The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth PDF Author: Jozef Wittlin
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782274723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. Among them is Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, who wants nothing more from life than an official railway cap, a cottage, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World War reaches the mountains and Piotr is drafted into the army. All the weight of imperial authority is used to mould him into an unthinking fighting machine, forced to fight a war he does not understand, for interests other than his own. The Salt of the Earth is a classic war novel and a powerfully pacifist tale about the consequences of war for ordinary men.

Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth PDF Author: Michael Wilson
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780912670454
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
   This 1954 film, made in New Mexico by blacklisted Hollywood people and members of a progressive union, was denied distribution during the McCarthy era. The film documents an actual strike and is narrated by a Mexican-American woman who grows in consciousness and effectiveness through her participation in the community struggle. With the publication of this book, the Feminist Press reprints Wilson's screenplay and introduces an original work by Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt: an analysis of the background, history, and significance of both the strike and the film. Based partly on recent interviews, Rosenfelt's work includes a discussion of the change in status of the women who took part in this strike for better conditions.

The Suppression of Salt of the Earth

The Suppression of Salt of the Earth PDF Author: James J. Lorence
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826320285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Examines the conception, production, distribution, and suppression of the pioneering labor-feminist film made during the virulently anti-communist era of the Cold War.

The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth PDF Author: Anna Marie Eleanor Roos
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004161767
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. No reliable study on this subject has been previously available. Its exploration of natural history's and medicine's intersection with chemical investigation in early modern England demonstrates the growing importance of the senses and experience as causes of intellectual change from 1650-1750. It demonstrates that an understanding of the changing definitions of "salt" is also crucial to a historical comprehension of the transition between alchemy and chemistry.

Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth PDF Author: Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
On October 1, 1949, a rural-based insurgency demolished the Nationalist government of Chiang-kai Shek and brought the Chinese Communists to national power. How did the Chinese Communists gain their mandate to rule the countryside? In this pathbreaking study, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., provides a fresh and strikingly original interpretation of the political and economic origins of the October revolution. Salt of the Earth is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and collective protest activities helped shape the nature and course of the Chinese revolution in the deep countryside. Focusing on the Party's relationship with locally esteemed non-Communist leaders, the author shows that the Party's role is best understood in terms of its intimate connections with local collective activism and with existing modes of local protest, both of which were the product of rural people acting on their own grievances, interests, and goals. The author's collection and use of oral histories—from the last remaining eyewitnesses—and written corroborative materials is a remarkable achievement; his new interpretation of why China's rural people supported and joined the Communists in their quest for state power is dramatically different from what has come before. This book will stimulate debates on the genesis of popular mobilization and the growth of insurgency for decades to come. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth PDF Author: Bishop Bassey Effiong Orok
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491874600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
Written by a born Prophet and reputable Spiritual Scientist, His Lordship Bishop Bassey Effiong Orok; Salt of the Earth is a package of universal realities, and an eye-opener to all of humanity, as it unveils the universal components that are within the occupant of the prestigious Office of Christhood called Christ, as it combines mysteries of eternal science and pure spirituality to prove its facts. It likens Christ to what is generally called Salt, which naturally transforms into a crystalline substance, gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning or preserving food. This book reveals Christ as the natural origin of salt, making a critical discussion about salt as the seasoning instrument of life, and following up by explaining the spiritual, physical and potential meaning of salt. It also unveils the circumstances behind the first usage of salt, which hitherto was hidden from man. Among other contents are Christ as the Heavenly Taste and Controller of Salt; the existence of salt in the seven continents of the world and the different powers attached to salty and fresh water. It provides details on top issues such as the thirty-four blessings of the elects of Christ, the seven messengers of His elects, the twenty-six will-powers, and eight merriment awaiting His elects. Before revealing the salvation that awaits the elects of Christ, it examines in-depth the meaning of the phrase, Salt of the Earth, as well as the ten different natural expressions of the salty manifestation of the saints, the Elects of Christ, His power of preservation and His unlimited power of manifestation, the quality of salvation, and the fourteen reasons why Christ receives the highest award and honour in the entire Universe. It is a book that cuts across all boundaries, irrespective of religion, faith, belief, nations, tribes and tongues. Visit the Official Website of the Author at www.BeoSpiritual.org

What Did Jesus Mean?

What Did Jesus Mean? PDF Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195137329
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
Linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her theory of universal human concepts and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her approach results in strikingly novel interpretations.

The Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew PDF Author: William Barclay
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664237769
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description

The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible

The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible PDF Author: John J. Pilch
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814625279
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! Interpreting the Bible respectfully is a cross-cultural enterprise. For those who seek to understand the Bible as a document from the ancient Mediterranean world and communicate it to people in other cultures, The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible is an ideal tool. Scripture expert John Pilch gives the modern Bible reader an appreciation for the world in which each book of the Bible originated and an in-depth look at the Mediterranean personalities who populate the pages of the Bible. With more than 100 distinctive, Middle-Eastern notions, from Abba" to "Work," this collection provides a cultural system of shared interpretations of persons, things, and events relating to the Mediterranean region. By applying a social-scientific approach to interpreting the Bible, Pilch shows how a multi-cultural understanding, enriched with the discoveries and insights taken from contemporary anthropological studies, can bemused to examine the distinctive, Middle Eastern cultural world of the Bible. Since each article discusses a variety of persons, things, and events under its title, the alphabetized tale of contents presents a comprehensive list of these subjects for ready reference. Uppercase entries identify complete articles; lowercase entries list some of the related topics treated in the articles. A bibliography is provided at the end of each major article. A list of basic resources at the end of the volume presents a selection of dictionaries, atlases, and similar books for supplemental information on each topic. Preachers, readers, RCIA participants and students alike will appreciate the index to the Sunday Lectionary readings for the full three-year cycle that is provided and its citation of the words defined in the dictionary that appear in the given readings. Includes illustrations of appropriate entries. Entries include: ABBA Agriculture Alternate Reality ANGER Animals Antonia Fortress Bailey Beard Bread Blindness Boat Burial Carpenter Caves Centurion Christians CLOTHES COINS Corban COSMETICS AND JEWELRY Culture DANCE DEATH DECEPTION AND LYING DRINKING AND EATING Earrings Eating Emotions Evil Eye Eyes Fishing FORGIVENESS Fortresses Frankincense Goats Good Shepherd HAIR Hands HEALING Heaven HOLY MAN Honey Honor and Shame HOUSE HUMOR Individualism Insider/Outsider Israelite Jewelry JEWS ANDCHRISTIANS John the Baptist Judeans Laughter Life Literary Forms Lying MILITARY Milk MUSIC Mother Nazirite NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION Oath Oil Perfume Peter's House Poor PRAYER Puns Rabbi Revenge Roads Salt Satan Sea SECRECY Shalom Shame SHEEP AND GOATS SICKNESS Sign Sin Singing SKY SMELLS AND TASTES Sorghum Space SPIRITS Stonemason SYMBOLISM Tastes Teeth Tents Translation TRAVEL Vengeance Water WEATHER Wheat Wine Wool WORK
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