Naïve. Super

Author: Erlend Loe
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847677126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it. Funny, friendly, enigmatic and frequently poignant - superbly naive.

Naive No More

Author: Charles Kymbal
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532065078
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
This book tells the true story of a retired nuclear physicist who had three marriages and one living-together relationship before finally getting it right with his fourth marriage. It deals primarily with his sexual experiences that start with early childhood and continue to the present time. He concentrated on sex because it plays a key role for most people in all phases of life. One only has to look at the news media to see how big a factor (often dysfunctional) this is for many. Most of his early relationship failures can be attributed to being naive. For each phase of his life, he has compiled a set of lessons that could be of value to others experiencing similar problems. Throughout the book, the author uses words and describes graphic sexual acts that may offend some people. This was done largely to reflect the language and actions that are appropriate for the situation described. Finally, he felt that a book of this type would be quite different coming from the point of view of a person with a scientific background. It is hoped that readers will agree with this assumption. Only time will tell!

Naïve

Author: Robert Klanten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783899552478
Category : Advertising layout and typography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contains many examples of contemporary graphic design.

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers—those who write spontaneously—and “sentimental” writers—those who are reflective and aware—Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.

The Naïve Shakespearean

Author: JOHN R. LEIGH
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782225420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
John R Leigh, born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated in Cambridge, was musical, mathematical, scientific and literary. At school in the 1930s, his headmaster told him there would be no more wars and no need for more scientists. His life then ranged first from languages teacher, radar technician and RAF flight lieutenant in WWII, to marriage with a talented and literary American wife. After the war, John changed career to retrain in engineering—for a married man, a brave decision. Over the years, the keen theatre-going couple saw many diverse plays. Convinced that he had found an original approach to seeing Shakespearean dramas, he spent happy years describing and refining his thoughts: what ideas, prejudices and religious beliefs would surface in the minds of Shakespeare’s own audience, the groundlings and nobles? In our day, we cannot help but react with our own beliefs and social customs; yet in Globe Theatre, how would people have responded to seeing a ghost in the early sixteenth century? Rather differently than nowadays, John thought. (Hamlet studies form the greater part of his collected work.) Suppose you were seeing Hamlet for the first time: hence the title ‘The Naïve Shakespearean’.

America, Donald Trump, God, and Me

Author: Toni ME Taylor
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098066987
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
America, Donald Trump, God, and Me Through My Great-Grandma Eyes Let her liberty ring! Let her fire be inextinguishable! Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for us! Raging waters pound her shores relentlessly. Inward fighting has taken its toll upon her. Hostile forces anticipate her downfall. Enemies near and far conspire against her liberties and freedoms. Yet, she stands resolute! Her resounding liberty is cracked, not shattered! Her flaming torch of freedom is dim, not out! The adversarial bell clanging throughout this great nation cannot be "unrung"! But a United America can change its tune! God bless America! The sun still shines upon her. The Son of God still reigns within her! "But the one who looks into the Perfect Law; the law of liberty, and preserves, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts; he will be blessed in his doing" (James 1:25). Liberty and freedom are God-ordained birthrights, not selective rights to be doled out according to the whims of

Every Day a Miracle

Author: Matthew Stephen Brown
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0785240837
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
We may know Jesus as Lord and Savior, but do we know him as Healer? This book is for anyone asking for a miracle—whether physical, mental, relational, or spiritual—and how to worship the Great Healer no matter if His answer is answer is yes, no, or wait. If we understand anything about our culture, it's that we desperately need healing. Many people are quick to believe in an outrageous conspiracy before they will believe in Jesus and the miracle worker He is. Throughout Scripture, we see that He makes the blind see, opens deaf ears, restores life from death, and so much more . . . but what about you? Do you believe that Jesus has the power to restore you to health and heal your wounds? Throughout this book, Matthew Stephen Brown leads readers on a spiritual journey designed to discover who Jesus is as Healer and explore many questions including: Why do we believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior but not as Healer? Why would a good God allow us to experience pain in the first place, and maybe many times? When we don't experience healing, does that mean Jesus has failed or let us down? Jesus cares about our physical needs, but what healing in our lives is He most concerned about? Combining personal stories, biblical truth and wisdom, and humor that puts people at ease and draws them in, Pastor Matt Brown leads readers to worship a God who is not random, not careless, and who is never without cause, especially when it comes to performing miracles. Everyone can get behind a God who says yes. But what about when God says no? Or wait? No matter what God's plan is for your life, we can learn to trust and worship the Great Healer.

Mapping Ideology

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844675548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
For a long time, the term ‘ideology’ was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory, and to political practice. Mapping Ideology is a comprehensive reader covering the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, Mapping Ideology is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory.

A Secular Age

Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026766
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 894

Book Description
Taylor takes up the question of what happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.

Waters That Stream

Author: Senka Delic
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480865966
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Laughter and smiles Happy screams and cries No longer Occupy this place. Gunfire Gunfire The echo of bombs Horrific screams Senka Delic knows first-hand about the lasting effects of a brutal conflict. After escaping the war in Bosnia with her family in 1992, she lived in a refugee center in Denmark, where she finally found a much-needed outlet by writing poems that allowed her to process the emotions surrounding her stolen childhood, the fears, abandonment issues, and ultimately feeling broken inside. Divided into three partsWar, Love, and LifeDelics verse leads others down a raw, honest path that provides a heartfelt glimpse into what it is like to survive war and struggle to love and live without guilt. Her poems poignantly reveal her inner-struggles as she was forced to surrender her dreams, questioned the purpose of war, and began a new chapter in a strange land. Throughout her verse, Delic reminds others that there is always hope for a better future, no matter what we have endured in the past. In this moving collection of poems, a Bosnian war survivor shares candid insight into the struggles that surrounded her as she attempted to move forward from the darkness of evil and into the light of healing.