Tag: Hope

The Democracy of the Dead Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China


Free Download David L. Hall, "The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0812693949 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.6 mb
Will democracy figure prominently in China’s future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course of answering them, look to the ideas of John Dewey and Confucius.

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Spaces of Hope


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English | 2002 | ISBN: 0520225775, 0748612688, 0748612696 | PDF | pages: 305 | 41.4 mb
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrating within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste; three quarters of the earth’s population had no control over its destiny and no claim to basic rights. There was nothing new in this. What was new was the virtual absence of any political will to do anything about it. Spaces of Hope takes issue with this.

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Language as Hope


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009306529 | 202 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Harbor for Our Hope On Acquiring Peace Amidst Suffering


Free Download Ignatius Brianchaninov, "Harbor for Our Hope: On Acquiring Peace Amidst Suffering"
English | ISBN: 0884654222 | 2020 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1172 KB
St Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867) is renowned as a writer on the spiritual life in general. What is less well known is that throughout most of his adult life, he struggled with chronic illness and disability. Thus his own life experience disposed him to reflect on the meaning of suffering for human existence and how through it we might find "a harbor for our hope." The saint frequently returns to these themes in many of his letters, newly translated into English and excerpted, adapted, and presented here in thematic subject groups. These writings provided a source of consolation and encouragement for the translator during her husband’s lengthy illness and eventual death. They will equally benefit all who suffer physical or spiritual pain, however great or small, and reveal how the love of God may be experienced in its midst.

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Wild and Free A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She Is Both Too Much and Never Enough


Free Download Jennie Allen, "Wild and Free: A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She Is Both Too Much and Never Enough"
English | 2016 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0310345537 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
You don’t have to be everything to everyone. You don’t have to try so hard to button it up and hold it together. Join best friends and coauthors Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan as they reveal how women today can walk in the true liberty we already have in Jesus.

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Choosing Hope Moving Forward from Life’s Darkest Hours


Free Download Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life’s Darkest Hours by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, Robin Gaby Fisher
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0399174451 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 526.7 KB
Kaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six- and-seven-year-olds from the tragic events that took place on December 14, 2012, by piling them into a single-occupancy bathroom within her classroom, mere feet from the brutal and indiscriminate massacre taking place outside the door.

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