He claims that while none of these arguments are deductively valid, they do give inductive support to theism and that, even when the argument from evil is weighed against them, taken together they offer good grounds to support the probability that there is a God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the 'fine-tuning' of the universe from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness and from miracles and religious experience. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book.
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Obinze and Ifemelu find each other - over the Internet, at first. He winds up living in London, under assumed names, and nearly gets married there before he's sent back to Nigeria. Obinze, on the other hand, can't get into to America in the days following Sept. Ifemelu goes to America to study, and she prospers there, trying out different jobs and relationships while writing a blog about her sudden new awareness of race. Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as students in Nigeria, when the country is under military rule and those with the means to leave the country do so. But the young lovers in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest novel, Americanah, must overcome even more challenges than usual: military rule, immigration restrictions and, during their years apart, other relationships. School romances face a lot of obstacles: the big decision at graduation, the competing demands of two burgeoning careers, perhaps a period spent in a long-distance relationship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Americanah Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.įed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her-until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Messy can be beautiful… or just plain miserable. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The pale faced lie a true storyWhen he finally found the courage to refuse his father's criminal demands, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a deadly showdown with Thurston Crow. Through sheer determination, and with the help of a few angels along the way, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. David's mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn't protect him. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies-even murder. Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. "Cinematically gripping."- Kirkus Reviews WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN FIRST NONFICTION BOOK - FINALIST FOR THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION - IPPY SILVER AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR - NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR (OVERCOMING ADVERSITY)Ī violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival 6/28/2023 0 Comments The Bristol Sessions by Ted OlsonIn March 2021, his Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records was published by Oxford University Press. Ted Olson gave an excellent lecture on on African American Musical Traditions in WNC. Tony has been three times nominated for a Grammy for his authorship (with Ted Olson) of the books accompanying the Bear Family boxed sets The Bristol Sessions 1927–1928: The Big Bang of Country Music (2011), The Johnson City Sessions 1928–1929: Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music? (2013) and The Knoxville Sessions 1929–1930: Knox County Stomp (2016). His books include The Blues: from Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings (with Chris Smith & others), Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost and 1970's seminal Blacks, Whites and Blues. In the National Recording Registry, Ted Olson describes hillbilly music as a. He has also acted as a consultant on TV documentaries such as American Epic, Folk America and Blues America. Learn more about the Bristol Sessions and how Bristol, Tennessee became. A music historian and critic, Tony Russell (pictured in 1975 with old-time country fiddler Hoyt Ming in his Mississippi sweet-potato patch) has written about blues, country, jazz and other American musics for MOJO, The Guardian and many specialist magazines. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Twice upon a time rapunzelThese are just a few of the stories that populate the strangely familiar world of Neverafter.ĭ provides warnings in the descriptions for anything excessively graphic and uncomfortable for each episode. A once-cursed prince finds himself slowly turning back into a frog. A young woman wearing a red hood journeys through the woods, lamenting the horrors a wolf wrought upon her family. A princess in a tower has slept too long, trapped in briars and surrounded by the fallen corpses of princes who tried to rescue her. His father wants him to be more kingly, his mother wants him to never leave her sight, and his cousin. Prince Benjamin is in a pretty uncomfortable situation himself. The world of fairy tales and fables comes to life in Neverafter, welcoming you to a strange land where the stories of old co-exist, with terrifying and bone-chilling results. She’s been stolen from home by an evil witch, locked in an incredibly high tower, and doesn’t even have a decent brush for her hair. It is also a meditation on the nature of stories, especially stories utterly ingrained into cultures, and the power that stories still have over audiences through their various retellings.įrom the series description, included in a news release: Neverafter explores the dreamlike worlds in the fairytales world with the sensibility of the six comedians at the table. The show's original "Intrepid Heroes" each take on the role of a traditional fairy tale character with a macabre twist in their fairytales. It is the first hardcore horror-themed season and is darker than previous seasons of Dimension 20 series. Neverafter is the fifteenth season of Dropout's Dimension 20, Set in The Neverafter. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The big fat killThe slipcase is cloth with printing and foil stamping. O The deluxe edition is an oversized slipcased hardcover and portfolio. O Brand new original wraparound cover art by Frank Miller, plus a ten-page pinup gallery from previous editions, featuring art from Arthur Adams, Mike Allred, Sergio Aragonés, Paul Chadwick, Joe Kubert, Mike Mignola, and John Romita Jr. Dwight is going to do whatever it takes to keep the status quo-even if it means killing a whole lot of people. Tonight, these friends are being threatened in more ways than one. (W) Frank Miller (A/CA) Frank Miller This fourth edition volume of Frank Miller's signature series features new wraparound cover art, and is printed at original size! The dangerous women of Old Town have saved Dwight more times than he can count, and finding friends like that isn't easy. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The impossible city book"But what does the way of life look like? Why are we still trying to fight for it rather than choosing to flee?"Ĭheung's search for answers leads her to create an archive of the city's vanishing way of life through depictions of neighborhoods, cultural practices and people. "We protest because we want to 'preserve our way of life,'" Cheung writes. The protests against these forces have been well documented, but, through a blend of memoir and reportage, Cheung asks readers to step back and consider what's really at stake. Hong Kong, Cheung reports, is changing immeasurably under pressures of gentrification and China's authoritarian crackdown on its freedom. Cheung is acutely aware of the city's abysmal failings: its hyper-capitalism, bureaucracy, corruption and limited voting rights. There's a terrific mix of youthfulness and gravitas to Karen Cheung's poignant debut, "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir." Yes, this is a love letter to Hong Kong, but it's one free of romanticized illusion. But those distractions don't necessarily mean that this book is not highly engaging and worth reading. Yes, Freud does believe some weird things and he restates them in this book such as the early infant's whole world is the mother's breast and thus we end up fetishizing the breast when we grow up, our time in the womb means we always are looking to return to an abode of some kind, something about the anal fixation and how it never leaves us and unrepressed sex desires lead to our anxieties and other such things that sound weird to our modern ears. Freud uses that theme to explain his psychoanalysis in describing individuals and the societies in which they live as mirror images of each other. Similarly Freud thinks the phases that an individual goes through mirror the same phases that civilizations have gone through. the embryonic stages mirrors the development stages of the species). At one time it was wrongly believed that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny (i.e. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Stegner angle of repose reviewOne theme from this book that really resonated with me was how the character of the grandmother sometimes missed out on moments in her life because she was so busy drawing them instead of being present in them. I love a book that inspires me to stop reading and take notes - that happened often while reading this book. As he writes his grandmothers’ courageous story as a pioneer woman who was also an artist, he is forced to face the reality of his own life. He decides to take on the personal task of being his grandmother’s biographer. It is a story of a 50ish old man who has recently been forced to live in a wheelchair. It was written in 1970 and a lot of it is about the 1880s. A reminder of what writing, and reading was like before the fast-paced digital world of today. It is an effortful read and absolutely worth it. One of my favorite booksellers and co-workers, Ken, from Books and Company, recommended this book to me. |