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Download or read book Sacred Hunger written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.
Download or read book Facts are Sacred written by Simon Rogers and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-colour guide to the data that shapes our lives, looking behind the headlines and the soundbites to what's really going on. What are the real effects of the austerity measures? What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan?
Book Synopsis Sacred Guardians (2019 Edition - PDF) by : Aydeel Djoeharie, Alan Bay
Download or read book Sacred Guardians (2019 Edition - PDF) written by Aydeel Djoeharie, Alan Bay and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sudden invasion by a powerful demon threatens ancient Southeast Asia and the whole world. Dev, a mythical and immortal being from the island of Tumasik, must now race against time to gather the five chosen by the Sacred Guardian Spirits in order to fight this terrifying threat. Follow Dev on his epic quest to different areas of the region as he attempts to gather the Sacred Guardians, who would become the last hope of mankind.
Book Synopsis Talking to the Enemy by : Scott Atran
Download or read book Talking to the Enemy written by Scott Atran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.” —Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of Securing the City Talking to the Enemy is an eye-opening and important book that offers a startling look deep inside terror groups. Based on the author’s unprecedented access to and in-depth interviews with terrorists and jihadis—including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban extremists and members of other radical organizations—Talking to the Enemy provides fresh insight and unexpected answers to why there are people in this world willing to kill and die for a cause. A riveting, compelling work in the tradition of The Looming Tower and Terror in the Name of God, Talking to the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in making the world a safer, more secure place for everyone. “Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times-bestselling author of The Black Swan “Historically keen and astutely humanistic . . . the author’s deep penetration into anthropological explanations of evolution, teamwork, blood sport and war attempt to define what it means to be human.” —Kirkus Reviews Includes photographs
Book Synopsis Sacred Knowledge by : William A. Richards
Download or read book Sacred Knowledge written by William A. Richards and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly three decades of legal research with volunteers, William A. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential to assuage suffering and constructively affect the quality of human life. Richards's analysis contributes to social and political debates over the responsible integration of psychedelic substances into modern society. His book serves as an invaluable resource for readers who, whether spontaneously or with the facilitation of psychedelics, have encountered meaningful, inspiring, or even disturbing states of consciousness and seek clarity about their experiences. Testing the limits of language and conceptual frameworks, Richards makes the most of experiential phenomena that stretch our understanding of reality, advancing new frontiers in the study of belief, spiritual awakening, psychiatric treatment, and social well-being. His findings enrich humanities and scientific scholarship, expanding work in philosophy, anthropology, theology, and religious studies and bringing depth to research in mental health, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology.
Download or read book Mecca written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious. What happens in Mecca and how Muslims think about the political and cultural history of Mecca has had and continues to have a profound influence on world events to this day. In this insighful book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca. Tracing its history, from its origins as a “barren valley” in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious center of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have significantly shaped Muslim culture. An illuminative, lyrical, and witty blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Mecca reflects all that is profound and enlightening, curious and amusing about Mecca and takes us behind the closed doors to one of the most important places in the world today.
Book Synopsis Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by : Andrew Graham-Dixon
Download or read book Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane written by Andrew Graham-Dixon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight. Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter.
Book Synopsis Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by : Nahoko Uehashi
Download or read book Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit written by Nahoko Uehashi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've never read a fantasy novel like this one! The deep well of Japanese myth merges with the Western fantasy tradition for a novel that's as rich in place and culture as it is hard to put down. Balsa was a wanderer and warrior for hire. Then she rescued a boy flung into a raging river -- and at that moment, her destiny changed. Now Balsa must protect the boy -- the Prince Chagum -- on his quest to deliver the great egg of the water spirit to its source in the sea. As they travel across the land of Yogo and discover the truth about the spirit, they find themselves hunted by two deadly enemies: the egg-eating monster Rarunga . . . and the prince's own father.
Download or read book Sacred Woman written by Queen Afua and published by One World. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.
Book Synopsis Zone of the Interior by : Clancy Sigal
Download or read book Zone of the Interior written by Clancy Sigal and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA riotously funny saga of institutional insanity, based on the author’s association with the notorious psychiatrist R. D. Laing/divDIV Despite massive literary success, Sidney Bell feels perpetually unsatisfied and suffers unexplained physical ailments. Desperate to straighten out his twisted life, anxiety-ridden Sid seeks help from experimental psychiatrist Dr. Willie Last, whose therapeutic methods involve hallucinatory drugs such as LSD and trading places with his patients. After a tumultuous first trip, Sid ends up at Conolly House, a radical hospital for young schizophrenics where he serves as a “barefoot doctor.” From there, Sigal launches readers on a sardonic, rambling journey through a fantastic breed of insanity./divDIV With his freewheeling, ecstatic prose, Sigal spins a manic psychological quest into a telling portrait of a society in the grips of a turbulent decade. Zone of the Interior is a subversive and uproarious search for clarity and comfort in an increasingly mad world, grounded by an unforgettable narrator./divDIV/div/div
Book Synopsis Giving Up the Ghost by : Hilary Mantel
Download or read book Giving Up the Ghost written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.” In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and destructive surgery that left her without hope of children. Beset by pain and sadness, she decided to “write herself into being”—one novel after another. This wry and visceral memoir will certainly bring new converts to Mantel’s dark genius. “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times
Book Synopsis Guardian of the Hills by : Victoria Strauss
Download or read book Guardian of the Hills written by Victoria Strauss and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evil spirit of Stern Dreamer sleeps for centuries until archaeologists uncover his ancient tomb; now only his direct descendant Pamela, who has lived apart from her Native American heritage, can imprison his spirit again.
Book Synopsis Through the Last Door by : J. A. Jaken
Download or read book Through the Last Door written by J. A. Jaken and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kaori Sansa's father dies, he is forced to return home to claim the throne as the rightful heir of the country of Kazure. In the aftermath of his father's death, he learns that the country he loves is riddled with corruption, and is hovering on the brink of war. Will he be able to hold the kingdom together despite the odds that are stacked against it, and somehow unlock the buried powers of Shinja, the Sacred Beast of Kazure?
Download or read book On the Sacred written by Gordon Lynch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive, modern societies hold the promise of the triumph of reason and the banishing of primitive, religious impulses to a bygone age. If this statement is orthodoxy to much of Western liberal thought, then Gordon Lynch's On the Sacred is heresy. Challenging the myth of the idealized rational society, Lynch argues that emotionally-charged forms of the sacred remain an inevitable foundation of social life. Modernity has not rid us of the sacred, but merely presented us with new sacred forms focused around humanity, nature and the nation. Drawing on examples from the changing status of the British monarchy, the growing influence of humanitarian NGOs and moral justifications for the invasion of Iraq, On the Sacred presents a compelling account of what the sacred is and why it still matters for us today. By the end of the book, Lynch calls us to a new understanding of our moments of deep moral certainty, challenging us to think about the harm we do in the name of what we call sacred.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Human Being by : Gavin Francis
Download or read book Adventures in Human Being written by Gavin Francis and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human. Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance, this book will transform the way you think about being alive, whether in sickness or in health. Published in association with the Wellcome Collection. WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org
Download or read book A Sacred Oath written by Mark T. Esper and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in two generations, and a White House seemingly bent on breaking accepted norms and conventions for political advantage. A Sacred Oath is Secretary Esper’s unvarnished and candid memoir of those extraordinary and dangerous times, and includes events and moments never before told.
Download or read book Sacred Omega written by Jill Haven and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My body burns for him. It would be so easy to take him, to take what he offers me, to mate him. But I cannot. I must do my duty to my people." Reece knows the Dragons are dying out. He's given up hope of ever taking a mate for himself, as the sacred male omegas capable of carrying dragon young were hunted to extinction. But when Reece stumbles upon Matthew Stiles and recognizes him for the sacred omega he is, Reece knows that he must do everything in his power to protect the man - the only spark of hope for his race. Matthew can't deny that Mr. Tall, Dark, and Scrumptious is gorgeous and intense, but right now? He doesn't have time for distractions. He's more concerned about finding a job - any job in his field. A Master's in Paleontology doesn't go as far as it used to. The last thing that Matthew expects when he's invited to a secret dig is for Reece to show up at the hotel he is staying in - but when Reece saves from him being attacked by a group of men calling themselves the Templars, Matthew can't help but to start taking Reece's wild claims more seriously. Reece is only 800 years old - not old enough to breed. He should adhere to his people's laws, relinquishing his claim, and take Matthew before the dragon elders. Matthew ought to run far away from any man who claims to be a mythological beast. But when sparks flare, will the pull of their bodies be enough to forge a connection of the heart? Sacred Omega is the first book in the Guardian Dragons series. With rich worldbuilding and a satisfying happily ever after, this book is scorchingly hot, packed with adventure, and sets the stage for an epic struggle between the bonds of love and the darkness of hate. This book and every other book in the Guardian Dragons Series can be read in any order.
