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Author: John H.T. Francis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-04-03
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1329695933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman societies have always been preoccupied with three main searches: the Search for Technology, the Search for Truth, and the Search for Meaning. Social structures; currents of action and thought; philosophies; and history, all are driven and honed by t
Author: Viktor E Frankl
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-12-09
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1448177685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.
Author: John H.T. Francis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1329194411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if all the world around us unfolds in certain ways while we, human beings, constantly tell ourselves different stories about it? What if what we call human understanding is nothing else than stories we make up about some of the world's events, stories that are for the most part either flawed or incomplete? And if that is the case, to what extent do we do so and why do we even do it? What if we have always been living more in our stories than in the real world? These are some of the important questions John H.T. Francis addresses in his new trilogy The Story in Three Parts. Faithful to his multi-disciplinary approach, intricate treatment of the subject, and modular and open style, the author looks at the existential role of the Story to human beings. Each part of this Trilogy highlights the central role of the Story to human meaning and understanding in a different way: simply through a story (Part I); in a theoretic-philosophical way (Part II); and in a practical way (Part III).
Author: Stephen Bonnycastle
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2007-04-26
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1551117673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Search of Authority is the most engaging introduction to literary theory available today. This is the third edition of a book that has been widely used to introduce undergraduates to the field of literary theory. Its distinctive quality is the way in which it makes complex literary theories, such as structuralism, deconstruction, and post-modernism, accessible to students by relating these theories to students’ own enjoyment in reading literature. Each theory is illustrated by several applications of the theory to well-known literary works. Based on a reader-response approach to literature, In Search of Authority begins with an up-to-date account of the status of literary theory in the 21st century, including a response to recent debates about the “post-theory” question. It concludes with a discussion of how an understanding of literary theory can lead to the empowerment of the individual reader, and of how the authority of the professor can be gradually transferred to the student. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout. Each chapter ends with several questions to help students check their understanding of the key ideas in the chapter.
Author: Luo Xu
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780472112395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the changing worldviews of Chinese youth in the tumultuous decade leading up to the Tiananmen demonstrations
Author: Paula Gooder
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2008-08-27
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0664231942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this clear, comprehensive, student-friendly textbook, biblical scholar and teacher Paula Gooder describes and illustrates the range of approaches to interpreting the New Testament, as taught in universities and seminaries throughout the English-speaking world. Top scholars give a short definition of a particular criticism, and then Gooder gives a practical example to demonstrate how that criticism can be applied to a biblical text. A very broad range of methods is introduced, from traditional criticisms such as source criticism and historical criticism to more modern methods such as feminist criticism and liberation criticism. Readers will understand how different meanings and emphases can be drawn from a text depending upon the method of interpretation chosen. They will also be given the skills to start analyzing and examining texts for themselves in a meaningful and insightful way.
Author: Stephen Bonnycastle
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 1996-01-31
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781551110837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary L. Warner
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780810854307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs is painfully evident from the reports of school shootings, gang violence, dysfunctional family life, and from statistics on adolescent suicide, many teens live troubled lives. Even those who live a normal life still face the challenges adults face, but teens are also engaged in establishing independence and finding their identity. However, few adolescents have the same resources as adults for surviving life challenges. Building from the idea that story is a powerful source of meaning, particularly those stories that resonate with our own lives, this book suggests that the stories of other young adults offer a resource yet to be fully tapped. Adolescents in the Search for Meaning begins from the perspective of young adults by sharing the results of a survey of over 1400 teens and also includes the insights of authors of Young Adult Literature. The book presents over 120 novels that teens have identified as meaningful as well as books recommended by YA authors and experts in the field of YA literature. For any teacher, librarian, parent or counselor wanting to reach young adults, this book is ideal.
Author: Ronald T. Sion
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0786457783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAldous Huxley, author of eleven novels, remains one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, his work resistant to passing fads in literature. This critical biography explores Huxley's lifelong quest for self-actualization by intertwining the events of his life and details of the creative period that produced each book. Considering Huxley's letters, essays and interviews in its examination of the thematic content of each novel, the text finds a man striving for the intellectual growth that would yield a sound philosophical and spiritual view of life, one he infused into his work.
Author: Robert Wright
Publisher: Crown
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles of 3 contemporary scientists-a computer expert, a biologist, and an economist.
