Author: Lorena B. Fernandez Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1438985789 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 135
Book Description
As the book title explains, this second bilingual compilation of my poems and art is an impractical guide because the useful guide for your practical life resides within yourself; one way to explore your guide is creating your own poetry and art. My poetry and art represent my emotional reality and my commitment to passion; Passion as the element that guides the directions in which I take my life. Passion defined not as mere feeling or sensation, but as powerful insights into the being that I really am. I refuse to be carried by the currents of life in the form of social pressures; instead I am passionately committed to a certain direction, even when I don't know the final destination. I hope that this book will inspire you to explore your inner guide using art. Sobre El Libro Como explica el título de este libro, esta segunda recopilación bilingüe de mis poemas y arte es una guía impráctica, porque la guía útil en tu vida práctica reside dentro de ti; y una forma de explorar esa guía interna es creando tu propia poesía y arte. Mi poesía y mi arte representan mi realidad emocional o devoción hacia mi pasión; Pasión como el elemento que guían la dirección en que llevo mi vida. Pasión no definida como simple sentimiento o sensación, sino como poderosas visiones del ser que realmente soy. Me niego a ser llevadas por las corrientes de la vida en forma de presiones sociales, en cambio estoy apasionadamente comprometida con una dirección determinada, aun cuando no se cual será mi destino final. Espero que este libro te inspire a explorar tu mundo interior a través del arte.
Author: Alan Lightman Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0593081323 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 209
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The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Author: Yaacov Lozowick Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307833887 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
In July 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to negotiate a peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. At the end of September the Palestinians then launched their second intifada, an outbreak of terrorism in the heart of Israel’s cities that continues to this day. The unprecedented violence drove Barak from office and brought to power the feared hard-liner Ariel Sharon. In RIGHT TO EXIST, Yaacov Lozowick, an Israeli historian, describes his evolution from a liberal peace activist into a reluctant supporter of Sharon. In making sense of his own political journey, Lozowick rewrites the whole history of Israel, delving into the roots of the Zionist enterprise and tracing the long struggle to establish and defend the Jewish state in the face of implacable Arab resistance and widespread international hostility. Lozowick examines each of Israel’s wars from the perspective of classical “just war” theory, from the fight for independence to the present day. Subjecting the country’s founders and their descendants to unsparing scrutiny, he concludes that Israel is neither the pristine socialist utopia its founders envisioned, nor the racist colonial enterprise portrayed by its enemies. Refuting dozens of pernicious myths about the conflict—such as the charge that Israel stole the land from its rightful owners, or that Arabs and Jews are locked in a “cycle of violence” for which both bear equal blame—RIGHT TO EXIST is an impassioned moral history of extraordinary resonance and power.
Author: E. M. Cioran Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1628724951 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic. “A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post
Author: Dave Waxler Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book will blow your freaking mind.Let's be honest. The one thing all humans have in common is their existence, and that comes with a lot of uncertainty. As soon as you think you've got it all figured out the universe pivots and things get messy again. If you didn't know better you would think it's your fault that life is so frustrating. Using research and innovative insights professional therapist and educator Dave Waxler explains why discomfort, self-doubt, conflict, and frustration are all features of your existence and not flaws. Each chapter challenges you to understand why being a human feels so weird and how to get really good at playing a lifelong game with a dynamic universe. How To Exist: A Practical Guide To Being Human relies on twenty years of first-hand experience to provide a strategy for human existence in a concise, objective, practical, and entertaining way. Once you have read this book you will never see yourself and the world the same.
Author: Trevor Treharne Publisher: Universal-Publishers ISBN: 1612331181 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 323
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How to Prove god Does Not Exist is the complete guide to the nonbeliever stance. The most diverse validation of atheism ever written, it deconstructs every major criticism of atheism and defense of religion through logical, philosophical, historical, cultural, moral and scientific means. This builds towards a more strident approach towards asserting atheism, with five key justifications outlined for why god does not exist. This expansive work employs the philosophy of Epicurus, David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche, the science of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, plus the logic of Bertrand Russell, the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, and the contemporized insights of New Atheism advocates such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. It features original concluding insights with prominent atheists such as scientists Vic Stenger and Michael Shermer, plus philosophers Peter Singer and Michel Onfray. There are also unprecedented views of atheism by notable believers, including the 21st century's leading Christian philosopher, Professor Richard Swinburne, while journalist Peter Hitchens unveils why his late brother Christopher's arguments for atheism were "unoriginal, trivial and often ill-informed." The all-encompassing How to Prove god Does Not Exist is the complete armory of arguments that every atheist should know.
Author: Tom Swiss Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365222462 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
What is a god? What does it mean to exist? Can one be both an atheist and a Pagan? Do ancient spiritual traditions have any lessons relevant to the Ferguson and Baltimore Uprisings? Could the Buddha legitimately be called a humanistic Pagan? Is nudity - going "skyclad" - too wild for modern spiritual seekers? Does the culture of Burning Man share values with the modern Pagan revival? Explore these and other questions in this collection by one of the most original and outspoken writers in contemporary Paganism. Includes twenty-six pieces by Tom Swiss, including his complete run on the Patheos Pagan "Agora" blog.
Author: Patrick Zoll Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311097987X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 240
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In der 1970 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien veröffentlicht. Gründungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe (Herausgeber bis 1991), Günther Patzig (bis 1999) und Wolfgang Wieland (bis 2003). Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von Jürgen Mittelstraß, von 2005 bis 2020 von Jens Halfwassen mitherausgegeben.
Author: Lorena B. Fernandez
Author: Alan Lightman
Author: Yaacov Lozowick
Author: E. M. Cioran
Author: Derrick Jensen
Author: Dave Waxler
Author: Trevor Treharne
Author: Jim Holt
Author: Tom Swiss
Author: Patrick Zoll