[PDF] Quest For Life eBook

Author : Yossi Turner
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 164469378X

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A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the English reading public. It discusses the role played by the early Land of Israel pioneering labor community in the development of his thought, and offers a new understanding of its major themes, including: the relation of humanity to nature, human freedom, ethnicity, religion, and ethics. In addition, the book discusses the repercussions of Gordon’s thought with respect to contemporary civilization while suggesting its implicit ‘quest for life’ as the basis for a re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human life, Jewish peoplehood and the idea of a Jewish homeland.

Author : Bhrigupati Singh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 022619468X

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The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan’s only “primitive tribe.” From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh asks us to reconsider just what quality of life means. He shows how the Sahariyas conceive of aspiration, advancement, and vitality in both material and spiritual terms, and how such bridging can engender new possibilities of life. Singh organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Authority remains contested, whether in divine or human forms; the state is both despised and desired; high and low castes negotiate new ways of living together, in conflict but also cooperation; new gods move across rival social groups; animals and plants leave their tracks on human subjectivity and religiosity; and the potential for vitality persists even as natural resources steadily disappear. Studying this milieu, Singh offers new ways of thinking beyond the religion-secularism and nature-culture dichotomies, juxtaposing questions about quality of life with political theologies of sovereignty, neighborliness, and ethics, in the process painting a rich portrait of perseverance and fragility in contemporary rural India.

Author : Carol E. Cleland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 052187324X

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Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Author : George Poinar
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1994-09-11
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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In passages that read more like an Indiana Jones screenplay than scientific research, the Poinars describe how their hobby-turned-obsession ultimately led to a breakthrough scientific finding: the discovery of preserved insect DNA in amber. Photos.

Author : Charles Webster Leadbeater
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780835605021

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A clairvoyant, Leadbeater wrote, is simply a person who develops "the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations" and so is enabled "to see more of the world..than those of more limited perception." And what a world Leadbeater describes for us in these pages---a world of Master adepts and their pupils, untapped human powers and potentials, ancient mysteries, devas and nature spirits--in short, the unseen workings of the universe.

Author : Richard Hammer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0765386038

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The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.

Author : Petrea King
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1742747795

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A handbook for people with cancer and life-threatening illness by a leading light in Australian holistic health. More than twenty years after Petrea King herself was diagnosed with and battled acute myeloid leukemia, this new edition of Quest For Life offers a beacon of hope for others facing life-threatening illness and for the people who love them. Since her remarkable recovery, Petrea has counselled individually or through residential programs more than 50,000 people living with life-threatening illness, grief, loss, trauma and tragedy. Warmly personal and thoroughly practical, Quest For Life radiates courage and conviction and is brimming with Petrea's own healing experience, inspirational stories from her clients and hundreds of therapeutic techniques to help you find the inner strength to face your own illness or to help those you care for.

Author : Yossi Turner
Publisher : Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781644693124

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Aharon David Gordon was a central figure in the early twentieth century pioneering community that built the infrastructure for a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. The present work demonstrates the extent to which Gordon's philosophy of human existence, as a natural phenomenon, holds the key for understanding and confronting many of the problems facing Jewish and human existence in the present.

Author : James Innell Packer
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780891078197

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Surveys the teachings and beliefs of the Puritans, and calls today's Christians to follow their example of spiritual maturity.

Author : Derek L. T. Gill
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Death
ISBN :

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A biography of the world authority on care of the dying, describing her life and achievements throughout her career.