The Light from the West
Author: Selig Schachnowitz
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781583309261
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Light from the East
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1933316225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of writings about the spiritual meeting of East and West in the modern world including articles by the Dalai Lama, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Thomas Merton, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Diana Eck, Gary Snyder and Aldous Huxley. Highlighting aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism that have proved most attractive to Western seekers, it explores the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western traditions while emphasizing respect amongst the adherents of different faiths.
The Light that Failed
Author: Ivan Krastev
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0241345715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized. Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orbán's Hungary into models for the United States. Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.
Light in the Trees
Author: Gail Louise Folkins
Publisher: Voice in the American West
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780896729513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK""A memoir about growing up in a mountain foothill in Washington state, chronically a coming of age for author and region. Includes further views of the Northwest through the eyes of Southwest terrain and climate."--Provided by publisher"--
The Light in the Forest
Author: Conrad Richter
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2004-09-14
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1400077885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.
Towards the Light
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1472528735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - and a struggle - that continues to this day as those in power use the threat of terrorism in the 21st century to roll-back the liberties that so many have fought and died to win for us. Including an appendix of landmark documents, including the British and American Bills of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author reflecting on developments since the book's original publication.
The Guardians of Light
Author: James West
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-07-13
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781500365530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatt Lumen has never known who he was. It's hard to when he's lost every memory except for his name. For almost a year, Matt has gone through life without any clue of who he is or where his family is. But all that changes when he finds out that his past has been searching for him, too. When Matt and his best friend, Chase Falcoon, are attacked by a monster, they soon find themselves meeting Matt's 'family', who tell them that Matt is far more than the average amnesiac. Now as Matt comes to terms with his past, he and his friends, both old and new, must evade a darkness that is determined to capture him.
The DIM Hypothesis
Author: Leonard Peikoff
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0451466640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith his groundbreaking and controversial DIM hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought, and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, or separate laws into a Constitution, or single events into a story. The first method, in which data is integrated through rational means, he calls Integration. The second, which employs non-rational means, he calls Misintegration. The third is Disintegration—which is nihilism, the desire to tear things apart. In The DIM Hypothesis Peikoff demonstrates the power of these three methods in shaping the West, by using the categories to examine the culturally representative fields of literature, physics, education, and politics. His analysis illustrates how the historical trends in each field have been dominated by one of these three categories, not only today but during the whole progression of Western culture from its beginning in Ancient Greece. Extrapolating from the historical pattern he identifies, Peikoff concludes by explaining why the lights of the West are going out—and predicts the most likely future for the United States.
The Baal Shem of Michelstadt
Author: Naftoli Hertz Ehrmann
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781583308929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBound photocopy of a book; the original German language book is available through the LBI library.
A Scatter of Light
Author: Malinda Lo
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0525555293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Full of yearning, ponderances about art and what it means to be an artist, and self-revelation, A Scatter of Light has a simmering intensity that makes it hard to put down."—NPR An Instant New York Times Bestseller Last Night at the Telegraph Club author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful queer coming-of-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha’s Vineyard with her best friends—one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria’s parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother’s gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettable—for Aria, her family, and the working-class queer community Steph introduces her to. It’s the kind of summer that changes a life forever. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, A Scatter of Light also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath’s lives since 1955.
