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The Custodian of Paradise: A Novel

Author : Wayne Johnston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2008-04-17
ISBN 10 : 9780393292541
Pages : 582 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (292 downloads)

Download The Custodian of Paradise: A Novel PDF Format Full Free by Wayne Johnston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book-of-the-Month Club "Best Novel of 2007." In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland. But she soon comes to suspect another presence: that of a man known only as her Provider, who has shadowed her for twenty years.Against the backdrop of Newfoundland's history and landscape, Fielding is a compelling figure. Taller than most men and striking in spite of her crippled leg, she is both eloquent and subversively funny. Her newspaper columns exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of her native city, St. John's, have made many powerful enemies for her, chief among them the man who fathered her children—twins—when she was fourteen. Only her Provider, however, knows all of Fielding's secrets. Reading group guide included.

Join the Revolution, Comrade

Author : Charles Foran
Publisher : Biblioasis
Release Date : 2008-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9781897231722
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (231 downloads)

Download Join the Revolution, Comrade PDF Format Full Free by Charles Foran and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their colossal city and commiserates with the people of Bali about the effects of terrorist bombs on their island. In Beijing he looks up old friends he had known back in 1989 during the days before and after the June 4th massacre. "Join the revolution, Comrade," a friend had loved to say, quoting a line from a Bertolucci film. Foran also 'encounters' Miguel de Cervantes, the Buddha of Compassion, and the pumped-up American Tom Wolfe. He maps the geography of Canadian literature and pinpoints the 'inner-Newfoundland' of Wayne Johnston. He defends the novel against those who would tame it and uses an ancient Chinese philosopher to explain how one imagination -- his own-- works. Whether exploring the waterways of Thailand or the streets of his childhood in suburban Toronto, meditating on raising children in post-9/11 Asia or the music of good prose, Charles Foran's writing is fresh, alert, and free of convention.

Angels - The Creatures of Light

Author : Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams
Publisher : Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams
Release Date : 2023-02-08
ISBN 10 : 9798837695087
Pages : 153 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Angels - The Creatures of Light PDF Format Full Free by Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams and published by Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angels: The Creatures of Light The faith of Muslims is related to the unseen. In Islam, it is obligatory to believe in angels. All the heavenly religions agree that apart from the realm of us humans, there is another realm of angels hidden from our eyes. Angels are also mentioned in the Bible and Vedic scripts. But the detailed information available in Islamic literature about angels is impossible to find in other religious scriptures. Angels are one of the mightiest and most powerful creatures created by Allah Almighty. This book covers all the incredible information about angels in the Holy Quran, the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and the companions of the Prophet. The prowess and vast realm of angels are explained in vivid and meticulous detail, which will blow the reader’s mind.

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition

Author : Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2016-08-30
ISBN 10 : 9780698166769
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (166 downloads)

Download The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition PDF Format Full Free by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from the perspective of a fourteenth-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and thirty volumes—here abridged to one volume, and translated into English for the first time—it contains entries on everything from medieval moon-worshipping cults, sexual aphrodisiacs, and the substance of clouds, to how to get the smell of alcohol off one’s breath, the deliciousness of cheese made from buffalo milk, and the nesting habits of flamingos. Similar works by Western authors, including Pliny’s Natural History and Diderot’s Encyclopédie, have been available in English for centuries. This groundbreaking translation of a remarkable Arabic text—expertly abridged and annotated—offers a look at the world through the highly literary and impressively knowledgeable societies of the classical Islamic world. Meticulously arranged and delightfully eclectic, it is a compendium to be treasured—a true monument of erudition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Newfoundland Diaspora

Author : Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2013-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781554588961
Pages : 220 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (588 downloads)

Download The Newfoundland Diaspora PDF Format Full Free by Jennifer Bowering Delisle and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in 1992. This Newfoundland “diaspora” has had a profound impact on the province’s literature. Many writers and scholars have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a diaspora, but few have examined the theoretical implications of applying this contested term to a predominantly inter-provincial movement of mainly white, economically motivated migrants. The Newfoundland Diaspora argues that “diaspora” helpfully references the painful displacement of a group whose members continue to identify with each other and with the “homeland.” It examines important literary works of the Newfoundland diaspora, including the poetry of E.J. Pratt, the drama of David French, the fiction of Donna Morrissey and Wayne Johnston, and the memoirs of David Macfarlane. These works are the sites of a broad inquiry into the theoretical flashpoints of affect, diasporic authenticity, nationalism, race, and ethnicity. The literature of the Newfoundland diaspora both contributes to and responds to critical movements in Canadian literature and culture, querying the place of regional, national, and ethnic affiliations in a literature drawn along the borders of the nation-state. This diaspora plays a part in defining Canada even as it looks beyond the borders of Canada as a literary community.

Angels and Demons in Art

Author : Rosa Giorgi
Publisher : Getty Publications
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0892368306
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (892 downloads)

Download Angels and Demons in Art PDF Format Full Free by Rosa Giorgi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this volume is to help contemporary art enthusiasts decode the symbolic meanings in the great masterworks of Western Art. The first chapter traces the development of images of the Creation and the Afterworld from descriptions of them in the Scriptures through their evolution in later literary and philosophical works. The following two chapters examine artists' depictions of the two paths that humans may take, the path of evil or the path of salvation, and the punishments or rewards found on each. A chapter on the Judgment Day and the end of the world explores portrayals of the mysterious worlds between life and death and in the afterlife. Finally, the author looks at images of angelic and demonic beings themselves and how they came to be portrayed with the physical attributes--wings, halos, horns, and cloven hooves--with which we are now so familiar. Thoroughly researched by and expert in the field of iconography, Angels and Demons in Art will delight readers with an interest in art or religious symbolism.

The Pen of Glory

Author : Baháʼuʼlláh
Publisher : Baha'i Publishing Trust
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 193184755X
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (931 downloads)

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The Urantia Book

Author :
Publisher : Urantia Book Fellowship
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 1812 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Urantia Book

Author : Urantia Foundation
Publisher : Urantia Foundation
Release Date : 2008-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9780911560510
Pages : 2165 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (56 downloads)

Download The Urantia Book PDF Format Full Free by Urantia Foundation and published by Urantia Foundation. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 2165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the form of a revelation from divine beings, the classic guide to expanding consciousness presents texts discussing God, the universe, angels and other beings, the history of the world, the development of civilization, personal spiritual growth, and the life and teachings of Jesus.

The Mughals and the Sufis

Author : Muzaffar Alam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9781438484907
Pages : 458 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (484 downloads)

Download The Mughals and the Sufis PDF Format Full Free by Muzaffar Alam and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam’s Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centred around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Based on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian texts, court chronicles, epistolary collections, and biographies of sufi mystics, The Mughals and the Sufis examines the complexities in the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Muzaffar Alam analyses the interplay of these elements, their negotiation and struggle for resolution via conflict and coordination, and their longer-term outcomes as the empire followed its own political and cultural trajectory as it shifted from the more liberal outlook of Emperor Akbar "The Great" (r. 1556–1605) to the more rigid attitudes of his great-grandson, Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (r. 1658–1701). Alam brings to light many new and underutilized sources relevant to the religious and cultural history of the Mughals and reinterprets well-known sources from a new perspective to provide one of the most detailed and nuanced portraits of Indian Islam under the Mughal Empire available today. Muzaffar Alam is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200–1800 and The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab, 1707–1748.

The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers Book [eReader PDF]

Author : Edited by Tigran Aivazian
Publisher : Tigran Aivazian
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
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The Custodians

Author : Richard Cowper
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9780575108202
Pages : 191 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (18 downloads)

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House Lights: A Novel

Author : Leah Hager Cohen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2008-07-17
ISBN 10 : 9780393332728
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (332 downloads)

Download House Lights: A Novel PDF Format Full Free by Leah Hager Cohen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secretly dispatching a letter to her estranged stage actress grandmother in the hopes of understanding her family's rift and becoming an actress herself, twenty-year-old Beatrice finds her efforts shadowed by a harassment charge against her father, her mother's growing melancholy, and her own feelings for an older man. Reprint.

Teaching Representations of the First World War

Author : Debra Rae Cohen
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2017-07-01
ISBN 10 : 9781603293068
Pages : 440 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (293 downloads)

Download Teaching Representations of the First World War PDF Format Full Free by Debra Rae Cohen and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War saw staggering loss of life and was a catalyst for many political and social changes. It was also shaped by the media and art forms that expressed it: film, photography, poetry, memoir, posters, advertisements, and music. This volume's scope shows that today's instructors contend with many different issues in teaching the First World War in a variety of classroom settings. Among these issues are the war's relation to modernism; global reach in the Middle East and South Asia; influence on psychiatry, pacifism, and consumer culture; and effect on public health and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Peace at Last in Paradise

Author : Ananda Guruge
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-10-28
ISBN 10 : 1463418388
Pages : 522 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (463 downloads)

Download Peace at Last in Paradise PDF Format Full Free by Ananda Guruge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Guruge returns to present us with a spellbinding sentimental story that displays the full range of human emotions. A story born of tragic circumstances of the demise of the World Trade Center, encompasses all the strains of race and class that pervaded through the fabric of Sri Lankan society in recent times. It is transformed in to an engaging story by the author's exceptional wit, sensitivity and sharp social observation. Author also returns to offer the reader with fascinating verse that brings to life people, events, places and emotions that are vividly presented in the book. Through out his trilogy, Guruge has demonstrated the value of recording recent history that is mostly oral or confined to individual experiences. In volume three, he has set out, meticulously, and in great detail, the history of the period 1915 to 2009. The more recent part of history, is largely based on his own exceptional knowledge and experience, and recorded as only a true historian -- an accolade he richly deserves, can document. What is fascinating is that he narrates Sri Lankan history within a compelling story of a multiethnic Sri Lankan family.

Paw of the Jungle

Author : Diane Kelly
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date : 2019-11-26
ISBN 10 : 9781250197382
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (197 downloads)

Download Paw of the Jungle PDF Format Full Free by Diane Kelly and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner in crime, Brigit, are on all fours as they try to solve their latest Lone Star mystery. AT THE ZOO The weather is beautiful, work is slow, and her canine colleague could use a walk. What better day for Megan to take Brigit to the Fort Worth Zoo, where they can let loose and witness the law and order of nature unfold? But what begins as a fun field trip turns serious when a pair of rare hyacinth macaws named Fabiana and Fernando goes missing. Is the new custodian, a gentle soul who happens to be an ex-convict, to blame? Or is something far more sinister afoot? AND ON THE HUNT The birds are worth thousands of dollars, and the list of people on the premises who might have stolen them is long. Soon other animals start disappearing. . .and Megan and Brigit have their hands and paws full of suspects. But when a rare black rhino is taken from the zoo, presumably for its black-market-friendly horn, time is of the essence. Can Megan and Brigit find out who’s behind the mystery—before they too become prey? “Funny and acerbic... perfect for lovers of Janet Evanovich.” —Librarian and Reviewer

Kashmir - Scars of Pellet Gun

Author : Mannan Bukhari
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-28
ISBN 10 : 9781482850062
Pages : 298 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (85 downloads)

Download Kashmir - Scars of Pellet Gun PDF Format Full Free by Mannan Bukhari and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir - Scars of Pellet Gun, compiled and written by Mannan Bukhari, is about the horror caused by the use of Pellet Gun in Kashmir. After the worldwide acrimony over the high number of fatalities during protests in 2008, 2009, and 2010, pellet gun was introduced in Kashmir as a nonlethal alternative to bullets. But though the government introduced it as a nonlethal alternative to minimize the damage to life, however, it failed to produce the desired results and proved deadly at many times, leading to deaths and fatal injuries. This new weapon not only killed people but affected the physical as well as the psychological persona of the victims in such a manner so as to make them and their families suffer for the whole life. This volume deals with the pain and pangs of the victims and its overall impact on their families and the society in general. The significance of this book Kashmir Scars of Pellet Gun, lies in collection and collating of data acquired through RTI, medical practitioners experiences and observations on pellet caused injuries and fatalities, stories of some of the survivors, accounts of family members and others that recalls real life happenings as they unfold and their aftermath.