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Download or read book The Second Thoughts Series written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald W. Shriver, Jr.
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596272120
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)
Download or read book On Second Thought written by Donald W. Shriver, Jr. and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, Don Shriver’s fifteenth book, the socially involved ethicist and former president of Union Theological Seminary reveals some of the challenging experiences and ideas that have informed his work. In a book both personal and honest, Shriver reflects on the nature and importance of books, music, education, war, friends, marriage, political conflict, and his tenure at Union. The essays as a whole represent exemplary theological work by showing how biblical images and themes provided Shriver with both a lens for interpreting his era and a perspective from which to anticipate the future. A dominant theme of his work has been the dynamics of forgiveness in human society and the meaning of forgiveness, beyond personal life, in the relations of groups and nations. A final essay, a letter to the great-grandchildren he will never meet, articulates the positive and hopeful message of this wide-ranging collection. For readers already familiar with his local-to-global efforts spanning ecumenical, racial, economic, and political justice issues, the book offers new insights into how Shriver’s life experiences have impacted his work. For those not yet familiar with that work, the collection offers an intimate introduction to Shriver’s passions for theology, history, and social justice, particularly in the American South, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, and East Asia
Author : Lynn Powell
Publisher : Wisconsin Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9780299315344
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Season of the Second Thought written by Lynn Powell and published by Wisconsin Poetry. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems begin in a deep blue mood, journey through the seasons, quarrel with the muse, reckon with loss, and emerge from darkness into a shimmering equilibrium--witty, lush, and hard-won.
Author : Wray Herbert
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307461645
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book On Second Thought written by Wray Herbert and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every choice we make, and thanks to these cognitive rules of thumb, we don’t need to. Yet these hard-wired shortcuts, mental wonders though they may be, can also be perilous. They can distort our thinking in ways that are often invisible to us, leading us to make poor decisions, to be easy targets for manipulators…and they can even cost us our lives. The truth is, despite all the buzz about the power of gut-instinct decision-making in recent years, sometimes it’s better to stop and say, “On second thought . . .” The trick, of course, lies in knowing when to trust that instant response, and when to question it. In On Second Thought, acclaimed science writer Wray Herbert provides the first guide to achieving that balance. Drawing on real-world examples and cutting-edge research, he takes us on a fascinating, wide-ranging journey through our innate cognitive traps and tools, exposing the hidden dangers lurking in familiarity and consistency; the obstacles that keep us from accurately evaluating risk and value; the delusions that make it hard for us to accurately predict the future; the perils of the human yearning for order and simplicity; the ways our fears can color our very perceptions . . . and much more. Along the way, Herbert reveals the often-bizarre cross-connections these shortcuts have secretly ingrained in our brains, answering such questions as why jury decisions may be shaped by our ancient need for cleanliness; what the state of your desk has to do with your political preferences; why loneliness can literally make us shiver; how drawing two dots on a piece of paper can desensitize us to violence… and how the very typeface on this page is affecting your decision about whether or not to buy this book. Ultimately, On Second Thought is both a captivating exploration of the workings of the mind and an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to learn how to make smarter, better judgments every day.
Author : Vernon Bobo
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460246233
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book On Second Thought written by Vernon Bobo and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience is the essence of life. Cotton fields, angels, rivers and trees, deserted Orphans; the author finds them all in the human heart. Our omnipresent God, liberty, freedom and love expressed by the never-ending ways of a child. A collection that slows the reader down, softens the rough edges, and touches the heart with words that describe and reveal the common threads which bind us all together in thought and the hope that is within us all....
Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307763293
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Where I Was From written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Author : C. Spencer
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635554160
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book On Second Thought written by C. Spencer and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is never easy. But once you add a complicated ex-wife and eight-year-old daughter, you’re playing with a new set of rules. Madisen’s just beginning to figure out those rules when she meets Rae in what becomes an all-consuming affair filled with late nights and exhausted euphoria. Rae is charming. Madisen is smitten. And life couldn’t feel more perfect. At least, that is, until her ex-wife begins to have second thoughts.
Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 1460397789
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book On Second Thought written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–Bestselling Author: “Emotional depth is seared into every page along with wry banter, bringing readers to tears and smiles.” —Library Journal (starred review) Ainsley O’Leary is so ready to get married—she’s even found the engagement ring her boyfriend has stashed away. What she doesn’t anticipate, after eleven years together during which she nursed him through cancer, is being blindsided by a breakup that he chronicles in a blog . . . which (of course) goes viral. Devastated and humiliated, Ainsley moves in with her older half sister, Kate, who’s struggling with a sudden loss of her own in upstate New York. Kate’s always been the poised, self-assured sister, but becoming a newlywed—and a widow—in the space of four months overwhelms her. Though the sisters were never close, she starts to confide in Ainsley, especially when she learns her late husband was keeping a secret from her. Despite the murky blended-family dynamic that’s always separated them, Ainsley’s and Kate’s heartaches will bind their summer together as they come to terms with the inevitable imperfection of relationships and family—and the possibility of one day finding love again . . . . “Higgins’s page-turner highlights both the complexity of family relationships and the intense power of love.” —Publishers Weekly “A captivating read about two sisters dealing with love, loss and new beginnings. What sets this book apart is how one event changes both women’s lives. Kate is refreshingly frank in her inner monologue, and Ainsley is charmingly self-aware and wry.” —RT Book Reviews, 5 stars (Top Pick) “Higgins’ complex, witty characters will seem like close friends, and readers will savor each and every page . . . [Higgins is a] women’s-fiction star.” —Booklist (starred review)
Author : Michael Dante DiMartino
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506721699
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Avatar: The Last Airbender The Art of the Animated Series (Second Edition) written by Michael Dante DiMartino and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join series creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino for an unpreccendented behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of pieces of concept, design, and production art as they take you on a guided tour through the development of this smash-hit television series in this new edition of the beloved artbook. Learn how Avatar: The Last Airbender took shape, from the very first sketch through the series finale, and beyond! This new edition comes with a brand new forward from long time Avatar the Last Airbender series writer Gene Luen Yang. Avatar: The Last Airbender has been syndicated to more than 120 countries around the world, inspiring millions of fans and industry professionals alike and garnering numerous industry honors--including wins at the prestigious Annie, Peabody, and Primetime Emmy awards. Perfect for fans of all ages!
Author : Lilian Whiting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World Beautiful: 2nd series written by Lilian Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rhoda Broughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Second Thoughts written by Rhoda Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandro Jung
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611462827
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Genres of Thomson’s The Seasons written by Sandro Jung and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact that it started as a stand-alone poem, Winter (1726), but was subsequently expanded—as part of a revision process that lasted almost two decades—through the addition of three further seasons poems. Transforming from primarily devotional poem to georgic account of the role of man’s laboring role in the creation, the meaning of The Seasons shifted with each addition of new material. Each revision introduced diverse subject matter while existing material was reorganized and occasionally moved from one season installment to another. The Genres of Thomson’s The Seasons is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to the study of the work’s formal heterogeneity, polyvocality, and polygeneric character. All contributions examine the different modes (descriptive, reflective, pastoral, hymnal, amatory, epic, georgic, dramatic), discourses (political, sentimental, scientific), and kinds that cooperate to make up the different installments and variants of The Seasons. They probe the multifarious interactions between different genres and modes and how a renewed focus on the form of Thomson’s long poem will result in an understanding of the processual character of The Seasons as a synthesizing simulacrum of various discourses and theories of composition. The volume’s essays map the generic anatomy of the poem in its different incarnations. They shed light on the poet’s conception of the descriptive long poem and his engaging with formal traditions that would have enabled contemporaneous readers to conceive of The Seasons as an assimilating and learned work to be read through both the works of the Classics and moderns. Contributions revisit models explaining the structural complexity of The Seasons, proposing others in their stead, and consider Thomson as the author of a long poem in relation to other poets both English and (in a transnational study) Swedish. The poem is furthermore contextualized in terms of sexuality and animal studies.
Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031626069X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Never Out of Season written by Rob Dunn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to the nature's fury. And nature always wins. Authoritative, urgent, and filled with fascinating heroes and villains from around the world, Never Out of Season is the story of the crops we depend on most and the scientists racing to preserve the diversity of life, in order to save our food supply, and us.
Author : Michael Dante DiMartino
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506721702
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Avatar: The Last Airbender The Art of the Animated Series Deluxe (Second Edition) written by Michael Dante DiMartino and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Join series creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino for a behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of pieces of concept, design, and production art as they take you on a guided tour through the development of this smash-hit television series in this new edition of the beloved artbook. Learn how Avatar: The Last Airbender took shape, from the very first sketch through the series finale, and beyond!"--Publisher's description.
Author : G. W. Foote
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9361423657
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Flowers of Freethought Second Series written by G. W. Foote and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flowers of Freethought: Second Series" by G. W. Foote is a thought-provoking exploration of freethought principles, challenging conventional beliefs with rationalism and skepticism. Through essays and discussions, Foote delves into topics of atheism, secularism, and non-belief, advocating for critical thinking and enlightenment in the face of religious dogma. As a prominent figure in the secular movement, Foote dismantles religious arguments and debunks myths with a philosophical approach rooted in science and humanism. The book serves as a manifesto for those seeking to embrace reason and reject superstition, offering a platform for controversial ideas to flourish. Within its pages, readers encounter a wealth of insights on secular humanism and the importance of questioning established beliefs. Foote's eloquent prose and incisive analysis challenge readers to reconsider their perspectives on religion and society, fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities of faith and disbelief. "Flowers of Freethought: second Series" stands as a beacon of intellectual freedom, inspiring readers to embrace a worldview grounded in reason, skepticism, and critical inquiry. It is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the intersections of philosophy, religion, and humanism in contemporary discourse.
Author : Robert Smallwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811316
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Players of Shakespeare 5 written by Robert Smallwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in this popular series of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 031622930X
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Fifth Season written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
