Strangers and Beggars
Author: James Van Pelt
Publisher: Fairwood Press, Inc
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780966818451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains seventeen science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories by James van Pelt.
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This Flowing Toward Me
Author: Marilyn Lacey
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594711978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What began as a response to a random bulletin board posting would ultimately challenge Sister Marilyn Lacey's life - and the life of countless refugees. Nhia Bee, along with his wife and five children, had been placed for a few weeks at [her] convent upon arriving in California from a refugee camp in Thailand. When the family was moved to permanent housing, Sr. Lacey realized, to her own surprise, just how much the family had lodged itself in her heart. Not long after, she had a dream that changed the course of her life. ..."--Back cover.
The Book of Strangers
Author: Ian Neil Dallas
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780887069901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSometime in the future the head librarian at a great center of learning suddenly disappears, leaving behind a journal that describes his weariness with a world "where people teach but know nothing, where the sentences flow on endlessly but lead nowhere." His successor in the post becomes more and more intrigued by the vanished man's fate, until a series of mysterious clues lead him on a journey both inward and outward, to a world that begins where language ends. Within a matter of weeks he finds himself in the company of powerful dervishes, God-intoxicated nomads whose eyes blaze with love, and ragged beggars with the smile of the Pure One. These men, the followers of an enlightened Shaykh, speak little, but simply to be in their company fills him with ecstasy and knowledge.
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
Author: Alfred John Church
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
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The Stranger's Welcome
Author: Steve Reece
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1992-12-31
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780472103867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than two millennia, Homer's poetry has stirred the imagination of its readers. Originally recited by traveling bards, these poems are exceptionally rich in conventional elements that helped the poets remember works thousands of lines long. As dynamic ingredients of oral poetry, these elements have accrued deep meaning, and for a well-informed audience they call significant associations to mind. In The Stranger's Welcome, Steve Reece treats eighteen "hospitality" scenes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns and reveals key aspects and standard elements of such scenes. Further, he demonstrates how Homeric listeners might comprehend the new and innovative by relying on their knowledge of the conventional and familiar. This tension between conventional and innovative, between the traditional background and the individual performance, distinguishes the aesthetics of Homeric poetry. Of interest to students and scholars of oral poetry, folklore, Homeric literature, and Greek literature in general, The Stranger's Welcome offers a practical approach whereby a reading audience may understand a hearing one.
Unwelcome Strangers
Author: Jack Wertheimer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0195065859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnwelcome Strangers examines the status and self-perception of emancipated Jews in pre-Nazi Germany, their reception by the Germans, and the response of "privileged" Jews to needy, but alien, coreligionists.
Strangers and Neighbours
Author: Jeremy Hayhoe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-02-24
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 144262390X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial records, tax records, parish registers, and the census of 1796, Jeremy Hayhoe reconstructs the migration profiles of more than 70,000 individuals from eighteenth-century northern Burgundy. In this book, Hayhoe paints a picture of a surprisingly mobile and dynamic rural population. More than three quarters of villagers would move at least once in their lifetime; most of those who moved would do so more than once, in many cases staying only briefly in each community. Combining statistical analysis with an extensive discussion of witness depositions, he brings the experiences and motivations of these many migrants to life, creating a virtuoso reconceptualization of the rural demography of the ancien régime.
Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament
Author: David J. Armitage
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2016-09-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783161543999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow was poverty interpreted in the New Testament? David J. Armitage explores key ways in which poverty was understood in the Greco-Roman and Jewish milieux of the New Testament, and considers how approaches to poverty found in the texts of the New Testament itself relate to these wider contexts. - back of the book.
Ancient Roman Statutes
Author: Rome
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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