Facing public criticism, peer hostility, and widespread disapproval, would you compromise your principles to blend in with the crowd, or would you stand for what you believe? On July 31, 2020, the Orlando Magic starting forward Jonathan Isaac was the lone NBA player not to kneel for the national anthem amid a league-wide demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter. Standing alone, knowing the scrutiny to come, Jonathan had a peace he at one time never could have imagined possible. In Why I Stand, Jonathan shares the journey of how—through a series of divine connections and a willingness to follow Christ—his fear and insecurity-driven life was transformed into one of confidence and purpose. From his childhood in the Bronx to his high school years in Florida, from rail-skinny freshman at FSU to top draft pick in the NBA, Jonathan uses his life story to illuminate the freedom and peace found in the love of Jesus Christ. More than the story of an NBA player’s transformation from man on the court to man of God, Why I Stand is a testament to His love, power, and grace that extends to us all. This book is a discovery that no matter your level of confidence today, God’s strength will develop in your weakness. That courage is found in trusting that God is greater than your fears. As Jonathan takes you through the experiences that drove his decisions, he offers insight and inspiration to help you to grow to a point where standing alone is better than not standing at all.
아이작 비커스타프(Isaac Bickerstaff)(1708) : 아이작 비커스타프(Isaac Bickerstaff)란 필명으로 발표한 편지와 추도사는 당대 명성을 날리던 점성술사 존 파트리지(John Partridge)(1644~1714)를 비아냥 대기 위해 쓴 것으로, 무려 그의 죽음을 예언하였습니다!! 졸지에 손님이 아니라, 문상객을 맞이하게 된 파트리지는 이에 대한 반박문을 쓰는데, 스위프트는 그마저도 ‘죽은 사람의 글을 믿지 말라’며 비꼽니다. They were sure no man alive ever to writ such damned stuff as this.(이딴 글을 쓸 사람은 없어!) 당시의 충격으로 존 파트리지가 사망했다는 썰이 있으나, 그는 70세로 장수한 편입니다. 다만 죽기 전까지 그의 추도사에 괴로워 한 것은 분명합니다. 테마여행신문 TTN Korea 영어고전(English Classics)과 함께 어제도, 오늘도, 내일도 멋진 문학여행을! B I have long consider'd the gross abuse of astrology in this kingdom, and upon debating the matter with myself, I could not possibly lay the fault upon the art, but upon those gross impostors, who set up to be the artists. I know several learned men have contended that the whole is a cheat; that it is absurd and ridiculous to imagine, the stars can have any influence at all upon human actions, thoughts, or inclinations: And whoever has not bent his studies that way, may be excused for thinking so, when he sees in how wretched a manner that noble art is treated by a few mean illiterate traders between us and the stars; who import a yearly stock of nonsense, lyes, folly, and impertinence, which they offer to the world as genuine from the planets, tho' they descend from no greater a height than their own brains. 저는 이 왕국에서 점성술의 엄청난 남용에 대해 오랫동안 생각해 왔습니다. 그리고 저 자신과 그 문제를 논의하면서, 저는 아마도 그 잘못을 예술에 돌리지 않고 예술가들을 꾸민 역겨운 사기꾼들에게 돌렸습니다. 저는 몇몇 학자들이 전체가 사기꾼이라고 주장했다는 것을 알고 있습니다; 상상하는 것은 터무니없고 우스꽝스럽지만, 스타들은 인간의 행동, 생각, 성향에 전혀 영향을 미칠 수 있습니다. 그리고 공부를 그렇게 하지 않은 사람은, 우리와 별들 사이에 있는 몇몇 문맹 무역상들이 고귀한 예술이 얼마나 비참한 취급을 받는지 알게 되면, 그렇게 생각해서 용서받을 수 있을 것입니다. 그들은 매년 헛소리, 눈깔, 어리석음, 불손함을 수입하여, 행성으로부터 세상에 진실로 바쳐지는 것입니다. 자신의 뇌보다 더 높은 높이에서 말이죠. I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than that it hath been in all ages defended by many learned men, and among the rest by Socrates himself, whom I look upon as undoubtedly the wisest of uninspir'd mortals: To which if we add, that those who have condemned this art, though otherwise learned, having been such as either did not apply their studies this way, or at least did not succeed in their applications; their testimony will not be of much weight to its disadvantage, since they are liable to the common objection of condemning what they did not understand. 저는 이 예술에 대한 크고 합리적인 변호를 출판할 작정이며, 그래서 현재로서는 그 정당성에 대해 더 이상 말하지 않을 것입니다. 많은 학식 있는 사람들과 소크라테스 자신이 옹호해왔던 것 이상으로요. 소크라테스 자신은 의심할 여지 없이 가장 현명한 인간이라고 생각합니다. 거기에 덧붙이자면, 비록 다른 방법으로 배웠지만, 이 기술을 비난한 사람들은, 그들의 연구를 이런 식으로 적용하지 않았거나, 적어도 그들의 응용에 성공하지 못했습니다; 그들의 증언은 그들이 하지 않은 것을 비난하는 공통적인 반대를 하기 때문에, 그것의 불이익에 크게 중요하지 않을 것입니다. Nor am I at all offended, or think it an injury to the art, when I see the common dealers in it, the students in astrology, the philomaths, and the rest of that tribe, treated by wise men with the utmost scorn and contempt; but rather wonder, when I observe gentlemen in the country, rich enough to serve the nation in parliament, poring in Partridge's almanack, to find out the events of the year at home and abroad; not daring to propose a hunting-match, till Gadbury or he have fixed the weather. 또한 나는 전혀 불쾌하지 않고 예술에 대한 상처라고 생각하지 않습니다, 점성술의 학생들, 필로마트, 그리고 그 부족의 나머지를 볼 때, 최고의 경멸과 경멸을 받는 현인들에게서 볼 수 있습니다; 오히려, 내가 의회에서 봉사할 만큼 충분히 부유한 사람들을 볼 때, 궁금해집니다."올해의 국내외 사건들을 알아내기 위해 개드버리(Gadbury)나 그가 날씨를 고치기 전까지 사냥 시합을 제안할 용기가 없었습니다.“ Having long observed and lamented these, and a hundred other abuses of this art, too tedious to repeat, I resolved to proceed in a new way, which I doubt not will be to the general satisfaction of the kingdom: I can this year produce but a specimen of what I design for the future; having employ'd most part of my time in adjusting and correcting the calculations I made some years past, because I would offer nothing to the world of which I am not as fully satisfied, as that I am now alive. For these two last years I have not failed in above one or two particulars, and those of no very great moment. 오랫동안 관찰하고 애통해한 나머지 이 기술의 100가지 폐단을 반복하기엔 너무 지루해서 저는 새로운 방식으로 진행하기로 결심했습니다. 이는 왕국의 전반적인 만족에 도움이 되지 않을 것입니다. 저는 올해 제가 설계한 미래를 위한 견본만 생산할 수 있습니다. 제가 지난 몇 년간의 계산을 조정하고 수정하는 데 대부분의 시간을 할애했습니다. 왜냐하면 제가 지금 살아 있는 세상만큼 만족스럽지 못한 세상에 아무것도 제공할 수 없기 때문입니다. 지난 2년 동안 저는 한두 가지 이상의 사항, 그리 대단한 것은 아닙니다. I exactly foretold the miscarriage at Toulon, with all its particulars; and the loss of Admiral Shovel, tho' I was mistaken as to the day, placing that accident about thirty-six hours sooner than it happen'd; but upon reviewing my schemes, I quickly found the cause of that error. I likewise foretold the Battle of Almanza to the very day and hour, with the loss on both sides, and the consequences thereof. All which I shewed to some friends many months before they happened, that is, I gave them papers sealed up, to open at such a time, after which they were at liberty to read them; and there they found my predictions true in every article, except one or two, very minute. Predictions For The Year 1708. 저는 툴롱에서의 유산을 정확히 예언했습니다. 그리고 Savel 제독의 사망을 그날로 착각했습니다. 사고가 일어난 시간보다 36시간이나 더 빨리 일어났죠. 하지만 제 계획을 재검토해보니, 그 오류의 원인을 금방 알아냈습니다. 저도 알만자 전투를 바로 그날, 시간까지 예언했습니다 양측의 손실과 그 결과물이요 제가 몇 달 전에 친구들에게 부탁한 모든 것들은, 즉, 제가 봉인된 종이를 그 때 열어보라고 해줬고, 그 후 그들은 자유롭게 읽을 수 있었습니다. 그들은 제 예측이 모든 기사에서 들어맞았다는 것을 발견했죠. 단, 한두 분을 제외하고요. 1708년에 대한 예측(Predictions For The Year 1708). -목차(Index)- 프롤로그(Prologue). 테마여행신문 TTN Korea 영어고전(English Classics) 999선을 읽어야 하는 7가지 이유 21가지 키워드로 읽는 조너선 스위프트(Jonathan Swift) by 조명화 편집장 01. 조너선 스위프트(Jonathan Swift)는 영국인? 아일랜드인! 02. 조너선 스위프트(Jonathan Swift)는 성직자?! 03. 자신의 비문을, 본인이 직접 쓴 괴짜 04. 풍자 좀 하는데? 스위프트인(Swiftian)! 05. 화성(Mars)에 그의 이름을 딴 분화구가?! 스위프트 분화구(Swift Crater) 06. 아일랜드 트림(Trim)의 스위프트 거리(Swift's Street) 07. 통 이야기와 마틴의 역사(The Tale of a Tub and The History of Martin)(1704) 08. 아이작 비커스타프(Isaac Bickerstaff)(1708) 09. 드레피어의 편지(Drapier's Letters)(1724~1725) 10. 겸손한 제안(A Modest Proposal)(1729) 11. 걸리버 여행기(Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World)(1726) 11-1. 세상에서 가장 위험한 소설! 11-2. 르무엘 걸리버(Lemuel Gulliver)는 조너선 스위프트 본인?! 11-3. 걸면 걸리는 걸리버?! 현대 PCS CF(1997) 11-4. 걸리버 여행기에 한국해(Sea of Corea)가?! 11-5. 소인국 릴리퍼트(Lilliput)는 영국, 블레푸스쿠(Blefuscu)는 프랑스?! 11-6. 천공의 섬 라퓨타(Laputa)는 영국, 발니바르비(Balnibarbi)는 아일랜드?! 11-7. 미야자키 하야오 감독의 애니메이션 천공의 섬 라퓨타(天空の城ラピュタ) 11-8. 포털사이트 야후(Yahoo!) & 윤태호의 만화 야후(YAHOO)(1998~2003) 12. 오디오북(Audio Books)으로 듣는 조너선 스위프트(Jonathan Swift) 13. 조너선 스위프트(Jonathan Swift)의 어록(Quotes)(30) 조너선 스위프트의 비커스태프-파트리지 페이퍼(The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift)(1708) Predictions For The Year 1708 The Accomplishment of the First of Mr Bickerstaff's Predictions; An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanack-Maker. 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The author provides remarkable insight into the early development of organised Jewish life in the United States. this is a comprehensive, authoritative work about a Long-Neglected but Central figure of 19th century American Jewish.
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Jonathan Swift’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Swift includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Swift’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged, Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more effective at recognizing that trauma impacts everybody's health, from patient to practitioner. Drawing on decades of experience providing psychiatric care, Maunder and Hunter offer an open and honest window into the private world of psychotherapy. At the heart of the book is the painful yet inspiring story of Maunder's career-long work with a patient named Isaac. In unfiltered accounts of their therapy sessions, we see the many ways in which childhood trauma harms Isaac's health for the rest of his life. We also see how deeply patients can affect the doctors who care for them, and how the caring collegiality between doctors can significantly improve the medicine they practice. Damaged makes it clear that human relationships are at the core of medicine, and that a revolution in health care must start with the development of safe, respectful, and caring relationships between doctors and patients. It serves as a strong reminder that the way we care for those who suffer most reveals who we are as a society.
The first great city to which the Crusaders came in 1089 was not Jerusalem but Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Almost as much as Jerusalem itself, Constantinople was the key to the foundation, survival and ultimate eclipse of the crusading kingdom.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders. “An elaborate, tangled web . . . With unsuspected turns at every chapter break . . . this addictive tale . . . is as intricately detailed as it is tantalizingly page-turning.”—Entertainment Weekly The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on the same date—a date that’s rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little time to unravel the twisted logic of a cunning predator who’s evaded detection for years—and whose terrible hour is once more at hand.
A monumental novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years—a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers. “Dazzling . . . A profound novel about the claims of identity, history, family, and the burdens of a broken world.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s “Fresh Air”
A home reference guide to key terms in Mormon culture. A one-volume compendium of Mormon culture, this handy reference book covers key doctrinal terms, beliefs, ordinances, church history and growth, and more. You’ll find extensive entries on the prophets and personalities from all four standard works accepted by the church, and many interesting anecdotes and facts on a wide array of topics. Teens and adults will appreciate the fresh, innovative approach this encyclopedia takes as it culls the vast sea of LDS information available into a manageable book suitable for the whole family.
This picaresque romance is “intellectually fascinating and emotionally powerful . . . a poignant meditation on youth, love, myth, history, and quantum theory.” (Chicago Review of Books) On a spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. There, the quest to find his love gets sidetracked when he discovers he is the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania, given by Charlemagne to the Jews of eighth-century France. In the midst of a Rome reeling from the kidnappings and bombs of the Red Brigades, Malory is crowned King of the Jews, Holy Roman Emperor, and possibly Caliph of All Islam. Over the next fifty years, Malory’s search for Louiza leads to encounters with Pope John Paul II, a band of lost Romanians, a magical Bernini statue, Haroun al Rashid of Arabian Nights fame, an elephant that changes color, a U.S. spy agency and one of the 9/11 bombers, an appleseed from the Tree of Knowledge, and the secret history of Isaac Newton and his discovery of a Grand Unified Theory that explains everything. It’s the quest of a Candide for love and knowledge, and the ultimate discovery that they may be unified after all. “Stupendous.” –Alvaro Enrique, The New York Times Book Review “A fantastically suspenseful adventure. . . . told with the aplomb and smart humor of Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen.” —Booklist (starred review) “This is realism as magical as the best of García Márquez.” —Homerjo Aridjis, author of 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile
In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture. But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. . . . Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry teams with the godfather of the living dead himself, George A. Romero, to present a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak. Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today’s most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal and Brenda Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry! For anyone who loves scary stories, take a bite out of this!
***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner*** In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit—that is, my religion is the only right path to God, therefore your religion is by definition wrong—and individuals are motivated by what Rabbi Sacks calls “altruistic evil,” violence between peoples of different beliefs appears to be the only natural outcome. But through an exploration of the roots of violence and its relationship to religion, and employing groundbreaking biblical analysis and interpretation, Rabbi Sacks shows that religiously inspired violence has as its source misreadings of biblical texts at the heart of all three Abrahamic faiths. By looking anew at the book of Genesis, with its foundational stories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Rabbi Sacks offers a radical rereading of many of the Bible’s seminal stories of sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Leah. “Abraham himself,” writes Rabbi Sacks, “sought to be a blessing to others regardless of their faith. That idea, ignored for many of the intervening centuries, remains the simplest definition of Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry . . . To invoke God to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege.” Here is an eloquent call for people of goodwill from all faiths and none to stand together, confront the religious extremism that threatens to destroy us, and declare: Not in God’s Name.
Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life. His position is shown to be remarkably bold and unique compared to kabbalistic writing, and especially to the Hasidic worlds to which he belonged. At the same time, the roots of his thought are located in earlier discussions of doubt as one of the highest parts of the divine world. Doubt about, in, and of God is part of the Hasidic contribution to modernity.
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