Elusive Lives
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Elusive Lives
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Author : Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
language : en
Publisher: South Asia in Motion
Release Date : 2018
Elusive Lives written by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and has been published by South Asia in Motion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
Introduction : the ultimate unveiling -- Life/history/archive -- The sociology of authorship -- The autobiographical map -- Staging the self -- Autobiographical genealogies -- Coda : unveiling and its attributes
Writing Lives In China 1600 2010
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Author : Marjorie Dryburgh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Writing Lives In China 1600 2010 written by Marjorie Dryburgh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
Life Beyond Belief
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Author : Alice Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Awake Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Life Beyond Belief written by Alice Gardner and has been published by Awake Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Learn how everyday life can be your most vital spiritual practice, no matter what your religion or tradition. This book crosses all of the spiritual and religious boundaries through the commonality of our everyday experience. It is a deeply personal book giving a down-to-earth account of the experience of spiritual awakening and the process of bringing awakening into each moment.
Houdini
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Author : Adam Begley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Houdini written by Adam Begley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world’s greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, “The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American,” provides a succinct summary of the Master Mystifier’s life. Born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, Houdini grew up an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the Midwest and became world-famous thanks to talent, industry, and ferocious determination. He concealed as a matter of temperament and professional ethics the secrets of his sensational success. Nobody knows how Houdini performed some of his dazzling, death-defying tricks, and nobody knows, finally, why he felt compelled to punish and imprison himself over and over again. Must a self-liberator also be a self-torturer? Tracking the restless Houdini’s wide-ranging exploits, acclaimed biographer Adam Begley asks the essential question: What kind of man was this?
Elusive
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Author : Bobbie Jefferson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-23
Elusive written by Bobbie Jefferson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Drama categories.
Awe-inspiring, Astonishing, Amazing Reverence; with profound respect and wonderment that strikes deep in the heart where emotions run rapid with fear, while my soul is wrapped in humility, that has immobilizing effect upon my spirit each time I think of the universe and man's existence; even the glory and honor bestowed on man that crowns him above all earthly creatures even the universe!
The Elusive Embrace
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Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-01-04
The Elusive Embrace written by Daniel Mendelsohn and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead. Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where "desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self. The book that Hilton Als calls "equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself,'" The Elusive Embrace marks a dazzling literary debut.
For The Time Being
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Author : Annie Dillard
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-05-19
For The Time Being written by Annie Dillard and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-19 with Philosophy categories.
National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. "Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News
Finding Meaning In An Imperfect World
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Author : Iddo Landau
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-01
Finding Meaning In An Imperfect World written by Iddo Landau 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 2017-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, Iddo Landau argues, our lives often are, or could be made, meaningfulwe've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is. When it comes to meaning in life, Landau explains, we have let perfect become the enemy of the good. We have failed to find life perfectly meaningful, and therefore have failed to see any meaning in our lives. We must attune ourselves to enhancing and appreciating the meaning in our lives, and Landau shows us how to do that. In this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, Landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance it. He confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe. While exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hope. Along the way, he faces provocative questions: Would we choose to live forever if we could? Does death render life meaningless? If we examine it in the context of the immensity of the whole universe, can we consider life meaningful? If we feel empty once we achieve our goals, and the pursuit of these goals is what gives us a sense of meaning, then what can we do? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World is likely to alter the way you understand your life.
The Hidden Lives Of Owls
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Author : Leigh Calvez
language : en
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Release Date : 2016-08-16
The Hidden Lives Of Owls written by Leigh Calvez and has been published by Sasquatch Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-16 with Nature categories.
“You’ll come away from this riveting book blessed with owl wisdom that will enlarge your world forever.” —Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Soul of an Octopus In this New York Times bestseller, Leigh Calvez explores the night forest to uncover the secret lives of owls in this illuminating book for birders, animal lovers, and readers of H is for Hawk. Join a naturalist on her adventures into the world of owls, owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest—often in the dead of night. Whether you’re tracking snowy or great horned owls, these birds are a bit mysterious, and that’s part of what makes them so fascinating. In The Hidden Lives of Owls, Leigh Calvez pursues 11 different owl species—including the Barred, Flammulated, Northern Saw-Whet, Northern Pygmy, Northern Spotted, Burrowing, Snowy, and Great Gray. In an entertaining and accessible style, Calvez relays the details of her avian studies, from the thuggish behavior of barred owls—which puts the spotted owl at risk—to the highly unusual appearance of arctic snowy owls in the Lower 48, which directly reflects the state of the vole population in the Arctic. As Calvez takes readers into the lives of these strange and majestic creatures, she also explores questions about the human-animal connection, owl obsession, habitat, owl calls, social behavior, and mythology. Hoot!
This Darned Elusive Happiness
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Author : Theun Mares
language : en
Publisher: Lionheart Pub
Release Date : 2001
This Darned Elusive Happiness written by Theun Mares and has been published by Lionheart Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Self-Help categories.
Is happiness an attainable goal -- something for which we can strive -- or is it totally out of our hands? This book puts the keys to happiness firmly within our grasp. Théun shows that true happiness depends on how we relate to ourselves, to others and to the world around us. Guiding us on a voyage of discovery to a fresh understanding of ourselves, he provides us with all the tools we need to radically transform our relationships -- whether at work or at home. Finally, he describes the choices that we need to make in order to bring lasting happiness into our lives. Topics include: Relating better to yourself and to life. How to handle your fear. The secret of respect. How to trust yourself. The differences between male and female awareness. How to use feelings and emotions -- and why they are different. How you can bring harmony out of conflict. Learning the art of true listening. The secret of unconditional love.