Quest for Life

Author: Yossi Turner
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 164469378X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the English reading public. It discusses the role played by the early Land of Israel pioneering labor community in the development of his thought, and offers a new understanding of its major themes, including: the relation of humanity to nature, human freedom, ethnicity, religion, and ethics. In addition, the book discusses the repercussions of Gordon’s thought with respect to contemporary civilization while suggesting its implicit ‘quest for life’ as the basis for a re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human life, Jewish peoplehood and the idea of a Jewish homeland.

The Quest For Life In Amber

Author: George Poinar
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
In passages that read more like an Indiana Jones screenplay than scientific research, the Poinars describe how their hobby-turned-obsession ultimately led to a breakthrough scientific finding: the discovery of preserved insect DNA in amber. Photos.

Poverty and the Quest for Life

Author: Bhrigupati Singh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022619468X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan’s only “primitive tribe.” From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh asks us to reconsider just what quality of life means. He shows how the Sahariyas conceive of aspiration, advancement, and vitality in both material and spiritual terms, and how such bridging can engender new possibilities of life. Singh organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Authority remains contested, whether in divine or human forms; the state is both despised and desired; high and low castes negotiate new ways of living together, in conflict but also cooperation; new gods move across rival social groups; animals and plants leave their tracks on human subjectivity and religiosity; and the potential for vitality persists even as natural resources steadily disappear. Studying this milieu, Singh offers new ways of thinking beyond the religion-secularism and nature-culture dichotomies, juxtaposing questions about quality of life with political theologies of sovereignty, neighborliness, and ethics, in the process painting a rich portrait of perseverance and fragility in contemporary rural India.

The Inner Life

Author: Charles Webster Leadbeater
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835605021
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
A clairvoyant, Leadbeater wrote, is simply a person who develops "the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations" and so is enabled "to see more of the world..than those of more limited perception." And what a world Leadbeater describes for us in these pages---a world of Master adepts and their pupils, untapped human powers and potentials, ancient mysteries, devas and nature spirits--in short, the unseen workings of the universe.

Discover Your Destiny

Author: Cary Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781598940497
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
In these pages, you will be guided step by step through the biblical principles that will help you discover God's plan for your life. You will gain the tools you need to make the right choices. You will learn God's foolproof plan for keeping you from going astray. You will uncover the subtle deceptions that could exist even within your own heart. You will delight in God's guiding principles for decision-making and equip yourself to discover your destiny.

The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life

Author: Carol E. Cleland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052187324X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

A Quest for Godliness

Author: James Innell Packer
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 9780891078197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Surveys the teachings and beliefs of the Puritans, and calls today's Christians to follow their example of spiritual maturity.

Quest for Life

Author: Yossi Turner
Publisher: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and
ISBN: 9781644693124
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Aharon David Gordon was a central figure in the early twentieth century pioneering community that built the infrastructure for a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. The present work demonstrates the extent to which Gordon's philosophy of human existence, as a natural phenomenon, holds the key for understanding and confronting many of the problems facing Jewish and human existence in the present.

Quest For Life

Author: Petrea King
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742747795
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
A handbook for people with cancer and life-threatening illness by a leading light in Australian holistic health. More than twenty years after Petrea King herself was diagnosed with and battled acute myeloid leukemia, this new edition of Quest For Life offers a beacon of hope for others facing life-threatening illness and for the people who love them. Since her remarkable recovery, Petrea has counselled individually or through residential programs more than 50,000 people living with life-threatening illness, grief, loss, trauma and tragedy. Warmly personal and thoroughly practical, Quest For Life radiates courage and conviction and is brimming with Petrea's own healing experience, inspirational stories from her clients and hundreds of therapeutic techniques to help you find the inner strength to face your own illness or to help those you care for.

Life Force

Author: Jean Houston
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835606875
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
Jean Houston takes her audience on an exhilarating adventure through the stages of human and personal evolution. Borrowing from her workshops, she leads us through a series of processes, which can be done either individually or in a group, and guides us in recovering lost abilities and expanding human capacities.