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Bridging the Abyss

Author : Richard L. Cleary
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781498448703
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Abyss written by Richard L. Cleary and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the Abyss, like its companion novelIn the Absence of God, offers a glimpse of a world in which men live consistently with the assumption that belief in God is irrelevant to modern life. Threaded through this story is a dialogue between two men, brought together when a young girl tragically disappears, who exhibit radically different ways of seeing the world. One of these men, a professor of literature, embraces atheistic materialism, while the other, a pastor, champions a Christian worldview. Their interaction and the story of the missing girl serve to highlight modern man's existential predicament. Having marginalized God, moderns find themselves bereft of any objective basis for forming moral judgments, for hope that justice could ever be realized, or for finding any ultimate meaning, either in the existence of the human species as a whole or in the life of the individual. Modern man dispenses with God and believes that life can go on as before, but this is a conceit confuted by the history of the 19th and 20th century. A world that has abandoned God has turned its back on the wellspring of moral goodness, beauty, and truth, as well as the only possible objective ground for human rights and the dignity of the individual. Modernity has in many ways been a blessing, but it has also been a curse.History will perhaps decide whether the blessing has outweighed the curse. Meanwhile, Bridging the Abyssilluminates the tension between competing views of the world as they're illustrated in the lives of the characters that inhabit its pages. Richard L. Cleary teaches philosophy at several Pennsylvania colleges and is the author of In the Absence of God. He and his wife Barbara have three children and five grandchildren."

Vatican II, Bridging the Abyss

Author : Bert Beverly Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vatican II, Bridging the Abyss written by Bert Beverly Beach and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Abyss

Author : Eli Avidar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442245484
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Abyss written by Eli Avidar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the differences. In doing so, he offers a new perspective about the reality of the Middle East and all the clichés that have transformed the Hebrew-Arab lexicon into a complex and hopeless minefield. It raises the question of whether the ongoing violent conflict between Israel and its neighbors might also be the result of a serious short circuit in communications. Is it possible that Israel, which has invested efforts and resources in knowing its adversaries, never even bothered to properly understand their language and their culture? Is it possible that Israeli leaders, who made their way to the top through the military and were privileged to know the most deeply hidden intelligence secrets, never learned to send messages of peace and reconciliation that the other side could respect and understand? Spanning six decades, the book explains why the main diplomatic initiatives have so far failed to solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and what needs to be done to break out of the vicious circle of ignorance and mutual suspicion that characterizes the conflict. Avidar uses his experience as diplomatic advisor to former foreign minister Ariel Sharon and as head of Israel’s representative office in Qatar to reveal secret diplomatic meetings as well as the dynamics of the unique and complex diplomacy of the Middle East. He also tells about the activities of the 504 division of the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Unit, in which he served as an operator of agents.

The Bridge

Author : Michael W. McGowan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620327007
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge written by Michael W. McGowan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers of religion and theologians have long wrestled with the concept of revelation. Does God reveal truth to human subjects primarily through sacred texts or audible voices? Through inner experiences or pronouncements of religious leaders? What is the relationship between the truths given in revelation and those discoverable by reason? Revelation is a challenge not only to scholars, but also for churchgoers. How can the same God command one person to do one thing and another to do something quite different? In The Bridge, Michael McGowan explores how a number of great twentieth- and twenty-first-century thinkers understand the concept of revelation. Using insights from their work and some recent advances in literary theory and communication studies, he constructs a model of revelation in which "symbol" and "narrative" figure heavily. Ancient ideas are given new life in this contemporary explication of the nature of revelation, God as the Revealer, and revelation's implications.

Maps and Mirrors

Author : Steve Martinot
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810116723
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Maps and Mirrors written by Steve Martinot and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps and Mirrors explores the links and gaps between the aesthetic and the political at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Testing the major voices of aesthetic and literary theory, it raises important questions about the implicit political contexts and commitments of thinkers from Kant to de Man. Taken together the essays provide a tour of the complexities and richness of contemporary modes of critique.

Bridging the Abyss

Author : Duncan John Hadfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Abyss written by Duncan John Hadfield and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matchbook

Author : David Wills
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804741361
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Matchbook written by David Wills and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matchbook consists of nine essays written around, or in response to, work published by Jacques Derrida since 1980. The focal point of the essays is the "Envois," which forms part of Derrida's Post Card. Particular attention is paid to how that text articulates with the ethical and political emphases of Derrida's more recent work, but also to its autobiographical conceit. The "incendiary" reference of the book's title underscores deconstruction's engagement with questions of reading: relations between (slow) reading and the speed of technology, and the political effects of an internationalized deconstruction in a globalized culture. It is in terms of what deconstruction can have us think about the speed of technology and technologies of reading that Derrida's work has made one of its most important contributions to philosophy and literary and cultural studies. The book concentrates on that as proof of the continued relevance of such work.

Adaptive Learning Environments

Author : Marlene Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642775128
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Learning Environments written by Marlene Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive Learning Environments (ALEs) can be viewed as the intersection of two traditionally distinct areas of research: instructional science and computer science. They encompass intelligent tutoring systems, interactive learning environments, and situated learning environments. There is increasing interest in effective instructional systems from education, industry, military and government sectors. Given recent advances in hardware architecture and reduction of hardware costs, the time is right to define the next steps in research and development of ALEs. This book is an outgrowth of the presentations and discussions that took place at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the University of Calgary in July 1990. It contains chapters from both researchers in instructional science and researchers in computer science on the following topics: - Systems and architectures for instruction - Representing curriculum and designing instructional tasks - Environments to support learning - Diagnosing students' learning and adjusting plans for instruction - Models of students' metacognition, motivation and learning strategies - Student-system interactions. The book containsintroductions/critiques of each pair of chapters, and a final chapter discusses the synthesis of instructional science and computer science.

The Abyss of Representation

Author : George Hartley
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384558
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Abyss of Representation written by George Hartley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible. In his pathbreaking work, The Abyss of Representation, George Hartley traces the development of this impossible necessity from its German Idealist roots through Marxist theories of postmodernism, arguing that in this period of skepticism and globalization we are still grappling with issues brought forth during the age of romanticism and revolution. Hartley shows how the modern problem of representation—the inability of a figure to do justice to its object—still haunts today's postmodern philosophy and politics. He reveals the ways the sublime abyss that opened up in Idealist epistemology and aesthetics resurfaces in recent theories of ideology and subjectivity. Hartley describes how modern theory from Kant through Lacan attempts to come to terms with the sublime limits of representation and how ideas developed with the Marxist tradition—such as Marx’s theory of value, Althusser’s theory of structural causality, or Zizek’s theory of ideological enjoyment—can be seen as variants of the sublime object. Representation, he argues, is ultimately a political problem. Whether that problem be a Marxist representation of global capitalism, a deconstructive representation of subaltern women, or a Chicano self-representation opposing Anglo-American images of Mexican Americans, it is only through this grappling with the negative, Hartley explains, that a Marxist theory of postmodernism can begin to address the challenges of global capitalism and resurgent imperialism.

Bridging the Baltic Sea

Author : Lars Fredrik Stöcker
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498551289
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Baltic Sea written by Lars Fredrik Stöcker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly shifting, at times conspiratorial, and even subversive networks that transcended the Iron Curtain draws a line from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, framing half a century of transnationally concerted political activism in a geographical context that has not received much scholarly attention. Challenging the image of the Baltic Sea Region as a periphery of the European Cold War theater, the topography of the multilayered and complex linkages between neutral Sweden and her opposite coasts suggests that the small inland sea was a particularly vibrant setting for processes that efficiently defied the rigid border regimes of the Cold War era. This book relates both to ongoing historiographical debates about the scope and extent of East-West contacts that developed underneath the radar of international diplomacy and to the question of the role, significance, and impact of émigré politics during the Cold War. Embedding the dynamics of transnationally framed opposition in the wider context of political, economic, and cultural relations at the northeastern peripheries of divided Europe, the study not only sheds new light on so far still unexplored facets of interaction and cooperation between societies in East and West, but also offers a first comprehensive synthesis of the Baltic Sea Region’s post-war history.

Doing Business with the Japanese

Author : Alan Goldman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404298
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Doing Business with the Japanese written by Alan Goldman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uniquely prepares westerners for professional contacts with Japanese associates, markets, and audiences. Through stimulating analyses of Japanese society, corporate culture, and communication protocol, the reader is provided with a rich and textured blueprint of Japanese business behavior. Western professionals, managers, and diplomats are walked through a broad array of strategic communication venues and contact situations with the Japanese. Whether you are engaged in business introductions and meetings, writing and delivering speeches, establishing joint ventures or diplomatic relations, negotiating contracts, faxing memos, planning sales and advertising campaigns, or creating brochures for a Japanese market, Goldman's revelations of the Japanese mind and expectations will be invaluable. This book uniquely prepares westerners for professional contacts with Japanese associates, markets, and audiences. Through stimulating analyses of Japanese society, corporate culture, and communication protocol, the reader is provided with a rich and textured blueprint of Japanese business behavior. Western professionals, managers, and diplomats are walked through a broad array of strategic communication venues and contact situations with the Japanese. Whether you are engaged in business introductions and meetings, writing and delivering speeches, establishing joint ventures or diplomatic relations, negotiating contracts, faxing memos, planning sales and advertising campaigns, or creating brochures for a Japanese market, Goldman's revelations of the Japanese mind and expectations will be invaluable.

A Communication Universe

Author : Igor E. Klyukanov
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739137255
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book A Communication Universe written by Igor E. Klyukanov and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Communication Universe offers a new approach to theorizing the nature of communication which is conceptualized as transformations of a space-time continuum of meaning. Igor E. Klyukanov also shows how each transformation can be best discussed in terms of certain theories of communication. Thus, the book is dedicated to both ontological and epistemological issues of communication.

Martin Heidegger

Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674387102
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Martin Heidegger written by Rüdiger Safranski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.

The Mystic Quest

Author : David S. Ariel
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461631645
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Quest written by David S. Ariel and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-07-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystic Quest explains the major ideas and concepts of Jewish mystical thought in a way that the general reader can clearly understand. Drawing upon his own extensive research as well as on the growing body of scholarly material on the subject, Dr. David Ariel, president of the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, presents the extremely difficult and complex elements of Jewish mysticism in language that makes it accessible to the layperson. Jewish mysticism is as old as the Bible itself. It is a rich and subtle web of secret teachings and practices that has been part of Judaism since antiquity and has sought to keep the original spark of religious experience alive through the centuries. It is the relatively unknown, esoteric dimension of Judaism that has nourished a deep spiritual power within a tradition of law, ritual, and observance. A central element in Judaism, the "mystic quest" has shaped both Judaism and Jews throughout history, generating the kabbalistic tradition and Hasidism, which continue to thrive today, As Ariel says, "This book is concerned primarily with the development and meaning of the Kabbalah, the principal tradition of mystical Jewish thought." The Mystic Quest begins with an examination of the variety of phenomena known in different cultures as "mysticism." Ariel then located the Jewish mystical tradition within the context of Jewish history and traces its evolution throughout the ages. Jewish mystical theories about the hidden and revealed God, the feminine aspects of divinity, the mystical Torah, and the concepts of the soul and human destiny are then explored in detail. Finally, the author considers Hasidism and modern Jewish mystical thought, discussing the role of mysticism in contemporary Judaism. In language accessible to the beginner, yet sophisticated enough to captivate the advanced student, The Mystic Quest fills an important gap in our knowledge of mysticism by bringing a comprehensive and fresh understanding of the subject to a new generation of

The Living Church

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Anthroposophy

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Extreme Biohacking

Author : Sergo Rijo
Publisher : SERGIO RIJO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extreme Biohacking written by Sergo Rijo and published by SERGIO RIJO. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the groundbreaking world of "Extreme Biohacking: Pushing the Human Body and Mind to the Limits." This compelling exploration takes readers on a captivating odyssey through the diverse realms of biohacking, offering an in-depth look at the avant-garde techniques revolutionizing cognitive enhancement. From traditional nootropics to mind-bending technologies, each chapter unravels the intricacies of cutting-edge biohacking, showcasing the potential impact on the human potential. The narrative navigates historical contexts, ethical considerations, and speculative futures, providing a comprehensive view of the biohacking landscape. Readers will witness the rise of advanced nootropics, delve into the intricacies of neural implants and brain-machine interfaces, and ponder the ethical dilemmas surrounding DNA editing and genetic modification. Beyond the technological frontiers, the book explores the significance of self-awareness in biohacking, the impact of customized nutrition on cognitive functions, and the integration of biohacking into sports training. Sleep optimization, longevity strategies, and the mind-body connection take center stage, emphasizing the holistic approach to enhancing human performance. Interviews with experts and thought leaders provide invaluable insights, while cautionary tales and success stories from the biohacking community offer a nuanced perspective. The narrative extends into the future, speculating on the role of quantum computing, the need for biosecurity, and the rise of community-driven DIY biohacking movements. In the concluding chapters, the book issues a compelling call to action for responsible and ethical biohacking practices, encouraging readers to engage in open dialogue, collaborative exploration, and evidence-based experimentation. The journey concludes with an empowering encouragement for individuals to explore the boundaries of their own potential—a call to unfurl the wings of possibility in the ongoing odyssey of human enhancement. "Extreme Biohacking" is more than a book; it's an invitation to join the forefront of human evolution. Whether you are a seasoned biohacker, a curious novice, or an intrigued observer, this book promises a transformative exploration into the uncharted territories of human potential. The odyssey continues—pushing the boundaries of the human body and mind.