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Game Boy: Un libro de ficción, ensayo y privilegio (Caballo de Troya 2019, #Volumen 1)
By V ctor Parkas. 2019
Víctor Parkas dispara contra la hombría en Game Boy. Esta suma endiabladamente pop de sangrantes columnas de opinión y relatos…
tragicómicos es un dardo directo al ocaso de las masculinidades tóxicas. «Las nuevas masculinidades, para ser realmente nuevas, tienen que estar dispuestas a tomar posiciones que las lleven a sufrir el acoso, la suspicacia, la fiscalización, la persecución que sufren y han sufrido el resto de opciones genéricas, por el simple hecho de serlo frente a una dominante. El hombre nuevo sólo puede serlo si acepta adoptar gestos que no den réditos de cara a la galería [...]. Lo que sería nuevo es que los hombres, tan ansiosos de refundarse, desistieran para alivio del resto. Que entregasen las armas y se disolvieran [...]. Que todos los grupos de hombres merodeando por espacios públicos sean detenidos, identificados y disueltos. Que cinco tipos conjurados en un portal no puedan sertratados de otro modo, en lo jurídico, que como es tratada una organización terrorista.» Así habla Víctor Parkas en Game Boy, un libro que no es una recopilación de sangrantes columnas de opinión, ni tampoco una novelita generacional sobre el ocaso de las masculinidades tóxicas, ni mucho menos un conjunto de relatos endiabladamente pop. Game Boy es todas esas cosas a la vez, además de la confirmación de que su autor se ha convertido en uno de los críticos más voraces del panorama literario en español.Since the 1970s Richard Allen's scholarship on the social gospel has broken new ground in the field of Canadian social…
and religious history by recovering key aspects of the tradition and its contribution to reform movements and politics. Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies collects and extends many of his classic works to present a comprehensive overview of a major thread in the fabric of the country. Observing the mutual foundations of political and religious traditions in myth and arguing that the sacred and the secular belong together in discussions of public affairs, Allen contests the view that religion is personal and isolated from the public square. He discusses a range of topics: the transition from providential to progressive thought in nineteenth-century Canada; the new spirituality of social solidarity articulated by Winnipeg college students in the 1890s; the role of the social gospel in pioneering urban reform; farmers and workers finding in radical Christianity legitimation for political revolt; Christian intellectuals in the 1930s framing a revolutionary prospectus for Depression-era Canada; the significance of Norman Bethune's religious upbringing for his life and work; strategically focused post-war ecumenical coalitions like Project North and the Latin American Working Group; and the prospects for democratic socialism at the end of the Cold War. Opening with a chapter relating the author's upbringing in a ministerial household dedicated to the Protestant ethic as the spirit of socialism, Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies represents a significant contribution to understanding the social Christian movement in Canada.Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story Diamond Jubilee (Wayland One Shots Ser. #5)
By John Malam. 2012
This year Queen Elizabeth II enjoys 60 glorious years as monarch with a Diamond Jubilee celebration to be held on…
5th June 2012. Queen Elizabeth II, Her Story recounts the life of our Queen from her birth to present day. It is the story of a princess who became Queen and head of the Royal House of Windsor.* Birth of a Princess* The Little Princesses* Life in the Palace* Princess at War* Elizabeth becomes Queen* The Royla Family* Royal Duties* The Royal family TreeEarly photographs capture the Queen's early years and a Royal family tree place the events of her life in context.Taking Cover: One Girl's Story of Growing Up During the Iranian Revolution
By Nioucha Homayoonfar. 2019
This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran…
from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history.When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1979, its open society means a life with dancing, women's rights, and other freedoms. But soon the revolution erupts and the rules of life in Iran change. Religion classes become mandatory. Nioucha has to cover her head and wear robes. Opinions at school are not welcome. Her cousin is captured and tortured after he is caught trying to leave the country. And yet, in the midst of so much change and challenge, Nioucha is still just a girl who wants to play with her friends, please her parents, listen to pop music, and, eventually, have a boyfriend. Will she ever get used to this new culture? Can she break the rules without consequences? Nioucha's story sheds light on the timely conversation about religious, political, and social freedom, publishing in time for the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.Faith and Reason: Three Views (Spectrum Multiview Book Series)
By Steve Wilkens. 2014
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Lost Innocence, Modern Day Slavery & Transformation
By Barbara Amaya. 2015
In 1972, Barbara Amaya was 16 years old, leading a life far from a typical teenager and why she was…
Nobody's Girl. She had been sent to three detention centers, lived on the streets of, first, Washington DC and then New York City. Amaya was forced to work as a prostitute and was hooked on heroin. The ten years she spent as a victim in the world of human trafficking is just the beginning of her story.The Problem of Job and the Problem of Evil (Elements in Religion and Violence)
By Espen Dahl. 2019
This account of evil takes the Book of Job as its guide. The Book of Job considers physical pain, social…
bereavement, the origin of evil, theodicy, justice, divine violence, and reward. Such problems are explored by consulting ancient and modern accounts from the fields of theology and philosophy, broadly conceived. Some of the literature on evil - especially the philosophical literature - is inclined toward the abstract treatment of such problems. Bringing along the suffering Job will serve as a reminder of the concrete, lived experience in which the problem of evil has its roots.Consilience, Truth and the Mind of God: Science, Philosophy and Theology in the Search for Ultimate Meaning
By Richard J Di Rocco. 2018
This book argues that God can be found within the edifice of the scientific understanding of physics, cosmology, biology and…
philosophy. It is a rewarding read that asks the Big Questions which humans have pondered since the dawn of the modern human mind, including: Why and how does the universe exist? From where do the laws of physics come? How did life and mind arise from inanimate matter on Earth? Science and religion have a common interest in the answers to such questions, yet many scientists and believers have been at odds for centuries. The author and contributors present a program for moving beyond the vastly different perspectives of reality offered by science and religion. Historical proofs for the existence of God are considered in light of the possibility that the universe may be only one in an eternal multiverse that contains an infinite number of other universes. Readers will find a modification of St. Augustine’s Argument from Truth for the existence of the necessary, self-sufficient being commonly referred to as God. This book is suited to all with an interest in the crossing points of science and religion, providing much food for thought and reflection. If in the end, you cannot accede to philosophy’s proofs, or theism’s invitation to faith, perhaps you will nevertheless say ‘yes’ to the amazing universe in which we live.My Butch Career: A Memoir
By Esther Newton. 2018
During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she “became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders,” and that…
her “child body was a strong and capable instrument stuffed into the word ‘girl.’” Later, in early adulthood, as she was on her way to becoming a trailblazing figure in gay and lesbian studies, she “had already chosen higher education over the strongest passion in my life, my love for women, because the two seemed incompatible.” In My Butch Career Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity during a particularly intense time of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century. Newton recounts a series of traumas and conflicts, from being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a “normal,” straight life in high school and college. She discusses being denied tenure at Queens College—despite having written the foundational Mother Camp—and nearly again so at SUNY Purchase. With humor and grace, she describes the influence her father Saul's strong masculinity had on her, her introduction to middle-class gay life, and her love affairs—including one with a well-known abstract painter and another with a French academic she met on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Mexico and with whom she traveled throughout France and Switzerland. By age forty, where Newton's narrative ends, she began to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. Affecting and immediate, My Butch Career is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of just how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.For three centuries, a mixture of religion, violence, and economic conditions created a fertile matrix in Western Europe that racialized…
an entire diasporic population who lived in the urban centers of the Latin West: Jews. This Element explores how religion and violence, visited on Jewish bodies and Jewish lives, coalesced to create the first racial state in the history of the West. It is an example of how the methods and conceptual frames of postcolonial and race studies, when applied to the study of religion, can be productive of scholarship that rewrites the foundational history of the past.The Design Argument (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Elliott Sober. 2019
This Element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but the main focus…
is on two such arguments. The first concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. Creationists who advance this argument contend that evolution by natural selection cannot be the right explanation. The second design argument - the argument from fine-tuning - begins with the fact that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values. Since probability is the main analytical tool used, the book provides a primer on probability theory.Religious Epistemology (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Tyler Dalton McNabb. 2019
If epistemology is roughly the study of knowledge, justification, warrant, and rationality, then religious epistemology is the study of how…
these epistemic concepts relate to religious belief and practice. This Element, while surveying various religious epistemologies, argues specifically for Plantingian religious epistemology. It makes the case for proper functionalism and Plantinga's AC models, while it also responds to debunking arguments informed by cognitive science of religion. It serves as a bridge between religious epistemology and natural theology.God and Time (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Natalja Deng. 2019
The God of Western religion is said to be eternal. But what does that mean? Is God somehow beyond time,…
living a life that does not involve one thing after another? Or is God's relationship to time much more like ours, so that God's eternality just consists in there being no time at which God doesn't exist? Even for non-believers, these issues have interesting implications for the relation between historical and scientific findings on the one hand, and religion on the other. This Element introduces the reader to the requisite metaphysical background, and then examines reasons for and against thinking of God as timeless.Religious Disagreement (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Helen De Cruz. 2019
This Element examines what we can learn from religious disagreement, focusing on disagreement with possible selves and former selves, the…
epistemic significance of religious agreement, the problem of disagreements between religious experts, and the significance of philosophy of religion. Helen De Cruz shows how religious beliefs of others constitute significant higher-order evidence. At the same time, she advises that we should not necessarily become agnostic about all religious matters, because our cognitive background colors the way we evaluate evidence. This allows us to maintain religious beliefs in many cases, while nevertheless taking the religious beliefs of others seriously.Devotional Stories for Women: Everyday Miracles of Faith and Wisdom
By Carol McLean Wilde, James Stuart Bell. 2012
Being a woman is a blessing - and a challenge. Juggling all those roles - daughter, mother, sister, friend, colleague,…
wife, and more - isn’t easy. And without God’s grace, it often seems impossible. In Devotonal Stories for Women, you’ll find three biblical passages and accounts of women’s real-life encounters with God. These stories extend a sisterly hand to help you stay on the path of Christian love and devotion.Devotional Stories for Christian Moms: Everyday Miracles of Maternal Love
By James Stuart. 2012
In Devotional Stories for Christian Moms, you'll find three touching, biblical-themed stories written by devoted mothers who have welcomed the…
Lord into their daily lives. Celebrating the God-given beauty, strength, and wisdom of mothers everywhere, these reflections will inspire and delight you. Being a good mother is never easy. But with Devotional Stories for Christian Moms, you have all you need to help deepen your faith in God, family, and the power of a mother's love.Danica: Crossing the Line
By Danica Patrick, Laura Morton. 2006
Sharing secrets and stories, tales from the track, and insights into her personal life, Danica reflects on her extraordinary rise…
from a ten-year-old go-kart champion to the most successful woman in the history of American racing.Danica Patrick's life moves at 220 mph. She drives every race and lives every day like she has something to prove—and she does. As a 5-foot 2-inch, 100-pound woman, she had to qualify a little quicker and race a little faster than the boys—just to earn the respect she would otherwise be given if she weren't the "girl on the track, driving the princess mobile." But you don't get to be an IndyCar driver without talent and determination. Danica is living proof that if you work hard and aim high, you can do whatever you set your mind to, that you can rise to any challenge, and that what makes you different is what makes you great. An inspiration to all, Crossing the Line offers Danica's unique perspective on how to compete in life, how to stand out, and how to get the respect and attention you deserve.¿Qué haría Vicky? (Edición enriquecida con audio)
By Vicky Mart n Berrocal. 2017
Una obra íntima y personal en la que Vicky Martín Berrocal desnuda su corazón y nos cuenta sus secretos. Hay…
personas a quienes creemos conocer por su fama, otras a quienes admiramos por su trayectoria profesional, o bien aquellas a quienes simplemente quisiéramos tener como amigas. Vicky Martín Berrocal es una de ellas. Su carácter, su personalidad y su manera de afrontar la vida conquistan a cualquiera. Como mujer luchadora que es ha tenido que enfrentarse sola a muchos obstáculos, ha amado, ha sufrido, ha compartido, es madre, empresaria de éxito y ha seguido siendo fiel a ella misma. Vicky intenta transformar las dificultades, las heridas, en cicatrices que enseñan, en experiencias de vida positivas que guardar en la maleta y con las que poder reinventarse y seguir su camino. Con la afabilidad, la honestidad y el carácter que la definen Vicky Martín Berrocal nos transmite en ¿Qué haría Vicky? la emoción y laintensidad con las que afronta la vida y nos habla de amor, amistad, familia, metas, entre otras muchas cosas. ¿Qué actitud hemos de mostrar frente a la vida? ¿Es posible compaginar la maternidad con el desarrollo profesional? ¿Qué hemos de plantearnos a la hora de afrontar un proyecto y prosperar? Un recorrido cómplice por aquello que nos define y los logros que nos impulsan, o el hombre como compañero de viaje. Un libro sincero. «Victoria es demasiado mujer para llamarla Vicky. Es exuberante en todo, en físico, en sonrisa, en gestos y en palabras, en energía. Vive entre tres ciudades, cuida a su hija con total entrega, diseña trajes, lee continuamente [...] Es divertida, culta, a veces hechizada también. Y siempre tan femenina. Capaz de apasionarse de la misma manera por un hombre que por un par de zapatos. Se manifiesta en mil campos a la vez y eso me encanta».Boris IzaguirreElisabeth Gilman: Crusader for Justice
By Ross Jones. 2017
This is the first biography of Elisabeth Gilman, a largely forgotten Marylander who was born to privilege in the nineteenth…
century but became an irrepressible force for social justice in the twentieth. As the second daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Elisabeth was raised in well-to-do, influential circles. Privately educated by tutors, she eventually earned a bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins. But unlike many who shared Elisabeth's elevated station, she was possessed of a restless and critical spirit. As a strong devotee of the Social Gospel, she campaigned on behalf of the poor, African- Americans, women, and laborers exposed to harsh conditions. After her father's death, Elisabeth joined the Socialist Party and was nominated as a candidate for governor of Maryland, United States senator, mayor of Baltimore, and even sheriff of Baltimore. Never married, Elisabeth fell under the spell of a charismatic, progressive Episcopal priest named Mercer Green Johnston, and followed him and his wife to Paris during World War I, where she helped to support homesick American doughboys under the aegis of the YMCA.Aprendamos a amarnos
By Mar a Estela Pe afiel Toaza. 2018
Hay cosas que llevo dentro de mí que las amo porque forman parte de mí ser desde el momento que…
se alojaron en mi cuerpo. Es un argumento basado en la vida real de dos mujeres que, en su tiempo, sufrieron; una de ellas, maltratos psicológicos y la segunda, ambas cosas solo por evitar que el llanto de sus hijos fuese silenciado en su propio vientre. Este tema tiene como característica principal contar la verdad, las lágrimas de dos madres que lloraban en la soledad tratando de encontrarle una salida sin perjudicar a ese ser maravilloso que su corazón ya latía dentro de su tripa. Al hacer este relato, la autora de este libro no trata de juzgar a nadie, sencillamente, quiere hacer una reflexión a todas aquellas personas que por falta de experiencia o por insensatez y no pensar en las consecuencias que nos pueden ocasionar ciertos recuerdos del pasado; hacerles entender que se perdieron o intentaron acabar con uno de los privilegios más lindos que el universo les estaba regalando. Con esto les confirma que tener amor propio es el comienzo de una vida llena de paz, amor y felicidad sin remordimientos.