![]() ![]() ![]() At home, his genial personality transforms into one that is quick to rage. At home, however, he is intent on having a strictly observant religious household, the women who stay home and never show their faces to anyone outside the family, and sons who obey his every order and remain free of all vice. In public, Sayyid is the life of the party, a fun-loving and generous man who loves nothing more than gathering with his friends, drinking and singing, and sleeping with a series of mistresses. Set in Cairo, in the years before Egyptian independence from Britain, the novel centers on al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family. And so when I finally pulled it down off of the shelf, I was astonished at how vibrant and fun this novel was, one of those rare novels where time disappeared while I was reading. This book seemed like it would require effort and somehow I was never up for making the effort. It's a substantial book, and the first of a trilogy by a Nobel Prize-winning author and it certainly has the reputation as An Important Book, which put me off reading it despite having picked up a very nice copy over a decade ago. ![]()
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The Duke of Warrington hates socializing and definitely doesn’t want to waste time with the Marriage Mart, so he’s struggling to find a wife. But when her newest pupil is an attendee at a house party where she hopes to be matched with a grouchy and rigid duke, she realizes she’s jumped into a whole new ballgame. ![]() ![]() Juno Langton is a refinement tutor who never fails at her job. While I’ve read just about every regency trope out there (and then again and again – there are only so many tropes in 19th century London), this was actually something NEW. ![]() ![]() In 2012, Abby and Carlos embarked on a new journey by moving the family to the Midwest to open two more shops in Maple Grove and Woodbury, Minnesota. The new shop was so well received that just two months later, Carlos, Abby's husband quit his full-time job and joined the family business as CFO. 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The British author begins his tale by recounting his breakdown in Ibiza, Spain years before, and then leads readers through the arduous years of healing that follow. “Where talk exists, so does hope,” Haig writes, and this has been my experience, too. He has found that writing and reading have been invaluable friends along his journey and he wants to pass the torch along. ![]() It was, more importantly, the first time he had told his story about anxiety, depression, and a breakdown that had happened when he was 24 years old.įrom the first chapters of the book, we see why Haig is writing: because he believes sharing stories can be a method of healing for those that struggle with mental illness. ![]() ![]() Reasons to Stay Alive, published in 2015, was the author’s first dive into the realm of non-fiction. Reasons to Stay Alive immediately drew me in and kept me company during the dip down. As I was scouring library selections on mental health, Matt Haig’s memoir popped up and I gave it a try. Some sudden life changes had caused a dip in my mental health, and so like a moth to a flame, I was drawn once again to literature that could stand by me in the valley. When I first read Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig, it was last year at the end of a long summer. ![]() ![]() If you request to cancel through eBay within 30 minutes of when your order is placed, we will do our best to cancel, however, it is not guaranteed. Because of this it is vital to double check your order before it’s submitted to eBay. ![]() To ensure this is achieved, all of our systems are fully automated so orders are transferred for processing within minutes. ![]() We believe in providing our customers with an ultra-speedy service. I have changed my mind and would like to cancel/make changes to my order. 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Item: 185024228144 RENT: UNTOLD STORY OF MALE PROSTITUTION IN DUBLIN By Evanna Kearins *BRAND NEW*. ![]() ![]() ![]() He documents the ways in which religion is a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos in Hitchen's vision, hell is replaced by the Hubble telescope's view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the double helix. With chapters entitled Religion Kills', and Is Religion Child Abuse?', he fearlessly argues for a secular life based on science and reason, tarring religion as man-made wish-thinking. In God is Not Great, Hitchen tweezes through the major religious texts with forensic shrewdness. Here he makes the ultimate case against organised religion. ![]() With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.Ĭhristopher Hitchens has been hailed as 'one of the most brilliant journalists of our time' (UK Observer ). ![]() ![]() ![]() the Athenian writer Sophocles wrote a renowned play, Oedipus Rex (Oedipus Rex). For a long time, Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.E.) was the most victorious dramatist in Athens conquering various competitions. Normally, the hero has a fatal flaw that causes him to lose. The tragedy is a kind of drama in which a strong central figure or hero ends up failing and is punished by the gods. The three most celebrated Greek writers specialized their work in tragedies. The Iliad recounts in detail the Trojan War while the Odyssey recounts Odysseus' 20-year journey home from the Trojan War. Amidst the earliest Greek literature was Homer’s epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It talks around Aeneas (a Trojan Legend) who travelled to Italy and got to be a predecessor to Romans.Ĭomplete answer: The Greek literature primarily revolves around myths and includes Homer's works the Iliad and the Odyssey. ![]() Presently 'Aeneid' may be a Classic lyric composed in Latin dialect by writer Virgil. Iliad portrays the Trojan War and the ten-year siege of Troy by the Greek forces. Hint: Ancient poet Homer wrote Iliad and Odyssey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages.”-Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books“Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand.”-James Wood“A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian. 354, in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius(modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds and they succeed. Saint Augustine was born on November 13th, A.D. “ renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact.”-Los Angeles Times“ translations. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book. ![]() ![]() Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece-available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That means no spandex, no showers, and.no makeup. The baffling murder could be her Big Break as Bubbles goes deep undercover in Whoopee, Pennsylvania (located between Intercourse and Paradise) as a "plain girl from Ohio" boarding with a local Amish family. Now Bubbles has just found Janice's uncle Elwood dead on his bathroom floor-his skull bashed in and his Rolls Royce missing. New troubles for Bubbles: Her friend, bride-to-be Janice, never showed up at the altar, and everybody's blaming Bubbles for singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" at the bachelorette party the night before. ![]() Bubbles rocks!" The Houston Chronicle praised it as "riotous.a strong debut." And award-winning author Carolyn Hart crowned it "fizzy as bicarb, funny as Evanovich.should bubble right to the top of the bestseller lists." Now the spandex-wearing, cleavage-baring hairstylist-cum-journalist and sleuth from Lehigh, Pennsylvania, returns in another wacky, wisecracking mystery that offers a few priceless beauty tips along the way. New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen called Bubbles Unbound "rollicking good fun. ![]() ![]() Existentialism suggests that the problematic life has only the solution, which is suicide. The philosophy of absurdity was developed as a branch of existentialist philosophy, which considers life as meaningless useless and fruitless nihilistic existence. ![]() Camus has brought the concept of absurdity, which is the essence of human existence. Myth of Sisyphus is presented as a meditation on the theme of suicide. In anger, Pluto gave Sisyphus the meaningless punishment of rolling up the rock from the bottom to the top of the hill. Sisyphus was enchanted by the shining beauty of the earth so he forget everything.Įven though Pluto sent many messengers before sending Mercury, who seized him on his throat and brought him back to hell. After many requests, Pluto gave chance to go to earth and come to hell as soon as possible. After death, he was awaken in the hell, he got angry with his wife & decided to go back to the earth to punish his wife. ![]() Another Myth says that Sisyphus ordered his wife to throw his dead body in a public place but not to bury it. ![]() One myth says that Sisyphus revealed the secret abduction of Aegina by Zeus so that in anger Zeus punished him to the underworld where he had to roll up the rock from bottom to the top of the hill. ![]() |