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Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

Author : Iddo Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190657685
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World written by Iddo Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, Iddo Landau argues, our lives often are, or could be made, meaningful—we've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is. When it comes to meaning in life, Landau explains, we have let perfect become the enemy of the good. We have failed to find life perfectly meaningful, and therefore have failed to see any meaning in our lives. We must attune ourselves to enhancing and appreciating the meaning in our lives, and Landau shows us how to do that. In this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, Landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance it. He confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe. While exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hope. Along the way, he faces provocative questions: Would we choose to live forever if we could? Does death render life meaningless? If we examine it in the context of the immensity of the whole universe, can we consider life meaningful? If we feel empty once we achieve our goals, and the pursuit of these goals is what gives us a sense of meaning, then what can we do? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World is likely to alter the way you understand your life.

An Imperfect Book

Author : Earl M. Wunderli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560852308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Book written by Earl M. Wunderli and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first impression in reading this text was that it was rightly named in its title. Indeed the author intends to lead the reader through an exploration of a book that he describes as an imperfect book, and does so in a way that enables the book to speak for itself. Given the fact that so many approach the Book of Mormon through lenses already adjusted to read the text for apologetic purposes, I found the author's engagement of the Book of Mormon to be respectfully and critically refreshing. Feeling unable to rely on historians, archeologists, self-designated authorities, or others with sure knowledge of the Book of Mormon, the author turns to the book itself for what it might reveal about itself. Rather than turning to external evidences to vindicate the central claims of the Book of Mormon, the author invites the reader to explore internal evidences to be discovered in the book itself. He does this while engaging a broad range of contemporary scholarship. Dale E. Luffman, Association for Mormon Letters

An Imperfect Lens

Author : Anne Roiphe
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307419789
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Lens written by Anne Roiphe and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Anne Roiphe evokes the sights and sounds of 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, a bustling center of trade and travel. From teeming docks to overflowing market stalls, from grand homes to grimy narrow alleyways, cholera microbes rise and bob in streams of water and tiny droplets, clinging to moisture as man clings to air. With a keen mind and dedication to his work, young Louis Thuillier has impressed his mentor—famed scientist Louis Pasteur—enough to be sent to Alexandria as one-third of the French mission searching for the source of the cholera that is terrorizing the city. Along with the other members of the French mission—scientists Emile Roux and Edmond Nocard and their enterprising servant Marcus—Louis longs to find the cure, bringing glory to himself and to France. Este Malina is the lovely daughter of a respected Jewish doctor, whose family has lived in Alexandria for hundreds of years. A life of comfort has made Este a romantic, and she hopes to marry a man with the heart of a poet. Neither expects to find a soul mate in the other, but when Este begins to assist at the French mission’s lab, a deep bond forms. Este, though, is engaged to another, and Louis is not Jewish—her family would never allow them to marry. In spite of their many differences, the lovers’ desire grows and their fantasies threaten to distract them from their work. In Alexandria, the disease rages on, as mysterious as it was a thousand years before. Political intrigue threatens to separate Este and Louis permanently. Their love, as fragile as the glass slides they use in the lab, is in danger before it has had a chance to thrive. With An Imperfect Lens, rich with the sights and scents of a different era, Anne Roiphe once again demonstrates the storytelling power for which she has long been hailed.

The Imperfect Pastor

Author : Zack Eswine
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433549360
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Imperfect Pastor written by Zack Eswine and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors aren’t superheroes—they have fears and limitations just like everyone else. Zack Eswine knows this from personal experience and has a wealth of wisdom to offer those who feel like they don’t measure up. Written in a compelling memoir style, The Imperfect Pastor is full of insightful stories and theological truths that show how God works unexpectedly through flawed people. By talking honestly about the failure, burnout, pain, and complexities that come along with church ministry, Eswine helps pastors accept their human limitations and experience the freedom of trusting God’s plan for their church and life.

The Imperfect Art

Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195362594
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Imperfect Art written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century. He argues that because improvisation--the essence of jazz--must often fail under the pressure of on-the-spot creativity, we should view jazz as an "imperfect art" and base our judgments of it on an "aesthetics of imperfection." Incorporating the thought of such seminal thinkers as Walter Benjamin, José Ortega y Gasset, and Roland Barthes, The Imperfect Art offers vivid portraits of the giants of jazz and startling insights into this vital musical form and the interaction of society and art.

An Imperfect Mother

Author : J. D. Beresford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368196073
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Mother written by J. D. Beresford and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Imperfect Offering

Author : James Orbinski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777570
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Offering written by James Orbinski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a series of stories in which I ask, again and again, 'how to be in relation to the suffering of others.' It is a personal narrative about the political journey I have taken over the last twenty years as a humanitarian doctor, as a citizen, and as a man. This is a story about a way of seeing that requires humility, so that one can recognize the sameness of self in the other. It is about the mutuality that can exist between us, if we so choose. I have come to see humanitarianism not as separate from politics, but in relation to it, and as a challenge to political choices that too often kill or allow others to be killed. Speaking is the first political act. It is the first act of liberty, and it always implicitly involves another. In speaking, one inherently recognizes that 'I am and I am not alone.' In this space lies our humanity." Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering, dispassion, and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski still believes in "the good we can be if we so choose." His chosen medium is stories from his own experience-a form of testimony from the front lines-embodied in which are warnings, hope, and lessons in how we can inject humanitarian activity into our lives. Being political, he has discovered, is not only reserved for politicians; admitting imperfection is essential to compassion. The crystal clarity of Orbinski's voice is matched by the urgency of his message; at a time of great political and moral uncertainty, An Imperfect Offering is invaluable reading for anyone who feels he/she can make a difference.

Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World

Author : Sean Pryor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316885593
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World written by Sean Pryor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader accounts of contemporary critical debates, social contexts, and political history, this book offers a formalist argument about how these poems understand themselves and their situation, and a historicist argument about the meanings of their forms. The poetry of the canonical modernists T. S. Eliot, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens is placed alongside the poetry of Ford Madox Ford, better known for his novels and his criticism, and the poetry of Joseph Macleod, whose work has been largely forgotten. Focusing on the years from 1914 to 1930, the book offers a new account of a crucial moment in the history of British and American modernism.

Advice for an Imperfect Single World

Author : Pat Gaudette
Publisher : Home and Leisure Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780976121008
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Advice for an Imperfect Single World written by Pat Gaudette and published by Home and Leisure Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Advice for an Imperfect Single World" is a compilation of relationship advice doled out by "Queenie," a feisty, no-nonsense advice columnist for the popular Friends and Lovers Web site.

An Imperfect Financial Union With Heterogeneous Regions

Author : Filippo Balestrieri
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484376730
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Financial Union With Heterogeneous Regions written by Filippo Balestrieri and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze a union of financially-integrated yet politically-sovereign countries, where households in the Northern core of the union lend to those in the Southern periphery in a unified debt market subject to a borrowing constraint. This constraint generates sudden stops throughout the South, depresses the intra-union interest rate, and reduces Northern welfare below its unconstrained level, while having ambiguous effects on Southern welfare. During sudden stops, Pareto improvements can be achieved using North-to-South governmental loans if Southern governments have the capacity to commit to repay, or using a combination of Southern debt relief and budget-neutral taxes and subsidies if they do not. From the pre-crisis perspective, it is Pareto-improving to allow loans and debt relief to be negotiated in later sudden-stop periods as long as the regions in the union are sufficiently heterogeneous to begin with. We show that our results are robust to production and to limited financial openness of the union.

An Imperfect Journey to a Perfect Life

Author : Jan Mansfield La Boone
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532002688
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Journey to a Perfect Life written by Jan Mansfield La Boone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Imperfect Journey to a Perfect Life provides a fascinating view of what it was like to grow up with spina bifida in the 1950s and 60s. This is the true story of a woman who used her intelligence, faith, industry, humor, talent, insight, and sheer determination to overcome the obstacles she faced related to spina bifida plus many more that were not. It is an inspiring memoir that will warm the heart and encourage everyone who has faced personal challenges. It is the story of triumph.

Finding Peace In An Imperfect World: Applying God's Principles to Calm Real-Life Chaos

Author : Jason Newsome
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1635757266
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Finding Peace In An Imperfect World: Applying God's Principles to Calm Real-Life Chaos written by Jason Newsome and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Peace in an Imperfect World is more than just a book. With an intentional blend of biblical truth and mental health principles and practice, it is a guide for you to have real peace in your life. Dr. Newsome uses a direct style with real-life, practical application of biblical principles. His writing will help you tackle real-life problems. This book has one purpose: to help you understand as well as put an end to chaos in your life. It does this by helping you do the following: 1. Understand what a life of peace is 2. Discover the real source of turmoil and chaos 3. Dive deep into your life experiences 4. Change the way you think about yourself, God, and life 5. Learn to apply new thinking in practical ways that will bring peace to your life As you apply the approaches in this book, you will rid yourself of the turmoil that happens in your thoughts and emotions. You will be able to make the changes necessary to go over life's speed bumps without turning them into a roller coaster.

An Imperfect Arrangement

Author : Chris Amisano
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595884490
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Arrangement written by Chris Amisano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Palini believes that his one chance at love has already come and gone after the unexpected death of his life partner three years earlier. At the age of thirty-five, he is dating twenty-two-year-old Stephen Clark-known secretly to Alex and his friends as Disposable Boy-just to hear someone breathe next to him at night. After all, his chance at happiness is gone isn't it? When Alex meets his new neighbor Rick Monette, he realizes how easy it would be to fall in love again-until Rick reveals a secret that makes Alex's heart more vulnerable and forces him to face the possibility of grieving again. Through Rick's companionship and the support of Alex's friends, Alex is about to discover if a second chance can really lead to a happy ending.

An Imperfect Lens

Author : Anne Roiphe
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 1400082129
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Lens written by Anne Roiphe and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven-year-old Louis Thuillier, a protege of Louis Pasteur arrives in 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, as part of a French expedition searching for the source of the cholera epidemic raging through the city, and falls in love with Este Malina, the daughter of a respected Jewish doctor, but their growing love is threatened by the epidemic, intrigue, and political unrest. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

An Imperfect God

Author : Henry Wiencek
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466856599
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect God written by Henry Wiencek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Imperfect God is a major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life--as a Virginia planter, soldier, politician, president and statesman. Washington was born and raised among blacks and mixed-race people; he and his wife had blood ties to the slave community. Yet as a young man he bought and sold slaves without scruple, even raffled off children to collect debts (an incident ignored by earlier biographers). Then, on the Revolutionary battlefields where he commanded both black and white troops, Washington's attitudes began to change. He and the other framers enshrined slavery in the Constitution, but, Wiencek shows, even before he became president Washington had begun to see the system's evil. Wiencek's revelatory narrative, based on a meticulous examination of private papers, court records, and the voluminous Washington archives, documents for the first time the moral transformation culminating in Washington's determination to emancipate his slaves. He acted too late to keep the new republic from perpetuating slavery, but his repentance was genuine. And it was perhaps related to the possibility--as the oral history of Mount Vernon's slave descendants has long asserted--that a slave named West Ford was the son of George and a woman named Venus; Wiencek has new evidence that this could indeed have been true. George Washington's heroic stature as Father of Our Country is not diminished in this superb, nuanced portrait: now we see Washington in full as a man of his time and ahead of his time.

The Imperfect Marriage

Author : Darryl Strawberry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476738777
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Imperfect Marriage written by Darryl Strawberry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legendary baseball Hall of Famer and his wife comes a marriage guidebook for the not-so-perfect marriage—filled with extremely candid, practical, and biblically based principles—proven to make any relationship successful. Darryl and Tracy Strawberry admit they have “made every possible mistake you can make in marriage.” Together, this devoted couple has suffered through—and survived—adultery, addiction, financial destruction, and many other all-too-familiar struggles. A no-holds-barred account of their personal journey, The Imperfect Marriage provides a step-by-step program that will help you and your partner understand the key issues that could be causing damage in your relationship and recognize turning points on the journey toward marriage restoration. Darryl and Tracy Strawberry know firsthand what it takes to make it through the battle and how to come out victorious. Beginning with putting God at the center, their words will inspire you to transform your marriage into an enduring and vital relationship. The Strawberrys keep it real and preach it real. They deal with real people, real problems, and offer solutions for the present. Through candid anecdotes, a great deal of self-awareness, and a true sense of honesty, Darryl and Tracy offer the vision, encouragement, and practical advice that every healthy marriage needs in order to thrive. Whether you and your partner are looking to heal a broken relationship, or avoid the mistakes that doomed a past one, The Imperfect Marriage offers the guidance and “brutal honesty…[that] will be inspiring for many” (Publishers Weekly) and will help make your marriage a success.

Sensing Jesus

Author : Zack Eswine
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433520990
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Sensing Jesus written by Zack Eswine and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the behind-the-scenes reality of a life in ministry. It tells you what Zack Eswine wishes somebody else would’ve told him. With over 20 years of experience in ministry, Zack shares with incredible honesty about his own failures, burnout, and pain, all the while addressing the complexities of leadership decisions, church discipline, family dynamics, and so on. Presenting sound pastoral theology couched in autobiographical musings and powerful prose, this book offers a fresh and biblically faithful approach to the care of souls, including your own.