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Author : Guy Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967947204
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Leper and Other Strangers written by Guy Bates and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429909668
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Leper's Bell written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 667 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel has returned home to her brother's castle to discover that a servant, her son's nurse, has been found brutally murdered in the woods near town, and her son is missing, presumed kidnapped or worse. Sister Fidelma, sister to king of Muman in Ireland, an advocate of the Brehon courts, and a religieuse of the Celtic Church, and her husband Brother Eadulf now must face their most personal and baffling case ever. Is there a traitor at her brother's court? Are the Ui Fidgente, the old blood enemies of Fidelma's family, involved? And what is the role of the mysterious dwarf seen leaving the kingdom carrying a leper's bell? With few clues and precious little time, Fidelma must unravel this complicated puzzle in time to rescue her missing child.
Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The German Classics: Wassermann, Kellerman, Halbe and others written by Kuno Francke and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larissa MacFarquhar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594204330
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Strangers Drowning written by Larissa MacFarquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have? Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn't? How would their parents' risk have been judged? A woman believes that if she spends money on herself, rather than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she's responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential? We honor such generosity and high ideals; but when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Between her stories, MacFarquhar threads a lively history of the literature, philosophy, social science, and self-help that have contributed to a deep suspicion of do-gooders in Western culture. Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. In a world of strangers drowning in need, how much should we help, and how much can we help? Is it right to care for strangers even at the expense of those we are closest to? Moving and provocative, Strangers Drowning challenges us to think about what we value most, and why.
Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829251
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Leper's Companions written by Julia Blackburn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic. The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming pain. The seamless narrative lands her in a medieval seaside village where mermaids wash ashore, devils haunt in packs, a child is born with the head of a fish, and where one day, quite out of nowhere, there emerges a sage and wandering leper. The leper leads a small group of the villagers, including the protagonist, on a journey to Jerusalem, a harrowing pilgrimage that compels all the travelers to confront their deepest selves. Exquisite and lyrical, The Lepers Companions is a heart-rending tale by one of our most fiercely original storytellers.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Caliber Comics
ISBN 13 : 1681005840
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Jack London's Koolau the Leper written by Jack London and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 20th century, Jack London was considered one of the first literary writing pioneers in the rapidly growing world of magazine fiction. Having written numerous novels, short stories, poems and essays, he became a well-known celebrity and world-wide house hold name. Even today, Jack London’s popular written works find a large reader audience and his stories have been adapted into feature films and television programs. Presented here is one of Jack London's classic tales of the South Pacific as one man refuses to give up any more of his possessions even though it appears that he's lost everything already. Illustrated by comic veteran Charles Yates. A Caliber Comics release.
Author : Peter Ackermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134350457
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan written by Peter Ackermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest. Several fascinating new approaches to traditional forms of pilgrimage are put forward by a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective. They apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfilment, examining cases as diverse as the civil service, painting and poetry, and present ethnographies of contemporary reconstructions of old spiritual quests, as conflicting (and sometimes global) demands impinge on the time and space of would-be pilgrims.
Author : Henry FOWLER (Supt., Siao Kan Leper Asylum.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Hü the Leper and Others written by Henry FOWLER (Supt., Siao Kan Leper Asylum.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Yancy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415699975
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Christology and Whiteness written by George Yancy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Christology through the lens of whiteness, addressing whiteness as a site of privilege and power within the specific context of Christology. It asks whether or not Jesus' life and work offers theological, religious and ethical resources that can address the question of contemporary forms of white privilege. The text seeks to encourage ways of thinking about whiteness theologically through the mission of Jesus. In this sense, white Christians are encouraged to reflect on how their whiteness is a site of tension in relation to their theological and religious framework. A distinguished team of contributors explore key topics including the Christology of domination, different images of Jesus and the question of identification with Jesus, and the Black Jesus in the inner city.
Author : Richard Beck
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506438415
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Stranger God written by Richard Beck and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation. Love and hospitality can change the way you see the world and others. That's exactly what modern-day theologian, Richard Beck, experienced when he first led a Bible study at a local maximum security prison. Beck believed the promise of Matthew 25 that states when we visit the prisoner, we encounter Jesus. Sure enough, God met Beck in prison. With his signature combination of biblical reflection, theological reasoning, and psychological insight, Beck shows how God always meets us when we entertain the marginalized, the oppressed, and the refugee. Stories from Beck's own life illustrate this truth -- God comes to him in the poor, the crippled, the smelly. Psychological experiments show how we are predisposed to appreciate those who are similar to us and avoid those who are unlike us. The call of the gospel, however, is to override those impulses with compassion, to "widen the circle of our affection." In the end, Beck turns to the Little Way of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for guidance in doing even the smallest acts with kindness, and he lays out a path that any of us can follow.
Author : Jay Geller
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823233618
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Other Jewish Question written by Jay Geller and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how modernizing German-speaking cultures, undergoing their own processes of identification, responded to the narcissistic threat posed by the continued persistence of Judentum (Judaism, Jewry, Jewishness) by representing "the Jew"'s body--or rather parts of that body and the techniques performed upon them. Such fetish-producing practices reveal the question of German-identified modernity to be inseparable from the Jewish Question. But Jewish-identified individuals, immersed in the phantasmagoria of such figurations--in the gutter and garret salon, medical treatise and dirty joke, tabloid caricature and literary depiction, church fa ade and bric-a-brac souvenir--had their own question, another Jewish Question. They also had other answers, for these physiognomic fragments not only identified "the Jew" but also became for some Jewish-identified individuals the building blocks for working through their particular situations and relaying their diverse responses. The Other Jewish Question maps the dissemination of and interrelationships among these corporeal signifiers in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Shoah. Its analyses of ascribed Jewish physiognomy include tracing the gendered trajectory of the reception of Benedict Spinoza's correlation of Jewish persistence, anti-Semitism, and circumcision; the role of Zopf ("braid") in mediating German Gentile-Jewish relations; the skin(ny) on the association of Jews and syphilis in Arthur Dinter's antisemitic bestseller Sin against the Blood and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf; as well as the role of Jewish corporeality in the works of such Jewish-identified authors as Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Max Nordau, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin, as well as such "Jew"-identifying writers as Ludwig Feuerbach and Daniel Paul Schreber. The Other Jewish Question portrays how Jewish-identified individuals moved beyond introjection and disavowal to appropriate and transform this epidemic of signification to make sense of their worlds and our modernity.
Author : Michael Jecks
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1788639499
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Leper's Return written by Michael Jecks and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town is a powder keg ready to explode... All it needs is a match. England, 1320. The threat of civil war lies heavily on the kingdom. The monk Ralph of Houndeslow is new to Crediton’s leper hospital. He finds that not only are his charges appallingly ill, but bigotry means that they are all shunned by the people of the town. The citizens of Crediton are appalled when the goldsmith is found murdered, and his daughter assaulted. Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock quickly try to piece together the events of that night, yet as they gradually learn the truth, the shock becomes overwhelming. Meanwhile, the lepers lie victim to the rising hatred of the locals as fear and loathing are whipped into a frenzy of persecution. It’s up to Baldwin and Simon to pour water on the blazing rumours. Civil war, a murder investigation and full scale public uproar with dark implications put Baldwin and Simon to the test once again... An exceptional historical mystery from a true master of the genre, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom, Rory Clements and Susanna Gregory. Praise for Michael Jecks 'Michael Jecks is the master of the medieval whodunnit' Robert Low 'A gem of historical storytelling' Northern Echo 'Michael Jecks is a national treasure' Scotland on Sunday
Author : Claire Manes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037761
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Out of the Shadow of Leprosy written by Claire Manes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924 when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy, now referred to as Hansen's Disease, stigmatized and disfigured but did not kill. Those with leprosy were incarcerated in the federal hospital and isolated from family and community. Phones were unavailable, transportation was precarious, and fear was rampant. Edmond entered the hospital (as did his four other siblings), but he did not surrender to his fate. He fought with his pen and his limited energy to stay connected to his family and to improve living conditions for himself and other patients. Claire Manes, Edmond's granddaughter, lived much of her life gripped by the silence surrounding her grandfather. When his letters were discovered, she became inspired to tell his story through her scholarship and his writing. Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family presents her grandfather's letters and her own studies of narrative and Carville during much of the twentieth century. The book becomes a testament to Edmond's determination to maintain autonomy and dignity in the land of the living dead. Letters and stories of the other four siblings further enhance the picture of life in Carville from 1919 to 1977.
Author : Simon the Monk
Publisher : Presence
ISBN 13 : 8832525666
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Saint Nikiforos the Leper and Wonderworker written by Simon the Monk and published by Presence. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Nikiforos (1887-1964) is a saint of our time. He suffered from Hansen's Disease, leprosy, in a time when little was known about the disease or potential cures. Lepers were forced to live in Leper colonies. Some lepers gave in to despair but others like Saint Nikiforos became leaders in the Orthodox Christian faith, true saints who suffered in love for Christ and his fellow man. He encouraged many people in his life and many miracles surround his life. Come, read about joy and love in suffering...
Author : Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On leprosy and fish-eating written by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Leprosy written by Leonard Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
