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No Man Is An Island
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Author : Thomas Merton
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2005
No Man Is An Island written by Thomas Merton and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
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Author : John Donne
language : en
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Release Date : 1988
No Man Is An Island written by John Donne and has been published by Souvenir Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Death categories.
This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.
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Author : John Donne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
No Man Is An Island written by John Donne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
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Author : Adele Dumont
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-07-26
No Man Is An Island written by Adele Dumont and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the book about immigration detention that all Australians need to read. During the time of the Gillard government, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont accepted a volunteer position to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She did not expect to find the work so rewarding or the people she met so interesting. When she was offered a job working at Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Australia, she took it. Working at Curtin required her to live a fly-in fly-out lifestyle, feeling never quite settled in one place or the other. She lived in a donga when she was in WA, her life full of bus trips to the detention centre and the work she did there; back home in Sydney, she was overwhelmed by the choices people had and the things they didn't do with those choices. What kept her returning to Curtin were her students: men from many lands who had sacrificed all they knew for a chance to live in Australia; men who were unfailingly polite to her in a situation that was barbarous. Slowly, falteringly, these men learned her language and taught her things about their culture. No Man is an Island is the story that will make the issue of immigration detention accessible to far more interested Australians than any number of stern newspaper articles. It is a vividly told story that is full of characters and humanity. It is the story about immigration detention that all Australians need to read.
Islands Identity And The Literary Imagination
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Author : Elizabeth Mcmahon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Islands Identity And The Literary Imagination written by Elizabeth Mcmahon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Australia categories.
Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Release Date : 2013-05
No Man Is An Island written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by Rupa Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with Fiction categories.
A series of biographies dedicated to the legends of India. ""Charitavali is a series of biographies dedicated to the legendary figures of India. The series presents the lives of great kings, freedom fighters, political thinkers, social reformers, pioneers of industry, scientists, philosophers, artists, musicians, dancers, film stars, writers and sports people. The biographies have been written for the reader who is curious about the lives and achievements of these legends. Full of fascinating anecdotes and facts, written in an easy storytelling style, the biographies will make these great Indians and their times come alive for the reader.""
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Author : James Minchin
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
Release Date : 1986
No Man Is An Island written by James Minchin and has been published by Allen & Unwin Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Prime ministers categories.
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Author : James Udden
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-21
No Man An Island written by James Udden and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Taiwan is a peculiar place resulting in a peculiar cinema, with Hou Hsiao-hsien being its most remarkable product. Hou’s signature long and static shots almost invite critics to give auteurist readings of his films, often privileging the analysis of cinematic techniques at the expense of the context from which Hou emerges. In this pioneering study, James Udden argues instead that the Taiwanese experience is the key to understanding Hou’s art. The convoluted history of Taiwan in the last century has often rendered fixed social and political categories irrelevant. Changing circumstances have forced the people in Taiwan to be hyperaware of how imaginary identity—above all national identity—is. Hou translates this larger state of affairs in such masterpieces as City of Sadness, The Puppetmaster, and Flowers of Shanghai, which capture and perhaps even embody the elusive, slippery contours of the collective experience of the islanders. Making extensive uses of Chinese sources from Taiwan, the author shows how important the local matters for this globally recognized director. In this new edition of No Man an Island, James Udden charts a new chapter in the evolving art of Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose latest film, The Assassin, earned him the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Hou breaks new ground in turning the classic wuxia genre into a vehicle to express his unique insight into the working of history. The unconventional approach to conventions is quintessential Hou Hsiao-hsien. “An excellent and groundbreaking volume. This book’s very precise analyses of the films as well as their context make it the primary source for any scholar working on Hou in English.” —Chris Berry, King’s College London “In this first book-length study on Hou Hsiao-hsien James Udden illuminates the most intriguing yet mystifying filmmaker in world cinema. No Man an Island is without doubt a major contribution to the fields of Chinese-language cinema and film studies.” —Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
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Author : James Minchin
language : en
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Release Date : 1990
No Man Is An Island written by James Minchin and has been published by Unwin Hyman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Prime ministers categories.
Revised edition of a biography of Singapore's Prime Minister, based on his public statements, and interviews with other politicians and local activists. Includes a postscript to cover events since the publication of the first edition in 1986. The author is a Melbourne-born Anglican priest.
No Christian Man Is An Island
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Author : Dex Bahr
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2010-06
No Christian Man Is An Island written by Dex Bahr and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with Political Science categories.
"The sun is setting in America, and darkness is falling. Our nation needs knights." Truth is under assault in America, causing her to weaken from within. In NO CHRISTIAN MAN IS AN ISLAND, Dex Bahr argues that at no time in our history is it more crucial for Christian men to have the courage to be knights in defense of God, country and family. Bahr illuminates readers to the hostile spiritual and ideological forces that have hijacked faith, education, politics and media and why they must be defeated Praise for NO CHRISTIAN MAN IS AN ISLAND: "I highly recommend this book for the author's passion and heartfelt desire for the Christian man to not be passive, but to be actively involved in his Christian life. We are living in a world of decay and though we will not be able to stop it from its downward spiral, we have the chance to slow down its course, and we begin with a good comprehension and knowledge of our situation. NO CHRISTIAN MAN IS AN ISLAND thoughtfully addresses these issues and clearly challenges us to a passionate pursuit of God. The opportunity to be a hero of God is out there, just go and do it. 'The world has yet to see what God could do to a fully surrendered man.' By Henry Varley (friend of D.L. Moody)." -Jofri Frigillana, M. Div.; Th. M. (Talbot Theological Seminary) Good Shepherd Baptist Church - Anaheim, CA ************************************************************************* Dex Bahr is a freelance writer. A former broadcast news reporter, Mr. Bahr has worked in major markets, including KJEO-TV in Fresno, California and OCN in Santa Ana, California. Mr. Bahr has been a Christian since 1980 and has served the Lord as a lay speaker and small group leader. He is married with two children.