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Memos from the Broken World

Author : Jean Nordhaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936419562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Memos from the Broken World written by Jean Nordhaus and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Taking her title from the kabbalist creation tale of the clay vessels that had to break so God's light could scatter through the universe, Nordhaus mourns and celebrates a world that comes into being through continuous acts of breakage. She recalls a child who would eat nothing broken, a kewpie doll with a crack that 'spidered across his plaster skull' with blackness trickling from 'the hollow place inside, ' conjures a spark of light that 'splashed into the teacup of a skinny Jew named Kafka, ' and details the clash between religious and ethnic longings and the realities of violent conflict in a sequence of poems set in Israel and the West Bank. Ranging over time and continents, the poems in MEMOS FROM THE BROKEN WORLD, tell of our longing for the perfection of 'snow in the morning / before any footstep has broken the crust' and of the various strategies we humans devise, as we pursue happiness in an imperfect world. "'Time eats everything up, ' writes Jean Nordhaus, and that includes our griefs as well as our joys. Her poems in MEMOS FROM THE BROKEN WORLD stand as antidotes to Time's thoughtless erasures, reminding us for what else is a memo but a reminder? that the world is broken so that it may continue. Home and homelessness, exile and restoration, childhood and parenthood, the range of subjects among these short, perfect lyrics is breathtaking. These are poems in praise of the continuities of living." Mark Jarman "Though these poems can't mend our broken world, they can surely illuminate it for us with their wisdom and craft. Jean Nordhaus is a poet of keen intelligence, her language spare but resonant. This new book offers many pleasures and should earn for its author the large readership she has long deserved." Linda Pastan "We have the rarity of a book of poetry that sustains a coherence, its parts echoing back and forth upon one another, the interplay of the memos threaded throughout the work and coming finally, in 'Breaking Dishes, ' back to us. 'God's light' broken still and the child who still hungers 'for a lost, unblemished land.' Yet it is precisely and only from what is broken that birth is possible. "This is an exceptional, powerful collection of poetry by Jean Nordhaus. The reader will be grateful to live in this landscape and to make the journey with the poet." Myra Sklarew"

Greening the Earth

Author : K. Satchidanandan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357080864
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Greening the Earth written by K. Satchidanandan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greening the Earth is a rare anthology that brings together global poetic responses to one of the major crises faced by humanity in our time: environmental degradation and the threat it poses to the very survival of the human species. Poets from across the world respond here in their diverse voices-of anger, despair, and empathy-to the present ecological damage prompted by human greed, pray for the re-greening of our little planet and celebrate a possible future where we live in harmony with every form of creation.

Memo

Author : U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memo written by U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Healing a Broken World

Author : Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451405477
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Healing a Broken World written by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moe-Lobeda shows how the advent of globalization places a new horizon on the spiritual quest for religious experience. "Healing a Broken World" places spirituality and contemplative experience in relation to today's most-pressing problems.

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

Author : Lysa TerKeurst
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718039866
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book It's Not Supposed to Be This Way written by Lysa TerKeurst and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, his lack of intervention hurtful, and his promises doubtful? Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances, inviting you to live assured when life doesn't turn out like you expected. Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a season, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned at best and overwhelmed and hopeless at worst. We quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness and why he allows us to suffer and experience grief and loss. Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But after many tears, godly counseling, and prayerful seeking, she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to: Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations. Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy, so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes. Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle. Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us. Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God's truth, the Bible. Look for additional biblically based resources and devotionals from Lysa: Good Boundaries and Goodbyes Forgiving What You Can't Forget Uninvited You're Going to Make It Embraced Seeing Beautiful Again

The Torture Memos

Author : David Cole
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595584935
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book The Torture Memos written by David Cole and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 16, 2009, the Justice Department released never-before-seen secret memos describing, in graphic detail, the brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration's "war on terror." Now, for the first time, the key documents are compiled in one remarkable volume, showing that the United States government's top attorneys were instrumental in rationalizing acts of torture and cruelty, employing chillingly twisted logic and Orwellian reasoning to authorize what the law absolutely forbids. This collection gives readers an unfiltered look at the tactics approved for use in the CIA's secret overseas prisons—including forcing detainees to stay awake for eleven days straight, slamming them against walls, stripping them naked, locking them in a small box with insects to manipulate their fears, and, of course, waterboarding—and at the incredible arguments advanced to give them a green light. Originally issued in secret by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005, the documents collected here have been edited only to eliminate repetition. They reflect, in their own words, the analysis that guided the legal architects of the Bush administration's interrogation policies. Renowned legal scholar David Cole's introductory essay tells the story behind the memos, and presents a compelling case that instead of demanding that the CIA conform its conduct to the law, the nation's top lawyers contorted the law to conform to the CIA's abusive and patently illegal conduct. He argues eloquently that official accountability for these legal wrongs is essential if the United States is to restore fidelity to the rule of law.

Notes on Grief

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593320816
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Grief written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

Grace Notes

Author : Lorraine V. Murray
Publisher : Resurrection Press
ISBN 13 : 9781878718693
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Grace Notes written by Lorraine V. Murray and published by Resurrection Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short, gentle, often playful, always hopeful essays and discussion questions invite readers to be attentive and receptive to interventions of the divine in their own lives. A Spiritual Book Associates Feature Selection.

Broken Memory

Author : Elisabeth Combres
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554981611
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Broken Memory written by Elisabeth Combres and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow manages to stumble away from the scene, motivated only by the memory of her mother's last words: "You must not die, Emma!" Eventually Emma is taken in by an old Hutu woman who risks her own life to hide the child. Emma stays with the old woman and a quiet bond forms between the two, but long after the war ends, the young girl is still haunted by nightmares. When the country establishes courts to allow victims to face their tormenters in their villages, Emma is uneasy and afraid. But through her growing friendship with a young torture victim and the gentle encouragement of an old man charged with helping child survivors, Emma finds the courage to return to the house where her mother was killed and begin the journey to healing.

The World's Work

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The World's Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memo from the Devil

Author : Bart Bevers
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449729738
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Memo from the Devil written by Bart Bevers and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Bible, the human heart is deceitful above all things (Jeremiah 17:9). Add to this formula the enemy, Satan, whom the Bible describes as a murderer from the beginning and as the father of lies (John 8:44). Introduce a body of Christ-following believers who often know very little about the Bible and even less about the 27 percent of the Bible containing prophecy, and you have a recipe for deception. Fraud is an intentional deception or intentional misrepresentation made by someone with knowledge that the lie he or she just put forth will likely result in him or her receiving something of value. That something of value in the physical world is usually money or property. In the spiritual realm, your soul and eternal destiny are at stake. Fraud prevention (in both the physical and spiritual realms) requires familiarizing yourself with the fraud schemes being utilized and sometimes the red-flag indicators of those schemes. Nothing short of this knowledge will prepare you to stand against your enemy and the fraudulent schemes he employs (Ephesians 6:11). Memo from the Devil is a nonfiction work that contains a ten-part fictional memorandum written in the first person as though Satan is speaking to his demonic forces. The book is designed to expose some of the fraud that is being perpetrated against the human race. The Bible does not say the truth will set you free; it says that you shall know the truth and that the truth will then set you free (John 8:31).

Living Fountains Or Broken Cisterns

Author : E. A. Sutherland
Publisher : TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1572580240
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Living Fountains Or Broken Cisterns written by E. A. Sutherland and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Battle Creek, Mich.: Review and Herald Pub. Co., 1900.

The Memo Book

Author : Jim Gauger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1436385229
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Memo Book written by Jim Gauger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Computing Center Memo

Author : University of Michigan Computing Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Computing Center Memo written by University of Michigan Computing Center and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Ghost

Author : Hannah Nordhaus
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062249231
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book American Ghost written by Hannah Nordhaus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A haunting story about the long reach of the past.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’S Fresh Air “In this intriguing book, [Nordhaus] shares her journey to discover who her immigrant ancestor really was—and what strange alchemy made the idea of her linger long after she was gone.” —People La Posada—“place of rest”—was once a grand Santa Fe mansion. It belonged to Abraham and Julia Staab, who emigrated from Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. After they died, the house became a hotel. And in the 1970s, the hotel acquired a resident ghost—a sad, dark-eyed woman in a long gown. Strange things began to happen there: vases moved, glasses flew, blankets were ripped from beds. Julia Staab died in 1896—but her ghost, they say, lives on. In American Ghost, Julia’s great-great-granddaughter, Hannah Nordhaus, traces her ancestor’s transfiguration from nineteenth-century Jewish bride to modern phantom. Family diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings take her on a riveting journey through three hundred years of German history and the American immigrant experience. With the help of historians, genealogists, family members, and ghost hunters, she weaves a masterful, moving story of fin-de-siècle Europe and pioneer life, villains and visionaries, medicine and spiritualism, imagination and truth, exploring how lives become legends, and what those legends tell us about who we are.

Memo for Nemo

Author : William Firebrace
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262544083
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Memo for Nemo written by William Firebrace and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo to NASA’s ECC02 project. In Memo for Nemo, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and NASA satellites, Firebrace examines the undersea as a zone created by exploration and invention. Throughout, the history of undersea life is accompanied by an imagined undersea, envisioned by cultural figures ranging from Verne and Herman Melville to Orson Welles and Jimi Hendrix. Firebrace takes readers though the enormous sequence of rooms (impossible in real life) in Nemo’s submarine, recounts the competition among nineteenth-century cities to build the most spectacular aquatic world, and explains the workings of the bathysphere—an early underwater vessel modeled on a hot-air balloon. He considers the aquarium’s function in films as a sort of viewing lens, describes the chlorine-proof artificial sea life seen by passengers on the submarine ride at Disneyland, and reports that Jacques Cousteau’s famous underwater documentaries were in fact highly staged. The oceans of today are not those imagined by Verne; they are changing from both natural processes and human influence. Memo for Nemo documents the power of the undersea in both art and life.

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Author : Paul Scharre
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608999
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War written by Paul Scharre and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.