Among the Bloodpeople

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751707
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Among the Bloodpeople by : Thomas Glave

Download or read book Among the Bloodpeople written by Thomas Glave and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.

Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751782
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh by : Thomas Glave

Download or read book Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh written by Thomas Glave and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa Named a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Nonfiction! Included in the 2014 Over the Rainbow list Selected by Publishers Weekly as a Pick of the Week (July 1st, 2013)! Selected by The Airship/Black Balloon Publishing as a Best Book of 2013 "This collection is wide-ranging, moving from the Caribbean (Jamaica in particular) to Cambridge, England, and from poetry to sex to discrimination." --Library Journal (BEA Editors' Picks feature) "A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities, the oppressed, and the colonized, informs [Glave's] searing, beautifully evocative collection of essays...He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica...A graceful and original stylist, Glave highlights the marginalized--calling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past, and, in effect, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately, his work is critical, yet filled with generosity and compassion." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Thomas Glave surely is one of the bravest of contemporary authors...He is a fearless truth-teller whose essays in Among the Bloodpeople are fully, unhesitatingly engaged with his and our world." --New York Journal of Books "This is a collection that will leave you with chills; you will return to it not only for its sheer beauty, but also for its raw honesty, pain, and passion." --Lambda Literary Report "Glave writes beautifully...his...voice deserves our attention." --The Gay & Lesbian Review "A wonderful anthology, interspersing personal essays with more academic-leaning articles." --CCLaP "Glave remarks on the state of an island as he sees it, and of a people whose legacies bear out in astonishing ways, employing prose that soothes while its subject matter sears genteel sensibilities." --Caribbean Beat "Glave crosses boundaries of genre and community, speaking with extraordinary candor and vulnerability variously as the American son of immigrants, as a Jamaican, as a professor, as a queer boy from the Bronx...What unifies these identities and these essays is the ferocity of Glave's voice, his sentences that can feel like living, untamed things." --Towleroad: A Site with Homosexual Tendencies "I didn't know [homosexuals in Jamaica] were disemboweled with machetes. And I didn't consider one could be poetic about fear and anger and isolation. But the touchingly phrased sentences don’t soften the impact of reading about murder and political corruption. Instead, it eats at you because it makes you attentive to every word, feel the pauses as Glave takes a breath and speaks with the pulse of his heartbeat." --Reeling and Writhing and Fainting in Coils "With Among the Bloodpeople, [Glave] has given us a book as beautiful as it is necessary." --Next Magazine "After stunning readers with his story collections Whose Song? and The Torturer's Wife, the O. Henry- and multiple Lammy-winner now returns to nonfiction in Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh." --Band of Thebes "Glave's texts examine themselves, change course, and raise questions about their own assertions. Glave's hatred of oppression is balanced by his love of writing." --Ithaca.com Thomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author's new collection, Among the Bloodpeople, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political, the personal, and the secret. Each essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica's prime minister on antigay bigotry, contemplating the risks and seductions of "outlawed" sex, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet.

Bringing Out the Best in People

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Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 145140350X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Book Synopsis Bringing Out the Best in People by : Alan Loy McGinnis

Download or read book Bringing Out the Best in People written by Alan Loy McGinnis and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, this bestselling, essential book about management and motivation has over 1 million copies in print and remains relevant for today. Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the award-winning, international bestseller The Friendship Factor, studied great leaders throughout history, the most effective organizations of modern times, and prominent psychologists to culminate a wealth of motivational tips and ideas. In this book are 12 practical principles to help anyone -- parent, manager, teacher, friend -- motivate, inspire, influence, and build enthusiasm. Mastering the art of motivation and improving relational habits isn't easy but McGinnis includes encouragement alongside real-life examples to relay life application for any scenario. Every chapter is a must-read with deeper revelations on specific topics and powerful ways to focus one's energy toward change and improvement. People management, team-building, individual assessment, goal setting, accountability, and dealing with trouble-makers are just a few of the topics covered in the highly accessible chapters. McGinnis' positive and strengths-based approach inspires momentous change, allowing individuality and input along the way. Bringing out the best starts with you, and then you can bring out the best in others.

Washed in the Blood

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Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881462578
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis Washed in the Blood by : Lisa Alther

Download or read book Washed in the Blood written by Lisa Alther and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans and of other Europeans who were there for various reasons. Based on extensive research into the racial mixing that occurred in the early years of southeastern settlement, this provocative multi-generation story shows that people did not simply vanish, but that many were absorbed into the new communities that gradually formed throughout the southeast, becoming ¿white¿ whenever their complexions allowed. The inability to accept their true heritages illustrates the high price many of these people paid for their way of life. Diego Martin arrives in 1567 in the American Southeast¿the region the Spaniards call La Florida¿as a hog drover with a Spanish exploring party. The leader of the expedition turns against him and abandons him to the wilderness, where friendly natives rescue him. Daniel Hunter, a Quaker from Philadelphia, sets up a school among these ¿disadvantaged¿ mountain people and falls in love with a Martin daughter. Later, Daniel¿s descendants are living in the same town, though with little awareness of their ancestral past. The Martin family has split in two, the merchants in town denying any relationship to their racially mixed cousins on Mulatto Bald. A young woman from town, Galicia, falls in love with a young man from the bald, Will, not realizing that he is her cousin. They marry, have a daughter, and move to a new industrial center, becoming prominent citizens. When Will¿s son from a teenage liaison appears at his door, he invites him in, unwittingly setting the stage for a forbidden love between his unacknowledged son and his cherished daughter, neither of whom realizes that they are half-siblings. This is a novel you will not be able to put down without thinking and wondering ¿where will it take me next.¿

Blood in the Forest

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Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1912866935
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood in the Forest by : Vincent Hunt

Download or read book Blood in the Forest written by Vincent Hunt and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original research and interviews with survivors, a journalist reveals the brutal yet forgotten battles in Latvia during the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles in the fields and forests of Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by Latvian Legionnaires were trapped with their backs to the Baltic. Forced into uniform by Nazi and Soviet occupiers, Latvian fought Latvian – sometimes brother against brother. Hundreds of thousands of men died for little territorial gain in unimaginable slaughter. When the Germans capitulated, thousands of Latvians continued a war against Soviet rule from the forests for years afterwards. An award-winning documentary journalist, Vincent Hunt travels through the modern landscape gathering eye-witness accounts, piecing together the stories of those who survived. He meets veterans who fought in the Latvian Legion, former partisans and a refugee who fled the Soviet advance to later become President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga. A survivor of the little-known concentration camp at Popervale details his escape from a death march and subsequent survival in the forests with a Soviet partisan group - and a German deserter. With detailed maps and expert contributions alongside rare newspaper archives, photographs from private collections and extracts from diaries translated from Latvian, German and Russian, Hunt assembles a ghastly picture of death and desperation in a nation both gripped by war and at war with itself.

People of the Lie

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Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671528164
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (281 download)

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Book Synopsis People of the Lie by : Morgan Scott Peck

Download or read book People of the Lie written by Morgan Scott Peck and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Touchstone book." Includes bibliographical references.

Our Caribbean

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822342267
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Caribbean by : Thomas Glave

Download or read book Our Caribbean written by Thomas Glave and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as José Alcántara Almánzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung diaspora. Many selections were originally published in Spanish, Dutch, or creole languages; some are translated into English here for the first time. The thirty-seven authors hail from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Suriname, and Trinidad. Many have lived outside the Caribbean, and their writing depicts histories of voluntary migration as well as exile from repressive governments, communities, and families. Many pieces have a political urgency that reflects their authors' work as activists, teachers, community organizers, and performers. Desire commingles with ostracism and alienation throughout: in the evocative portrayals of same-sex love and longing, and in the selections addressing religion, family, race, and class. From the poem "Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors" to the poignant narrative "We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?" to an eloquent call for the embrace of difference that appeared in the Nassau Daily Tribune on the eve of an anti-gay protest, Our Caribbean is a brave and necessary book. Contributors: José Alcántara Almánzar, Aldo Alvarez, Reinaldo Arenas, Rane Arroyo, Jesús J. Barquet, Marilyn Bobes, Dionne Brand, Timothy S. Chin, Michelle Cliff, Wesley E. A. Crichlow, Mabel Rodríguez Cuesta, Ochy Curiel, Faizal Deen, Pedro de Jesús, R. Erica Doyle, Thomas Glave, Rosamond S. King, Helen Klonaris, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Audre Lorde, Shani Mootoo, Anton Nimblett, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Virgilio Piñera, Patricia Powell, Kevin Everod Quashie, Juanita Ramos, Colin Robinson, Assotto Saint, Andrew Salkey, Lawrence Scott, Makeda Silvera, H. Nigel Thomas, Rinaldo Walcott, Gloria Wekker, Lawson Williams

Red Queen

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062310658
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Red Queen by : Victoria Aveyard

Download or read book Red Queen written by Victoria Aveyard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling series! Red Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal. Discover more wonders in the world of Red Queen with Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection, a companion novel with stories from fan favorites and new voices, featuring never-before-seen maps, flags, bonus scenes, journal entries, and much more exclusive content! Plus don't miss Realm Breaker! Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning fantasy series from Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series, begins where hope is lost and asks: When the heroes have fallen, who will take up the sword?

Back to Blood

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316214582
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Back to Blood by : Tom Wolfe

Download or read book Back to Blood written by Tom Wolfe and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

Oversight on Implementation of National Blood Policy, 1979

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Book Synopsis Oversight on Implementation of National Blood Policy, 1979 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research

Download or read book Oversight on Implementation of National Blood Policy, 1979 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393306232
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by : Edmund S. Morgan

Download or read book Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America written by Edmund S. Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the origins of democratic government in England and the U.S. compares their approaches, and discusses elections and the philosophical background of political representation.

In the Hands of the People

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312278128
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Hands of the People by : William L. Dwyer

Download or read book In the Hands of the People written by William L. Dwyer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of trial juries, discussing how verdicts of guilt or innocence have been reached in the past and tracing the evolution of the present-day system.

Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118933036
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking by : Kenichiro Yagi

Download or read book Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking written by Kenichiro Yagi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking bietet mit seinem praxisorientierten Ansatz jedem Veterinärmediziner evidenzbasierte Leitlinien für die klinische Praxis. - Liefert evidenzbasierte Informationen zu Verfahren in der Transfusionsmedizin und bei Blutbanken. - Umfasst Kapitel zum Screening von Transfusionsempfängern, zur Auswahl von Spendern, zur Blutentnahme und Lagerung sowie darüber, wie die Nachfrage nach Blut erfüllt wird. - Beinhaltet nützliche Transfusions- und Blutbankprotokolle, die für die klinische Praxis relevant sind. - Ausgewogene Inhalte, aus Sicht von Veterinärmedizinern und Veterinärtechnikern. - Mit Informationen zu Groß- und Kleintieren sowie Exoten.

Words to Our Now

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907544
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Words to Our Now written by Thomas Glave and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American.

Stage Blood

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Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726607
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Stage Blood by : Roxana Stuart

Download or read book Stage Blood written by Roxana Stuart and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart's study approaches the subject primarily from the viewpoint of literary criticism but also includes production history, providing the reader with a useful look at theatre practices. Additionally, insight is provided into the popular taste and imagination of different periods and cultures, as reflected in changing representations of the vampire, from the relative innocence of the Romantics to the evolving patterns of sadism, misogyny, and xenophobia of the end of the century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Satan Stories

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Publisher : FitzMaurice Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1878693654
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (786 download)

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Book Synopsis Satan Stories by : Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S.

Download or read book Satan Stories written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S. and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan Stories • Satan’s Other Names • Satan’s Appearance • Satan’s Desire • Satan’s Nature • Satan’s Powers • Satan’s Story • Satan & God Christian Culture • We will bring Christianity back to life. • Discover the 4 Commandments of the Apostles. • Understand how Christians foolishly use idols. • Don’t eat blood or strangled meats. • How to raise children. • Jesus versus Muhammad. • Proper physical appearance. • Tattoos and immodesty are forbidden. God Is a Spirit • God cannot lie. • God cannot sin. • God cannot be tempted. • Only God is good. • All good is from God. How to Interpret Scripture • God said what He meant to say. • God meant what He said. • God’s Word is eternal. • God is direct and honest. • God is reliable and trustworthy, How to Live a Christian Life • How to hold a Christian service. • Christian communities. • Bishops and deacons. • Right government. • No idolatry. Description from the Book • This book is about how the Bible describes Satan; for example, he was evil from the beginning, and what the Bible says about his story. Christian culture occupies the largest chapter in the book and is modified from previous books. Topics include the commandments of the Apostles and the proper physical appearance in society. • A chapter on the nature of God follows the chapter on culture. Next is a chapter on the use of idols and how people love to lie about their idol usage. Instructions on how to and how not to interpret scripture compose the next chapter, followed by a chapter on how to hold a Christian service or meeting. Also, information designed to help you start a Christian community is provided. • The purpose of this book is to assist in bringing back to life Christianity. We differentiate Christianity from Chruchianity and religions claiming to be Christian. For example, those who extort money from you with guilt, shame, and false promises to build their own wealth, power, and legacy are neither honest Christians nor true believers. • This book focuses on the Christian story of Satan. • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps. • To rediscover the Christian life, read The Seventh Way, Second Edition, Christian Idols, and Christian Scripture. Read More 7 Spiritual Books Recommended 1. Self: Who Am I? 2. The Story of Life 3. Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps 4. Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons 5. Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills 6. The Seventh Way, Second Edition 7. Christian Sex 7 Christian Books Recommended 1. Christian Idols 2. Christian Scripture 3. Sinners Anonymous: Group Rules, Second Edition 4. The Seventh Way, Second Edition 5. Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps 6. The Story of Life 7. Self: Who Am I?

Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190456477
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath written by Barbara Alice Mann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.