It took a few seconds for me to realize that she thought I was Dad. I smiled at her, and then she patted my arm and said, 'Well, are we going to tie the knot?' 'I felt so badly for her. I thought about how wonderful it would be if Dad could have been there to help her out. But I knew I couldn't act as if I was my father. That would really be a mistake. So I tried to bring her around gently, without causing her much embarrassment.' 'What did you say to her?' Carl asked. 'I told her I was Michael. She continued to look at me with a quizzical look. When she didn't respond, I tried again. 'I'm your son, Michael. You married Dad sixty years ago. He's gone now. Do you remember?'' The music seemed to be slowing for Helen Telford. After the death of her husband six years prior, she had persevered with the help of her son, Michael. As time passed, Michael found himself as the conductor of his mother's life. She was slipping. Ultimately, the Telford's realize that Helen needs more than her children can provide. With the darkness of dementia closing in, their lives come to an interminable pause as they wait for what is to come. As the beat continues, Michael is forced to come to terms with the new realities of his family's life. When he finds himself caught between his mother's needs and the needs for his own life, will he be able to resume the music or remain in the "Caesura?
It didn't take the sound of the distant train to make him feel lonely. He felt her absence long before the whistle blew. The opening lines of On The Water's Edge set the tone for a story of loss and recovery. When Rand Logan retires from a thirty-year career in the law, his goal is to travel around the country seeking a new place to settle. But at his first stop in St. Michaels, Maryland, a small village on the Eastern Seaboard, Rand unwittingly embarks on a journey that challenges him to discover the worth of small town life and his place in it. Two years since the sudden death of his lover, Rand needs to find a way to start over again. In this small village on the water's edge, Rand is quickly drawn by a local shopkeeper into the lives of the residents. Faced with the specter of a megastore to be built on the outskirts of town, with the likelihood that many old local businesses will be crushed by the behemoth, Rand is enlisted by the community to fight for their town, and ultimately to become a part of it. Although reluctant at first to be drawn into the fray, when Rand is challenged by an old legal adversary, he assembles a team of first-rate lawyers from Baltimore and takes up the cause. In the course of his stay in St. Michaels, Rand finds not only a sense of peace which had been eluding him, but a woman who convinces him that he can fall in love again.
It took a few seconds for me to realize that she thought I was Dad. I smiled at her, and then she patted my arm and said, 'Well, are we going to tie the knot?' 'I felt so badly for her. I thought about how wonderful it would be if Dad could have been there to help her out. But I knew I couldn't act as if I was my father. That would really be a mistake. So I tried to bring her around gently, without causing her much embarrassment.' 'What did you say to her?' Carl asked. 'I told her I was Michael. She continued to look at me with a quizzical look. When she didn't respond, I tried again. 'I'm your son, Michael. You married Dad sixty years ago. He's gone now. Do you remember?'' The music seemed to be slowing for Helen Telford. After the death of her husband six years prior, she had persevered with the help of her son, Michael. As time passed, Michael found himself as the conductor of his mother's life. She was slipping. Ultimately, the Telford's realize that Helen needs more than her children can provide. With the darkness of dementia closing in, their lives come to an interminable pause as they wait for what is to come. As the beat continues, Michael is forced to come to terms with the new realities of his family's life. When he finds himself caught between his mother's needs and the needs for his own life, will he be able to resume the music or remain in the "Caesura?
Collects Daredevil (1964) #159-172; material from Bizarre Adventures (1981) #25. One of the most influential runs in not just Marvel history, but all of comics history begins with the arrival of Frank Miller as the creative force behind DAREDEVIL! Miller remade the mythos of the Man Without Fear, first illustrating Roger McKenzie’s scripts with art partner Klaus Janson, then taking over as both writer and artist. Miller grinds the grit of New York City’s streets into every page, blending super heroics with the dark tone of noir crime thrillers. DD squares off against Doctor Octopus, the Hulk, Gladiator and the psychotic side of Bullseye before Miller introduces a new icon: the assassin Elektra! And her tempestuous relationship with Matt Murdock will form the unforgettable backdrop to DD’s war against the Kingpin!
My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris (1856-1931). As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of nude women. The book gives a graphic account of Harris's sexual adventures and relates gossip about the sexual activities of celebrities of his day.
In the course of his career, Professor Richard M. Frank of the Catholic University of America produced a hugely significant corpus of works on the intellectual activity in Classical Islam known as Kalam, which he argued should be rendered as 'speculative theology'. He also wrote on the Qur'an, on the Arabic and Syriac philosophical tradition, and argued vigorously for a new reading of the famous religious scholar and theologian al-Ghazali (d. 1111) as a devotee of the cosmology of Ibn Sina (d. 1037). In this volume, fourteen scholars, many of them contemporaries of Professor Frank, engage with his legacy with important and seminal works which take some of his ideas as their points of departure. The book is divided into six sections: the Qur'an, Paths to al-Ash'ari, Al-Ash'ari and the Kalam, Christian Falsafa, Avicenna and Beyond, and Al-Ghazali on Causality. There are major articles on Qur'anic emendations and Arabia and Late Antiquity, on the Arabic Plotinian Tradition, on Syriac Philosophical Vocabulary, and an important reading of the Greek-Arabic translation movement in terms of the practical and exact sciences. There are seminal studies of atomism, with valuable translations of complex theological passages previously untranslated, of the Christian philosophy of Yahya ibn 'Adi, of a late Mu'tazili argument for the existence of God and a hitherto unedited section on optics by Ibn Mattawayh. These are complemented by important, close readings of Avicenna's epistemology and his Metaphysics together with a major, new survey of the Avicennan tradition in the madrasas of the Islamic East. The volume ends with two discussions of the perennial question of al-Ghazali's theory of causality. In addition, the volume contains an autobiographical piece by Professor Frank and a complete bibliography of his published works.
This book introduces envy theory, a conceptual exploration of hypotheses and conjectures about the mind's fundamental cognitive and emotional makeup. It addresses basic propositions about human psychology, consciousness, and the meaning of personhood. Envy theory draws from psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, cognitive science, phenomenology, and aspects of the humanities in constructing models of envy in the human condition.
This is the definitive guide to the life and work of Ken Wilber, widely regarded as the most comprehensive and passionate philosopher of our times. In this long overdue exploration of Wilber's life and work, Frank Visser not only outlines the theories of this profound thinker, but also uncovers his personal life, showing how his experiences influenced and shaped his writing. Wilber's impressive body of work, including nineteen books in more than thirty languages, brings together science and religion, philosophy, art, culture, East and West, and places them within the all-encompassing perspective of evolution. Visser's book follows Wilber's four distinct phases as he reveals not only the story behind Wilber's writing, but also the man behind the ideas. In recounting the course of Wilber's life and the motives that led him to the subjects he has written so much about, Visser uncovers the intricacies of one of the world's most important intellectuals. Included in this indispensable resource is a complete bibliography of Wilber's work.
This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529.It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detail: Gaza, Athens, Alexandria, Aphrodisias, central Asia Minor, northern Syria, the Nile basin, and the province of Arabia.It lays particular emphasis on the criticism of epigraphy, legal evidence, and hagiographic texts, and traces the demographic growth of Christianity and the chronology of this process in select local contexts. It also seeks to understand the behavioral patterns of conversion.
Electronic Enclosures, Housings and Packages considers the problem of heat management for electronics from an encasement perspective. It addresses enclosures and their applications for industrial electronics, as well as LED lighting solutions for stationary and mobile markets. The book introduces fundamental concepts and defines dimensions of success in electrical enclosures. Other chapters discuss environmental considerations, shielding, standardization, materials selection, thermal management, product design principles, manufacturing techniques and sustainability. Final chapters focus on business fundamentals by outlining successful technical propositions and potential future directions. Introduces the concepts of materials recycling and sustainability to electronic enclosures Provides thorough coverage of all technical aspects relating to the design and manufacturing of electronic packaging Includes practical information on environmental considerations, shielding, standardization, materials selection, and more
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