Your Yesterday Is My Tomorrow
Author : Richmond West
Publisher : Richmond West
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2006-06
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0977920410
I Found My Tomorrow in Paris
Author : Marilyn Pearsol Giorgetti
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781535484527
Book Description
I Found My Tomorrow in Paris is a story of betrayal, friendship and the discovery of self. Financial chaos and the termination of a 30 year marriage, her life in shambles, this middle-aged grandmother arrives in Nice to a "welcome to France" party: the Nice Carnival. Not knowing a soul or the language, she enrolls at the university and wastes no time plunging into the adventures and perils of living abroad. She, along with her classmates, all younger than her children, form a mini United Nations. She providentially encounters a French woman who becomes her mentor and guides her though everyday arduous, embarrassing and sometimes comical French living. Ignoring the plan to stay only six months, wanting more than a frivolous life on the Cote d'Azure, Marilyn moves to Paris where her life enfolds miraculously. She experiences a nightmarish ordeal while enrolling at the Sorbonne, is thrust into the orbit of the cream of Paris, is robbed on the metro, experiences a second chance at love and is befriended by the family of Yves St. Laurent. Eventually, with the decline of the dollar and the need to generate more revenue, Marilyn births a promising program which rewards her monetarily and spiritually. Life indeed is good, until a late-summer dinner party and an introduction to her lover's wife. After almost two years in France and Marilyn's odyssey accomplished, ironically it is what she sees on a Paris television channel that finally calls her home. She makes the return journey to the states and settles in San Francisco where she flourishes with her Paris-born creation, La Femme Unique.
All My Tomorrows
Author : Ellie Dean
Publisher : Random House
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448165253
Book Description
THE SIXTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN It was a time of friendship, family, love and loss . . . In defending herself against her brutal husband, eighteen-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She has no idea where Cliffehaven is, or what she will find there, but she knows that she will never be able to return home again. At first it seems she’s fallen on her feet. She gets a job at the local armaments factory, and the couple she is billeted with are kind and supportive. But when her host makes advances, Ruby is left homeless once more. Until Peggy Reilly welcomes her into the warmth of Beach View boarding house and Ruby dares to hope for a brighter future... A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).
Facets of Life
Author : Lori Clark Weatherly
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 161379147X
Book Description
"We do not remember the days, we remember the moments!" One moment can change your life, forever. One moment can leave you breathless; it is that moment when you know it has happened... a change. "I expected to be overjoyed to become a mommy again. I expected flowers, but not flowers with baby angels attached to them and a black wreath that would hang upon our business door to let all know that the arrival of our second son turned into something we didn't expect, his death." Lori Weatherly and her family have been through much devastation which includes their son passing away the day before Lori's 31st birthday as well as insurmountable physical trauma and injuries. Learning to love again, live again and find a new normal would prove to be an obstacle that, with God's help, she and her family are able to overcome on a daily basis. "I am careful to know that with expectations, a risk is always there that could lead to disappointment at any given moment. But that cannot keep me from expecting good things! God is a giver of good things! Without expectations, what do we have to hope for?"
Burnt Are My Offerings
Author :
Publisher : Numi - "Say Everything."
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release :
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ISBN :
Book Description
Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1770481672
Book Description
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes’s contemporaries recognized the power of arguments in Leviathan and many of them wrote responses to it; selections by John Bramhall, Robert Filmer, Edward Hyde, George Lawson, William Lucy, Samuel Pufendorf, and Thomas Tenison are included in this edition. This revised Broadview Edition of Hobbes’s classic work of political philosophy includes the full text of Part I (Of Man), Part II (Of Commonwealth), and the Review and Conclusion. The appendices, which set the work in its historical context, include a rich selection of contemporary responses to Leviathan. Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology of Hobbes’s life.
The Many Futures of a Decision
Author : Jay Lampert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350047805
Book Description
Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time. When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions, like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger, Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple futures.
Leviathan - Revised Edition
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1460403673
Book Description
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes’s contemporaries recognized the power of arguments in Leviathan and many of them wrote responses to it; selections by John Bramhall, Robert Filmer, Edward Hyde, George Lawson, William Lucy, Samuel Pufendorf, and Thomas Tenison are included in this edition. Leviathan is divided into four parts: In the first part, Of Man, Hobbes presents a view of human beings and of the natural world in general that is materialistic and mechanistic. In the second part, Of Commonwealth, he defends the theory of absolute sovereignty, the view that the government has all the political power and has the right to control any aspect of life. In the third part, Of a Christian Commonwealth, he critiques concepts like revelation, prophets, and miracles in such a way that it becomes doubtful whether they can be rationally justified. In the fourth part, Of the Kingdom of Darkness, he explains various ways in which priestly religion has corrupted religion and transgressed the rights of the sovereign.
Leviathan
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Leviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Contents: Of Man Of Sense Of Imagination Of the Consequence or Train of Imagination Of Speech Of Reason and Science Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects Of the Several Subject of Knowledge Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness Of the Difference of Manners Of Religion Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts Of Other Laws of Nature Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated Of Commonwealth Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical Of the Liberty of Subjects Of Systems Subject Political and Private Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power Of Counsel Of Civil Laws Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations Of Punishments and Rewards Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative Of the Kingdom of God by Nature Of a Christian Commonwealth Of the Principles of Christian Politics Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour Of Power Ecclesiastical Of What Is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven Of the Kingdom of Darkness Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture Of Demonology and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth
The Political Works of Thomas Hobbes (4 Books in One Edition)
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1319 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The political Works, written by Thomas Hobbes, described his views on how humans could thrive in harmony while avoiding the perils and fear of societal conflict. His experience during a time of upheaval in England influenced his thoughts, which he captured in The Elements of Law , De Cive (On the Citizen), Behemoth, or The Long Parliament and his most famous work, Leviathan. Leviathan, published in 1651, concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") could only be averted by strong central government. De Cive ('On the citizen') was Hobbes's first published book of political philosophy. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
