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Book Synopsis The Beggars' Gift by : Michael A. Corneiller
Download or read book The Beggars' Gift written by Michael A. Corneiller and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tired girl wanders the street. A grungy man rifles through a Dumpster. A weary mom hauls her baby as she begs for food. Nameless and anonymous to those around them, these people are avoided, consistently ignored at best, cruelly mistreated at worst. But each has a name. Each has a past. And each life has meaning. Blinky lost his wife to cancer. Blinded by grief, he forsook his former life. Forgetting the past, he formed a bond with others who are homeless by choice. Pogo defended the woman he loved from an attacker and fled Mexico to avoid retribution. Chazz fought in a war and came home a hollow shell. They had retreated from society and met by chance on the stark streets. A children's book, given to them by a little girl, helps them retrieve, not only their lives, but the desire to make a difference for God's glory. In Michael Corneiller's thought-provoking novel, The Beggars' Gift, it takes all the King's men to seek a solution to the plague of destitution that is taking over Pimlico. The factories are closing, the workers going home, empty and broken, and this dying town's only hope is its outcasts. But one woman continues to give. Maggie Lowell opens a food pantry for the homeless. Asking for help, Maggie looks for ways to provide. For fourteen-year-old Kanie, her compassion means everything. Unwittingly involved with an intimidating robber, Kanie tries to break away while thwarting his old boss. But when he runs to what he thinks is a safe haven, the green house, he discovers a disturbing scheme. A persuasive predator is promising homeless children a better life. Can Kanie escape his new prison? Will The Beggars' Gift revive hope and save Pimlico from the economic depression? God has a plan to resurrect all the King's men, but can they find the missing children and save the entire town?
Book Synopsis Theories of the Gift in South Asia by : Maria Heim
Download or read book Theories of the Gift in South Asia written by Maria Heim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift.
Download or read book Beggars Ride written by Nancy Kress and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-12-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable conclusion to the ground breaking trilogy begun with the Nebula Award-winning "Beggars in Spain". Two hundred years in the future regular human beings hate and fear the Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, genetically modified humans who are immune to disease and hunger, and need no sleep. When the Sleepless plot to take over the world and leave regular humans powerless, civilization and the very meaning of the word "human" hang in the balance.
Book Synopsis The Necessary Beggar by : Susan Palwick
Download or read book The Necessary Beggar written by Susan Palwick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as "a deeply felt, deeply moving tale . . . chilling and finely tuned" (Publishers Weekly), Susan Palwick's first novel Flying in Place won widespread acclaim for its haunting exploration of a troubled childhood. Now, after a decade, Palwick returns with the powerful tale of a family cast out of an idyllic realm, learning to live in our own troubled world--an exciting and insightful examination of humanity in the spirit of Ursula Le Guin's The Disposessed and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty. But it is also a land of swift and severe justice. Young Darroti has been accused of the murder of a highborn woman who had chosen the life of a Mendicant, a holy beggar whose blessing brings forgiveness. Now his entire family must share his shame, and his punishment--exile to an unknown world. Grieving for the life they have left behind, Darroti and his family find themselves in a hostile land--an all-too-familiar American future, a country under attack in a world torn by hatred and war. There, each tries to cope in their own way. Some will surrender to despair. Some will strive to preserve the old ways. Some will be lured by the new world's temptations. And some, sustained by extraordinary love, will find a way to heal the family's grief and give them hope.
Book Synopsis The Fear of Beggars by : Kelly S. Johnson
Download or read book The Fear of Beggars written by Kelly S. Johnson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to beggars? Examining both classical economics and Christian stewardship ethics as reactions to medieval debates about the role of mendicants in the church and in wider society, Johnson reveals modern anxiety about dependence and humility as well as the importance of Christian attempts to rethink property relations in ways that integrate those qualities. She studies the rhetoric and thought of Christian thinkers, beggar saints, and economists from throughout history, placing greatest emphasis on the life and work of Peter Maurin, a cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement. Challenging and thought-provoking, The Fear of Beggars will move Christian economic ethics into a richer, more involved discussion.
Book Synopsis Traditional Reiki for Our Times by : Amy Z. Rowland
Download or read book Traditional Reiki for Our Times written by Amy Z. Rowland and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader step-by-step through traditional Reiki level 1 and 2 classes, discussing history, method and application.
Download or read book The Theosophical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theosophical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tzedakah, Gemilut Chasadim, and Ahavah by : Behrman House
Download or read book Tzedakah, Gemilut Chasadim, and Ahavah written by Behrman House and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These practical action projects introduce students to the wonders of doing sharing and relating.
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Book Synopsis Incorporating Cultural Theory by : John O'Neill
Download or read book Incorporating Cultural Theory written by John O'Neill and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating Cultural Theory addresses the status of the body and sexuality in cultural criticism by focusing on issues of sexuality, intimacy, and identity. With a perspective grounded in body politics, O'Neill offers careful but contesting studies of theorists including Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Freud, Lacan, Hegel, Parsons, and Merleau-Ponty, that amplify his own overarching theoretical framework. Concluding chapters demonstrate the practicality of the author's body-political critical theory, offering analyses of Jurassic Park and the London Millennium Dome as cyborg practices designed to bypass the reproductive anxieties of bodies, families, and communities by shape-shifting the loss of a civic boundary. The overarching frame of the book—maternity at the millennium—provides a unique topic for using psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies, and O'Neill argues throughout for keeping cultural studies focused on wholeness and integration, instead of the fragmentation and alienation embraced by postmodern theoretical excesses.
Book Synopsis Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture by : Charles J. Rzepka
Download or read book Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles J. Rzepka's important contributions to scholarship on the Romantic period and twentieth-century literature and culture are gathered together for the first time. Included are award-winning essays on Keats and Wordsworth, critical studies of De Quincey, and Austen; and interventions into popular culture and detective fiction. Together, the essays are both a career retrospective and a roadmap of the innovations and controversies that have influenced literary studies from the early 1980s to the present.
Book Synopsis Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature by : Nikki Rollason
Download or read book Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature written by Nikki Rollason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have separately been the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were an integral part of Greek and Roman society and identity, creating and reinforcing the relationships which kept a community together, as well as delineating status and even symbolising society as a whole. They have, however, rarely been studied together despite the prevalence of clothing gifts in many ancient texts. This book addresses a gap in scholarship by focusing on gifts of elite male clothing in late antique literature in order to show that, when they appeared in texts, these items were not only functioning in an historical or 'real-life' sphere but also as a literary space within which authors could discuss ideas of social relationships and authority. This book suggests that authors used items which usually formed part of the costume of authority of the period - the trabea of the consul, the chlamys of the imperial court and the emperor, and the pallium of the Christian bishops - to 'over-write' wearers and donors as confident figures of 'official' authority when this may have been open to doubt.
Book Synopsis From Gift to Commodity by : Hildegard Hoeller
Download or read book From Gift to Commodity written by Hildegard Hoeller and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period's fiction, she shows how American novelists from Hannah Foster to Frank Norris grappled with the role of the gift based on trust, social bonds, and faith in an increasingly capitalist culture based on self-interest, market transactions, and economic reason. Placing the notion of sacrifice at the center of her discussion, Hoeller taps into the poignant discourse of modes of exchange, revealing central tensions of American fiction and culture.
Book Synopsis British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation by : Lasse Thomassen
Download or read book British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation written by Lasse Thomassen and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses poststructuralist theory to connect inclusion, exclusion and identity, using real-world case studies from British culture, politics and lawLasse Thomassen applies a fresh, poststructuralist approach to reconcile the theoretical and practical issues surrounding inclusion, exclusion and representation. He opens up debates and themes including Britishness, race, the nature and role of Islam in British society, homelessness and social justice. Thomassen argues that the politics of inclusion and identity should be viewed as struggles over how these identities are represented. He develops this argument through careful analysis of cases from the last four decades of British multiculturalism, including public debates about the role of religion in British society, Gordon Brown and David Cameron's contrasting versions of Britishness, legal cases about religious symbols and clothing in schools, and the Nick Hornby novel How to Be Good.
Download or read book Civic Capitalism written by John O'Neill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a positive formulation of the moral practices that are basic to the civic institution of childhood, citizenship, and social justice, Civic Capitalism expands the economist's concept of human capital to include health, education, and other social transfers that enrich civic capital formation. John O'Neill demonstrates how this development has become the political core of capitalist societies in North America and Europe whose welfare regimes are continuously contested yet intrinsic to ideals of citizenship and social justice. Civic Capitalism examines the current surrender to global capitalism and market elites that exploit rich national niches of civic society, education, health, the rule of law, and social security, and challenges it to re-focus on the needs of children and the poor. Elite ideologies of anti-governance and anti-taxation are indifferent to the needs of society's most vulnerable, and fail to realize that inequality, ignorance, and sickness are the most present impediments to economic growth and democracy. O'Neill gives moral voice to children and the state of childhood – the site where our notions of well-being (health, education, human capital) are tested. His research draws upon the classical tradition of critical political economy and social policy in Galbraith, Rawls, and Tawney, to name a few. Working within this tradition, he provides a grammar of civic childhood and the wealth of nations.
