A Step from Heaven
Author: An Na
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-07-26
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1481442368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Alpine, Texas: Front Street Press, 2001.
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
Author: Colin Jerolmack
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0691220263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy Shale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being of our communities and our planet—whether or not to extract shale gas and oil from the very land beneath our feet—is largely a private choice that millions of ordinary people make without the public's consent. The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend "up to heaven and down to hell," which means that landowners have the exclusive right to lease their subsurface mineral estates to petroleum companies. Colin Jerolmack spent eight months living with rural communities outside of Williamsport as they confronted the tension between property rights and the commonwealth. In this deeply intimate book, he reveals how the decision to lease brings financial rewards but can also cause irreparable harm to neighbors, to communal resources like air and water, and even to oneself. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell casts America’s ideas about freedom and property rights in a troubling new light, revealing how your personal choices can undermine your neighbors’ liberty, and how the exercise of individual rights can bring unintended environmental consequences for us all.
The Early History of Heaven
Author: J. Edward Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-03-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0195348494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
Last Call
Author: Harry Mulisch
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140116618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK3 Hours 33 Minutes in Heaven: NEW DISCOVERY! Now Anyone Can Visit Heaven.
Author: Regan Forston
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Published: 2020-01-31
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780578638911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is now possible for anyone in a deeply relaxed state to visit Heaven. This new technique has been used successfully for over 50,000 people so far by the Newton Institute. You have a God Switch within yourself that allows you to do this. Follow Regan on his life's Journey that led up to his miraculous Life Between Lives session. In Heaven he met and communicated with teachers, guides, loved ones and he got answers to many of his questions and advice for completing his life's mission. The certified Newton Institute facilitators are scattered around the globe so you can find one and take the journey to Heaven too.
The Case for Heaven
Author: Lee Strobel
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0310358434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBestselling and award-winning author Lee Strobel interviews experts about the evidence for the afterlife and offers credible answers to the most provocative questions about what happens when we die, near-death experiences, heaven, and hell. We all want to know what awaits us on the other side of death, but is there any reliable evidence that there is life after death? Investigative author Lee Strobel offers a lively and compelling study into one of the most provocative topics of our day. Through fascinating conversations with respected scholars and experts--a neuroscientist from Cambridge University, a researcher who analyzed a thousand accounts of near-death experiences, and an atheist-turned-Christian-philosopher--Strobel offers compelling reasons for why death is not the end of our existence but a transition to an exciting world to come. Looking at biblical accounts, Strobel unfolds what awaits us after we take our last breath and answers questions like: Is there an afterlife? What is heaven like? How will we spend our time there? And what does it mean to see God face to face? With a balanced approach, Strobel examines the alternative of Hell and the logic of damnation, and gives a careful look at reincarnation, universalism, the exclusivity claims of Christ, and other issues related to the topic of life after death. With vulnerability, Strobel shares the experience of how he nearly died years ago and how the reality of death can shape our lives and faith. Follow Strobel on this journey of discovery of the entirely credible, believable, and exhilarating life to come.
My Path to Heaven
Author: Geoffrey Bliss
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0918477484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve lessons focus on important teachings of the Catholic faith, including our relationship with God, the consequences of sin, and events in the life of Jesus.
Made in Heaven
Author: Ray Comfort
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 1614582653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience shamelessly steals from God’s creation, yet refuses to give God the glory! How the glow of a cat’s eyes innovates road reflectors The naturally sticky inspirations for Velcro and barbed wire A fly’s ear, the lizard’s foot, the moth’s eye, and other natural examples are inspiring improvements and new technologies in our lives Engineers and inventors have long examined God’s creation to understand and copy complex, proven mechanics of design in the science known as biomimicry. Much of this inspiration is increasingly drawn from amazing aspects of nature, including insects to plants to man in search of wisdom and insight. We are surrounded daily by scientific advancements that have become everyday items, simply because man is copying from God’s incredible creation, without acknowledging the Creator.
A Perfect Crime
Author: A Yi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 1780747063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chilling literary thriller about a motiveless murder in provincial China 'One of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years' Daily Express On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he’s also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka’s absurdism, Camus’ nihilism and Dostoyevsky’s depravity. With exceptional tonal control, A Yi steadily reveals the psychological backstory that enables us to make sense of the story’s dramatic violence and provides chillingly apt insights into a country on the cusp of enormous social, political and economic change.
The Procedure
Author: Harry Mulisch
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-09-24
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0142001279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's The Procedure is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah Löw, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, creates a golem by following a procedure outlined in a third-century cabalist text. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist mourning the loss of his stillborn daughter, causes an international uproar when he creates a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. But his unsettling discovery takes its toll as his inner and outer demons pursue him around the world, from California to Venice, Cairo, and Jerusalem.
