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My Weil

Author : Lars Iyer
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 168589061X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book My Weil written by Lars Iyer and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition." - Publishers Weekly A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic mystic philosopher Simone Weil ... My Weil follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester, England, the post-industrial city of so much great music and culture. They’re working class, by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs. Their immediate enemies are the drone-like Business Studies students all around them, as well as the assured and serene PhD students of the posh university up the road. And they’re working together on a film, through which they’re trying to make sense of their lives in Manchester and, in particular, to the Ees, a mysterious patch of countryside that appears to have supernatural qualities. Into their midst arrives Simone Weil, a PhD student, a version of the twentieth century philosopher, who becomes the unlikely star of their film. Simone is devout, ascetic, intensely serious, and busy with risky charity work with the homeless. Valentine, hustler-philosopher, recognises Simone as a fellow would-be saint. But Gita, Indian posh-girl, is suspicious: what’s with Simone’s nun-shoes? And Marcie (AKA Den Mom), the leader of the pack, is too busy with her current infatuation, nicknamed Ultimate Destruction Girl, to notice. The narrator, Johnny, who was brought up in care and is psychologically fragile, and deeply disturbed by the poverty of his adopted city, gradually falls in love in Simone. But will his love be requited? Will Simone be able to save the souls of her new friends and Manchester itself from apocalypse?

My Guardian Angel

Author : Sylvie Weil
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827611870
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book My Guardian Angel written by Sylvie Weil and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The streets are eerily empty, and everyone in the Jewish community is terrified of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They have been known to batter down doors and burn Jewish houses, all in the name of religion. aThis is not Nazi Germany but Troyes, France, in 1096, as seen through the eyes of funny, feisty, twelve-year-old Elvina. She is the granddaughter of the great rabbi Rashi, and she knows how to read and writeOCowhich is very rare for a girl of her time. She draws strength from this, as well as from her guardian angel, to whom she regularly speaks. aOn a cold Sabbath afternoon while Elvina is alone in the house, three soldiers pound at her door. One of them is wounded. Elvina has only a moment to make a difficult choice that could put her family and the entire community at risk. Can her guardian angel guide her and keep her safe? a"My Guardian Angel" is a story of compassion and tolerance that speaks clearly to readers of all faiths. ElvinaOCOs voice lingers long in memory, and her courage and humor long in the heart."

The Need for Roots

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000082792
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Need for Roots written by Simone Weil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.

Raven Series

Author : J. Weil
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981721863
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Raven Series written by J. Weil and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes all 3 novels of the bestselling Raven Series. With more than 200+ five-star reviews, this series topped the teen paranormal romance charts for months. Find out why readers say "If you love the romance of Twilight and Mortal Instruments, you'll fall in love with White Raven. Get Lost in the Raven Series! It only took one heartbeat to change Piper's life--one chilling phone call in the middle of the night. Piper is a Banshee...but she doesn't know it until she spends the summer with a grandma she's never met. A dark past follows Piper, and her only salvation might be the one person she has sworn to avoid. Zane Hunter. Six feet of swoon inducing looks, he is the type of guy who leaves a string of broken hearts in his wake. The Raven series. A YA paranormal romance full of atmosphere, self-discovery, and love that will keep you captivated until the very last page. Thousands of copies sold, millions of pages read, and 200+ five-star reviews. Now for the first time, save by reading the series in this special deal!

Spontaneous Happiness

Author : Andrew Weil
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316192120
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous Happiness written by Andrew Weil and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within. Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr. Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine, the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness, discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in treating depression, and elaborates on the inseparability of body and mind. Dr. Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment, comfort, resilience, serenity, and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, these strategies include body-oriented therapies to support emotional wellness, techniques for managing stress and anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns, and advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Lastly, Dr. Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized according to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, supplements, environment, lifestyle, and much more. Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr. Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.

I'm Glad I Did

Author : Cynthia Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 161695356X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book I'm Glad I Did written by Cynthia Weil and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1963 and JJ Green is a born songwriter - which is a major problem, considering that her family considers the music business to be a cesspool of lowlifes and hustlers. Defying all the naysayers, JJ takes an internship at the Brill Building, the epicentre of a new sound that is rapidly changing the world: rock and roll. JJ is finally living her dream. She even finds herself a writing partner in Luke Silver, a boy with mesmerising green eyes who seems to connect instantly with her music.

If Stress Doesn't Kill You, Your Family Might

Author : Nancy Weil
Publisher : Cjm Books
ISBN 13 : 9780983656586
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book If Stress Doesn't Kill You, Your Family Might written by Nancy Weil and published by Cjm Books. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book to overcome stress with humor"--Page [1] cover.

Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature

Author : Marie Cabaud Meaney
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191526479
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature written by Marie Cabaud Meaney and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil's Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigone and Electra, the Iliad and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. Apart from her article on the Iliad, Weil's interpretations are not widely known, probably because they are fragmentary and boldly twist the classics, sometimes even contradicting their literal meaning. Meaney argues that Weil had an apologetic purpose in mind: to the spiritual ills of ideology and fanaticism in World War II she wanted to give a spiritual answer, namely the re-Christianization of Europe to which she (though not baptized herself) wished to contribute in some way. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she intended to show through her interpretations that the texts they cherished so much could only be fully understood in light of Christ; to the Catholics she sought to reveal that Catholicism was much more universal than generally believed, since Greek culture already embodied the Christian spirit - perhaps to a greater extent than the Catholic Church ever had. Despite or perhaps because of this apologetic slant, Weil's readings uncover new layers of these familiar texts: Antigone is a Christological figure, combating Creon's ideology of the State by a folly of love that leads her to a Passion in which she experiences an abandonment similar to that of Christ on the Cross. The Iliad depicts a world as yet unredeemed, but which traces objectively the reign of force to which both oppressors and oppressed are subject. Prometheus Bound becomes the vehicle of her theodicy, in which she shows that suffering only makes sense in light of the Cross. But the pinnacle of the spiritual life is described in Electra which, she believes, reflects a mystical experience - something Weil herself had experienced unexpectedly when 'Christ himself came down and took her' in November 1938. In order to do justice to Weil's readings, Meaney not only traces her apologetic intentions and explains the manner in which she recasts familiar Christian concepts (thereby letting them come alive - something every good apologist should be able to do), but also situates them among standard approaches used by classicists today, thereby showing that her interpretations truly contribute something new.

The Divisa Series

Author : J. L. Weil
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793358998
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book The Divisa Series written by J. L. Weil and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes all 5 novels of the bestselling Divisa Series, and is over 700 pages of romance, teenage angst, and paranormal adventure. Enter the Divisa World!Angel Morgan was positive her life ended the day she moved to the ho-dunk town of Spring Valley, Illinois. The internet service was splotchy, there was nothing but miles of wheat fields, and her house was older than dirt. Everything was looking gloomy, until she got an eyeful of her new neighbor. There was only one way to describe him-hot as hell. With his sinful dark looks, unusually silver eyes, and kissable lips, there was something more about Chase Winters than meets the eye. Angel was about to find out how very different Spring Valley was.Thousands of copies sold, millions of pages read, and 250+ five-star reviews. Now for the first time, save over 50% by reading the Divisa Series in this special deal!★★★★★ "Saving Angel, TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME!" -- Julia, the Romance Bibliophile★★★★★ "This is a great book. It pulls you in from the first page and doesn't disappoint. I couldn't sleep at night because I kept saying one more chapter. This is a must read!" -- -Amazon Reviewer★★★★★ "The best start to a series ever. I just read this last night and I kept thinking about it all day. I can't wait for the next book in this series. You will enjoy this I promise you. It is worth every penny. Buy it and enjoy." -- -Amazon Reviewer

The Age of Perpetual Light

Author : Josh Weil
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080218877X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Perpetual Light written by Josh Weil and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories that “situate themselves as natural heirs to such masterpieces as Denis Johnson’s ‘Train Dreams’ and James Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’” —The New York Times Book Review Beginning at the dawn of the past century, in the early days of electrification, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night, each tale in The Age of Perpetual Light follows characters through different eras in American history: a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp; a 1940 farmers’ uprising against the unfair practices of a power company; a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990s Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite; a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter’s autism during winter’s longest night. From the prize-winning author of The Great Glass Sea, these stories explore themes of progress, the pursuit of knowledge, and humankind’s eternal attempt to decrease the darkness in the world. “A rich, often dazzling collection of short stories linked by themes while ranging widely in style from Babel-like fables to gritty noir and sci-fi . . . engrossing, persuasively detailed, and written with a deep affection for the way language can, in masterful hands, convey us to marvelous new worlds.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A storyteller of the first order.” —Joshua Ferris, author of the National Book Award finalist Then We Came to the End “A spectacular talent.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times–bestselling author of Fates and Furies

Spontaneous Healing

Author : Andrew Weil, M.D.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307794849
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous Healing written by Andrew Weil, M.D. and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body can heal itself. Spontaneous healing is not a miracle but a fact of biology--the result of the natural healing system that each one of us is born with. Drawing on fascinating case histories as well as medical techniques from around the world, Dr. Andrew Weil shows how spontaneous healing has worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. Weil then outlines an eight-week program in which you'll discover: - The truth about spontaneous healing and how it interacts with the mind - The foods, vitamins, supplements, and tonic herbs that will help you enhance your innate healing powers - Advice on how to avoid environmental toxins and reduce stress - The strengths and weaknesses of conventional and alternative treatments - Natural methods to ameliorate common kinds of illnesses And much more!

Simone Weil: "The Just Balance"

Author : Peter Winch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521317436
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Simone Weil: "The Just Balance" written by Peter Winch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew. It also explores illuminating parallels between these ideas and ideas that were simultaneously being developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Simone Weil developed a conception of the relation between human beings and nature which made it difficult for her to explain mutual understanding and justice. Her wrestling with this difficulty coincided with a considerable sharpening of her religious sensibility, and led to a new concept of the natural and social orders involving a supernatural dimension, within which the concepts of beauty and justice are paramount. Professor Winch provides a fresh perspective on the complete span of Simone Weil's work, and discusses the fundamental difficulties of tracing the dividing line between philosophy and religion.

Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil

Author : Kathryn Lawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021492
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil written by Kathryn Lawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. The book offers a systematic interpretation of Simone Weil, making her ethical philosophy more accessible to non-Weil scholars. Weil’s work has been influential in many fields, including politically and theologically-based critiques of social inequalities and suffering, but rarely linked to ecology. Kathryn Lawson argues that Weil’s work can be understood as offering a coherent approach with potentially widespread appeal applicable to our ethical relations to much more than just other human beings. She suggests that the process of "decreation" in Weil is an expansion of the self which might also come to include the surrounding earth and a vast assemblage of others. This allows readers to consider what it means to be human in this time and place, and to contemplate our ethical responsibilities both to other humans and also to the more-than-human world. Ultimately, the book uses Weil’s thought to decanter the human being by cultivating human actions towards an ecological ethics. This book will be useful for Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies.

Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture

Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521432634
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture written by Richard H. Bell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-03-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent treatment, by fourteen distinguished scholars, of some of the central strands in the philosophy of Simone Weil.

The Slaver Wars: Galactic Conflict

Author : Raymond L. Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501099137
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Slaver Wars: Galactic Conflict written by Raymond L. Weil and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleet Admiral Streth has left Rear Admiral Jeremy Strong the difficult task of holding the system of Careth until he can return with a relief fleet. Jeremy is facing impossible odds as the Hocklyns and AIs gather a massive force to crush his fleet and the defenses he has put in place around the bear's home planet. Cut off from the Federation, Jeremy and his people have no idea whether the Federation still exists or if the Hocklyns and the AIs have destroyed it. In the Federation, Admiral Streth is being forced to play a game of politics to get a relief fleet approved. His biggest fear is that he won't arrive back at Careth in time to save Admiral Strong. He knows that time is running out and he might be forced to take some desperate measures.

At Home with André and Simone Weil

Author : Sylvie Weil
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810127040
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book At Home with André and Simone Weil written by Sylvie Weil and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by Weil's niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as we are likely to get to the real Simone Weil. Born into a freethinking Jewish family, Weil contributed many articles to Socialist and Communist journals and was active in the Spanish Civil War until her health failed. In 1940 she became strongly attracted to Roman Catholicism and the Passion of Christ. Most of her works, published posthumously, continue to inform debates in ethics, philosophy, and spirituality surrounding questions of sacrifice, asceticism, and the virtues of manual labor. Massively influential, Weil's writings were widely praised by such readers as Albert Camus, T. S. Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, Pope John XXIII, Czeslaw Milosz, and Susan Sontag. Sylvie Weil recovers the deeply Jewish nature of Simone's thinking and details how her preoccupations with charity and justice were fully in the tradition of tzedakah, the Jewish religious obligation toward these actions. Using previously unpublished family correspondence and conversations, Sylvie Weil offers a more authentically personal portrait of her aunt than previous biographers have provided. At Home with Andr and Simone Weil illuminates Simone's relationship to her family, especially to her brother, the great Princeton mathematician Andr Weil. A clear-eyed and uncompromising memoir of her family, At Home with Andr and Simone Weil is a fresh look at the noted French philosopher, mystic, and social activist.

Mind Over Meds

Author : Andrew Weil
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316352985
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Mind Over Meds written by Andrew Weil and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives. Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50 years, and over-the-counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us sleep, to keep us awake, to keep our noses from running, our backs from aching, and our minds from racing. Name a symptom, there's a pill to suppress it. Modern drugs can be miraculously life-saving, and many illnesses demand their use. But what happens when our reliance on powerful pharmaceuticals blinds us to their risks? Painful side effects and dependency are common, and adverse drug reactions are America's fourth leading cause of death. In Mind over Meds, bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil alerts readers to the problem of overmedication, and outlines when medicine is necessary, and when it is not. Dr. Weil examines how we came to be so drastically overmedicated, presents science that proves drugs aren't always the best option, and provides reliable integrative medicine approaches to treating common ailments like high blood pressure, allergies, depression, and even the common cold. With case histories, healthy alternative treatments, and input from other leading physicians, Mind over Meds is the go-to resource for anyone who is sick and tired of being sick and tired.