Christopher R. Fee, "Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain"
English | ISBN: 0195134796 | 2001 | 256 pages | PDF | 1396 KB
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves
Marie Phillips, "Gods Behaving Badly"
English | 2008 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 0099513021 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a delapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out...Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down. "Gods Behaving Badly" is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart.
Thomas Foerster, "Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers: Imperial Tradition and Universal History in Late Medieval Europe"
English | 2015 | pages: 210 | ISBN: 1472442687, 0367880342 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, his works were copied in elaborate manuscripts in almost all of Latin Europe. This wide distribution is particularly surprising for an author like Godfrey whom modern historians have never credited with any importance at all, as they considered his works chaotic and historically unreliable. Yet Godfrey was certainly one of the most daring historiographers of his time. In his works, the lineage of the Hohenstaufen emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI is traced directly to Charlemagne and Augustus, to the kings of Troy and of the Old Testament, and to Jupiter and everyone who, in his view, wielded imperial power in the past. Godfrey was a herald of the new political ideas the Hohenstaufen developed after the years of defeat against the papacy and the Italian communes, but also a universal chronicler whose interests reached far beyond the political issues of his day. Bringing together a group of specialists on manuscripts and historical writing in late medieval England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Bohemia and Poland, this volume aims to revive Godfrey's reputation by demonstrating how his works were understood by medieval readers.
Franz Wright, "God's Silence"
English | 2008 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0375710817, 1400043514 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha's Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God's Silence with "East Boston, 1996," a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility. He shares his private rules for bus riding ("No eye contact: the eyes of the terrified / terrify"), and recalls, among other experiences, his first encounter with a shotgun, as an eight-year-old boy ("In a clearing in the cornstalks . . . it was suggested / that I fire / on that muttering family of crows"). Throughout this volume, Wright continues his penetrating study of his own and our collective soul. He reaches a new level of acceptance as he intones the paradox "I have heard God's silence like the sun," and marvels at our presumptions:We speak of Heaven who have not yet accomplishedeven this, the holiness of things precisely as they are, and never will!Though Wright often seeks forgiveness in these poems, his black wit and self-deprecation are reliably present, and he delights in reminding us that "literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry."But in this book, literature wins as well. God's Silence is a deeply felt celebration of what poetry (and its silences) can do for us.
Slavoj Zizek, Boris Gunjevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac, "God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse"
English | 2012 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1609803698 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each faith understands humanity and divinity-and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem.
Franco Ferrucci, Raymond Rosenthal, "God: The Autobiography"
English | 2013 | pages: 46 | ASIN: B00D96AO0S | EPUB | 0,8 mb
At the center of Franco Ferrucci's God: An Autobiography is one tender, troubled character: God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with Earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve to populate the planet, with consequences that run away from him-sometimes delightfully, sometimes unfortunately. Witty, thought-provoking, and beautifully translated, this playful and irresistible Short will leave you wondering where philosophy ends and fiction begins, while it recounts thousands of years of religious thought-and reminds you that above all else, God knows how to tell a good story.
William Lane Craig, "God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist "
English | ISBN: 0195166000 | 2004 | 176 pages | PDF | 816 KB
The question of whether or not God exists is profoundly fascinating and important. Now two articulate spokesmen-one a Christian, the other an atheist-duel over God's existence in an illuminating battle of ideas.
Goal Setting & Positive Leadership In The Workplace: Teambuilding, Productivity and Time Management In Business by Will Weiser
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B75M61CY | 87 pages | EPUB | 0.16 Mb
If you are an Entrepreneur and you want to create a positive atmosphere at your workplace, this book is for you!
Chriss J. Vowles, Natalie E. Anderson, Kathryn A. Eaton, "Gnotobiotic Mouse Technology: An Illustrated Guide"
English | 2017 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 113840277X | PDF | 12,3 mb
The popularity of germ-free animal models, particularly mice, for investigation of human physiology and disease has recently exploded. Gnotobiotic Mouse Technology: An Illustrated Guide provides the first manual for the maintenance, husbandry, and experimental manipulation of germ-free and gnotobiotic mice. It includes information on all aspects of establishing and operating a germ-free mouse research facility, from basic principles and equipment to detailed instructions for assembling and maintaining isolators, sterilizing supplies, handling animals, and monitoring sterility.
David Albahari, Ellen Elias-Bursac, "Globetrotter"
English | 2014 | pages: 216 | ISBN: 030020132X | EPUB | 3,0 mb
One of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia addresses such universal themes as exile, disorientation, and obsession