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“The only authorized biography of Victor Frankl, whose life story and reflections have inspired tens of millions. Haddon Klingberg records and preserves the Frankl legacy, with his own eloquent and moving reflections.” -- David G. Myers, Hope College, author of The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty Written in response to the horrors he experienced and witnessed during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl’s landmark book, Man’s Search for Meaning, has sold millions of copies and been translated into twenty-seven languages. But although Frankl’s thought and philosophy have been widely analyzed, until now little has been written about his life, and about the deeply loving, intensely spiritual relationship that led him and his wife to dedicate their lives to reducing pain and oppression in the world. In a book that is at once a wonderful love story and a tribute to two extraordinary people, Haddon Klingberg, Jr., draws on a wealth of anecdotes, told to him by the Frankls themselves, to describe their separate early lives and their fifty-two years as husband and wife. Returning to Vienna after spending three years in four different concentration camps, Frankl, whose first wife and family died in the camps, turned to writing as a way of finding some purpose in his life. But it was Elly Schwindt, a woman half his age, who helped him put the pieces of his broken life together. Married in 1947, the Frankls created a life of hope and faith, a life committed to proclaiming the oneness of the human family, challenging materialistic values, and encouraging the pursuit of meaning. When Life Calls Out to Us chronicles a spiritual journey infused with tragedy but sustained by love, wisdom, faith, and humor. Klingberg’s extensive interviews, not available anywhere else, reveal the full richness of the Frankls’ lives and beautifully illuminate their enduring contributions toward a better world for all people.
Jr Klingberg |
Haddon Klingberg, Jr.
History
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The version of the Rule of St. Augustine used at the Abbey of St.Victor began with the command to love God above all things and ones neighbor as oneself. Not surprisingly, then, love was a pervasive theme in the writings produced there, many of which are introduced and translated here: (1)five lyrical essays by Hugh of St.Victor (d.1141): The Praise of Charity; The Betrothal Gift of the Soul; In Praise of the Spouse; On the Substance of Love; What Truly Should Be Loved?; (2)On the Four Degrees of Violent Love, by Richard of St.Victor (d.1173), which traces the likenesses and differences between romantic love and the love of God; (3)Achard of St.Victor (d.1170), Sermon5 and two of Adam of St.Victors sequences are examples of how these authors wove love into their writings; (4)excerpts from the Microcosmus by Godfrey of St.Victor (d.ca.1195), summarize the central place of love in his humanistic theological anthropology.
Hugh Feiss, OSB (ed.)
Religion
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Receiving an unexpected gift of friendship bread and instructions for creating more to pass along, Julia Everts, a woman chronically depressed by the loss of her son, surprises her family by making the bread and sparking new friendships, setting in motion positive connections and healing throughout the community. A first novel. Reprint.
Darien Gee
Cooking
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Il presente volume emerge in grande parte dal Seminario internazionale "Culture e conflitto" tenutosi a Courmayeur tra il 13 e il 15 dicembre 2002, promosso dal Centro di prevenzione e difesa sociale, dal Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione dell'Università degli Studi di Bologna e dalla Fondazione Courmayeur, in collaborazione con la Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l'UNESCO. La profonda complessità che caratterizza i conflitti contemporanei - dovuta a molte cause tra cui vanno ricordati i processi di globalizzazione, l'interdipendenza economica e culturale che lega l'intero pianeta, il proliferare di armi in grado di distruggere intere popolazioni se non l'intera umanità - ci costringe ad abbandonare i modelli unilineari e unidimensionali e a rivolgerci ad interpretazioni multifattoriali per affrontare i loro andamenti sfuggenti, risultati di dinamici intrecci di modelli sociali e culturali, di interazioni economiche e politiche, di sistemi di valori, di comportamenti e di atteggiamenti intrisi di significati simbolici. Un tale approccio interdisciplinare propone al lettore un percorso che si caratterizza per la sua ricchezza di prospettive, linguaggi, vertici di osservazione e repertori simbolici di riferimento.
Matilde Callari Galli |
Giovanna Guerzoni |
Bruno Riccio
Political Science
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C'è un po' di mistero nella vita di ognuno di noi: fuggevoli sensazioni significative, improvvise e immotivate certezze di fatti imminenti, percezioni telepatiche, singolari stati modificati di coscienza... Misteri del quotidiano su cui si sofferma Fulvia Cariglia, autrice ben nota per la serietà di ricerca e per l'obiettività con cui da anni affronta questi temi, qui documentati anche attraverso i meno noti tratti biografici di grandi della letteratura come Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain o Victor Hugo; ma, ancor più in particolare, mediante la storia personale della famosa chiaroveggente marchigiana Pasqualina Pezzola, di cui si offre la prima e unica biografia esistente. E, poiché il fascino per indefinite capacità occulte, non disgiunto dalla speranza di potersene giovare, ha da sempre attirato i potenti della Terra, la dissertazione dell'autrice si spinge ad analizzare con efficacia l'ambiguo rapporto che intercorse, ad esempio, fra la Corte di Francia e Cagliostro, i reali dell'Impero Russo e Rasputin, nonché l'interesse che Hitler, Mussolini e Stalin accordarono a controverse consultazioni. Un libro che esorta a guardare agli infiniti eventi dell'universo umano con la disponibilità ad accettare l'inconsueto
Fulvia Cariglia
Unknown
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The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Though it is much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolated country. In "The Impossible State," seasoned international-policy expert and lauded scholar Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing the best look yet at North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive personality cult that empowers them. He illuminates the repressive regime's complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human-rights abuses, and its belligerent relationship with the United States, and analyzes the regime's major security issues--from the seemingly endless war with its southern neighbor to its frightening nuclear ambitions--all in light of the destabilizing effects of Kim Jong-il's recent death. How this enigmatic nation-state--one that regularly violates its own citizens' inalienable rights and has suffered famine, global economic sanctions, a collapsed economy, and near total isolation from the rest of the world--has continued to survive has long been a question that preoccupies the West. Cha reveals a land of contradictions, one facing a pivotal and disquieting transition of power from tyrannical father to inexperienced son, and delves into the ideology that leads an oppressed, starving populace to cling so fiercely to its failed leadership. With rare personal anecdotes from the author's time in Pyongyang and his tenure as an adviser in the White House, this engagingly written, authoritative, and highly accessible history offers much-needed answers to the most pressing questions about North Korea and ultimately warns of a regime that might be closer to its end than many might think--a political collapse for which America and its allies may be woefully unprepared.
Victor Cha
History
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In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Just as agents seeking to express themselves in alphabetic writing need to be literate, "egents" who seek to express themselves in digital media need to be--to use a term coined by cybertheorist Gregory Ulmer-- electrate. In Inter/vention, Jan Holmevik helps to invent electracy. He does so by tracing its path across the digital and rhetorical landscape--informatics, hacker heuretics, ethics, pedagogy, virtual space, and monumentality--and by introducing play as a new genre of electracy. Play, he argues, is the electrate ludic transversal. Holmevik contributes to the repertoire of electrate practices in order to understand and demonstrate how play invents electracy. Holmevik's argument straddles two divergences: in rhetoric, between how we study rhetoric as play and how we play rhetorically; and in game studies, between ludology and narratology. Games studies has forged ludology practice by distinguishing it from literate practice (and often allying itself with the scientific tradition). Holmevik is able to link ludology and rhetoric through electracy. Play can and does facilitate invention: play invented the field of ludology. Holmevik proposes a new heuretic in which play acts as a conductor for the invention of electracy. Play is a meta behavior that touches on every aspect of Ulmer's concept of electracy.
Jan Rune Holmevik |
Ian Bogost |
Gregory Ulmer
Social Science
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Kendig, Chernick’s Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children is the definitive medical reference book to help you confront critical challenges using the latest knowledge and techniques. You’ll get the state-of-the-art answers you need to offer the best care to young patients. Tackle the toughest challenges and improve patient outcomes with coverage of all the common and rare respiratory problems found in newborns and children worldwide. Get a solid foundation of knowledge to better understand and treat your patients through coverage of the latest basic science and its relevance to clinical problems. Get comprehensive, authoritative coverage on today’s hot topics, such as interstitial lung disease, respiratory disorders in the newborn, congenital lung disease, swine flu, genetic testing for disease and the human genome, inflammatory cytokines in the lung, new radiologic techniques, diagnostic imaging of the respiratory tract, and pulmonary function tests. Learn from the experts with contributions from 100 world authorities in the fields of pediatrics, pulmonology, neurology, microbiology, cardiology, physiology, diagnostic imaging, anesthesiology, otolaryngology, allergy, and surgery. Quickly search the complete contents online and access links to PubMed at www.expertconsult.com.
Victor Chernick |
Robin R Deterding |
Thomas F. Boat |
Felix Ratjen |
Robert W. Wilmott |
Andrew Bush
Unknown
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Berlin in nächster Zukunft. Auf der Bundespressekonferenz bricht Tumult aus, Paragraph 216 ist abgeschafft: Tötung auf Verlangen bleibt fortan ungestraft! Hier treffen auch Paul Kungebein, ambitionierter Jungredakteur, und Hendrik Miller, Oberarzt an der Charité, aufeinander. Gemeinsam gründen sie eine Agentur, die den Dementen aus Berlins Altenghetto einen sanften Tod ermöglicht – durch aktive Sterbehilfe. Erste Patientin ist die anrührend gezeichnete, fast hundertjährige Elsa Lindström. Bei Weißwein und Lachs rühmen sich Miller und Kungebein ihrer humanitären Taten. Daheim versorgt Kungebein liebevoll seinen umnachteten Vater Victor. Hendrik Miller hingegen denkt weiter. Auch solche Kranke, die einen Sterbewunsch nicht mehr artikulieren können, möchte der Arzt erlösen ... In seinem brillant geschriebenen und grotesk komischen Roman entwirft Björn Kern ein Szenario zwischen Liebe und Leid, dem man sich nicht entziehen kann – spannend, voller suggestiver Bilder, die den Leser nicht loslassen, und mit einem überraschenden Ende. Ein hochaktueller Roman, der niemanden kalt lässt.
Björn Kern
Fiction
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