LOOKING for the SUN at Merton's Corner - 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 LOOKING for the SUN at Merton's Corner write by Susan Griffin Ward. This book was released on 2018-03-17. LOOKING for the SUN at Merton's Corner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the course of a year, inspired by Thomas Merton and searching for proof of goodness and compassion in the world, Susan Griffin Ward stood at the corner at Fourth and Muhammad Ali looking for the sun. This book is a record of the people she met on that corner, the light in each one of them shining like a beacon in the dark.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - 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 Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on 2009-11-17. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic forcefulness and candor, he brings the reader face-to-face with such provocative and controversial issues as the “death of God,” politics, modern life and values, and racial strife–issues that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is Merton at his best–detached but not unpassionate, humorous yet sensitive, at all times alive and searching, with a gift for language which has made him one of the most widely read and influential spiritual writers of our time.
The Woman of Colour
The Woman of Colour - 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 The Woman of Colour write by Lyndon J. Dominique. This book was released on 2007-10-24. The Woman of Colour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of a slaveholder, must travel from Jamaica to England, and as a condition of her father’s will either marry her Caucasian first cousin or become dependent on his mercenary elder brother and sister-in-law. As Olivia decides between these two conflicting possibilities, her letters recount her impressions of Britain and its inhabitants as only a black woman could record them. She gives scathing descriptions of London, Bristol, and the British, as well as progressive critiques of race, racism, and slavery. The narrative follows her life from the heights of her arranged marriage to its swift descent into annulment and destitution, only to culminate in her resurrection as a self-proclaimed “widow” who flouts the conventional marriage plot. The appendices, which include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an African woman’s perspective.
The Model Millionaire
The Model Millionaire - 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 The Model Millionaire write by Oscar Wilde. This book was released on 2024-05-30. The Model Millionaire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. »The Model Millionaire« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Folk Devils and Moral Panics - 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 Folk Devils and Moral Panics write by Stanley Cohen. This book was released on 2011. Folk Devils and Moral Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in which the media and often those in a position of political power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values and interests. Fanned by screaming media headlines, Cohen brilliantly demonstrates how this leads to such groups being marginalised and vilified in the popular imagination, inhibiting rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. Furthermore, he argues that moral panics go even further by identifying the very fault lines of power in society. Full of sharp insight and analysis, Folk Devils and Moral Panics is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful and enduring phenomenon. Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council on Human Rights. He is a member of the British Academy.
