Love In The New Millennium

Author : Can Xue
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240481
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the New Millennium written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.

Author : Can Xue
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224311
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in the New Millennium written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue’s masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love’s many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.

Author : Ravi Shankar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom for the New Millennium written by Ravi Shankar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from Wisdom For The New Millennium The whole world is made up of love& you have heard this before. All is God and all is love. Then what is the purpose of life if everything is already God? Where is life heading to? Life is heading toward per

Author : David Ehrenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195096371
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Again written by David Ehrenfeld and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in this volume, David Ehrenfeld describes what prophecy really is. Referring to the biblical prophets, he says they were not the "holy fortunetellers that the word prophet has come to signify....The business of prophecy is not simply foretelling the future; rather it is describing the present with exceptional truthfulness and accuracy." Once this is done, then it can be seen that broad aspects of the future have suddenly become apparent. The twentieth century is drawing to a chaotic close amidst portents of unprecedented change and upheaval. The unravelling of societies and civilizations and the destruction of nature march together--linked--a fact whose enormous significance is often lost. In Beginning Again, David Ehrenfeld has undertaken the difficult task of describing the present clearly enough to reveal the future. Out of his broad vision emerges a glimpse of a new millennium: a vision at once frightening and comforting, a scene of great devastation and great rebuilding. Ehrenfeld ranges far and wide to present a coherent vision of our relationship with Nature--its many aspects and implications--as our century opens into the next millennium. Whether he is writing about the problem of loyalty to organizations, rights versus obligations, our over-managed society, the vanishing of established knowledge, the failure of experts, the triumph of dandelions, Dr. Seuss, Edward Teller, or the future of farming, he is always concerned with the intricate interaction between technology and nature. As in his classic book, The Arrogance of Humanism, Ehrenfeld never loses sight of our fatal love affair with the fantasy of control. We now have no choice, he argues, but to transform the dream of control, of progress, from one of overweening hubris, love of consumption, and the idiot's goal of perpetual growth, to one based on "the inventive imitation of nature," with its honesty, beauty, resilience, and durability. Few American writers and even fewer scientists can describe these timeless, transcendent qualities of nature so well. In "Places," the opening chapter, David Ehrenfeld tells about nightly vigils he spent alone on the moonlit beach of Tortuguero, watching giant sea turtles emerging from the sea to lay their eggs in the black sand where they were born. "I could watch the perfect white spheres falling," he writes. "Falling as they have fallen for a hundred million years, with the same slow cadence, always shielded from the rain or stars by the same massive bulk with the beaked head and the same large, myopic eyes rimmed with crusts of sand washed out by tears. Minutes and hours, days and months dissolve into eons. I am on an Oligocene beach, an Eocene beach, a Cretaceous beach--the scene is the same. It is night, the turtles are coming back, always back; I hear a deep hiss of breath and catch a glint of wet shell as the continents slide and crash, the oceans form and grow."

Author : Dalai Lama
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573228831
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics for the New Millennium written by Dalai Lama and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss His Holiness the Dalai Lama's classic book, The Art of Happiness, or his newest, The Book of Joy, named one of Oprah's Favorite Things. In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism we see on television and read about in the news, there is an argument to be made for basic human goodness. The number of people who spend their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is tiny compared to the vast majority who would wish others only well. According to the Dalai Lama, our survival has depended and will continue to depend on our basic goodness. Ethics for the New Millennium presents a moral system based on universal rather than religious principles. Its ultimate goal is happiness for every individual, irrespective of religious beliefs. Though he himself a practicing Buddhist, the Dalai Lama's teachings and the moral compass that guides him can lead each and every one of us—Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, or atheist—to a happier, more fulfilling life.

Author : Michael A. Maday
Publisher : Unity Books (Unity School of Christianity)
ISBN 13 : 9780871592057
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Thought for a New Millennium written by Michael A. Maday and published by Unity Books (Unity School of Christianity). This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Thought for a New Millennium is a book about the potential for humankind as seen through the lens of twelve powers of awakened humanity. Includes essays by Eric Butterworth, Robert Brumet, James Dillet Freeman, Joan Gattuso, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Christopher Jackson, Barbara King, Rosemary Fillmore Rhea, Jim Rosemergy, Bernie Siegel, M.D. and Sir John Templeton.

Author : Will Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131724155X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class in the New Millennium written by Will Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today. Anchored in a broad repertoire of methods and pursuing a distinctive theoretical agenda, it not only painstakingly maps the structure, transformation and effects of the UK’s key fault lines but goes behind closed doors to see how they play out in everyday family life. Throughout the book Atkinson throws new light on a diverse array of themes, including: the continued effects of deindustrialisation, educational expansion, feminisation of the workforce and surging employment insecurity; the persistence of lifestyle cleavages despite cultural and technological change; the growth of political disengagement, the transformation of the Labour Party and the rise of nationalism; the entwinement of class with space, place and physical movement; and the way in which class interacts with intimate relations to shape not just the way we decorate our walls or talk over the dining table but the very reproduction of the class structure itself. This innovative title will appeal to scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the fields of sociology, politics and political science, cultural studies, cultural geography, social policy and social work.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140297676
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Man for the New Millennium written by Osho and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osho Says It Is Imperative That We Become New Human Beings As We Enter The New Millennium. He Elucidates The Seven Essential Qualities Of The New Man And Examines Issues That Have Bedevilled Generations: Love, Relationships, Marriage, Family, Money, Power, Work, And Morality. Showing Us How To Let Go Of Our Past, He Invites Us To Wake Up To Our Enlightenment.

Author : John F. Walvoord
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780825497377
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophecy in the New Millennium written by John F. Walvoord and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date look at unfulfilled Bible prophecy and current events, written by one of America's most recognized end times experts.

Author : Can Xue
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206887
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Lover written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divIn Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue’s vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character “is driving death away with a singular performance.” Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household’s cats and rosebushes. Joe’s customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel’s end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can’t be stopped—or helped./DIV