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Interbeing

New and Selected Poems on Ecological Spirituality

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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Interbeing

New and Selected Poems on Ecological Spirituality

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

Interbeing is Eugene Bianchi’s fourth collection of poems. It reflects two concerns of later years: first, his own experience of nature—ecology—which has become a spiritual road for his own self-awareness; and secondly, in a larger context, the increasing threat to all life on earth which looms ever-larger with global warming. These concerns reflect Bianchi’s long career as a writer and teacher, first as a member of the Jesuit order and then as a professor of religious studies at Emory University in Atlanta for over thirty years. This book of poems, coming late in life, makes Bianchi especially aware of the gradual development of one's spirituality. The poems blend the secular and the religious into one voice as specific life events unfold in immigrant beginnings, Jesuit experiences, the ups and downs of being married, the professorial life at Emory, novel and memoir writing, ethical issues of war and peace, and participation in a local Buddhist sangha in the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh.

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1725288893

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9781725288898

On Growing Older

A Personal Guide to Life after Thirty-Five

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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On Growing Older

A Personal Guide to Life after Thirty-Five

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

How can you as a unique individual grow older in creative, life-enhancing ways? In On Growing Older, Eugene Bianchi provides a psycho-spiritual guidebook toward wisdom for every man and woman who wishes to age with purpose and grace. In twenty-four reflections, he explores such crucial issues encountered by every individual in the aging process as transforming work, remembering ourselves, developing respect, opening to creativity, living truthfully, making friends/enemies, letting go, peacemaking elders, reclaiming nature, dealing with loneliness, suffering, loving, hoping, forgiving, cultivating joy, and being religious. Each chapter concludes with practical techniques, imagery, and suggestions to help the reader meditate on and personalize the themes discussed. Artist Lee Lawson's illustrations set a contemplative tone and focus throughout this wise and helpful book.

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1610975456

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9781610975452

Elder Wisdom

Crafting Your Own Elderhood

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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Elder Wisdom

Crafting Your Own Elderhood

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

Elder Wisdom invites us to a refreshing new vision of aging in the company of one hundred creative elders who share their insights and experiences about getting older. These mentors invite us to reflect on their lives so that we can reflect on our lives with pertinent questions about how we are eldering. They don't promise us an "ageless body" or a "timeless mind," but rather practical wisdom on how we can grow inwardly and reach out during later life in exciting and rewarding new ways. Over a two-year period, Eugene Bianchi interviewed more than one hundred older people for this book. Their ages range from the midsixties to centenarians. They range from well-known people such as Jimmy Carter, Maggie Kuhn, E. G. Marshall, Tillie Olsen, Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and June Singer to an electrician, a teacher, a homemaker, an entrepreneur, an artist, and a bookstore owner. The selection is at once diverse and universal. The book's gift is its power to draw us into lives that are similar to our own, so that we can apply its elder wisdom to ourselves. Topics covered include learning from work and life's turning points, empowering your elder self, expanding, reaching out, cherishing your family, cultivating friendships, encountering mortality, developing a personal spirituality, and sharing gifts of wisdom. Elder Wisdom is not just for the still-active elder. It is a pathfinder that will help all of us move toward elderhood in creative and promising ways.

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1725230046

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Taking a Long Road Home

A Memoir

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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Taking a Long Road Home

A Memoir

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

This memoir invites readers to explore stages of their own spiritual journey. Bianchi graphically describes his path from an Italian immigrant family on the West Coast, through twenty years as a Jesuit, to being a professor of religious studies at Emory University. As he develops a more this-worldly inner life, Bianchi struggles with church teachings about Christ, sexuality, and authority. He candidly reveals how failed marriages gave him a humbler grasp of meeting the transcendent in everyday problems. He embraces a contemplative spirituality that links Buddhist and Taoist practices with western mysticism. With a foot in Christianity, he shows how to walk a way of inter-spirituality as a meaningful road for the contemporary seeker. For Bianchi this involves becoming a metaphorical Christian as he moves away from religious certitudes of early life to find spirit in nature and humanity. Bianchi, a well-known writer on spiritual aging, challenges Baby Boomers to craft a contemplative life that works for them today. With his wife and two cats, he discovers a home for body and spirit along the banks of the Oconee River in Athens, Georgia.

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160899788X

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Passionate Uncertainty

Inside the American Jesuits

By: Peter McDonough,Eugene C. Bianchi

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Inside the American Jesuits

By: Peter McDonough,Eugene C. Bianchi

Publisher Fact Sheet An intimate look, drawn from hundreds of interviews and statements from Jesuits and former Jesuits, at the turmoil among Catholicism's legendary best-and-brightest.

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Univ of California Press

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0520240650

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On Growing Older

A Personal Guide to Life after Thirty-Five

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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A Personal Guide to Life after Thirty-Five

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Taking a Long Road Home

A Memoir

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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A Memoir

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Interbeing

New and Selected Poems on Ecological Spirituality

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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New and Selected Poems on Ecological Spirituality

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

Interbeing is Eugene Bianchi's fourth collection of poems. It reflects two concerns of later years: first, his own experience of nature--ecology--which has become a spiritual road for his own self-awareness; and secondly, in a larger context, the increasing threat to all life on earth which looms ever-larger with global warming. These concerns reflect Bianchi's long career as a writer and teacher, first as a member of the Jesuit order and then as a professor of religious studies at Emory University in Atlanta for over thirty years. This book of poems, coming late in life, makes Bianchi especially aware of the gradual development of one's spirituality. The poems blend the secular and the religious into one voice as specific life events unfold in immigrant beginnings, Jesuit experiences, the ups and downs of being married, the professorial life at Emory, novel and memoir writing, ethical issues of war and peace, and participation in a local Buddhist sangha in the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh.

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1725288915

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Calcium Binding Proteins

By: Eugene Permyakov,Robert H. Kretsinger

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Calcium Binding Proteins

By: Eugene Permyakov,Robert H. Kretsinger

Calcium Binding Proteins explains the unique and highly diverse functions of calcium in biology, which are realized by calcium binding proteins. The structures and physical characteristics of these calcium binding proteins are described, as well as their functions and general patterns of their evolution. Techniques that underlie the description of proteins are discussed, including NMR, circular dichroism, optical rotatory dispersion spectroscopy, calorimetry,and crystallography. The book discusses the patterns of bochmical phenomena such as calcium homeostasis, mineralization, and cell signaling that involve specific proteins. It summarizes ongoing research and presents general hypotheses that help to focus future research, and also provides a conceptual framework and a description of the underlying techniques that permits someone entering the field to become conversant.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118099540

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Aging as a Spiritual Journey

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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Aging as a Spiritual Journey

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

Bianchi's wide-ranging book draws together insights from the social sciences, the humanities, and religion to establish a holistic framework for a spirituality of aging. He argues that middle life and late adulthood present opportunities for turning inward for a deeper contemplative life within the context of active, worldly endeavors. This can also augur a reform of social relationships--beyond individual development alone--toward the creation of a more cooperative, just society. In this way, physical decline is countered by a spiritual ascent. He summons aging persons, fortified with universal values and concerns gained from age and experience, to return to the centers of decision making. Throughout, the author ponders such questions as personal power, identity, fear, freedom, contemplation, sexuality, the church, faith, suffering, and hope. In candid interviews, older religious leaders reflect on their early value formation, personal traumas, choice of careers, midlife transitions, experiences of old age, and the prospect of death. In dwelling mainly on human spiritual dilemmas of the aging cycle, Bianchi offers a strong, clear message of hope--one that stands against the tide of our culture which tends to shunt older people to the outer eddies of life's stream. Aging as a Spiritual Journey is immensely valuable to all laypersons and those in the helping professions who are concerned about the quality of the aging process.

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1610975464

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Elder Wisdom

Crafting Your Own Elderhood

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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Crafting Your Own Elderhood

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Practical Musculoskeletal Ultrasound E-Book

By: Eugene McNally

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Practical Musculoskeletal Ultrasound E-Book

By: Eugene McNally

Practical Musculoskeletal Ultrasound is your ideal, accessible guide to all of today?s clinically useful musculoskeletal ultrasound techniques and their major applications in patient diagnosis and management. This thoroughly updated radiology reference encompasses all of the most recent advances in ultrasound technology, delivering the unmatched guidance you need to conduct an effective ultrasound examination, obtain optimal images, and expertly interpret your findings. "..comprehensive and insightful." Reviewed by: Dr. Paula Richards on behalf of RAD Magazine, December 2014 - Balance the advantages of musculoskeletal ultrasound (superficial soft-tissue injury) with its limitations (deep or intra-articular structures). - Obtain an optimal field of view with anatomic/sonographic correlations throughout. - Apply quick, accurate, and cost-effective methods of assessment through a focus on those areas where MSK ultrasound has the most clinical impact. - Apply all of the latest knowledge in MSK ultrasound with expanded coverage of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, foot, and ankle, as well as interventional radiology techniques. - Make the most definite interpretations and diagnoses with help from hundreds of new line drawings and scans, as well as the addition of real-time videos online to complement each image. - Reference differential diagnosis tables to quickly deduce the most likely clinical problem being assessed. - Access the complete radiology text and all of the images and video clips online at Expert Consult.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455774049

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9781455774043

Aging as a Spiritual Journey

By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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By: Eugene C. Bianchi

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1743240147

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The Hum of It All

By: Eugee C. Bianchi

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The Hum of It All

By: Eugee C. Bianchi

THE HUM OF IT ALL (A KIRKUS REVIEW) Poems from a Personal Journey Eugene C. Bianchi Parson's Porch Books (106 pp.) $16.95 paperback ISBN: 978-1-946478-15-3; March 24, 2017 A poet muses on faith, peace, and the ties that bind in this accomplished collection. It is fitting that Bianchi (The Bishop of San Francisco, 2005) should borrow his book's epigraph from T.S. Eliot, who worked out some of his finer religious feelings in verse, as Bianchi devotes many of the poems in his collection to reflections on spirituality. He's also a professor emeritus of religion at Emory University, so his explorations are both erudite and wide-ranging. For instance, "The Sacred Lives Quiet in the Ordinary" grows from a reference to the monk St. Ignatius: "In 1540 the Jesuits started by revising / monastic ways without losing their core. / Ignatius said: our manner is ordinary- / immersed in the fabric of everyday life, / to find the divine in all things." In the last two lines, Bianchi establishes a tactful equilibrium between the "everyday" and the "divine," and the supposed tension between them (which is really no tension) drives the rest of the poem. "An Inward Olympics," by contrast, begins with a quote from Rumi, the Muslim mystic who sought unity with the Godhead; it culminates with a moving image of ecumenism: "Suddenly it happens, a peaceable kingdom, / all seekers eating and drinking from the source /..../ In silent unity, spirit moves in and out, / And draws me smiling into the stream of now." There's a powerful immediacy to the poet's language here, strung between two phrases-"suddenly it happens" and "the stream of now"-that nudge readers into the present moment. References to Rumi, Ignatius, and other religious luminaries would seem to work at cross purposes; after all, how could followers of Jesus and Muhammad come together in a "peaceable kingdom"? But for Bianchi, such differences ultimately resolve into similarity, and the "Hum" of the book's title is a metaphor for a "unifying process," a "concert in the cosmic music hall." Bianchi's poetry is conversational without ever lapsing into the colloquial, and in his lessons on religion, the former professor educates without seeming didactic-no small feat for an academic. A sensitive volume in which art and religion merge.

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1946478156

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Passionate Uncertainty

Inside the American Jesuits

By: Peter McDonough,Eugene C. Bianchi

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Inside the American Jesuits

By: Peter McDonough,Eugene C. Bianchi

Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they believe and how they work and live. In this groundbreaking book, Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi draw on interviews and statements gathered from more than four hundred Jesuits and former Jesuits to provide an intimate look at turmoil among Catholicism's legendary best-and-brightest. Priests and former priests speak candidly about their reasons for joining (and leaving) the Jesuits, about their sexual development and orientation, about their spiritual crises and their engagement with other religious traditions. They discuss issues ranging from celibacy to the ordination of women, homosexuality, the rationale of the priesthood, the challenges of community life, and the divinity of Jesus. Passionate Uncertainty traces the transformation of the Society of Jesus from a fairly unified organization into a smaller, looser community with disparate goals and an elusive corporate identity. From its role as a traditional subculture during the days of immigrant Catholicism, the order has changed into an amalgam of countercultures shaped around social mission, sexual identity, and an eclectic spirituality. The story of the Jesuits reflects the crisis of clerical authority and the deep ambivalence surrounding American Catholicism's encounter with modernity.

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0520930770

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Eugene From Eugene to Happy Valley

Eugene Lynn Grant's Autobiography

By: Eugene Grant

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Eugene From Eugene to Happy Valley

Eugene Lynn Grant's Autobiography

By: Eugene Grant

This book begins with an account of the author's ancestral roots in Norway, Denmark and Great Britain and ends which his retirement in Happy Valley, Oregon, where he served as its Mayor from 1998 to 2006. His ancestors emigrated to America and fought and died in its wars, pioneered newly acquired territories and states, eventually reaching Eugene, Oregon, for which the author was named. His history includes surviving his oftentimes grim childhood in a dysfunctional family beset with serious domestic abuse and mental illness. The author describes his joy of discovering the stories of his ancestors' triumphs and tragedies. Their stories have all the drama of murder, suicide, war, crime, persecution, poverty, addiction, illicit affairs, abandonment, arson, insanity, domestic abuse, and other tragedies but also many triumphs. The sublime and spiritual contrasts with the carnal and depraved. It includes the sad story of the expanding frontier experience of American pioneers displacing native Americans and enslaving Blacks. The heart of this book is the creation of the author's immediate family and struggling to be successful as a prominent Oregon lawyer, local politician, local Mormon religious leader, and most importantly a father and husband. In part this is a religious autobiography. It is like biblical stories, an accounting and evaluation of being in the World but not of the World, an acknowledgement of how he has seen God's hand in the details of his life, the story of his religious conversion and path of discipleship through this veil of tears, seeking salvation. His story, therefore, ends with his evaluation, for the reader's benefit, of his lessons learned. His hope is that these lessons will help the reader appreciate his perspective and hopefully avoid his mistakes not the least of which were his conflicts, especially with political and religious extremists who increasingly bedeviled him during the highly polarized first two decades of the 21st century. This is also his intellectual and political autobiography. His faith was not one of withdrawal from the world into monastic simplicity, but rather one of enthusiastically engaging a complex world by gaining a higher education and using his knowledge and values to help the City of Happy Valley become a thriving and attractive community for likeminded families. It includes the story of how he led Happy in becoming Oregon's fastest growing city. It is also the story of his interaction with the leaders of Clackamas County and all its cities, including both allies and opponents. Lastly, this book includes the story of his legal career. He was fortunate to play a significant role in two leading law firms and his 40-year career helped shape the built environment of the City of Portland, the Metro Region, and the State of Oregon. He worked with many prominent and interesting Oregonians in the process. His legal career was completed by serving for almost two years as a senior legal missionary for his church in the Pacific Area including Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific islands.

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Taking a Long Road Home

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Practical Musculoskeletal Ultrasound E-Book

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