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Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business
success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning
was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a
hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a
'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life,
from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid
interactions with others he assumes are projections of his own
subconscious, but whose directions he follows nonetheless with the
possibility that they might lead to authenticity and perhaps,
redemption. The adventure draws Tony into deep relational
entanglements where he is able to 'see' through the literal eyes
and experiences of others, but is "blind" to the consequences of
hiding his personal agenda and loss that emerge to war against the
processes of healing and trust. Will this unexpected coalescing of
events cause Tony to examine his life and realize he built a house
of cards on the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also
have the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a major
injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma?
Young traces the evolution of the term information from its
general linguistic use into the mainstream of modern science,
proposing an entirely new definition of information as a
mass-energy phenomenon. He demonstrates that: information is in all
cases a form phenomenon; both form and information are mass-energy
rather than abstract phenomena; mind can be viewed as a mass-energy
rather form-manipulating process; form constitutes a mechanism
immanent in the physical universe via which mass-energy systems can
communicate informationally and control their own energetic
activities.
Climbing Veritas Mountain is a weapon in the war for souls and is
intended to arm the readers with a shield of self-awareness and the
sword of Truth It offers a great resource for those who are curious
about the basic principles of the Christian faith, for those in the
faith who are learning how the faith applies to the contemporary
"norms" of our day, and for those Catholics who have always gone
through the motions of their faith but do not quite know "why."
Ryan Paul Young is on a journey. His journey is a walk with the
Lord where his only task is to let Him lead the way. This journey
has thus far taken him in directions that he didn't know were
possible. This conversation with you is the next step in his walk
with the Lord. He has asked him to write down little bits of wisdom
that he has learned thus far in his short life.
The author reveals that many of us are unwitting practitioners
of the "religion of individualism" which is rapidly spreading
spiritual darkness and he challenges us to discover the meaning of
our lives.
This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the
formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds
a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society,
within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this
Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial
ambition.
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Awakening Desire (Hardcover)
Irene Alexander; Foreword by Paul Young
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Anthony Spencer es egoista, esta orgulloso del exito empresarial
que ha conseguido por si mismo y se encuentra en el punto maximo de
su carrera a pesar de que el costo de ese logro ha sido
dolorosamente alto. Una hemorragia cerebral deja a Yony en coma, en
la sala de terapia intensiva de un hospital. Despierta para
encontrarse en un mundo surrealista, un paisaje viviente que
refleja las dimensiones de su vida terrena, desde lo bello hasta lo
corrupto. Es, en ese sitio, donde tiene vividas interacciones con
otros individuos, que supone son proyecciones de su propio
subconsciente, pero cuyas instrucciones sigue, sin importar nada,
con la posibilidad de que puedan conducirle a la autenticidad y,
tal vez, a la rendencion. La aventura sumerge a Tony en profundas e
intrincadas relaciones donde es capaz de ver, ocultar sus intereses
personales y la perdida que surgen para oponerse a los procesos de
sanacion y confianza. Esta conjuncion inesperada de sucesos
provocara que Tony examine su vida y se percate de que he creado un
castillo de naipes sobre el terreno envenenado de un corazon roto?
Tendra tambien el valor de tomar una decision critica que pueda
resarcir la grave injusticia que puso en marcha antes de entrar en
coma?
Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a
'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt.
It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his own
subconscious, but whose directions he follows nonetheless with the possibility that they might lead to authenticity and perhaps, redemption. The adventure draws Tony into deep relational entanglements where he is able to 'see' through the literal eyes and experiences of others, but is "blind" to the consequences of hiding his personal agenda and loss that emerge to war against the processes of healing and trust.
Will this unexpected coalescing of events cause Tony to examine his life and realize he built a house of cards on the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also have the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a major injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma?
Beyond the sports and weather chatter and silence that characterize
many male conversations, there is often brokenness. Emptiness.
Shame. Have you ever been pushed into a men s group, because
someone said it was the right thing to do? In Bond of Brothers,
Yoder calls disappointed, disenchanted, and lonely men to
authenticity. To rediscover joy, to find satisfaction, by finding
out what real male friendship and relationship is all about. In
Bond of Brothers, we will discover: * Why our career and
performance at work are not our identities* How to defeat the fears
that come to us in the Tough Years * What to do when we are too
worried to forgive or too hurt to smile* Why spiritual friendships
are the central, life-giving core of all healthy relationships
among men. Yoder says that being there to comfort, to love, to
listen, to take a step toward Jesus together in our brokenness that
is the essence of friendship. Instead of pushing or being pushed
into men s groups, learn with others how to invite friends along.
Begin a journey toward authenticity and your true identity.
Starting here Beyond the sports and weather chatter and silence
that characterize many male conversations, there is often
brokenness. Emptiness. Shame. Have you ever been pushed into a men
s group, because someone said it was the right thing to do? In Bond
of Brothers, Yoder calls disappointed, disenchanted, and lonely men
to authenticity. To rediscover joy, to find satisfaction, by
finding out what real male friendship and relationship is all
about. In Bond of Brothers, we will discover: * Why our career and
performance at work are not our identities* How to defeat the fears
that come to us in the Tough Years * What to do when we are too
worried to forgive or too hurt to smile* Why spiritual friendships
are the central, life-giving core of all healthy relationships
among men. Yoder says that being there to comfort, to love, to
listen, to take a step toward Jesus together in our brokenness that
is the essence of friendship. Instead of pushing or being pushed
into men s groups, learn with others how to invite friends along.
Begin a journey toward authenticity and your true identity.
Starting here "
By the middle of the twentieth century, Hollywood, formerly the one
and only dream factory, found itself facing a host of media rivals
for the public's attention. In the 1980s, another competitor
arrived in the form of the proto-Internet--a computer network as
yet untested by all but research scientists, college students, the
military, and a few thousand PC and modem owners. How did Hollywood
respond to this nascent challenge? By dreaming about it, in a
series of technological fantasies, from "Tron" to "War Games" to
"Lawnmower Man. The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals "examines the meaning
and effect of the movies' attempts to reshape the shifting media
landscape.
Paul Young looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions
of three electronic media--radio, television, and the Internet--at
the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities.
In doing so, he demonstrates that Hollywood is indelibly marked by
the advent of each new medium, from the inclusion of sound in
motion pictures to the use of digital graphics. But conversely,
Young argues, the identities of the new media are themselves
changed as Hollywood turns them to its own purposes and its own
dreams.
Paul Young is professor of English and director of the film studies
program at Vanderbilt University.
An exciting new approach to learning about botany. Teaches the structure and function of plants and surveys the entire plant kingdom.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller
turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide
success story, doubling its sales within three years. Lawyer by day
and costumed vigilante by night, the character of Daredevil was the
perfect vehicle for the explorations of heroic ideals and violence
that would come to define Miller's work. Frank Miller's Daredevil
and the Ends of Heroism is both a rigorous study of Miller's
artistic influences and innovations and a reflection on how his
visionary work on Daredevil impacted generations of comics
publishers, creators, and fans. Paul Young explores the
accomplishments of Miller the writer, who fused hardboiled crime
stories with superhero comics, while reimaging Kingpin (a classic
Spider-Man nemesis), recuperating the half-baked villain Bullseye,
and inventing a completely new kind of Daredevil villain in
Elektra. Yet, he also offers a vivid appreciation of the indelible
panels drawn by Miller the artist, taking a fresh look at his
distinctive page layouts and lines. A childhood fan of Miller's
Daredevil, Young takes readers on a personal journey as he seeks to
reconcile his love for the comic with his distaste for the
fascistic overtones of Miller's controversial later work. What he
finds will resonate not only with Daredevil fans, but with anyone
who has contemplated what it means to be a hero in a heartless
world. Other titles in the Comics Culture series include
Twelve-Cent Archie, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the
Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948, and Considering Watchmen: Poetics,
Property, Politics.
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The Shack (Paperback)
W.M. Paul Young
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Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare.
What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
The study guide companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and upcoming major motion picture The Shack is a helpful resource to those who seek healing and recovery from life's most painful experiences.
Trauma and loss are unfortunately universal, and finding answers to the question of pain and suffering challenges everyone. THE SHACK STUDY GUIDE includes excerpts from The Shack with questions for reflection and instructions to lead readers through a healing process. The goal, like the theme of The Shack, is to usher readers into the loving presence of the triune God, where together with Him, they will confront their deepest pain and experience a real, lasting healing.
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Awakening Desire (Paperback)
Irene Alexander; Foreword by Paul Young
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R549
R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
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Taking a journey to the Holy Land is taking a journey back in time.
When Troy Schmidt traveled to Israel to shoot a documentary on the
life of Jesus, he had no idea what he was getting into and what
experiences he would have that opened his eyes to Jesus' life on
earth. IN HIS SHOES: THE LIFE OF JESUS journeys to the all the
places Jesus visited, from birth to death to resurrection and
ascension. To help him along in his journey, Troy met up some of
the greatest thinkers and writers from diverse perspectives to help
him understand the experience. The book includes a
chapter-by-chapter Study Guide for Small Groups to use with the
documentary which is available on the Glo Bible.
"Climbing Further up Veritas Mountain" is a beacon of light in
the coming tsunami of darkness called the "Religion of Self." It
offers a foundation in Truth within the storm of moral relativism.
It is a great resource for those who are curious about the basic
principles of the Christian faith, for those in the faith who are
learning how the faith applies to the contemporary "norms" of our
day, and for those Catholics who have always gone through the
motions of their faith but do not quite know "why."
"Many of us live by the standards of behavior we set for
ourselves. We make up our own code of morality and we make up our
own rules. If we believe that morality and Truth are relative and
individual, we cannot believe in God. God defines perfection in all
areas. He is perfect Love, Mercy, Power, Justice, Knowledge, and
Ultimate Reality. If you really believe in God, you therefore must
believe in objective Truth.
In discovering that 'There is a God and I am not Him, ' I began
to understand that there is objective, unadulterated Truth: Truth
that is still true whether I like it or not; Truth that is still
true whether or not I have a different opinion; Truth that is still
true whether or not I have the ability to live up to that standard.
Truth is not a democracy. Truth is not an opinion poll. Truth is
Reality. I have the free will to accept it...or reject it and
practice Ryanism. If 'There is a God and I am not Him, ' then there
is Truth that transcends the desires of my will and what I prefer
to make up on my own."
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