune. Gathered in this volume, Alcott's transcripts vividly reflect American intellectual concerns from the years preceding the Civil War through the beginning of the Gilded Age.

White Book

White Book
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1982
Genre: Afghanistan
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Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy

Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy
Author: Ed Hawkins
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1408169967

A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...

The 20th Century Cyber War Zone Operations Documentary Part Two

The 20th Century Cyber War Zone Operations Documentary Part Two
Author: Perry Ritthaler
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1456606441

This fascinating e-book continues the story taking the reader from the time of full blow killings on the battlefield toward the peace truce operations currently being negotiated in the Middle East today. The e-book is packed with many online pictures and newspaper articles and video links to help the reader better understand the covert digital cyber warfare operations, flavored with the authors' special brand of war poetry poems. No matter where you go," Perry says, "you can always hear 'echoes of the war on terrorism, ' even silent echoes." Against this background, Perry develops his cyber covert digital psychology war operations filled with new peace empowerment war strategy wielding empowerment mixed with logic. He releases the operations online into the battlefield as fast as terrorism and war is published in media online reported in the Middle East region of the world. As he attempted to deal with the ravages of war seamlessly, and the threat posed to the civilian way of life, the final war on terror is shaped in the age of psychology economic empowerment reasoning. Through the implementation of these "covert psychology war strategy empowerment operations," war strategies and operations by the terrorism networks and NATO military are redefined and implemented on the battlefield. The reshaping of the war on terrorism objectives in the mind of leaders on both sides of the battlefield are his target. This is powerful e-book to read for people interested in politics or terrorism or the wars in the Middle East or the new cyber warfare technology created in the 20th Century.