Out of Babylon
Title | Out of Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Brueggemann |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1426710054 |
Explores the Old Testament's prophetic cry against materialism, consumerism, violence, and oppression
Out of Babylon
Title | Out of Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | S. Joseph Kidder |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN | 9780816363841 |
The Town of Babylon
Title | The Town of Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro Varela |
Publisher | Astra Publishing House |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1662601042 |
A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing *Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he’d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.
Babylon
Title | Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kriwaczek |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1429941065 |
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ago to the eclipse of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Bringing the people of this land to life in vibrant detail, the author chronicles the rise and fall of power during this period and explores the political and social systems, as well as the technical and cultural innovations, which made this land extraordinary. At the heart of this book is the story of Babylon, which rose to prominence under the Amorite king Hammurabi from about 1800 BCE. Even as Babylon's fortunes waxed and waned, it never lost its allure as the ancient world's greatest city. Engaging and compelling, Babylon reveals the splendor of the ancient world that laid the foundation for civilization itself.
The Ways Out
Title | The Ways Out PDF eBook |
Author | John R Hall |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2021-10-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367362683 |
A comparative analysis of both secular and religious communal groups in contemporary America, this study, originally published in 1978, shows that contemporary communalists stand in relation to collectivism much the same as early Protestants stood in relation to individualism - as the self-proclaimed pioneers of the new age. There is great diversity among communal groups, a diversity which is found to stem from alternative orientations towards time and alternative assumptions about the cognitive status of the social world. The author has made use of a phenomenologically derived typological framework to organize the data he has obtained through living in and visiting a number of communal groups. Within this framework, Alfred Schutz's 'mundane' phenomenology and Max Weber's interpretive sociology are employed as ways of approaching the situated sociology of knowledge in various communal groups. Six ideal types of communal groups are described: the commune, the intentional association, the community, the warring sect, the other-worldly sect and the ecstatic association. Two of these types - the intentional association and the community - are identified as participants' efforts to demonstrate 'worldly utopian' models for the reconstruction of society at large.
Lion of Babylon (A Marc Royce Thriller Book #1)
Title | Lion of Babylon (A Marc Royce Thriller Book #1) PDF eBook |
Author | Davis Bunn |
Publisher | Bethany House |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1441232230 |
Marc Royce works for the State Department on special assignments, most of them rather routine, until two CIA operatives go missing in Iraq--kidnapped by Taliban forces bent on generating chaos in the region. Two others also drop out of sight--a high-placed Iraqi civilian and an American woman providing humanitarian aid. Are the disappearances linked? Rumors circulate in a whirl of misinformation. Marc must unravel the truth in a covert operation requiring utmost secrecy--from both the Americans and the insurgents. But even more secret than the undercover operation is the underground dialogue taking place between sworn enemies. Will the ultimate Reconciler between ancient enemies, current foes, and fanatical religious factions be heard?
Pam of Babylon
Title | Pam of Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Jenkins |
Publisher | Suzanne Jenkins |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2011-06-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1461135923 |
Pam's shock at the sudden death of her husband is compounded by the discovery that her husband was different than he appeared and his secrets and betrayals were worse than she could have imagined.