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Author | : Ken Spiro |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2020-08-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0757324061 |
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In pursuit of an answer to the question of what would constitute a perfect world, author Ken Spiro questioned more than 1,500 people of various backgrounds and religions. His findings revealed six core elements: Respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family; and social responsibility. He then set off on a journey to find out why these were such common goals across cultural, economic, social and racial lines, and in the process, traced the history of the development of world religions, values and ethics. As a rabbi, he paid particular attention to how Judaism impacted, and was influenced by, the course of these developments. The result is a highly readable and well-documented book about the origins of values and virtues in Western civilization as influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims and, most significantly, the Jews. The history of religion, presented in Spiro’s highly readable style, is a fascinating and timely subject, especially in today’s volatile religious climate. Spiro divides his book into five engaging parts: Where the Quality of Mercy Was Not Strained: The World of Greece and Rome Against the Grain: The Jewish View A Father to Many Nations: Abraham and the Implications of Monotheism With Sword and Fire: The Rise of Christianity and Islam The New Promised Land: Impact of Judaism on Liberal Democracies Readers of all faiths will find that the elements of a perfect world can only be achieved by a common understanding of our mutual backgrounds and that our diverse religions are all merely branches growing from one single tree.
Author | : Douwe Wessel Fokkema |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9089643508 |
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"Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing - a negative expression of the utopian impulse - in Europe and America as well as in China"--P. 4 of cover.
Author | : Lauren Gibaldi |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-02-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062490095 |
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The big-hearted story of a small-town girl who discovers how wide the world really is during one transformative summer. Perfect for fans of Susane Colasanti and Sarah Dessen. Penny loves her small-town Florida life, and she has her future mapped out. She’s going to community college after graduation to stay close to home and her best friend, Faye. She’ll take over the family diner that her dad has been managing since her mother died. And one day, she’ll marry her high school sweetheart, Logan. But when she unexpectedly lands a scholarship to a prestigious summer theater camp, she is thrust into a world of competition and self-doubt. And suddenly, her future gets a little hazy. As she meets new friends, including Chase, a talented young actor with big-city dreams, she begins to realize that maybe the life everyone (including her) expects her to lead is not the one she was meant to have. From the acclaimed author of The Night We Said Yes and Autofocus.
Author | : Nancy Lynner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781916901407 |
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What is a Perfect World? allows readers to share and discuss eleven world issues with young children and show them what work awaits.The title asks a question, and each page, through pictures and text, demonstrates an answer for a perfect world. The whimsical watercolor characters include 22 children from multicultural backgounds and abilities, and there are seven adult characters who are parents or helpers. The text asks the readers to help us make the world perfect together, and finishes with a soft surprise. This juvenile non-fiction book uses text and paintings to show issues of environmental conservation and protection, clean air, clean water, freedom from hunger, safe sleeping, medical care, blended familes, and the happiness of learning to help others. Each of the diverse cast of charachters is featured in a glossary at the back with given names and separate portraits. The red bird on each page is leading the reader through the issues. There are 17 paintings, and most are double page spreads.
Author | : Trish Doller |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481479881 |
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When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Author | : Elton Gahr |
Publisher | : Elton Gahr |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Laurie the commander of the most advanced research station in human history has successfully created a wormhole. But it was supposed to open in random space. But instead it has connected to the space station of a extinct alien species.
Author | : Rie Aruga |
Publisher | : Kodansha America LLC |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1642122882 |
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Tsugumi Kawana has started dating her first crush, Itsuki Ayukawa, who's in a wheelchair. However, amidst the harsh opinions of those around her, she becomes sick and falls from a station platform becoming badly injured. Tsugumi returns to her hometown of Matsumoto to recuperate. While Itsuki makes a decision as he struggles through various trials. Which is—
Author | : Brian James |
Publisher | : Push |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780439673655 |
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Though she has her doubts, Lacie follows her best friend Jenna into a fast-moving lifestyle in order to be cool and popular with the boys, but when Jenna's friendship turns fierce, Lacie's perfect world comes crashing down. Reprint.
Author | : Jennifer Plecas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9780399252877 |
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In Olive's perfect world, she and Emily do everything together and are friends forever but in the real world, Eva is becoming Emily's friend, too, and Olive feels left out.
Author | : Paul Genoni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9781925523096 |
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"Half the Perfect World tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra. Most famously, it included renowned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and his partner Marianne Ihlen, as well as many other artists and writers including the Australian literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, who fostered this fabled colony.Drawing on many previously unseen letters, manuscripts and diaries, and richly illustrated by the eyewitness photographs of LIFE magazine photo-journalist James Burke, Half the Perfect World reveals the private lives and relationships of the Hydra expatriates. It charts the promise of a creative life that drew many of them to the island, and documents the fracturing of the community as it came under pressure from personal ambitions and wider social changes. For all the unrealised youthful ambitions, internal strife and personal tragedy that attends this story, the authors nonetheless find that the example of these writers, dreamers and drifters continues to resonate and inspire." -- Publisher's website.