Boomeritis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boomeritis write by Ken Wilber. This book was released on 2003-09-09. Boomeritis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ken Wilber's latest book is a daring departure from his previous writings—a highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral approach to human development that he expounded in more conventional terms in his recent A Theory of Everything. The story of a naïve young grad student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world provides the setting in which Wilber contrasts the alienated "flatland" of scientific materialism with the integral vision, which embraces body, mind, soul, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. The book especially targets one of the most stubborn obstacles to realizing the integral vision: a disease of egocentrism and narcissism that Wilber calls "boomeritis" because it seems to plague the baby-boomer generation most of all. Through a series of sparkling seminar-lectures skillfully interwoven with the hero's misadventures in the realms of sex, drugs, and popular culture, all of the major tenets of extreme postmodernism are criticized—and exemplified—including the author's having a bad case of boomeritis himself. Parody, intellectual slapstick, and a mind-twisting surprise ending unite to produce a highly entertaining summary of the work of cutting-edge theorists in human development from around the world.
Mennonite Life
Mennonite Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mennonite Life write by . This book was released on 1957. Mennonite Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Humanitarian Imperialism
Humanitarian Imperialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanitarian Imperialism write by Amalia Ribi Forclaz. This book was released on 2015. Humanitarian Imperialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humanitarian Imperialism follows the trajectories of late nineteenth century philanthropic organizations in Britain, Italy, France, and Switzerland that targeted the widespread existence of slavery in Africa. The history of these organisations, which can be viewed as predecessors of today's NGOs, illuminates the imperial roots of humanitarian aid in Africa. It shows how private actors contributed to the formulation of humanitarian conventions that arestill in use today. It also reveals the close connections that existed between humanitarian efforts and both liberal and Fascist imperial politics in this period. By combining historical records from variouscountries, Humanitarian Imperialism illustrates the shifts and continuities in the long history of slavery and abolition, the international history of humanitarian institutions, as well as the history of European imperialism in Africa.
War and Peace
War and Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and Peace write by graf Leo Tolstoy. This book was released on 1898. War and Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
A Writer's Diary
A Writer's Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Writer's Diary write by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This book was released on 2009-03-17. A Writer's Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov to do so. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.
