Author: Douglas Kaine McKelvey Publisher: Every Moment Holy ISBN: 9781951872052 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
EVERY MOMENT HOLY, Vol. 2: DEATH, GRIEF, & HOPE, is a book of liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving--liturgies such as "A Liturgy for the Scattering of Ashes" or "A Liturgy for the Loss of a Spouse" or "A Liturgy for the Wake of a National Tragedy" or "A Liturgy for the Weighing of Last-Stage Medical Options." These are ways of reminding us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose and eternal hopes even when, especially when, suffering and pain threaten to overwhelm us. -over 100 liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving -beautiful leather-bound hardcover -over 20 illustrations by Ned Bustard -silk bookmark -gilded edges
Author: Alexander McCall Smith Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0307907511 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 55
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In this Isabel Dalhousie original short story, available exclusively in electronic format, our intrepid heroine—accused by a distraught wife of being the "other woman"—makes a surprising discovery as she attempts to defend her reputation. Summer in Edinburgh is a season of delicate sunshine and showers, picnics with loved ones in blossoming gardens, and genteel celebrations of art and music. But Isabel Dalhousie’s peaceful idyll is broken when a single meeting over coffee with fellow philosopher Dr. George McLeod brings an irate phone call from his wife, Roz, who implacably accuses Isabel of conducting an affair with her husband. Wounded by the injustice of Roz’s wild allegation and concerned both for her standing among the gossipy group of her scholarly peers and for Roz’s apparent state of hysteria, Isabel sets out to discover more about the McLeods, and to set the record straight before the bitterness in their marriage poisons her own reputation. For insight into the McLeods’ relationship she turns to Millie, who is both an old acquaintance of Isabel’s and a university colleague of George’s. In this engaging, intelligently observed story, Alexander McCall Smith’s sharp-eyed heroine is reminded once again to avoid jumping to hasty conclusions about the lives of others, and to value friendship wherever it’s found.
Author: Chris Park Publisher: ISBN: 9781790612895 Category : Languages : en Pages : 161
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Looking for Inspiration?Are you wondering if there's more to this life than the next Netflix special?Well...you're in the right place.Because I wrote this book for you.This is a 30 day devotional. But it's not theology. It won't cure a disease or get you into heaven. I'm not a theologian, preacher, teacher, or any one else with qualifications to write such a thing.This book isn't for baptists, methodists, catholics, calvinists, dunkers, or sprinklers.It's for misfits, pill heads, lawyers, prostitutes, junkies, manic depressives, shut-ins, zealots, anarchists, tax-collectors, thieves, and insomniacs.In other words, it's not for those that have it all figured out.It's for the rest of us.The ones looking and searching.The ones that know HOPE is the most dangerous idea of all.So sit back...Relax...And DRINK THIS BOOK WHILE READING YOUR MORNING COFFEE
Author: J. Michael Curtis Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1477254323 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 228
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A long time observer of the human condition, Curtis combines a wry wit with some unexpected opinions, penetrating insights and intensely personal reflections. This book covers a wide range of topics from the mundane to the metaphysical, spun with a sense of humour and wonder. This read has some delightful surprises that will leave you thinking and laughing. You never know what to expect. For a regular guy, the author puts forth some very deep observations and opinions on how to achieve extraordinary happiness in your life. While you may not agree with all of his arguments, you will nevertheless find yourself contemplating some of your own personal convictions. - Walter T. Leps, Ph.D., President, WAI BioProcess Solutions I know Mike to be a happy guy who is getting happier with age. He has figured some things out that are worth considering to build a happier life for yourself in mind, body, spirit and heart. Mike will help you get closer faster and easier if you experiment with his advice. - Gaye Hanson, Blue Flowing Water Woman
Author: Kate Benz Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700633456 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture. Through charming, first-person accounts, Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town tells the whole story of life in Courtland, bucking the “Rural America is dying” narrative that so often proliferates national headlines about small-town USA. Throughout the book, Benz paints a picture of community that is unwilling to give up on each other. Macro-level issues such as rising tariffs, operation costs versus sinking commodity prices, and infusions of federal farm subsidies affect the locals’ daily livelihood, but it’s their love of their community that continues their collective efforts to keep Main Street open for business and Courtland on the map. These are the stories from one corner of rural America, told through the people who live there: the fourth-generation farmers, the young professionals, the transplants, the small business owners (many of whom are women)—a community that is nuclear, blended, straight, gay, red, blue, religious, and anything but. Young people who grew up in Courtland are moving back to raise their kids there, but instead of farming, they are opening breweries, boutiques, marketing agencies, or hair salons. They love rural life but want a new way to define it. Courtland is a community that is unwaveringly determined to keep their corner of rural America not only alive but thriving, refusing to let challenges define or deter them. Instead, they continuously find creative ways to overcome, adapt, improve, and move forward.
Author: Michael Hauskeller Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1800082177 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in it is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred. Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal.
Author: Scott Strubel Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1663263140 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 422
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A gripping memoir of one person’s rise from poverty to leading sales organizations for five pioneering technology companies. This is a story of how eleven childhood jobs from age nine to eighteen provided the motivation and work ethic to rise through sales organizations to lead sales and channel teams around the world. In this collection of stories from his first sixty years, Strubel explores how his childhood shaped his adult life. His stories cover how his father became the first in his family to attend college, then lost his business and the family home after falling on hard times. And how his mom went back to work at minimum wage until a head-on collision ended her ability to work. Strubel put himself through college while hitchhiking home on weekends to spend time with his younger sisters. He joined the original Silicon Valley startup who allowed him to work as a co-op every other semester through college, and then joined them for twenty-seven years after he graduated from Indiana University. Simple, But Hard tells stories of love and loss, of pain and laughter. Stories of luck and hard work and how both led him from a restaurant dishwasher to become the chief commercial officer of a multi-billion-dollar company. This book will take the reader around the world in a wide range of topics told in short stories.
Author: Phillip Vannini Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415879922 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology The Senses in Self, Culture, and Sociology explicitly blurs boundaries which, in this field, are particularly weak due to the ethnographic scope of much research. Serving both the sociological and anthropological constituencies at once means bridging ethnographic traditions, cultural foci, and socio-ecological approaches to embodiment and sensuousness. The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is intended to be a milestone in the social sciences somatic turn.
Author: Olivia Marques Publisher: Olivia Marques ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 67
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Feel like your body is fighting against you in your quest for weight loss results? Have you tried weight loss plan after weight loss plan and nothing seems to work for you? If so, it’s time to stop fighting your body, and work with it instead. In Weight Loss For Women, you will learn what makes the female body different and what you need to do to really get fat loss moving along. Most women who seek fast weight loss make the grave mistake of jumping on the first quick-fix diet they can find that promises fast results. Maybe you saw your friend use the plan and get results or perhaps it’s the ‘hottest’ weight loss plan all the celebrities are using. But is it right for you? The first step to seeing successful weight loss is realizing that healthy weight loss is about more than just counting calories or spending hours on the treadmill. Healthy weight loss is about changing your mindset and way of thinking so that you are making permanent changes that promote a lean and fit body. You need a weight loss plan for women that works with your day to day lifestyle. It’s rare to find a weight loss book that addresses this because most just give you the quick solution and hope it’s enough to bring you temporary results and keep you busy. You don’t want the quick solution though – you want lasting results that you feel good about. That’s what our Weight Loss For Women program is all about. Throughout the course of this weight loss book, you’ll discover: • Simple yet highly effective tips to maximise your metabolic rate so that you burn fat faster all day long • How to set up a very simple meal plan that any busy woman could stick with • How to achieve healthy weight loss by choosing the right food combinations • The main factors that make weight loss for women harder than for men – and what you can do to combat these • How to incorporate your favorite foods into your diet and still see fast weight loss results • How to design an exercise weight loss plan for women that will work at home or in the gym - and still allow enough time to live your life • and much more! Weight Loss For Women is a complete approach that is going to bond together mindset, proper nutrition, and effective exercise to help you achieve lasting weight loss that not only has you looking better than you have before, but also has you feeling healthier. Without health, no amount of weight loss matters, so you need to start focusing away from quick-fix ‘diets’ and start focusing on healthy weight loss approaches. Weight Loss For Women is the only approach you need.
Author: Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Author: Chris Park
Author: J. Michael Curtis
Author: Kate Benz
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Author: Michael Hauskeller
Author: Scott Strubel
Author: Phillip Vannini
Author: Olivia Marques