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In Pursuit of Composite Beauty: Yanagi Soetsu, His Aesthetics and Aspiration for Peace

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Report copyright infringementby Mari Nakami (Author)In Pursuit of Composite Beauty is a study of the life and thought of Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), known primarily as the founder of Japan's mingei (folk crafts) movement. Mr. Yanagi was a thinker who believed that world peace could not be achieved by 'painting the world in one single color.' Before and during World War II, when Japan was invading Asia and enforcing its cultural assimilation policy in its colonies and occupied territories, Yana...

The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life - Paperback

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by Armand Nicholi (Author)Throughout the ages, many of the world's greatest thinkers have wrestled with the concept of -- and belief in -- God. It may seem unlikely that any new arguments or insights could be raised, but the twentieth century managed to produce two brilliant men with two diametrically opposed views about the question of God: Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis. They never had an actual meeting, but in The Question of God, their arguments are placed side by side for the very first ...

Towards a Christian Understanding: The Pursuit of a Christian Philosophy - Paperback

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by Steven R. Martins (Author)Is there such a thing as a Christian philosophy? Can there be a theoretical enterprise untainted by unbelieving thought and pagan syntheses? And why would such a philosophy prove integral to Christian thought and life? In this compact book, Cántaro Institute director Steven R. Martins introduces us to a distinctly Christian philosophical discipline and the Dutch polymath Herman Dooyeweerd credited with its development. Towards a Christian Understanding is a primer...

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Macy (Author)In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist/teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era. From involvement with the CIA and the Cold War, through experiences in Africa, India and Tibet, to her encounter with the Dalai Lama and Buddhism which led to her life-long embrace of the religion and a deep commitment to the peace and environm...

One Divine Singularity: The Grand Reunification of Science and Religion

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Report copyright infringementby Farzad Nosrati (Author)One Divine Singularity explores the deep mysteries of the universe by merging science and religion.Beginning with the concept of a divine singularity that sparked the creation everything--matter, energy, and the laws that govern the cosmos--this eye-opening work takes readers on a journey from the formation of the universe to the rise of humanity and mankind's spiritual quest.It delves into the gift of free will, the search for purpose, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Stacy Amewoyi (Author)Divine decoder is exactly what the name implies, this novel is a collection of breakdowns. My goal is to help you the reader decode the metaphors and spiritual implications hidden in the book of life which is the modern day bible. This novel isn't just written to target the Christian audience but also to all who are curious enough to seek divine knowledge over common knowledge. Everything to do with God is deep and revelation is required t...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul W. Cherry (Author)Think about it! Stuck in a life situation with little or no hope for anything different. A nagging fear that you have never been good enough to win God's smile. What if we could hear God say to us "There is nothing you could ever do to make me love you more and nothing you could ever do to make me love you less." What if that is also true in our grace-based relationships with each other? What if in denouncing the tensions and hypocrisy of...

A Brief History Of The Joy Family (1876) - Paperback

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by One of Them (Author), Cornelia C. Joy Dyer (Author)A Brief History Of The Joy Family (1876) is a book written by an anonymous author who identifies themselves as ""One Of Them."" The book is a historical account of the Joy family, tracing their lineage back to the 17th century. The author provides details about the family's origins, their migration to America, and their contributions to society. The book is divided into chapters that focus on different members of the Joy family, including ...

State Sovereignty And The Doctrine Of Coercion; The Right To Secede (1860) - Paperback

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by William D. Porter (Author), J. K. Paulding (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Di...

The Assault On Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863: The Memorable Charge Of The Fifty-Fourth Regiment Of Massachusetts Volunteers (1887) - Paperback

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by Luis Fenollosa Emilio (Author)The Assault On Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863: The Memorable Charge Of The Fifty-Fourth Regiment Of Massachusetts Volunteers is a historical account of the events that took place during the American Civil War. The book was written by Luis Fenollosa Emilio and was first published in 1887. The book describes the events leading up to the assault on Fort Wagner, which was a Confederate fortification located on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The as...

Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Self-Compassion Integrating Internal Family Systems and Buddhist Meditation - Paperback

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by Ralph de la Rosa (Author), Richard Schwartz (Foreword by)Discover a path of post-traumatic growth, spiritual insight, and deep compassion for the most challenging parts of yourself. Ralph De La Rosa integrates Richard Schwartz's revolutionary Internal Family Systems (IFS) model with Buddhist meditation practice to offer a radically different healing paradigm. If you're among those who've tried therapy and meditation but wonder why you still suffer repetitive patterns and emotions, Outshini...

Indian Wars And The Uprising Of 1655: Yonkers Depopulated (1892) - Paperback

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by Thomas Astley Atkins (Author)""Indian Wars and the Uprising of 1655: Yonkers Depopulated"" is a historical account written by Thomas Astley Atkins and published in 1892. The book documents the conflict between the Native American tribes and the Dutch settlers in the Yonkers area of New York during the mid-17th century. The book explores the events that led to the uprising of the Native American tribes in 1655 and the subsequent depopulation of Yonkers. Atkins provides a detailed account of...

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by Ajax Moon (Joint Author), Bridey Moon (Joint Author)Mike Pauro, aka 'Ajax Moon' and his daughter, Morgan Deeble, aka 'Bridey Moon' remake the aphorism examined by James Allen for women. In this transposition of Allen's classic, the authors revisit the impact of thought on health, purpose, achievement, ideas, and serenity from the female perspective. The work is accompanied by imagery from early 20th century postcards passed down for generations in their family. The images were selected to ...

English Liturgical Color: Observations On Notes On The History Of The Liturgical Colors By J. Wickham Legg (1882) - Paperback

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by Herbert George Morse (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x ...

A Brief History Of The Town Of Stoneham, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement To The Year 1813 (1870) - Paperback

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by Silas Dean (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publ...

Incidents In The History Of The Theosophical Movement (1915) - Paperback

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by Joseph Hall Fussell (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x 8...

Mayflower Descendants And Their Marriages For Two Generations After The Landing: Including A Short History Of The Church Of The Pilgrim Founders Of Ne - Paperback

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by Bureau Military and Civic Achievement (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensi...

Outlines Of The Latin Subjunctive: For Beginners (1874) - Paperback

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by Robert F. Pennell (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.08 x 11 x 8.5...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Claviez (Editor), Kornelia Imesch (Editor)The volume provides a critical assessment of the concept of authenticity and gauges its role, significance and shortcomings in a variety of disciplinary contexts. Many of the contributions communicate with each other and thus acknowledge the enormous significance of this politically, morally, philosophically and economically-charged concept that at the same time harbors dangerous implications and has been critica...

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Report copyright infringementby Manning Erin (Editor), Anna Munster (Editor), Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen (Editor)All 'mediation' stages and distributes real, embodied events. This capacity to enact in the immediacy of everyday life is an integral part of any mediation. But this entails that nothing can be prised apart from an ecology of exprience. Immediation I and II collectively and singularly ask: what are the thinking-feeling imperceptibilities conditioning and immediately registering i...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Arnold Johnson (Author), Susan Eileen Pickett (Author), Mark G. Brown (Author)What is it about those moments of breathtaking beauty within our lives that make them so elusive to description? In this book, we shall argue that we know the answer. And it is this: such moments must defy description: were they not so resistant they'd fail their own birthing. Their nature stands apart from problem-solving. It is, instead and indeed, one of enigma. Breathtaking...

The Forms of Things Unknown: Essays Towards an Aesthetic Philosophy

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert Edward Read (Author)The Forms of Things Unknown is a collection of essays written by Herbert Read, a prominent British art critic and philosopher. The book explores the nature of aesthetics and the role of art in human society. Read argues that art is not just a form of entertainment or decoration, but a fundamental aspect of human experience that helps us understand ourselves and the world around us.The essays in the book cover a wide range of topics, ...

Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God - Hardcover

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by Henry T. Blackaby (Author), Richard Blackaby (Author), Claude V. King (Author)When you open this book, you'll find that you aren't just reading. No, you are being remade, reoriented, restored from the frustration of what you may have known as stale religion. Captured not by a concept but by your Creator, reborn in relationship. Here's the Experiencing God that has already impacted millions of people. Only it's bigger, and better, and ready to lead you again--or for the very first time--in...

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by Jenn Shapland (Author)ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - Examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking, this incisive new work is "a visceral exploration" (Katherine May, author of Wintering) from a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind. "A wrenching, loving and trenchant examination of feminism, nuclear weapons production, healthcare, queerness and American life" --Alexander Chee, author ...

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals t...

Immanuel Kant's Little Book of Essential Quotations - Paperback

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by Vienna Imprints (Author)"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt." Immanuel Kant Keep the words of Immanuel Kant at your fingertips with this thoughtfully selected compilation of quotes. A great way to get inspired, or simply enjoy casual reading at your leisure. Makes for a unique gifting idea too! --"...

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by Aristotle (Author), Hugh Lawson-Tancred (Translator), Hugh Lawson-Tancred (Introduction by)Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the ...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Haidt (Author)Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition--the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel li...

Toward a New Culture of the Material - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Bauer (Editor), Yoonha Kim (Editor), Sabine Marienberg (Editor)Was wäre, wenn wir das multistabile, ambivalente und anpassungsfähige Verhalten aktiver Materie als offenen Gestaltungsspielraum verstehen? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das formbildende Potenzial des Prozessua-len und Unverfügbaren - von mikrobi-ellem Co-Design über morphogeneti-sche Experimente und atmosphärische Kreationen bis hin zu Plastizität und Lebendigkeit in Architektur, Kunst ...

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by Bertrand Russell (Author), Daniel C. Dennett (Introduction by)In The Conquest of Happiness, first published by Liveright in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent even in safe and prosperous Western societies. More than eighty years later, Russell's wisdom remains as true as it was on its initial release. Eschewing guilt-based morality, Russe...

How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy - Paperback

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by Massimo Pigliucci (Author), Skye Cleary (Author), Daniel Kaufman (Author)A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life. Socrates famously said "the unexamined life is not worth living," but what does it mean to truly live philosophically? This thought-provoking, wide-ranging collection brings together essays by fifteen leading philosophers reflecting on what it means to live acc...

How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort

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Report copyright infringementby Vitruvius (Author), Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols (Editor), Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols (Translator)An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman auth...