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The Smile of a Ragpicker

Author : Paul Glynn
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495562
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Smile of a Ragpicker written by Paul Glynn and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his acclaimed work, A Song for Nagasaki, in which Fr. Paul Glynn told the powerful story of Dr. Nagai, a Christian convert of remarkable courage and compassion who ministered to victims of the atomic bomb attack on his city, The Smile of a Ragpicker brings us the heroic story of Satoko Kitahara, a young, beautiful woman of wealth who gave up her riches and comfort to be among the ragpickers in the Tokyo slums. Motivated by her newfound faith in Christ, she plunged into the life of the poor, regardless of the consequences. As Satoko helped the poor with their material and spiritual needs, she also helped them to recover their self-respect and dignity. Satokoಙs story demonstrates how one personಙs life can affect so many others. Every day Satoko encountered Christ in some new and challenging way, calling the Church back to identification with the poor. Like Dr. Nagai, she expressed her faith through the sensitivity and beauty of her own Japanese culture. Satoko died a young woman, in dire poverty. Yet her death, mourned by many thousands, reflected her triumphant life of deep Christian faith and charity. This is a powerful story of reconciliation and healing, between people of different social, economic and religious backgrounds, inspired by a frail young woman of luminous faith. Illustrated with photos. Fr. Paul Glynn is a Marist priest who served as a missionary in Japan for twenty-five years. He has written five other books including A Song for Nagasaki and Healing Fire of Christ. Praise for The Smile of the Ragpicker: "Satoko had deep faith in Godಙs providence and a strong love for Mary Immaculate. Living a truly Christ-like life, she brought many Japanese to know Jesus Christ and to embrace the Catholic faith. This is a powerful story of a contemporary, sophisticated Japanese girl who, like a female St. Francis, spent her life caring for the poor and homeless in Tokyo." - Fr. Ken Baker, S.J., Author, Inside the Bible "I particularly like the Japanese so much so that I married one! My wife, a convert to the faith, is heir to a glorious Catholic history in Japan. Fr. Glynn gives us another modern story of Japanese Catholic heroism. Satoko was a young woman who gave up a life of wealth to minister to the 'ragpickers' in Tokyoಙs post-war slums. She brought hope to the hopeless and showed the love of Christ to people who had not heard of him." - Karl Keating, Author, Catholicism & Fundamentalism

The Smile of a Ragpicker

Author : Paul Glynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949807823
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Smile of a Ragpicker written by Paul Glynn and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Song for Nagasaki

Author : Paul Glynn
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681494469
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book A Song for Nagasaki written by Paul Glynn and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more. Among the survivors was Takashi Nagai, a pioneer in radiology research and a convert to the Catholic Faith. Living in the rubble of the ruined city and suffering from leukemia caused by over-exposure to radiation, Nagai lived out the remainder of his remarkable life by bringing physical and spiritual healing to his war-weary people. A Song for Nagasaki tells the moving story of this extraordinary man, beginning with his boyhood and the heroic tales and stoic virtues of his family's Shinto religion. It reveals the inspiring story of Nagai's remarkable spiritual journey from Shintoism to atheism to Catholicism. Mixed with interesting details about Japanese history and culture, the biography traces Nagai's spiritual quest as he studied medicine at Nagasaki University, served as a medic with the Japanese army during its occupation of Manchuria, and returned to Nagasaki to dedicate himself to the science of radiology. The historic Catholic district of the city, where Nagai became a Catholic and began a family, was ground zero for the atomic bomb. After the bomb disaster that killed thousands, including Nagai's beloved wife, Nagai, then Dean of Radiology at Nagasaki University, threw himself into service to the countless victims of the bomb explosion, even though it meant deadly exposure to the radiation which eventually would cause his own death. While dying, he also wrote powerful books that became best-sellers in Japan. These included The Bells of Nagasaki, which resonated deeply with the Japanese people in their great suffering as it explores the Christian message of love and forgiveness. Nagai became a highly revered man and is considered a saint by many Japanese people.

The Rag Race

Author : Adam D. Mendelsohn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479847186
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Rag Race written by Adam D. Mendelsohn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Winner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally successful. How can we explain their dramatic economic ascent? Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America? The Rag Race argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. From humble beginnings, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a position of unusual promise and prominence, shaping both their societal status and the clothing industry as a whole. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, The Rag Race demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting.

Xavier's Legacies

Author : Kevin M. Doak
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774820241
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Xavier's Legacies written by Kevin M. Doak and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan’s so-called Christian century? Far from being a relic of the past – something brought to Japan by sixteenth-century missionaries such as Francis Xavier and then forgotten – Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic way for Japanese believers to shape their cultural identities. This volume documents the appeal of Catholicism, not only among farmers and fishers but also among scientists, diplomats, novelists, and members of the imperial household who have found in Catholicism an alternative way to keep “tradition” and negotiate modernity since the late nineteenth century.

Things Remembered and Things Forgotten

Author : Kyoko Nakajima
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745975
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Things Remembered and Things Forgotten written by Kyoko Nakajima and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past.

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307780902
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Salesman in the World written by Og Mandino and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The runaway bestseller with more than five million copies in print! You too can change your life with the priceless wisdom of ten ancient scrolls handed down for thousands of years. “Every sales manager should read The Greatest Salesman in the World. It is a book to keep at the bedside, or on the living room table—a book to dip into as needed, to browse in now and then, to enjoy in small stimulating portions. It is a book for the hours and for the years, a book to turn to over and over again, as to a friend, a book of moral, spiritual and ethical guidance, an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration.”—Lester J. Bradshaw, Jr., Former Dean, Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking & Human Relations “I have read almost every book that has ever been written on salesmanship, but I think Og Mandino has captured all of them in The Greatest Salesman in the World. No one who follows these principles will ever fail as a salesman, and no one will ever be truly great without them; but, the author has done more than present the principles—he has woven them into the fabric of one of the most fascinating stories I have ever read.”—Paul J. Meyer, President of Success Motivation Institute, Inc. “I was overwhelmed by The Greatest Salesman in the World. It is, without doubt, the greatest and the most touching story I have ever read. It is so good that there are two musts that I would attach to it: First, you must not lay it down until you have finished it; and secondly, every individual who sells anything, and that includes us all, must read it.”—Robert B. Hensley, President, Life Insurance Co. of Kentucky

The Weak Body of a Useless Woman

Author : Anne Walthall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226872378
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Weak Body of a Useless Woman written by Anne Walthall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western "barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a hero even before her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists. In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration. Writing about Taseko with a depth and complexity that has thus far been accorded only to men of that time, Walthall has uncovered a tale that will captivate anyone concerned with women's lives and with Japan's dramatic transition to modernity.

The Measure of the Magic

Author : Terry Brooks
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345529219
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Measure of the Magic written by Terry Brooks and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. As he lay dying, Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and protector of the valley, gave stewardship of the powerful talisman to the young Tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty Trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom. But even these affairs will pale beside the most harrowing menace Panterra is destined to confront—a nameless, merciless agent of darkness on a relentless mission: to claim the last black staff . . . and the life of whoever wields it. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Wards of Faerie.

Og Mandino's University of Success

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307780945
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Og Mandino's University of Success written by Og Mandino and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest success authorities in the world share their most treasured success secrets. Each powerful lesson will bring you closer to your life’s goals: • How to conquer the ten most common causes of failure • How to make the most of your abilities • How to find the courage to take risks • How to stop putting things off • How to build your financial nest egg • How to look like a winner • How to take charge of your life • And much more in fifty memorable presentations by the greatest success authorities. Dean of this unique University of Success is Og Mandino, the most acclaimed self-help writer of this generation. The faculty he has assembled includes such celebrities as Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Dale Carnegie, W. Clement Stone, Napoleon Hill, George S. Clason, Nena and George O’Neil, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Michael Korda, Lord Beaverbrook, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and many more winners in life.

Chain of Gold

Author : Cassandra Clare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481431889
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Chain of Gold written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brand-new series in the Shadowhunter world."--Cover.

Waiting on My Release

Author : David Fowler
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973607913
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Waiting on My Release written by David Fowler and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in jail, the author found he wasnt just a prisoner of mans law that he broke but a prisoner of his own mind. Inside this book, you will find another book to help inspire yourself to go above and beyond in all you do in your life to achieve your dreams and feel successful in every venture. The story Waiting on My Release will leave you in suspense and anticipation of how he arose from the ashes of his own negative thinking.

A Better Way to Live

Author : Og Mandino
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307780929
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Better Way to Live written by Og Mandino and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his descent into despair and his discovery of spiritual nourishment in the works of Aristotle, Emerson, Ben Franklin, and Plato, and enumerates the seventeen rules that helped transform his life. Og Mandino was one of the leading inspirational authors in the world. But once, he was a thirty-five-year-old derelict who nearly spent his last few dollars on a suicide gun. In A Better Way to Live, he describes the joyously redemptive process that turned a down-and-out alcoholic into a millionaire and a happy man within ten years. Og Mandino is the only person who could tell this heartwarming tale of personal triumph—because it is his own true story. And it can profoundly influence your life. Here are the principles that turned Og Mandino’s life around: his seventeen “Rules to Live By.” These simple, easy-to-follow rules comprise a sound, wise prescription for inner growth and for a fulfilling everyday life that will work for you—just as it worked for Og Mandino. You can avoid spending even one more day feeling failure, grief, poverty, shame, or self-pity. Here is a better way to live: a way that literally saved Og Mandino’s life, a way that can help make your dreams come true.

Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)

Author : Jerry Spinelli
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316333506
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner) written by Jerry Spinelli and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.

Miki and the Wishing Star

Author : Stephen Mackey
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444901368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Miki and the Wishing Star written by Stephen Mackey and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miki is back in this wintery tale of determination, friendship and hope. It's the three friends' birthday and they all make a special wish, but Penguin's wish leads him into dangerous territory.

Good Morning, Takaya

Author : Cheryl Alexander
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771604883
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Good Morning, Takaya written by Cheryl Alexander and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of Vancouver Island's lone wolf, Takaya, is told in this charming, lyrical picture book for infants. Takaya, the lone wolf, wakes up on a quiet bluff and sets out to discover the calm, gentle beauty of his coastal home. Encountering a variety of colours and other wildlife, and witnessing the beauty of the natural world, Takaya spends his day wandering, hunting, eating, howling, resting, and sleeping. This charming book, available as both a board book (ages 0-3) and a picture book (ages 4-8), features poetic text and stunning photos that illustrate the natural splendour of Takaya's island refuge.

Miracles

Author : Sono Ayako
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951319816
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Miracles written by Sono Ayako and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracles, a minor classic of Japanese literature, is a major contribution to fiction in pursuit of the supernatural. Sono Ayako's searching novel centers on Polish martyr Maximilian Kolbe, the "saint of Auschwitz." She retraces the extraordinary feats of this Conventual Franciscan-from his mission to Japan to the concentration camp where Kolbe offered up his life to save a man condemned to death. Through the veil of fiction Ayako meditates on the nature of self-sacrifice and the possibility of believable miracles in a disenchanted world. In her preface to Miracles she writes: "Before he died, this priest flung a tough question like a red-hot iron rod at the dried-up soul of modern Man. The question was, 'what does it mean for us to love one another?'" Sono Ayako (b. 1931) is one of postwar Japan's most prolific writers. Her fiction was shortlisted for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Besides Miracles, only Watcher from the Shore and No Reason for Murder have been translated into English.