Essays Social

An essay that presents theories of time and healing.

This audiobook and its short, attention grabbing collection welcomes the listeners to a better understanding not only about Christianity but also more importantly about the Caribbean people. Who is the Caribbean person? What is the impact of Christianity to the Caribbean history? These are just two of the many questions that this audiobook will answer and clarify for the listeners.

Bei dem vorliegenden Hörbuch handelt es sich um die Aufnahme einer Lesung von gesammelten Texten, die vor ca. 20 Jahren entstanden sind und nun der Öffentlichkeit erneut unbearbeitet präsentiert werden. Bereits die Erstfassung des Buches, die nach jahrelangem Rechtsstreit mit Suhrkamp erst 2006 verlegt wurde, war sehr schnell vergriffen. Suhrkamp, obschon seit 1999 zur Verbreitung vertraglich verpflichtet, zog es vor, sich darauf zu konzentrieren, dieses Werk der deutschen Öffentlichkeit vorzuenthalten.

Don Pendleton's metaphysical essays dramatically explore the human experience and the spiritual meaning of existence. In Don's inspirational examination of religion, science, and philosophy, his findings are thought provoking, inspiring, and perhaps even transformational for the true seeker.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

The American Caste Story is an "underground railroad" map of America's apartheid system. Lawrence's debut work doubles as a "concept mixtape," and an autobiographical statement about social systems' impact on humans around the world. The author explores systemic issues that relate to social, economic, and political conditions, using elements of poetry to depict the current state of affairs for members of the African diaspora and the world at large.

In this book, you'll find several thoughtful essays examining such stories and poems as "The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Young Goodman Brown", "The Goblin Market", "A Light in August", and Shakespeare's sonnets. This tome could be useful for anyone who’d like to make a deeper connection to great works of literature. And, of course, if you wanted to cheat off me, I couldn’t stop you.

"The supernatural power given by the God is the voice. Don't waste it being silent." -Jaydeep Shah. Voice is a non-fiction book that includes essays about cultures and values, and social issues that describe the ongoing situation around the world based on various perspectives of cultures and values, social stratification, and community issues.

The house was haunted. Everyone was sure of it....

The Professor Will See You Now takes the listener on a journey into a depressed mind fortified by expert fieldwork in our everyday apocalyptic world. The result is a uniquely construed and no doubt politically incorrect perspective on the contemporary zeitgeist. Over the course of five stories and an equal number of essays, the listener encounters the tragic apotheosis of positive psychology, love of learning and unlearning, homages to Jane Smiley and Richard Rodriquez, as well as tales of trekking and travel, cinema, and crime (both true and untrue).

Even though America is fiercely divided between the left and the right and protests are becoming increasingly violent, both sides of the political aisle remain committed to secularism and increasingly to looser standards of sexual propriety. If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the 19th century. In this book, Douglas Wilson explains how our nation's failure to remove slavery in a biblical fashion has led us to many of the quagmires we find ourselves in.

Faschismus und Totalitarismus, Integration und Intoleranz, Migration und Europa, Identität, das Eigene und das Fremde - die zentralen Begriffe in Umberto Ecos fünf Essays könnten kaum aktueller sein. Gerade in ihrer zeitlichen Distanz zeigt sich die Stärke von Ecos Gedanken: Losgelöst vom tagesaktuellen Geschehen, scheinen in ihnen die überzeitlichen Strukturen auf, die unserem Denken und Handeln zugrunde liegen. Präzise, wortgewandt und gespickt mit persönlichen Erinnerungen rufen seine Texte die komplexe Geschichte der Herausforderungen wach, vor denen wir heute stehen.

Estos cinco ensayos y artículos por el genial Miguel de Unamuno, reúnen sus opiniones y análisis sobre temas que fueron tan corrientes en su tiempo como lo son hoy: religión, política, los famosos y la cultura. Los cinco ensayos y artículos cortos que aquí presentamos representan algunos de los mejores escritos por este maestro español. Estos son: La Feliz Ignorancia, Literatura al Día, Pensar con la Pluma, Políticos y Literatos, y Religión y Patria.

Ashok Rajamani, award-winning author of the hit memoir The Day My Brain Exploded, returns with Imagine Carnivalesque, his explosive first book of bold and insightful literary criticism. Uncover the unconscious in South Asian literature through two psychoanalytical essays that deconstruct gender codes and sexuality within Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, and the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

The former Secretary of State, and first generation American, on the importance of remaining an open and welcoming nation.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.