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An Evil Cradling

Author	: Brian Keenan
Publisher	: Arrow
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: 009999030X
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (93 users)

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Download or read book An Evil Cradling written by Brian Keenan and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that time he was shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than his jailers and, later, his fellow hostages, amongst them John McCarthy. This is his story.

An Evil Cradling

Author	: Brian Keenan
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2015-10-08
ISBN 10	: 9781446485422
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (464 users)

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Download or read book An Evil Cradling written by Brian Keenan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that time he was shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than his jailers and, later, his fellow hostages, amongst them John McCarthy.

Power Love and Evil

Author	: Wayne Cristaudo
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9789042023383
Pages	: 166 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (42 users)

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Download or read book Power Love and Evil written by Wayne Cristaudo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and evil are real - they are substances of force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naïve realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a philosophy of generative action as it draws upon examples from philosophy, literature, religion and popular culture. While this book has a sympathetic ear for ancient and traditional narratives about the meaning of life, it offers a philosophy appropriate for our times and our crises. It is particularly directed at readers who are seeking for new ways to think about our world and self-making, and who are as dissatisfied with post-Nietzschean and post-Marxian 20th century social theory as they are by more traditional philosophical and naturalistic accounts of human being.

Explorations in Reconciliation

Author	: Joseph Liechty
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-04-15
ISBN 10	: 9781317137566
Pages	: 178 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (171 users)

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Download or read book Explorations in Reconciliation written by Joseph Liechty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and elsewhere. The questions addressed include: Can truth set a person, or a society, free? How is political forgiveness possible? Are political, personal, and spiritual reconciliation essentially related? Explorations in Reconciliation brings Catholic, Protestant, Mennonite, Jewish and Islamic perspectives together within a single volume to present some of the most relevant theological work today.

Humor

Author	: Herbert M. Lefcourt
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2001-01-31
ISBN 10	: 0306464071
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (64 users)

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Download or read book Humor written by Herbert M. Lefcourt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-01-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using anecdotes to illustrate his empirical results, Lefcourt (University of Waterloo, Ontario) examines humor as a mechanism for coping with adversity. Chapters address topics like: the experience of humor in everyday life; early conceptions of humor in religion, medicine, philosophy, and psychology; the persuasiveness of humor; variations in the types and definitions of humor; the effects of stress on emotion and health; social cohesion; physiological stress responses; and, sex and humor. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Forgiveness

Author	: Michael Henderson
Publisher	: Arnica Publishing, Inc.
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 0972653562
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (535 users)

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Download or read book Forgiveness written by Michael Henderson and published by Arnica Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes a series of situations in which people are reconciled to some injustice and manage to come to a better understanding and, sometimes, to forgive . . .For anyone interested in the subject, I would highly recommend it." --Rachel Billington, "Inside Time" in the National Newspaper for Prisoners How could survivors of the Burma Road, the Siberian Gulag, or Nazi atrocities forgive those who harmed them? How can representatives of entire populations--Australian Aborigines, African Americans, and black South Africans--be reconciled with whites who exploited them? And how can the offenders find the grace to apologize? Michael Henderson writes about dozens of remarkable people of many nations and faiths who have, by repentance and forgiveness, been able to break the chain of hate through repentance and forgiveness.

Betraying Our Selves

Author	: NA NA
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2016-04-30
ISBN 10	: 9781349628476
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (496 users)

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Download or read book Betraying Our Selves written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Author	: Oxford University Press
Publisher	: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 0198601735
Pages	: 1160 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Oxford University Press and published by Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty thousand quotations from every era and location are combined in a comprehensive reference that also encompasses details of the earliest traceable source, birth and death dates, and career briefs for each entry, as well as a thematic and k

Subjectivity

Author	: Ruth Robbins
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2005-04-20
ISBN 10	: 9781350309845
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (53 users)

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Download or read book Subjectivity written by Ruth Robbins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions - often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include: - William Wordsworth's Prelude - Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Oscar Wilde's De Profundis - Jung Chang's Wild Swans Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in which we live permits us to be. Concise and easy-to-follow, this introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood, there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying 'autobiography' or 'autobiographical writing'.

Contexts for Frank McGuinness s Drama

Author	: Helen Lojek
Publisher	: CUA Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0813213568
Pages	: 312 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (135 users)

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Download or read book Contexts for Frank McGuinness s Drama written by Helen Lojek and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This consideration of the playwright Frank McGuinness's work includes a discussion of his original stage work through ""Gates of Gold"" (2002) and highlights the connections between McGuinness's creativity and the biographical, geographical, social and literary factors that have shaped his world.

Turlough

Author	: Brian Keenan
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2011-06-30
ISBN 10	: 9781446484616
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (464 users)

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Download or read book Turlough written by Brian Keenan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark.Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and through the recollections of those closest to him, Turlough powerfully brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression. Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind man afraid of the dark.A panoramic picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland and peopled by a host of angels and devils, Turlough is a remarkable historical journey, and a huge imaginative feat

Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Author	: Orit Badouk Epstein
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2018-03-22
ISBN 10	: 9780429918704
Pages	: 202 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (299 users)

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Download or read book Ritual Abuse and Mind Control written by Orit Badouk Epstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated, facing the same levels of disbelief and denial from other professionals within the mental health field. This report - based on proceedings from a conference on the subject - presents knowledge and experience from both clinicians and survivors to promote understanding and recovery from organized and ritual abuse, mind control and programming. The book combines clinical presentations, survivors' voices, and research material to help address the ways in which we can work clinically with mind control and cult programming from the perspective of relational psychotherapy.

Celebrating Confusion

Author	: Kenneth Nally
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2009-01-14
ISBN 10	: 9781443803656
Pages	: 350 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Celebrating Confusion written by Kenneth Nally and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.

I ll Tell Me Ma

Author	: Brian Keenan
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2011-05-31
ISBN 10	: 9781446477137
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (464 users)

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Download or read book I ll Tell Me Ma written by Brian Keenan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local rather than international, the dramas and privations described in this memoir are not the stuff of headlines. This is the story of an ordinary boy growing up in Belfast after the war; an ordinary boy who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut and author of the extraordinary testimony of imprisonment and survival that was An Evil Cradling. Brian Keenan has captured the vanished world of 1950s Belfast in all its vivid vernacular and grey, post-war austerity. I'll Tell Me Ma is an affectionate story of a disaffected childhood. At the centre is a shy, self-conscious boy of unusual moral integrity; a boy puzzled by religion and sectarianism, in love with books and music and full of curiosity about the world outside. It is also a book about coming-to-terms with the past: a resounding, thrilling record of redemption.

A Concordance of the Qur an

Author	: Hanna E. Kassis
Publisher	: Berkeley : University of California Press
Release Date	: 1983-12-28
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015066405443
Pages	: 1496 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book A Concordance of the Qur an written by Hanna E. Kassis and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1983-12-28 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword This Concordance of the Qur'an in English satisfies a paramount need of those—and there are millions of them—who have no command of the Arabic language and yet desire to understand the Qur'an. The benefit derivable from English translations of the Sacred Book is, in principle, limited because, first, the Qur'an is not a "book" but a collection of passages revealed to Muhammad over a period of about twenty-three years and, second, because the Qur'an is not really translatable. This does not mean that the Qur'an should not be translated. It does mean that translations lose much in tone and nuance, let alone the incommunicable beauty, grandeur, and grace of the original. . . . The main distinction of Hana Kassis's concordance, in my view, is that it utilizes the semantic structure of Arabic vocabulary itself in revealing the meaning of the Qur'an on any given issue, point or concept. A reader who looks in the index of this concordance for a word which he has encountered in reading an English translation of the Qur'an—the word pride, for example—is directed immediately to the roots of the Arabic, Qur'anic terms for pride. At tne entries for these Arabic roots, all the derivative forms are shown, and the verses of the Qur'an in which they appear are there listed in translation. . . . I am confident that any person who is sincerely interested in understanding the Qur'an and appreciating the nuances of its diction and shades of its meaning can satisfy his need more fully with this book than in any way short of developing a real command over the Arabic language itself. —Fazlur Rahman, Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Chicago

Irish University Review

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105016123908
Pages	: 392 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( users)

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Cruelty or Humanity

Author	: Rees, Stuart
Publisher	: Policy Press
Release Date	: 2020-09-23
ISBN 10	: 9781447356974
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (473 users)

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Download or read book Cruelty or Humanity written by Rees, Stuart and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruelty has long been a feature of states’ domestic and foreign policies but is seldom acknowledged. Governments mouth respect for human rights yet promote discrimination, violence and suppression of critics. Documenting case studies from around the world, distinguished academic and human rights activist Stuart Rees exposes politicians’ cruel motives and the resulting outcomes. Using his first-hand observations and insights from international poets, he argues for courageous action to support non-violence in every aspect of public and private life for the survival of people, animals and the planet.