Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : J. Krishnamurti
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494001995
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : Chandler B. Saint
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0819568546
The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself
Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1101873736
Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, demonstrating that our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. Philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that we need to cultivate not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions: what matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. Engaging with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life.
Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501147633
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Denis Goldberg
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0813166853
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning to overthrow the government by violent revolution," Goldberg was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. The only white man convicted during the infamous Rivonia trial, he played a historic role in the struggle for justice in South Africa. In this remarkable autobiography, Goldberg discusses growing up acutely aware of the injustice permeating his homeland. He joined the South African Communist Party and helped found the Congress of Democrats. It was his role as an officer in the armed underground wing of the African National Congress (ANC), however, that led to his life sentence -- the outcome of which was a staggering twenty-two years behind bars. While he was incarcerated, the racist dogma of apartheid imposed complete separation from his black comrades and colleagues, a segregation that denied him both the companionship and the counsel of his fellow accused. Recounted with humor and humility, Goldberg's story not only provides a sweeping overview of life in South Africa both during and after apartheid, but also illuminates the experiences of the activists and oppressors whose fates were bound together.
Author : Jutta Burggraf
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594171750
In a fast-paced world overloaded with technology and information, it can be difficult to remember who we are as God’s children. We are called not only to do, to build, and to accomplish, but to be and to love in freedom. Embracing that deeper call requires courage, mired as we are in our own weaknesses as well as the increasing manipulation of others. Yet from the beginning God offers us a life full of love and happiness with Him. At the core of this gift is our freedom and we must struggle to maintain it, defend it, and grow continually in it. In Made for Freedom, author Jutta Burggraf offers a penetrating meditation on freedom and its importance in the life of a Christian. She explains that our ultimate happiness is a result of a humble “yes” to God’s gift of our very selves, accepting both the light and the darkness of who we are. From there, we can go a step further to accept God’s love and invite Him, and only Him to fill the gaps with love and healing. With this humble but honest perspective, we can choose to love ourselves as God loves us, and in turn, to love others.
Author : Anthony Ray Hinton
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250124719
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Author : Malika Oufkir
Publisher : Miramax Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401359942
The author describes her return to the world after twenty years in a Moroccan jail, as she struggled to adjust to the modern world, understand the reality of freedom, fall in love, and experience an intimate relationship for the first time.
Author : Annie Payson Call
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Mental health
ISBN :
Author : Annie Payson Call
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Mental health
ISBN :