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All Things Shining

Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101701
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book All Things Shining written by Hubert Dreyfus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational book that is “a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live” (The New York Times). “What constitutes human excellence?” and “What is the best way to live a life?” These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, whether one God or many. These forces drew us in and imbued the ordinary moments of life with wonder and gratitude. Dreyfus and Kelly argue in this thought-provoking work that as we began to rely on the power of our own independent will we lost our skill for encountering the sacred. Through their original and transformative discussion of some of the greatest works of Western literature, from Homer’s Odyssey to Melville’s Moby Dick, Dreyfus and Kelly reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with the things that gave our lives purpose, and show how, by reading our culture’s classics anew, we can once again be drawn into intense involvement with the wonder and beauty of the world. Well on its way to becoming a classic itself, this inspirational book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves.

All Things Shining

Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141659616X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book All Things Shining written by Hubert Dreyfus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging look at the loss of meaning in the West, and a gripping guide for how to retrieve it.

All Things Shining

Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 : 9781416596158
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book All Things Shining written by Hubert Dreyfus and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe, God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. Like an athlete in “the zone,” you were called to a harmonious attunement with the world, so absorbed in it that you couldn’t make a “wrong” choice. If our culture no longer takes for granted a belief in God, can we nevertheless get in touch with the Homeric moods of wonder and gratitude, and be guided by the meanings they reveal? All Things Shining says we can. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the West to reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with and responsiveness to the world. Their journey takes us from the wonder and openness of Homer’s polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and, finally, to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert. Dreyfus, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, for forty years, is an original thinker who finds in the classic texts of our culture a new relevance for people’s everyday lives. His lively, thought-provoking lectures have earned him a podcast audience that often reaches the iTunesU Top 40. Kelly, chair of the philosophy department at Harvard University, is an eloquent new voice whose sensitivity to the sadness of the culture—and to what remains of the wonder and gratitude that could chase it away—captures a generation adrift. Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus and Kelly unearth ancient sources of meaning, and teach us how to rediscover the sacred, shining things that surround us every day. This book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves. It offers a new—and very old—way to celebrate and be grateful for our existence in the modern world.

All Things Shining

Author : Paul Maher Jr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781387225521
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book All Things Shining written by Paul Maher Jr and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Things Shining: An Oral History of the Films of Terrence Malick is a collection of interviews, part history, part anecdote that details the journey of American film director Terrence Malick, from his boyhood in Oklahoma and Texas to the filming of Song to Song in 2017. The cinematic world of Malick is explored by those that have known, worked with or experienced Terrence Malick's private universe up close and personal. Using previously published interviews and articles, as well as material researched by the author, All Things Shining promises to be an instantly readable and informative account of one of the world's most reclusive and enigmatic filmmakers. Now including seven interviews with Malick never-before collected into one volume.

The Shining Girls

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007464630
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Shining Girls written by Lauren Beukes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. ‘GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived’ (The Times).

Ride Around Shining

Author : Chris Leslie-Hynan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062285106
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Ride Around Shining written by Chris Leslie-Hynan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A provocative debut novel about a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, an NBA player—a twenty-first century inversion of what we’ve come to expect stories of race and class to look like, and a discomfiting portrait of envy and obsession. Ride Around Shining concerns the idle preoccupations, and later machinations, of a transplanted Portlander named Jess—a nobody from nowhere with a Master’s degree and a gig delivering takeout. He parlays the latter, along with a few lies, into a job as a chauffeur for an up-and-coming Trail Blazer named Calyph West and his young wife, Antonia. Calyph is black and Antonia is white and Jess becomes fascinated, innocuously at first, by all they are that he is not. In striving to make himself indispensable to them, he causes Calyph to have a season-ending knee injury, then brings about the couple’s estrangement, before positioning himself at last as their perverse savior. In the tradition of The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Great Gatsby, and Harold Pinter’s The Servant—not to mention a certain Shakespeare play about a creepy white dude obsessed with a black dude—Ride Around Shining tries to say the unsayable about white fixation on black culture, particularly black athletic culture, something so common in everyday life it has gone all but unaddressed.

A Shining Season

Author : William J. Buchanan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826310163
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Shining Season written by William J. Buchanan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of John Baker, a runner, elementary school teacher, and girls track coach, who struggled with cancer.

And the Stars Were Shining

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480459070
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book And the Stars Were Shining written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty yet heartbreaking, conversational yet richly lyrical, John Ashbery’s sixteenth poetry collection showcases a mastery uniquely his own And the Stars Were Shining originally appeared in 1994, toward the midpoint of a startlingly creative period in Ashbery’s long career, during which the great American poet published no fewer than nine books in ten years. The collection brings together more than fifty compact, jewellike, intensely felt poems, including the well-known “Like a Sentence” (“How little we know, / and when we know it!”) and the lyrical, deeply moving thirteen-part title poem recognized as one of the author’s greatest. This collection is Ashbery at his most accessible, graceful, and elegiac.

A Secular Age

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Shining in the Dark

Author : Hans-Åke Lilja
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982132884
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Shining in the Dark written by Hans-Åke Lilja and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founder of the #1 Stephen King news website Lilja’s Library comes a terrifying and deliciously creepy anthology of horror stories, including a rare story from Stephen King himself, classics by Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe, and a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). Celebrating twenty years of the expansive Stephen King fan site Lilja’s Library, this creepy collection of stories is perfect for horror fans of all backgrounds. With a terrifying story that has never been previously included in any of Stephen King’s collections, Shining in the Dark is an unforgettable anthology, featuring short stories by some of the genre’s best-known and most talented authors. Stories include: “The Blue Air Compressor” by Stephen King “The Net” by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek “The Novel of the Holocaust” by Stewart O’Nan “Aeliana” by Bev Vincent “Pidgin and Theresa” by Clive Barker “An End To All Things “ by Brian Keene “Cemetery Dance” by Richard Chizmar “Drawn to the Flame” by Kevin Quigley “The Companion” by Ramsey Campbell “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe “A Mother’s Love” by Brian James Freeman “The Keeper’s Companion” by John Ajvide Lindqvist

How to Do Nothing

Author : Jenny Odell
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612197507
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

Shining Glory

Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621897850
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Shining Glory written by Peter J. Leithart and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrence Malick's stunning film The Tree of Life is a modern Job story, an exploration of suffering and glory, an honest look at strife within a Texas family in the 1950s. In Shining Glory, Peter J. Leithart examines the biblical and theological motifs of the film and illuminates how Malick exploited the visual poetry of film to produce one of the most spiritually challenging and theologically sophisticated films ever made.

The Way of Kings

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765376679
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Kings written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series

The Gift of the Magi

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Amila Jay
ISBN 13 : 3986779213
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of the Magi written by O. Henry and published by Amila Jay. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

All the Things We Do in the Dark

Author : Saundra Mitchell
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062852612
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book All the Things We Do in the Dark written by Saundra Mitchell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadie meets Girl in Pieces in this dark, emotional thriller by acclaimed author Saundra Mitchell. Something happened to Ava. The curving scar on her face is proof. Ava would rather keep that something hidden—buried deep in her heart and her soul. But in the woods on the outskirts of town, the traces of someone else’s secrets lie frozen, awaiting Ava’s discovery—and what Ava finds threatens to topple the carefully constructed wall of normalcy that she’s spent years building around her. Secrets leave scars. But when the secret in question is not your own—do you ignore the truth and walk away? Or do you uncover it from its shallow grave and let it reopen old wounds—wounds that have finally begun to heal?

This Shining Life

Author : Harriet Kline
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 1984854909
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book This Shining Life written by Harriet Kline and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy struggling to process an unexpected loss believes he has been given a series of clues to the biggest puzzle of all—the meaning of life—in this deeply felt debut novel. “An exquisitely beautiful and compelling novel about love, loss, and life.”—Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Benson’s Beetle Meet Ollie. He’s eleven years old. He hasn’t yet met a Killer Sudoku he can’t solve, but he finds the world around him difficult. People don’t say what they mean, and he hates being wrong. And now, a sudden tragedy teaches him there is no easy answer to the problem of grief. When Ollie’s happy-go-lucky father, Rich, dies of brain cancer, his mother, Ruth, has no idea how to keep living, and the entire family is thrown into disarray. The only thing that makes sense to Ollie is the puzzle he’s convinced his father left behind: one gift for each member of the family. If Ollie can find the connection between a pink vase and an old pair of binoculars, then somehow he’ll discover the secret he believes Rich wanted to share with them all: what it means to be alive. Interweaving the voices of each character in turn, this deeply felt novel paints a portrait of a family learning to come together through the darkest times. This Shining Life is a poignant yet ultimately uplifting meditation on grief, healing, and love.

Shining Star

Author : Megan McDonald
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780307463401
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Shining Star written by Megan McDonald and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news is forecasting lots of shooting stars for tonight. Star and her best friend Blister wait all day. They ride bikes. They paint pictures. But even after it gets dark, they don’t see a single flash. Will Star ever see her shining star? Shining Star is the sequel to Lucky Star, by the same talented author-and-illustrator team. From the Trade Paperback edition.