Author: Barbara S. Kraft
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ellen Stephen
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780687642557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The point of the spiritual journey is freedom." So begins a guide that offers profound insight on the human experience and the search for spiritual peace. In a world filled with stress, Vessel of Peace offers an ancient but seldom-followed path toward a peaceful life of deep meaning in the spirit. In this guide, we discover how to empty ourselves of cultural myths that cause us anxiety and to fill ourselves with spiritual truths that enable us to live an authentic and fulfilling life. "Vessel of Peace, more than any other, is a book that asks life's largest questions and then answers them with all the wisdom of which we humans are capable." -M. Scott Peck, M.D., best-selling author of The Road Less Traveled "Simple without being simplistic, Vessel of Peace is a guide-book for pilgrims of the spirit which promises nothing but a probing clarity.... This gracious book is a celebration of life as a gift, reminding us that this is not a rehearsal and that the goal and gift of life is communion in freedom." -Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
Author: Basil Joseph 1879-1951 Mathews
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781372743375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Val Lewis
Publisher: G2 Entertainment
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781907803284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perhaps the most celebrated ship's cat was Able Seaman Simon of HMS Amethyst - he was awarded the Dickin Medal (the animals' VC) for killing vermin in the ship's stores. This and over 80 other stories are told in this revised and updated edition of the best-seller by Val Lewis.
Author: Caren Barzelay Stelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 154152148X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace"--
Author: Basil Mathews
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-02
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781333434489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Ships of Peace Before daybreak on Monday morning, July 5, 1742, a boy apprentice rolled quietly out from his cramped bed under the counter in his master's shop. Softly unlatching the door, he stepped out into the road by the tiny harbour. The soft hush-hush' of the incoming tide, which would be full that morning at 6 o'clock, spoke to him as he strode quickly away from Staithes, climb ing the hill to the cliff, and walked away southward for nine miles till the grey walls of Whitby Abbey loomed ahead of him across the harbour. He dropped down the hill to the town and was soon by the harbour side. As James Cook climbed aboard his chosen ship the outlines of the grey abbey stood up above the cliffs, catching the light of the morning sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert Kisala
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780824822675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wars in the Persian Gulf and Yugoslavia have given new impetus to the ongoing debate in Japan concerning its postwar constitution and related issues of national security and world order. Although often overlooked in this debate, Japanese religious groups--especially some of the New Religions--have promoted peace as a major theme of their doctrine and activities, often explicitly supporting a pacifist position. This study, undertaken in the wake of the Persian Gulf War, looks at a representative group of New Religions and explores their concepts and practices of peace. Many of the Japanese New Religions draw on a tradition that emphasizes individual moral cultivation and use of prewar terms to describe their mission. One expression, hakko ichiu (literally, "the whole world under one roof") conveys the ideal of world unity under Japanese direction, leading to the establishment of peace. In this way it is a prime example of the prewar idea of establishing peace through the spread of Japanese civilization. The author cites evidence pointing to the prevalence of a mistaken notion of the implications of the pacifist position, a situation that both reflects and contributes to the confusion surrounding popular debates on pacifism in Japan. Prophets of Peace is an attempt to correct that misperception by providing a critical study of the social ethic of the Japanese New Religions--a topic that has been largely ignored in research on new religious movements worldwide. Professor Kisala draws on the literature that presents their doctrine and surveys their believers to describe their approach to the question of peace. The results of this fieldwork are placed within the dual framework of Western peace studies and the modern Japanese intellectual tradition, highlighting the issues of pacifism and the cultural approach to peace in Japan. In his analysis of these results, he offers some observations on the role of religion in contemporary Japanese society and advocates a more positive engagement in the debate on Japan's role in international security arrangements. By offering a representative sample of New Religion groups and focusing on their doctrines, Prophets of Peace provides a different perspective for those whose primary interest is the Japanese New Religions. Although students and scholars of Japanese religion will be the book's first audience, its accessibility and thematic approach also recommend it to readers with a broader interest in contemporary Japanese society, peace studies, and the role of religious groups in modern society.
Author: Max Boot
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0465038662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read [this book] . . . Vividly written and thoroughly researched." -- Los Angeles Times America's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, "Fighting Fred" Funston, and Smedly Butler. This revised and updated edition of Boot's compellingly readable history of the forgotten wars that helped promote America's rise in the lst two centuries includes a wealth of new material, including a chapter on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new afterword on the lessons of the post-9/11 world.