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The Possible World
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Author : Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-07-12
The Possible World written by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Fiction categories.
______________________ 'Every now and then I come across a book I wish I’d written. The Possible World is one ... A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' JODI PICOULT Ben is the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others. He is just six years old, and already he must find a new place for himself in the world. Lucy, the doctor who tends to Ben, is grappling with a personal upheaval of her own. She feels a profound connection to the little boy who has lived through the unthinkable. Will recovering his memory heal him, or damage him further? Clare has long believed that the lifetime of secrets she’s been keeping don’t matter to anyone anymore, until an unexpected encounter prompts her to tell her story. As they each struggle to confront the events – past and present – that have defined their lives, something stronger than fate is working to bring them together... ______________________ 'A beautiful story of loss and memory' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Full of big questions' THE OBSERVER
A Possible World
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Author : Kenneth Koch
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-07-25
A Possible World written by Kenneth Koch and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-25 with Poetry categories.
"For the last thirty years or more, Kenneth Koch has been writing the most exuberant poems in America. In an arena where such good spirits are rare, he has become a national treasure. In his book of personal addresses to what has mattered most in his seventy-plus years on the planet, there is a dimension of pathos and joy rare in the poetry of any era." —National Book Award (2000) finalist citation for New Addresses The three long poems -- “Bel Canto,” “Possible World,” and “A Memoir” -- in this brilliant successor to New Addresses are ambitious attempts at rendering the complete story of a life. Taken together they present a dazzling picture of the pleasures and confusions of existence, as well as the pleasures and difficulties of expressing them. Other poems bring Koch’s questioning, lyrical attention to more particular aspects of experience, real and imagined—a shipboard meeting, the Moor not taken, or the unknowable realm of mountaintops. As in all of Koch’s work, one hears the music of unconquerable exuberance in stormy conflict with whatever resists it—death, the injustice of power, the vagaries of life in Thailand, China, or Rome. Thomas Disch has written in the Boston Book Review that “Koch is the most capable technician on the American scene, the brightest wit, and the emeritus most likely to persist into the next millennium . . . His work is full of ribaldry and wit, musicianship, pitch-perfect mimicry of the Great Tradition, and the celebration of pleasure for its own sunlit sake.” The ebullience and stylistic variety that one has come to expect of this protean poet is everywhere present in this scintillating collection.
A Possible World
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Author : Heikki Patomaki
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2004-10
A Possible World written by Heikki Patomaki and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10 with Political Science categories.
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All Under Heaven
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Author : Tingyang Zhao
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-06-29
All Under Heaven written by Tingyang Zhao and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with History categories.
"In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang as one of China's most distinguished and respected intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story. Over the past few decades, the question "where did China come from?" has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and pernicious asymmetry in the prevailing way scholars have gone about theorizing China according to Western concepts and categories, has tasked both Chinese and Western scholars alike to "rethink China." To this end, Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal "whirlpool" model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China's "All-Under-Heaven" Tianxia identity construction on the central plain of China. In this book, Zhao forwards a novel and compelling thesis on not only how we should understand China, but also until recently, how China has understood itself"--
Humean Nature
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Author : Neil Sinhababu
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-16
Humean Nature written by Neil Sinhababu and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Philosophy categories.
Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object, makes thoughts of its object pleasant or unpleasant, focuses attention on its object, and is amplified by vivid representations of its object. These aspects of desire explain a vast range of psychological phenomena - why motivation often accompanies moral belief, how intentions shape our planning, how we exercise willpower, what it is to be a human self, how we express our emotions in action, why we procrastinate, and what we daydream about. Some philosophers regard such phenomena as troublesome for the Humean Theory, but the properties of desire help Humeans provide simpler and better explanations of these phenomena than their opponents can. The success of the Humean Theory in explaining a wide range of folk-psychological and experimental data, including those that its opponents cite in counterexamples, suggest that it is true. And the Humean Theory has revolutionary consequences for ethics, suggesting that moral judgments are beliefs about what feelings like guilt, admiration, and hope accurately represent in objective reality.
The Possible World
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Author : Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2019-09-17
The Possible World written by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Fiction categories.
“A brilliantly written, moving story” (The Washington Book Review) about the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a murder, the ER doctor who tends to him, and a woman guarding her long-buried past, from the author of What Could Be Saved. It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole survivor from a crime scene. He’s traumatized and wordless; everything he knows has been taken from him in an afternoon. It’s not clear what he saw or what he remembers. Lucy, who’s grappling with the demise of her marriage, feels a profound connection to the little boy. She wants to help him…but will recovering his memory heal him or damage him further? Across town, Clare will soon be turning one hundred years old. She has long believed that the secrets she’s been keeping don’t matter to anyone anymore, but a surprising encounter makes her realize that the time has come to tell her story. As Ben, Lucy, and Clare struggle to confront the events that shattered their lives, something stronger than fate is working to bring them together. The Possible World spans nearly a century—from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War era and into the present—and “in beautifully crafted prose” (Booklist) captures the complicated ways our pasts shape our identities, and how timeless bonds can triumph over grief. “A bittersweet story full of imagination and nostalgia, loss and redemption…The Possible World will seize readers from the first scene and hold tight until its satisfying conclusion” (Kirkus Reviews).
On The Plurality Of Worlds
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Author : David Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2001-02-08
On The Plurality Of Worlds written by David Lewis and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-08 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
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Author : Charles Eisenstein
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible written by Charles Eisenstein and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday A beacon of hope in the face of our current world crises, this uplifting book demonstrates how embracing our interconnectedness is key to world transformation In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power. By fully embracing and practicing this principle of interconnectedness—called interbeing—we become more effective agents of change and have a stronger positive influence on the world. Throughout the book, Eisenstein relates real-life stories showing how small, individual acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can change our culture’s guiding narrative of separation, which, he shows, has generated the present planetary crisis. He brings to conscious awareness a deep wisdom we all innately know: until we get ourselves in order, any action we take—no matter how good our intentions—will ultimately be wrong-headed and wrong-hearted. Above all, Eisenstein invites us to embrace a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we can finally create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. With chapters covering separation, interbeing, despair, hope, pain, pleasure, consciousness, and many more, the book invites us to let the old Story of Separation fall away so that we can stand firmly in a Story of Interbeing.
Another Possible World
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Author : Marcella Althaus-Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Another Possible World written by Marcella Althaus-Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
Resulting from the first World Forum on liberation theology that took place in 2005 in Brazil, this book includes discussions of the themes of liberation, ecumenical differences, inter-religious commitments and historical and interdisciplinary methodologies from the perspective of the global poor.
The Possible World
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Author : Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: Hutchinson
Release Date : 2018-07-12
The Possible World written by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz and has been published by Hutchinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Interpersonal relations categories.
'Every now and then I come across a book I wish I'd written. The Possible Worldis one of those... A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' Jodi Picoult Benis the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others. He is just six years old, and already he must find a new place for himself in the world. Lucy, the doctor who tends to Ben, is grappling with a personal upheaval of her own. She feels a profound connection to the little boy who has lived through the unthinkable. Will recovering his memory heal him, or damage him further? Clarehas long believed that the lifetime of secrets she's been keeping don't matter to anyone anymore, until an unexpected encounter prompts her to tell her story. As they each struggle to confront the events - past and present - that have defined their lives, something stronger than fate is working to bring them together...