Essays Life

Discover Hope, Healing, and Humanity in Every Page In a world shaken by pandemics, climate change, political division, and personal struggles, it’s easy to feel disconnected and overwhelmed. But bestselling author David Dye’s Tomorrow Together: Essays of Hope, Healing, and Humanity offers a much-needed antidote a collection of short, powerful essays that remind us of the beauty, strength, and resilience that connect us all. With warmth, vulnerability, and a touch of humor, Dye takes readers on a journey through the joys and challenges of modern life, exploring themes of personal growth,...

या पुस्तकात जगातील स मोठी लोकशाही अस्तित्वात कशी आली या घटनेचा मानवी पैलू सांगण्याचा प्रयत्न लेखकाने केला आहे. चमकदार उदाहरणं आणि सखोल संशोधनानं समृद्ध अशा या पुस्तकासोबत बीबीसी रेडिओ सीरिज4 या मालिकेच्या माध्यमातून लेखकाने अध्यात्म क्षेत्रातील भगवान बुद्धांपासून ते भांडवलशहा धीरूभाई अंबानींपर्यंत 50 भारतीय जीवनांचा आढावा घेतला आहे.

By 1617, Donne had done it all. After being an MP, lawyer, womaniser, soldier, diplomat, father to twelve children by a secret wife, and the greatest poet of his age, he settled into the priesthood. Shortly thereafter, his wife died, prompting him to write a defence of suicide in God's eyes. She was soon followed by his 18 year old daughter died. Then Donne fell gravely ill. Physicians were called, but none could agree on what to do. It seemed certain that he would die.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection. These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful.

Short stories include biographical, humorous and imaginative fiction. Poetry is sprinkled throughout the book. Stories, essays and poetry cover both serious topics and fun insights. This book includes uplifting, positive and thought-provoking insights. Also, several Christmas stories. Audio version is done in three parts.

Thailand, the land of smiles and golden dreams, is languishing, and Pattaya, its biggest fun city, is succumbing to a thousand ills. Pattaya Pains is about living in Pattaya over the long term. Even though the collection of essays, stories, and observations herein would relish the golden dream of painting Pattaya as a romantic hotspot where Thais and foreigners bond, it can’t do so - not only because East is East and West is West, but also because Thais just don’t see foreigners in a good light.

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers, and observers.

世の中は騒々しく、人々が浮き足立つ時代になってきた。そんなやかましい時代を、静かに生きるにはどうすればいいのか？ 人生を幸せに生きるとはどういうことか？

Just because you’re a grown adult doesn’t mean you have to give up being silly. These silly journal prompts will help you to have fun with your daily journaling. Express your creativity, explore the silly side of life, and laugh out loud while your write answers to these 30 silly prompts. You’ll relive childhood memories, make up jokes, invent new words, imagine what life might be like in a new city (or planet), and create a personality for yourself as a fairy (or leprechaun or unicorn). These prompts are intended for adults but are fun enough that you can share them with your ...

With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the "move fast and break things" mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History? will urge listeners to draw the line. This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come.

In Time to Stand Up Bill Hull takes no prisoners. He makes fun of everyone from Don Henley and Jordan Peterson to philosopher Hannah Arendt and playwright David Mamet. Both the living and dead are targets for his satire, even G.K. Chesterton doesn’t escape. Just about the time you begin to laugh, he delves into the mind of Elon Musk and the fact that Musk wouldn’t mind being saved from his sins. Then Hull confesses to his own anxieties, faults, and fears. He points out that he has committed all the seven deadly sins and by the way, so have you. Bill possesses inside knowledge of pride, ...

In the best-selling and beloved tradition of Dave Barry, a coming-of-middle-age tale by Thurber finalist Dan Zevin, master of “Seinfeld-ian nothingness” ( Time) about a man’s inevitable transition into mid-life and fatherhood.

In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what is it to live a good life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about the self, morality and happiness. In an age of environmental peril, and in the wake of the global financial crisis, such questions have returned with new force - we live in unpredictable times and Homo economicus has been found wanting.

Life Lessons: Ruminations on Life of a Human on Earth, Essays by Mary A Faderan, PhD is a collection of essays on her musings about life in the world as we know it. Her life has taken many turns, starting from her research work at Yale School of Medicine, postdoctorate studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and then at Purdue University.

In the powerful and daring essays in Constellations Sinéad Gleeson does that very thing. All of life is within this audiobook, from birth to first love, pregnancy to motherhood, terrifying sickness, old age and loss to death itself. Throughout this wide-ranging collection she also turns her restless eye outwards delving into work, art and our very ways of seeing. In the tradition of some of our finest life writers, and yet still in her own spirited, generous voice, Sinéad takes us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance.

Love poetry , which can be sent to the person of your dreams, on Valentine's Day, or any other day of the year. When you want to express yourself, there's no time like the present. Some of these are pure and simple direct love poems, some are declarations, where the writer is trying to convince someone to change his/her life, and better the dream. They can be combined or used on their own. You might find a little bit of yourself in some of these poems. Who amongst us has not wished for someone to turn their way and recognize all they had to offer. With a cup of tea, these poems go down to ...

Author, critic and traveler, Marina Vaizey, in her third lockdown essay, reflects on the books of figures in the changing façade of English society and the establishment. Missing people, even with telephones and emails. And music and theatre even with the incredibly generous digital provision.

Los artículos y ensayos de un escritor enamorado de su oficio, que opina y polemiza, que observa, critica o aplaude: una colección indispensable para conocer los entusiasmos, las bromas, las reminiscencias y el pensamiento de uno de los escritores fundamentales de nuestro tiempo. Vida del fantasma, publicado por primera vez en 1995 y ampliado en ediciones sucesivas,reúne los artículos escritos desde 1976 hasta 2000 a los que Pasiones pasadas y Literatura y fantasma no habían dado cabida.

When I wrote my first monthly blog post in November of 2016, I didn’t really have a grip on my purpose, what my central theme or message was, or what the blog would become. I was simply and spontaneously moving pen across page. Now, looking back eight and a half years later, I realize: “Oh! I was home on the roam.” That first post doesn’t mention this, but I wrote it from Sunyani, Ghana. After a somewhat random and uncertain start, I quickly get it in gear, sitting down once a month (occasionally twice) to write about what moved me the most during the preceding weeks. Almost always ...

Jewish Law and Identity is second in the Hermit Kingdom Studies in Christianity and Judaism, an academic monograph series in Hebrew, Jewish, and Early Christian Studies. This audiobook contains nine academic essays relating to the theme of Jewish law and identity. All the academic essays in the book discuss Jewish law and identity in a creative, and groundbreaking way in light of the most recent research trends.