Tag: Encounters

Free Download Dr. Chauncey Crandall, Kris Bearss, "Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist’s Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1455562777, 1455562785 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.6 mb
How a doctor’s glimpses of eternity confirmed everything he believed about God, suffering, life on earth, and what happens after death.

Free Download Sharon Todd, "The Touch of the Present: Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Senses "
English | ISBN: 1438492170 | 2023 | 230 pages | EPUB, PDF | 906 KB + 2 MB
Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

Free Download Jae-seong Lee, "Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature: Encounters between East and West "
English | ISBN: 1498519202 | 2015 | 290 pages | EPUB | 596 KB
This study advances contemporary postmodern/poststructural critical theory, literary criticism in particular, with the help of Mahāyāna-especially Ch’an/Seon (Chinese and Korean Zen)-Buddhist thought. The quest for theinfinity of the Other (West) and Emptiness or the true I (East) contributes to the exploration of the contemporary critical issues of ethics and infinity. Such an approach will awaken our sense of unrepresented, genuine transcendence and immanence; The Buddhist Emptiness shows us the absolute Other illuminated on a vaster scale. The theory section explores and links Eastern and Western philosophies, switching between the two. While discussing in depth Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, Lacan, Deleuze, and Nancy, this study gradually guides the reader from the contemporary Western thought on the Other and infinity to the Buddhist vision of Emptiness, the ultimate reality. To overcome the dualistic mode of thought inherent in tradition of Western metaphysics, this exploration follows the line that observes Nāgārjuna and the imprint of Ch’an teachings that are most prevalent in South Korean Buddhism. The last three chapters demonstrate a Levinasian and Seon Buddhist approach to the book of Job, part of the Judeo-Christian Bible, as being a more literary than religious text, and the excess of the Gothic mood in the two most distinguished and widely celebrated novels-Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The three texts compel readers to confront the infinity of the absolute Other or Emptiness.

Free Download Michela Ardizzoni, "Mediterranean Encounters in the City: Frameworks of Mediation Between East and West, North and South"
English | ISBN: 1498528082 | 2015 | 190 pages | EPUB | 1075 KB
This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The events of Sept. 11, 2001 have recast difference as a central trope of identification in urban borderland settings, unleashing heated debates about cultural convergences and animating anxieties about an arguable clash of civilizations in modern cities. These emerging uncertainties have also grown stronger as the homogenizing forces of globalization unsettle essential principles of the nation-state and nationhood and render fixed perceptions of distinctive and singular people and cultures more tenuous. Recent scholarship and public discourse have accordingly framed discussions of these encounters around concerns of geo-political security and international policy. Unfortunately, framed within these terms, our understanding of how various groups within the Mediterranean metropolis deal with the intensification of difference as a lived experience has remained regrettably thin. This volume transcends this limitation and explores new, interdisciplinary research paradigms that will help us gain a comprehensive perspective on how complex macro and micro tensions, contradictions and similarities are negotiated in building urban identities in the Mediterranean basin.

Free Download Tom Bowers, "Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia: Novel Encounters with Waste"
English | ISBN: 1793622973 | 2022 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 906 KB + 803 KB
Where is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully realized? As this book argues, rather than falling into one of these familiar environmental categories, contemporary space is configured as heterotopia, as in-between spaces of dissonance, where encounters with waste are a daily occurrence and where dirty matter refuses to submit to human demands and intentions. Through an exploration of a series of spaces in which acts of leisure and recreation are configured alongside vibrant dirty matter, Tom Bowers explores how contemporary heterotopia offers entanglements with a dirty other that promote novel opportunities for humans to ethically respond and be responsible to the continued presence of waste and to generate a sense of ecological care for a dirty world. In doing so, the book urges readers away from a utopian vision of what the environment should be and instead asks how we can ethically exist within and around the dirtied environment as it is. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, environmental rhetorics, and environmental ethics.

Free Download Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D. W. Pasulka
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1250879566 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 2.45 MB
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into the experiences of people at the forefront of this development.

Free Download Taraneh Wilkinson, "Dialectical Encounters: Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 147444153X | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Discussions of Islam in Turkey are still heavily dominated by political considerations and the dualistic paradigms of modern v. traditional, secular v. religious. Yet there exists a body of Muslim institutions in the country – Turkish theology faculties – whose work overcomes ideological divisions. By engaging with Turkish theology in its theological rather than political concerns, this book sheds light on complex Muslim voices in the context of a largely Western and Christian modernity.

Free Download The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN78QDZD | 2023 | 10 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Rick Marschall
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
Theodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishments-but the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back! Historian Rick Marschall has collected almost five hundred quotations, descriptions, impressions, and memories of the "Most Interesting American" derived from vintage newspapers, magazines, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, and so much more. In chapters devoted to his personality as a family man, a conservationist, an intellectual, patriot, activist, and as an American TR comes alive as never before seen. In more than a century since his death, the personal attributes that endeared Theodore to his America have become obscured. In this book of firsthand, eyewitness accounts TR comes roaring back to us in all of his astonishing ways!

Free Download Encounters with the Archdruid (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ1B8JSY | 2023 | 7 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 212 MB
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: Grover Gardner
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses-on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

Free Download Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences: Explorations with UFOs, Dreams, Angels AI and Other Dimensions (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVKP5RYW | 2023 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 204 MB
Author: D. W. Pasulka
Narrator: D. W. Pasulka
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into the experiences of people at the forefront of this development. In Encounters, author D.W. Pasulka takes listeners to the forefront of this revolution, sharing the work of experts across a spectrum of fields who are working to connect humanity with unknown life-forms. Most of us have visions of nonhuman encounters that are shaped far more by Hollywood than they are informed by the current research. Encounters rewrites our visions of nonhuman species by featuring the work and stories of contemporary innovators who are rethinking our most basic assumptions about life and its manifestations beyond our experience. The author of American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka is a professor of religion at UNC, Wilmington; her work as a scholar has given her the tools to systematically examine data that exceeds rational categories-exactly the skillset needed to parse the world of UFOs, angels, AI, dreams, and other dimensions, which exist at the edges of human understanding. Encounters is a riveting exploration of the leading science of nonhuman life and a bold glimpse of the future of humanity in a universe where we are far from alone.