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Author: Susan Forward
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1995-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780553569384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis renowned therapist explores the issue that drives couples apart and shows how money becomes entangled with the struggles of love, self-esteem, independence and commitment. Dr. Forward explains how to overcome feelings of dependency and inadequacy if your spouse earns more money than you, and why many smart women fall for money-reckless men.
Author: C. Fred Blake
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2011-09-30
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0824835328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world. The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology. Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.
Author: Tianxuwosheng
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis popular autobiographical novel, written by litterateur, inventor, and business tycoon Chen Diexian (1879-1940), is the story of his youth, and in it he chooses to focus on his amorous and erotic development - a rare subject in Chinese literature - revealing his passage from innocent boy, surrounded by females, to young man, armed with a new attitude toward money, business, and the women in his life. The novel is built on our narrator's relationships with the central women in his life: his mother; an affectionate nanny; his enchanting cousin; his devoted wife by an arranged marriage; a tragic peasant girl; and above all, the girl next door and his most enduring love, known - after the instrument she plays - as Koto.
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-06-02
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1416994920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother stole—and they want it badly enough to kill. Alan is Nick’s partner in demon slaying and the only person he trusts in the world. So things get very scary and very complicated when Nick begins to suspect that everything Alan has told him about their father, their mother, their past, and what they are doing is a complete lie. . . .
Author: Dr. Bob Conway
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 164027104X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLet's face it, demons are everywhere and they have an uncanny ability to seize control of our lives. Why? Because we allow them to. These demons, such as hate, unforgiveness, distrust, gossip, anxiety, fear, criticism, doubt, anger, and unbelief, prevalent in the lives of everyone and facing your demons will help you in identifying and recognizing them and how they have gained a foothold in your life. You can't rid yourself of these demons as they are a dominant force in our world today. However, facing your demons will help you realize how these demons are shaping our personalities and our characters. Facing your demons will, with the help of God and His word, help you in gaining an understanding of why these negative influences are so controlling and how to take back that control. After all, it's your life, not theirs!
Author: Jordan E. Goodman
Publisher: Business Plus
Published: 2009-06-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0446562319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking book by a renowned finance expert shows readers how to use their personal investing type to attain the wealth they desire.
Author: Ramsey Dukes
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 2005-12-31
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1780498160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his own inimitable style Ramsey Dukes takes us through the advantages and dangers of hobnobbing with Demons. However for him Demons are very much our own creations; lifes problems and challenges personified and given form. We can either be their slaves or strike bargains and get back into the driving seat. With his characteristic wit and wisdom, Uncle Ramsey takes us on a rollercoaster ride through our own subconscious in a sustained effort for us to accept and negotiate with lifes challenges.
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1611646774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bible is rich with complex and diverse material on the topic of money and possessions. Indeed, a close look at many scriptural texts reveals that economics is a core preoccupation of the biblical tradition. In this new work, highly regarded preacher and scholar Walter Brueggemann explores the recurring theme of money and possessions in the Old and New Testaments. He proposes six theses concerning money and possessions in the Bible, observing their contradictory nature to the conventional wisdom and practice of both the ancient world and today's society. Brueggemann advises us to reassess the ways in which our society engagesor does not engagequestions of money and possessions as carriers of social possibility. He invites the church to move toward an alternative neighborly economy that is more consistent with the gospel we confess.
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1998-05-12
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0345379187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century? Here, too, is a rare, private glimpse of Sagan’s thoughts about love, death, and God as he struggled with fatal disease. Ever forward-looking and vibrant with the sparkle of his unquenchable curiosity, Billions & Billions is a testament to one of the great scientific minds of our day. Praise for Billions & Billions “[Sagan’s] writing brims with optimism, clarity and compassion.”—Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel “Sagan used the spotlight of his fame to illuminate the abyss into which stupidity, greed, and the lust for power may yet dump us. All of those interests and causes are handsomely represented in Billions & Billions.”—The Washington Post Book World “Astronomer Carl Sagan didn’t live to see the millennium, but he probably has done more than any other popular scientist to prepare us for its arrival.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution “Billions & Billions can be interpreted as the Silent Spring for the current generation. . . . Human history includes a number of leaders with great minds who gave us theories about our universe and origins that ran contrary to religious dogma. Galileo determined that the Earth revolved around the Sun, not the other way around. Darwin challenged Creationism with his Evolution of Species. And now, Sagan has given the world its latest challenge: Billions & Billions.”—San Antonio Express-News “[Sagan’s] inspiration and boundless curiosity live on in the gift of his work.”—Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer “Couldn’t stay awake in your high school science classes? This book can help fill in the holes. Acclaimed scientist Carl Sagan combines his logic and knowledge with wit and humor to make a potentially dry subject enjoyable to read.”—The Dallas Morning News
Author: Satyajit Das
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0132790076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverything from home mortgages to climate change has become financialized, as vast fortunes are generated by individuals who build nothing of lasting value. Das shows how "extreme money" has become ever more unreal; how "voodoo banking" continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of "Masters of the Universe" has come to domiinate the world.
