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Dead Celebrities, Living Icons

Author : John David Ebert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313377650
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Dead Celebrities, Living Icons written by John David Ebert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways—ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day. We know their likes and dislikes, admire their talents, envy them for daring to be what we can't or what we won't. When they are snatched from us, we feel a personal loss and an unwillingness to let go. And so we transform these mere human beings into icons whose stars often shine in death even more brilliantly than in life. Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar explores this phenomenon through a series of essays on 14 men and women who are, arguably, the most famous people of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Far more than just a collection of biographies, Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight.

Living Icons

Author : Michael Plekon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Living Icons written by Michael Plekon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Icons presents an intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In this inspiring volume, Michael Plekon introduces readers to a diverse and unusual group of men and women who strove to put the Gospel of Christ into action in their lives. The "living icons" Plekon describes were, among other things, priests, theologians, writers, and caregivers to the homeless and poor. One was an artist who became the greatest icon painter in this century; another was assassinated for his teachings in post-Soviet Russia. These remarkable people of faith lived through times of great suffering: forced emigration, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Many of them were criticized, if not condemned, by ecclesiastical opponents and authorities. Yet each demonstrate a unique pattern for holiness, illustrating that the path to sainthood is open to all. With the fall of state socialism, Eastern Orthodox churches and monasteries are being reopened and receiving renewed interest from believers and nonbelievers alike. Plekon calls to our attention people like Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1832), a monk, mystic, counselor, healer, and visionary; Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), a Russian whose writings after Glasnost ultimately led to his tragic assassination; Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), a painter, poet, and political activist who was killed in a concentration camp for hiding her Jewish neighbors; and Father Lev Gillet (1893-1980), one of the twentieth century's greatest spiritual teachers. Living Icons, which includes a foreword by Lawrence S. Cunningham, brings to life the beautiful, and often unfamiliar, spirituality of the Eastern Orthodox Church through some of its most remarkable members. It shows with simplicity and clarity that Christ and the Gospel are often manifested in extraordinary ways in the lives of ordinary people.

Living Images

Author : Robert H. Sharf
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739894
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Living Images written by Robert H. Sharf and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume focus on the historical, institutional, and ritual context of a number of Japanese Buddhist paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, and relics?some celebrated, others long overlooked.

Edgar Allan Poe

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544261879
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Paul Collins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.

Living Vegan For Dummies

Author : Cadry Nelson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394211031
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Living Vegan For Dummies written by Cadry Nelson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegan diet, nutrition, and lifestyle, demystified Living Vegan For Dummies provides a practical look at veganism for those who have already embraced the lifestyle, for anyone who is on the fence about trying it, or for those who want to understand the choices of the vegans in their midst. You’ll learn what it means to be vegan and why this animal-friendly diet is on the rise. Discover tasty vegan ingredients and easy recipes, money-saving tips, advice for talking to people about veganism, and ideas for dealing with the skeptics. If you’re ready to start transitioning to a vegan way of life, you’ll love this book’s simple action plans for making the switch—and making it stick. With this friendly Dummies guide, you’ve got answers to all your questions. Learn what veganism is, how it’s different from vegetarianism, and why people choose to “go vegan” Decide whether veganism is for you and get pointers on cutting out animal products Help friends and loved ones understand your dietary and lifestyle choices Get ideas for vegan cooking, eating out, and being vegan on a budget Living Vegan For Dummies is a valuable resource for anyone who practices or is considering veganism, as well as their friends and family who want to know more about the lifestyle.

The Living Church

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living Vegan For Dummies

Author : Alexandra Jamieson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047058520X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Living Vegan For Dummies written by Alexandra Jamieson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fun and easy way® to live a vegan lifestyle Are you thinking about becoming a vegan? Already a practicing vegan? More than 3 million Americans currently live a vegan lifestyle, and that number is growing. Living Vegan For Dummies is your one-stop resource for understanding vegan practices, sharing them with your friends and loved ones, and maintaining a vegan way of life. This friendly, practical guide explains the types of products that vegans abstain from eating and consuming, and provides healthy and animal-free options. You'll see how to create a balanced, nutritious vegan diet; read food and product labels to determine animal-derived product content; and stock a vegan pantry. You'll also get 40 great-tasting recipes to expand your cooking repertoire. Features expert guidance in living a vegan lifestyle and explaining it to friends and family Includes proper dietary guidelines so you can get the nutrition you need Gives you several action plans for making the switch to veganism Provides parents with everything they need to understand and support their children's choices With the tips and advice in Living Vegan For Dummies, you can truly live and enjoy a vegan way of life!

Framing Mary

Author : Amy Singleton Adams
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 160909235X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Framing Mary written by Amy Singleton Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the continued fascination with the Virgin Mary in modern and contemporary times, very little of the resulting scholarship on this topic extends to Russia. Russia's Mary, however, who is virtually unknown in the West, has long played a formative role in Russian society and culture. Framing Mary introduces readers to the cultural life of Mary from the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet era. It examines a broad spectrum of engagements among a variety of people—pilgrims and poets, clergy and laity, politicians and political activists—and the woman they knew as the Bogoroditsa. In this collection of well-integrated and illuminating essays, leading scholars of imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia trace Mary's irrepressible pull and inexhaustible promise from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Focusing in particular on the ways in which both visual and narrative images of Mary frame perceptions of Russian and Soviet space and inform discourse about women and motherhood, these essays explore Mary's rich and complex role in Russia's religion, philosophy, history, politics, literature, and art. Framing Mary will appeal to Russian studies scholars, historians, and general readers interested in religion and Russian culture.

The Living Age

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Framing the Jina

Author : John Cort
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195385020
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Framing the Jina written by John Cort and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India. Most of these narratives portray icons favorably, and so justify their existence; but there are also narratives originating among iconoclastic Jain communities that see the existence of temple icons as a sign of decay and corruption. The veneration of Jina icons is one of the most widespread of all Jain ritual practices. Nearly every Jain community in India has one or more elaborate temples, and as the Jains become a global community there are now dozens of temples in North America, Europe, Africa, and East Asia. The cult of temples and icons goes back at least two thousand years, and indeed the largest of the four main subdivisions of the Jains are called Murtipujakas, or "Icon Worshipers." A careful reading of narratives ranging over the past 15 centuries, says Cort, reveals a level of anxiety and defensiveness concerning icons, although overt criticism of the icons only became explicit in the last 500 years. He provides detailed studies of the most important pro- and anti-icon narratives. Some are in the form of histories of the origins and spread of icons. Others take the form of cosmological descriptions, depicting a vast universe filled with eternal Jain icons. Finally, Cort looks at more psychological explanations of the presence of icons, in which icons are defended as necessary spiritual corollaries to the very fact of human embodiedness.

Global Icons

Author : Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350165
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Global Icons written by Bishnupriya Ghosh and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.

The Living Legacy

Author : Ben Witherington III
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498274900
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Living Legacy written by Ben Witherington III and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living Legacy is a resource for spiritual formation that involves original Christian poetry, theological analysis, and spiritual formation exercises following the lectio divina. Following the seasons of the Church Year, Witherington and Hare provide a guide to help those of us on spiritual journeys as we seek to explore 'the living legacy,' which is our faith in the biblical God.

Littell's Living Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Littell's Living Age

Author : Eliakim Littell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living Gluten-Free For Dummies

Author : Danna Van Noy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119983606
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Living Gluten-Free For Dummies written by Danna Van Noy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gluten-Free ... Happily! Everything you need to know about a gluten-free lifestyle If you’re one of the millions of people considering giving up gluten, Living Gluten-Free For Dummies will help you break free and improve your wellbeing. Covering the practical, medical, scientific, and emotional aspects of the lifestyle, this book will inspire you with all the details on the benefits of giving up gluten, common and hidden sources of gluten, how to deal with the social and emotional challenges, tips and insight on shopping and eating out, and recipes for creating delicious, gluten-free meals and snacks. This new edition is updated with the latest research, information on testing, trending topics in the gluten-free community, what you should believe and what you shouldn’t, and easy-to-remember insights on living a happy, healthy gluten-free lifestyle. Understand how gluten affects the body and the benefits of going gluten-free Arm yourself with the latest research Connect the dots between behavior and gluten Learn to decipher labels and avoid hidden gluten sources Discover foods that are inherently gluten-free Develop an awareness of the social and emotional implications of a gluten-free lifestyle and how to deal with challenges Set yourself up for success when eating away from home Enjoy tips for raising happy, healthy gluten-free kids Eat gluten-free without breaking the bank This is the perfect read for anyone who needs a guide to managing a gluten-free lifestyle. If you are considering eliminating gluten for any reason, Living Gluten-Free For Dummies is for you.

OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual

Author : David Pogue
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491948523
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual written by David Pogue and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Yosemite, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of OS X yet—and once again, David Pogue brings his expertise and humor to the #1 bestselling Mac book. Mac OS X 10.10 includes more innovations from the iPad and adds a variety of new features throughout the operating system. This updated edition covers it all with something new on practically every page. Get the scoop on Yosemite’s big-ticket changes Learn enhancements to existing applications, such as Safari and Mail Take advantage of shortcuts and undocumented tricks Use power user tips for networking, file sharing, and building your own services

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

Author : David Pogue
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449388787
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual written by David Pogue and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with jargon-free introductions to: Big-ticket changes. A 64-bit overhaul. Faster everything. A rewritten Finder. Microsoft Exchange compatibility. All-new QuickTime Player. If Apple wrote it, this book covers it. Snow Leopard Spots. This book demystifies the hundreds of smaller enhancements, too, in all 50 programs that come with the Mac: Safari, Mail, iChat, Preview, Time Machine. Shortcuts. This must be the tippiest, trickiest Mac book ever written. Undocumented surprises await on every page. Power usage. Security, networking, build-your-own Services, file sharing with Windows, even Mac OS X's Unix chassis-this one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear.