Pink Elephants
Pink Elephants

Author: Christy Texeira

Publisher: Snapdragon Publishing

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781736345801

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When her five-year-old daughter came home from school with bodily bruises, it was assumed to be innocent schoolyard play. But when she woke in the middle of the night to an unstoppable bloody nose, it became the beginning of a heart wrenching journey through doctor's visits and a family's struggle to make life-and-death decisions in the midst of agonizing uncertainty. Pink Elephants is the story of a family pushed to the brink, as they face their daughter's rare life-threatening illness. The Texeira family discovered the most essential ingredients in surviving great adversity: their unwavering faith, gratitude for each day, and the power in each family member's inner strength. Told from the mother's perspective, Pink Elephants takes us into the private moments of tenderness, the fragility of childhood innocence, and the reminder that control over a situation is an illusion. As the Texeira family shows us, life isn't planned-it is lived.

Don't Think of Pink Elephants!
Don't Think of Pink Elephants!

Author: Melanie Salas

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781954648548

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Our minds are so powerful and what we choose to think and believe can greatly impact how we feel about ourselves and the world around us. Being happy starts with controlling the message that we speak to ourselves in our heads. "Don't Think of Pink Elephants" is perfect for all ages and opens our minds to the importance of positive thoughts and the power that these messages have over us. Come along on the journey as we explore how to program our brains to find true happiness in this fun light-hearted read!

Redeeming Flesh
Redeeming Flesh

Author: Matthew John Paul Tan

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-07-06

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 149829118X

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Why are zombies consuming the popular imagination? This book--part social analysis, part theological critique, and part devotional--considers how the zombie can be a way to critically situate our culture, awash with consumer products. Matthew Tan considers how zombies are the endpoint of social theory's exploration of consumer culture and its postsecular turn towards an earthly immortality, enacted on the flesh of consumers. The book also shows how zombies aid our appreciation of Christ's saving work. Through the lens of theology and the prayer of the Stations of the Cross, Tan incorporates social theory's insights on the zombie concerning postmodern culture's yearning for things beyond the flesh and also reveals some of social theory's blind spots. Turning to the Eucharist flesh of Christ, Tan challenges the zombie's secularized narrative of salvation of the flesh, one where flesh is saved by being consumed and made to die. By contrast, Jesus saves by enacting an alternative logic of flesh, one that redeems the zombie's obsession with flesh by eucharistically giving it away. In doing so, Jesus saves by assuming the condition of the zombie, redirecting our logic of consumption and fulfilling our yearning for immortality.

Do Not Think about Pink Elephants
Do Not Think about Pink Elephants

Author: Cristina L. Hardrich

Publisher: Austin Macauley

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781645751687

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Lisa was having a bad day. Things were not going well since morning, until the time she rode the bus home from school. She was in a bad mood! Her daddy never likes to see Lisa in a bad mood, so he steps in to try and make her smile. Maybe he can even make her laugh. Daddy has a way of making people laugh with silly animal images. If that isn't enough to make someone laugh, his silliness and ability to make himself laugh could cheer anyone up. Will his tactics work for Lisa this time? You will see.

Murder of a Pink Elephant
Murder of a Pink Elephant

Author: Denise Swanson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-07-06

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1101567546

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When Skye Denison's brother forms a band called Pink Elephant, the town goes wild-maybe too wild. First, a groupie turns stalker, seducing the band members one by one. Then, one of the Pink Elephants winds up murdered. Who's to blame? Everyone seems to think it's the drummer-and now Skye has to clear her brother's name.

Can Pink Elephants Fly?
Can Pink Elephants Fly?

Author: Cynthia Coleman Tyous

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780975372142

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A little elephant, accidentally covered in pink paint, learns a lesson about celebrating his own uniqueness and individuality.

Articulating Reasons
Articulating Reasons

Author: Robert BRANDOM

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0674028732

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Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into two of the main themes of Brandom's work: the idea that the semantic content of a sentence is determined by the norms governing inferences to and from it, and the idea that the distinctive function of logical vocabulary is to let us make our tacit inferential commitments explicit. Brandom's work, making the move from representationalism to inferentialism, constitutes a near-Copernican shift in the philosophy of language--and the most important single development in the field in recent decades. Articulating Reasons puts this accomplishment within reach of nonphilosophers who want to understand the state of the foundations of semantics. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism 2. Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning 3. Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism 4. What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? 5. A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing 6. Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality Notes Index Displaying a sovereign command of the intricate discussion in the analytic philosophy of language, Brandom manages successfully to carry out a program within the philosophy of language that has already been sketched by others, without losing sight of the vision inspiring the enterprise in the important details of his investigation ' Using the tools of a complex theory of language, Brandom succeeds in describing convincingly the practices in which the reason and autonomy of subjects capable of speech and action are expressed. --J'rgen Habermas

Flutterby Baby
Flutterby Baby

Author: Rachael Tickner

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780646806150

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This gift book is about the experience of miscarriage and provides comforting words of support with beautiful illustrations to accompany the story. It was written by a lady who has been through two early pregnancy losses.

Drop the Pink Elephant
Drop the Pink Elephant

Author: Bill McFarlan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-11-12

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1841126373

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"As GMTV anchor, I interview hundreds of people every year. However well they interview, every single person would find it easier to explain their case by following these simple principles." EAMONN HOLMES, GMTV Presenter "[Drop the Pink Elephant]...tackle[s] every aspect of personal communication in a crisp, entertaining style." THE PLAIN ENGLISH SOCIETY "There can be no whitewash at the White House." (Richard Nixon). These nine words turned the American nation against their President. Why? Because people hadn't linked the White House with a cover up until Nixon himself made the connection. His own denial created the story. It is perhaps the most famous Pink Elephant in history. But what exactly is a 'Pink Elephant'? Pink Elephants are the unnecessary negatives that clutter your conversation and meaning, sending out the wrong signals to anyone you communicate with. In Drop the Pink Elephant, Bill McFarlan reveals how to avoid the deadly trap of allowing poor communication skills to obscure your meaning and reduce your effectiveness. Drop the Pink Elephant is filled with helpful, simple and practical advice on how to make your words count for more. Put these straightforward lessons into practice and you will notice immediately how much more effectively you are able to communicate with others. Sharpen your conversation by: * FIRST SPOTTING, THEN DROPPING THE PINK ELEPHANT * GETTING RID OF THE JARGON * LEARNING TO SPEAK IN PICTURES * RECOGNISING WHEN YOU SHOULD APOLOGISE OR THANK PEOPLE * CAPTIVATING AN AUDIENCE N.B. No animals were hurt in the making of this book. (Can you spot your first Pink Elephant?)

Godless in America
Godless in America

Author: George Ricker

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-03

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 059539101X

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"I spent the most of the first half of my life believing in Christianity and regarding belief in God as an essential component of human existence," George Ricker says. "I've spent the last 30 years trying to understand why I ever thought that way. This book is about how and why that process occurred. It's also about the danger posed to our democratic society by fundamentalist religion." Godless in America is a testimonial about the advantages of life without gods and religions. It's also a no-holds-barred look at some of the problems with both concepts. Written in a style that is conversational, yet provocative, it is a candid assessment of the real culture war being fought in America today: the attack being waged by the Religious Right on the values of personal freedom, democratic government, and the necessity for all Americans to be treated as equals before the law and by their government. At times humorous, at times outrageous, Godless in America treats religion and religious concepts as ideas that should be evaluated with the same standards used to evaluate all other ideas and concepts, not from the privileged position claimed by so many of a religious persuasion.