335 Results for : paradoxical
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Alpha Martin and Omega Steed: Science Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Paradox and Poetry Combined , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min
Science Fiction. Alpha Martin and Omega Steed. What does a fetus dream? What are the old man’s conversations with Mort, that wise old owl of death? There is magic on this spring equinox of March 20, 2034. Follow Alpha Martin’s and Omega Steed’s transformations. For Alpha the transformation is from conception to birth, with all its magical stages. For Omega the transformation is from old age to death, with all its confusing stages. It is a time of magic, a time of change. Creative Nonfiction. Paradoxes: and Choosing: When he was 16 he saw an old man smile. In the crazy world of the 1960s that old man smiled. It changed the way the young man looked at life. Now he is that old man! He is a 69-year-old retired professor of psychology and counseling, a grandpa, and a human being. In this essay he shares what he’s learned about living. He emphasizes the ability to choose the good in your life based on psychology, philosophy, and his lived personal experience. Poems Do-Be-Do-Be-Do: Looks at the paradox between doing and being, and the authors joyous floating between the two. He will wipe away every tear: Powerful poetic personal reflection on Revelations 21:4, “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain.” Unfelt Love and Hurricane Florence: Another paradoxical poem. On September 8, 2018 the author was attending a Reiki workshop in Wake Forest, North Carolina, while Hurricane Florence was barreling down on the Carolinas. This poem contrasts deep loving meditation and the terrible destructive force of an oncoming hurricane. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Windisch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150048/bk_acx0_150048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza, Hörbuch, Digital, 725min
Experience the evolution of all of Jewish life during the 10 critical centuries from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity until the dawn of modernity in the 17th century. During this time, Judaism was forever affected by its encounters with the surrounding social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of both medieval Islam and Christendom. As a result of those encounters, new pathways of philosophical inquiry and religious spirituality would be formed. The Hebrew language would find new ways of artistic expression. And the role of Jews in the life of the surrounding community would be changed forever, sometimes even increased, as was the paradoxical case in Italy, by the very ghettoization meant to keep them isolated. These 24 insightful lectures give you a unique perspective from which to examine the three major Western religions as they interact over time, and noting especially their ability or inability to tolerate and even appreciate the "other", as viewed from the vantage point of the Jewish minority. They also feature the emergence of two distinct intellectual threads: the rise of medieval Jewish philosophy and the appearance of Jewish mysticism and piety as the faith's primary expressions of religiosity. These lectures span an enormous disciplinary range, moving back and forth among history, philosophy, religion, and art. No previous familiarity with Jewish, Islamic, or Christian history is necessary to enjoy this broad and detailed examination of the leading Jewish communities of the period, their political and economic structures, the social relations between Jews and non-Jews, and Jewish cultural and intellectual achievements in a premodern world dominated by two other faiths. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: David B. Ruderman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000040/bk_tcco_000040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 857min
A profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the 12 apostles - a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in. Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell provides rich and surprising answers to these ancient, elusive questions. He examines not just who these men were (and weren't) but also how their identities have taken shape over the course of two millennia. Ultimately Bissell finds that the story of the apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus' ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world's largest religion, Bissell embarks on a years-long pilgrimage to the supposed tombs of the 12 apostles. He travels from Jerusalem and Rome to Turkey, Greece, Spain, France, India, and Kyrgyzstan, vividly capturing the rich diversity of Christianity's worldwide reach. Along the way he engages with a host of characters - priests, paupers, a Vatican archaeologist, a Palestinian taxi driver, a Russian monk - posing sharp questions that range from the religious to the philosophical to the political. Written with warmth, empathy, and rare acumen, Apostle is a brilliant synthesis of travel writing, biblical history, and a deep, lifelong relationship with Christianity. The result is an unusual, erudite, and at times hilarious book - a religious, intellectual, and personal adventure fit for believers, scholars, and wanderers alike. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Bissell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004467/bk_rand_004467_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected double life: that of a white slave trader married to a free black woman. In The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, Hank Trent tells Tait's complete story for the first time, reconstructing the hidden aspects of his strange and often paradoxical life through meticulous research in lawsuits, newspapers, deeds, and other original records. Active and ambitious in a career notorious even among slave owners for its viciousness, Bacon Tait nevertheless claimed to be married to a free woman of color, Courtney Fountain, whose extended family were involved in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. As Trent reveals, Bacon Tait maintained his domestic sphere as a loving husband and father in a mixed-race family in the North while running a successful and ruthless slave-trading business in the South. Though he possessed legal control over thousands of other black women at different times, Trent argues that Tait remained loyal to his wife, avoiding the predatory sexual practices of many slave traders. No less remarkably, Courtney Tait and their four children received the benefits of Tait's wealth while remaining close to her family of origin, many of whom spoke out against the practice of slavery and even fought in the Civil War on the side of the Union. The book is published by Louisiana State University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Bonaventura. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098962/bk_acx0_098962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Making of Martin Luther , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 588min
A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's career The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the 16th century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure German university developed a startling new interpretation of the Christian faith that brought to an end the dominance of the Catholic Church in Europe. Luther's personal psychology and cultural context played their parts in the whirlwind of change he unleashed. But for the man himself, it was always about the ideas, the truth, and the Gospel. Focusing on the most intensely important years of Luther's career, Rex teases out the threads of his often paradoxical and counterintuitive ideas from the tangled thickets of his writings, explaining their significance, their interconnections, and the astonishing appeal they so rapidly developed. Yet Rex also sets these ideas firmly in the context of Luther's personal life, the cultural landscape that shaped him, and the traditions of medieval Catholic thought from which his ideas burst forth. Lucidly argued and elegantly written, The Making of Martin Luther is a splendid work of intellectual history that renders Luther's earthshaking yet sometimes challenging ideas accessible to a new generation of listeners. Author bio: Richard Rex is professor of Reformation history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Queens' College. His books include Tudors: The Illustrated History and Henry VIII and the English Reformation. He lives in Cambridge, England. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Curless. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/010465/bk_reco_010465_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem-in your workplace, community, or home life-just by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all the great building toys made for boys?" Or consider Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, who asked: "would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?" Or listen to technologist Elon Musk, who routinely challenges assumptions with questions like: "What are people accepting as an industry standard when there's room for significant improvement?"Great questions like these have a catalytic quality-that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious.For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear-but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn't we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions-and breakthrough insights-and how anyone can create them.- Shop: buecher
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-2 (eBook, ePUB)
With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing.This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography.Previous published volumes translating Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics can all be found in Bloomsbury's series:- On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4, tr. P. Huby and C. C. W. Taylor, 2011- On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9, tr. H. Baltussen, M. Atkinson, M. Share and I. Mueller, 2012- On Aristotle Physics 2, tr. B. Fleet, 1997- On Aristotle Physics 3, tr. J. O. Urmson with P. Lautner, 2001- On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1992- On Aristotle on the Void, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1994 (=Physics 4.6-9; published with Philoponus, On Aristotle Physics 5-8, tr. P. Lettinck)- On Aristotle Physics 5, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1997- On Aristotle Physics 6, tr. D. Konstan, 1989- On Aristotle Physics 7, tr. C. Hagen, 1994- On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5, tr. I. Bodnar, M. Chase and M. Share, 2012- On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10, tr. R. McKirahan, 2001- Shop: buecher
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-2 (eBook, PDF)
With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing.This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography.Previous published volumes translating Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics can all be found in Bloomsbury's series:- On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4, tr. P. Huby and C. C. W. Taylor, 2011- On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9, tr. H. Baltussen, M. Atkinson, M. Share and I. Mueller, 2012- On Aristotle Physics 2, tr. B. Fleet, 1997- On Aristotle Physics 3, tr. J. O. Urmson with P. Lautner, 2001- On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1992- On Aristotle on the Void, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1994 (=Physics 4.6-9; published with Philoponus, On Aristotle Physics 5-8, tr. P. Lettinck)- On Aristotle Physics 5, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1997- On Aristotle Physics 6, tr. D. Konstan, 1989- On Aristotle Physics 7, tr. C. Hagen, 1994- On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5, tr. I. Bodnar, M. Chase and M. Share, 2012- On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10, tr. R. McKirahan, 2001- Shop: buecher
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Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal (eBook, PDF)
Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 explores the relationship between jazz and television by investigating the experiences of performers and producers in one of the last European colonial states (Portugal) during a period of political and social repression and global isolation. This new model of systemic analysis reveals a paradoxical interrelationship between state-controlled television and international media industries, highlighting the space where these two forces collide and locating television jazz production within an important cultural milieu with a lasting impact on Portuguese society. From the days of the first feasibility studies for a proposed public television service in 1954, to the military coup that overthrew the far-right Estado Novo regime in 1974, this book maps the institutionalization of jazz in Portugal as a social and musical practice, one that played a significant role in fostering cultural diversity. It looks at the musicians, repertoires, production processes, broadcasts, policies and strategies that fuelled the launch of Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) and the rise of television, an indispensable new medium that granted Portuguese people access to the wider world - a world curated by public television producers with individual cultural, political and aesthetic attitudes to influence the dissemination of jazz. In exploring the connections between these national and international jazz scenes, Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 addresses opportunities for in-depth comparison of the Portuguese experience with that of other countries, situating Cold War era Portuguese television jazz broadcasting as part of a bigger, still unwritten story.- Shop: buecher
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Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal (eBook, ePUB)
Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 explores the relationship between jazz and television by investigating the experiences of performers and producers in one of the last European colonial states (Portugal) during a period of political and social repression and global isolation. This new model of systemic analysis reveals a paradoxical interrelationship between state-controlled television and international media industries, highlighting the space where these two forces collide and locating television jazz production within an important cultural milieu with a lasting impact on Portuguese society. From the days of the first feasibility studies for a proposed public television service in 1954, to the military coup that overthrew the far-right Estado Novo regime in 1974, this book maps the institutionalization of jazz in Portugal as a social and musical practice, one that played a significant role in fostering cultural diversity. It looks at the musicians, repertoires, production processes, broadcasts, policies and strategies that fuelled the launch of Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) and the rise of television, an indispensable new medium that granted Portuguese people access to the wider world - a world curated by public television producers with individual cultural, political and aesthetic attitudes to influence the dissemination of jazz. In exploring the connections between these national and international jazz scenes, Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 addresses opportunities for in-depth comparison of the Portuguese experience with that of other countries, situating Cold War era Portuguese television jazz broadcasting as part of a bigger, still unwritten story.- Shop: buecher
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