Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Entomologica Americana
Author: The Moral Imagination
Author: John Paul LederachPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974758X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
"John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. He has provided consultation, training and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, Tajikistan, and the Philippines. His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline. In this book, Lederach poses the question, "How do we transcend the cycles of violence that bewitch our human community while still living in them?" Peacebuilding, in his view, is both a learned skill and an art. Finding this art, he says, requires a worldview shift. Conflict professionals must envision their work as a creative act-an exercise of what Lederach terms the "moral imagination." This imagination must, however, emerge from and speak to the hard realities of human affairs. The peacebuilder must have one foot in what is and one foot beyond what exists. The book is organized around four guiding stories that point to the moral imagination but are incomplete. Lederach seeks to understand what happened in these individual cases and how they are relevant to large-scale change. His purpose is not to propose a grand new theory. Instead he wishes to stay close to the "messiness" of real processes and change, and to recognize the serendipitous nature of the discoveries and insights that emerge along the way. overwhelmed the equally important creative process. Like most professional peacemakers, Lederach sees his work as a religious vocation. Lederach meditates on his own calling and on the spirituality that moves ordinary people to reject violence and seek reconciliation. Drawing on his twenty-five years of experience in the field he explores the evolution of his understanding of peacebuilding and points the way toward the future of the art." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004011794-d.html.
Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes
Author: Richard SprucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Epheta Misión Salud
Author: Hugo Galindo Salom MDPublisher: Editorial San Pablo Colombia
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Hugo Galindo Salom, médico colombia - no, epidemiólogo e investigador con publicaciones sobre la calidad de vida en el cáncer. Conferencista internacional en temas de salud holística, gracias a su forma - ción en Sagradas Escrituras en Israel en 1982. Tiene Posgrado en Medicina Ortomole - cular en el Australian College of Medical Nutrition, y un Diplomado en Medicinas Alternativas de la Universidad del Ro - sario en Bogotá. Su perfil lo completa una Maestría en Educación en Brisbane, Australia, y la creación de la Sociedad Colombiana de Medicina Preventiva y Ortomolecular de la cual ha sido su Presi - dente en los últimos 6 años. Actualmente cursa su segundo año de Doctorado en Medicina Ortomolecular en CIC. Traductor del libro Vitamina C, misil sa - nador de la naturaleza, de los doctores Ian y Glenn Dettman, que ha superado el medio millón de copias impresas y vendidas en Latinoamérica. Creó la Fundación Ephetá, la cual cuenta con el novedoso Programa de Retiro de Salud para la Prevención de Cáncer, con resultados extraordinarios. Hugo Galindo entrena médicos en el manejo ortomolecular del cáncer uti - lizando la “dieta de los 7 colores” que promete ser la gran novedad en nutri - ción, después de las revolucionarias dietas Gerson, paleo y cetógenica; al igual que las megadosis de Vitamina C.
Ozu
Author: Donald RichiePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520032774
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
The Lettered City
Author: Angel RamaPublisher: Latin America in Translation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America's most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama's groundbreaking study--presented here in its first English translation--provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. To impose order on a vast New World empire, the Iberian monarchs created carefully planned cities where institutional and legal powers were administered through a specialized cadre of elite men called letrados; it is the urban nexus of lettered culture and state power that Rama calls "the lettered city." Starting with the colonial period, Rama undertakes a historical analysis of the hegemonic influences of the written word. He explores the place of writing and urbanization in the imperial designs of the Iberian colonialists and views the city both as a rational order of signs representative of Enlightenment progress and as the site where the Old World is transformed--according to detailed written instructions--in the New. His analysis continues by recounting the social and political challenges faced by the letrados as their roles in society widened to include those of journalist, fiction writer, essayist, and political leader, and how those roles changed through the independence movements of the nineteenth century. The coming of the twentieth century, and especially the gradual emergence of a mass reading public, brought further challenges. Through a discussion of the currents and countercurrents in turn-of-the-century literary life, Rama shows how the city of letters was finally "revolutionized." Already crucial in setting the terms for debate concerning the complex relationships among intellectuals, national formations, and the state, this elegantly written and translated work will be read by Latin American scholars in a wide range of disciplines, and by students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, cultural geography, and postcolonial studies.
Time for God
Author: Jacques PhilippePublisher: Scepter Publishers
ISBN: 1594170975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Many people today are thirsty for God and feel a desire for an intense, personal prayer life that is deep and ongoing. But they encounter obstacles that prevent them from following the path seriously, and especially from persevering on it. Time for God was written with these desires and difficulties in mind. In Time for God, author Jacques Philippe mainly concentrates on mental prayer: prayer that consists of facing God in solitude and silence for a time in order to enter into intimate, loving communion with him. Practicing this kind of prayer regularly is considered by all spiritual masters to be an indispensable path that gives access to genuine Christian life—a path to knowing and loving God that empowers us to respond to his call to holiness addressed to each individual. Philippe draws on years of experience as a spiritual guide to illuminate the fundamental principles of mental prayer and describes some common mistakes and misconceptions that can lead it astray. With simplicity and clarity he explains the foundational principles for a healthy prayer life and gives advice for overcoming the various obstacles that arise when one sets off on the path of interior prayer.
LA HERENCIA DE EL ENCANTO
Author: RAÚL D. MONTOYAPublisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463359373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
El Encanto, al igual que otros poblados del estado de Veracruz, se caracteriza por lo aberrante de su gente. Por un lado, quienes glorifican en público a Epifanio Martínez, en privado lo maldicen. Muchos quieren ser como él, pero aborrecen que su estirpe haya mantenido en perpetua desgracia al poblado. Nadie sabe con exactitud cuándo fue el día en que los pueblerinos quedaron a merced de tanta humillación. Lo perverso de su verdugo, confunde a la gente con la idea de que éste todo lo puede con el poder de su dinero, hasta que en el horizonte aparecen Gabino Domínguez y Gervasio García, provocando que el cacique viva sus peores días. Sin querer, el par de campesinos sufren con una experiencia que los horroriza de pies a cabeza en la derruida ex hacienda de El Encanto. A partir de ese momento, la vida en El Encanto ya no será la misma. Muchos, al igual que Gabino y Gervasio, creen que Epifanio tiene pactos con el demonio. Y el par de campesinos tienen razones de sobra para pensar así. Sin embargo, ambos se dan cuenta que el cacique no es el mito que todos creían. Así, poco a poco, Gabino y su inseparable amigo con la ayuda de la familia Ruvalcaba, descorren el velo que mantuvo por tanto tiempo postrado al poblado.
Outlines of General Chemistry
Author: Wilhelm OstwaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A Tale of the Dispossessed/La Multitud Errante
Author: Laura RestrepoPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006072370X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.