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Emotional Affairs Turning Intimate – It Happens But Can Be Stopped
When you reach the end of it, you will be equipped with tools needed to prevent an emotional affair from turning intimate.
Emotional affairs turning intimate happen. Just imagine how you and your spouse started your relationship. You start with being friends. Then you get closer and closer mentally and physically. It happened naturally. If it happened to you, it could also happen to others. They admire each other, meet each other frequently and communicate with each other deeply. That is how a relationship develops. It means the affair when it happens to the married people.
“It should have been prevented!” Don’t become one who regrets with those words later on. No matter you are the cheater or the injured party, you will inevitably find out that you should have done something about it earlier. If you could find out about the emotional affair and take some effective steps a little bit earlier, you could have saved your marriage and relationship. In order to avoid regretting for it in the future, you should start to take care of your marriage as soon as possible.
The good news is that emotional affairs turning intimate CAN be prevented from developing further. After reading this article, you might want to pay more attention to your marriage status and care more about your spouse. Maybe you should start to read some self-help books about love and relationship. And you may also want to examine if you are not doing your best in satisfying your spouse in emotional connection.
If you find out that you or your spouse is on the verge of wetting the feet in an emotional affair, you should confront him or her immediately and request them to stop connection with the other man or woman. If you are the one who is on the verge of cheating, you should cut what you are doing clean. Changing your telephone number or moving to another place is necessary sometimes.
If you can not deal with what you are going through on your own, don’t forget that you can find help from experts online as well as offline.
Tips in this article are simple. You can implement them immediately. But it doesn’t stop there. You can take it a step further. Download this free healing report now at http://surviveanaffair.e-about.net and learn how to survive an affair and renew your relationship.
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Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems (Explorations in Anthropology) $3.99 This is a remarkable work which captures the reader’s imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a powerful critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought…. |
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Intimations of Infinity. The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number System. … |
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A Big Little Life (Paperback) $10.1 Bestselling author Dean Koontz offers this touching and heartfelt tribute to his beloved dog, Trixie. Koontz shares with readers the intimate lessons that his 60-pound companion taught him: lessons about himself; lessons about what it means to selfless… |
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Sex Before the Sexual Revolution (Paperback) $31.21 “What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s? Often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety, this book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in … |
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The Fig Leaf Conspiracy (Hardcover) $19.79 In this timely book, Jimmy Evans exposes an ancient plot designed to rob every man and woman of joy, fulfillment, health and genuine intimacy—the progressive distortion of God-given sexuality. In ripping the cover from this pervasive decepti… |
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Soul Cravings $10.09 The search of your life is the search for your life.In Soul Cravings Erwin McManus shows readers how our need for intimacy, meaning, and destiny point to the existence of God and our need to connect with Him. This bo… |
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Letting Go $7.91 Are you crying over sad songs? Seeing his or her face in every crowd? Aching with loneliness and hoping the phone will ring? Feeling that no one else can give your life meaning? Losing a loved one is the most devastating crisis of intimate living…. |
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A Big Little Life (Compact Disc) $10.83 Bestselling author Dean Koontz offers this touching and heartfelt tribute to his beloved dog, Trixie. Koontz shares with readers the intimate lessons that his 60-pound companion taught him: lessons about himself; lessons about what it means to selfless… |
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The Facts of Life… and More $23.58 Consultant Walker-Hirsch seeks to inform caregivers, physicians, social workers and educators about the basic human need for expressions of sexuality, affection and intimacy shared by all people, including those with intellectual disabilities, and mean… |
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Food, Sex, & Salmonella (Paperback) $12.32 What sex is to inter-personal relationships, eating is to the Human-Environment relationship, a daily consummation of our de facto marriage to the living biosphere.This book is about the true meaning of eating, intimacy, love, vomiting a… |
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A Big Little Life (Compact Disc) $27.16 Bestselling author Dean Koontz offers this touching and heartfelt tribute to his beloved dog, Trixie. Koontz shares with readers the intimate lessons that his 60-pound companion taught him: lessons about himself; lessons about what it means to selfless… |
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Svend Asmussen/Ulrick Newmann – Danish Imports : Intimate Jazz [Remaster] $12.97 Description Not Available |
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Listening to Country (Paperback) $13.86 From a trip made by the author to the Australian desert to spend time learning the secrets and hearing the stories of her husband`s family`s matriarchs, comes a warm, intimate account providing rare insight into… |
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The Path of Yoga (Paperback) $11.29 This overview of the essentials of Yoga is meant to both broaden and deepen the understanding of beginning students. It covers all the basic elements of this ancient discipline and philosophy of India—including Yoga poses, diet, breath control, m… |
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The Light Dragoons (Paperback) $14.63 Published with the full co-operation of the Light Dragoons Regimental Association and drawing on their extensive archives, this Osprey title provides an intimate history of what it has meant to be a cavalry trooper through the ages. First raised in the… |
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Jean Nouvel (DVD) $16.09 JEAN NOUVEL delivers a unique, intimate look at the philosophy of an architect, as the unconventional yet revered titular artist speaks about just what his creations mean to him. This enthralling documentary highlights 10 of Nouvel`s recent works, such… |
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Maman`s Homesick Pie (Hardcover) $11.61 “”Donia Bijan discovers a way back to home and what it means to belong. A memoir both universal and intimate, anchored in history and lifted by the mysterious elements that only occur in a warm and inviting kitchen.” –Marsha Mehran, author Pomegranate… |
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A Big Little Life (Compact Disc) $11.57 Bestselling author Dean Koontz offers this touching and heartfelt tribute to his beloved dog, Trixie. Koontz shares with readers the intimate lessons that his 60-pound companion taught him: lessons about himself; lessons about what it means to selfless… |
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A Big Little Life (Compact Disc) $14.25 Bestselling author Dean Koontz offers this touching and heartfelt tribute to his beloved dog, Trixie. Koontz shares with readers the intimate lessons that his 60-pound companion taught him: lessons about himself; lessons about what it means to selfless… |
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Reeves, Jim – Girls I Have Known//The Intimate Jim Reeves [Impor $12.07 |
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Digital Breath Alcohol Tester $29.49 Alcohol tester is a great item to keep on handFamily health accessory boasts audio warning if breathalyzer senses over limitDrug prevention accessory provides quick response and is easy to use |
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On the Ocean Floor - Audio (Compact Disc) $9.89 When Ms. Frizzle drives the Magic School Bus full speed ahead into the ocean, the class takes a submarine expedition that`s anything but ordinary. With a well-meaning lifeguard in tow, the class takes a deep breath and learns about hot water vents... |
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On the Ocean Floor (Compact Disc) $18.8 When Ms. Frizzle drives the Magic School Bus full speed ahead into the ocean, the class takes a submarine expedition that`s anything but ordinary. With a well-meaning lifeguard in tow, the class takes a deep breath and learns about hot water vents... |
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Fire in the Attic - Cum Grano Salis $19.56 Disc 1:DISC 1:Electric ArcSenses Riding ShotgunBenchwarmerSleep! Don`t Breath!B.Y.O.O. (Bring Your Own Organs)Fake It Like You Mean ItReadaptingCheers to You, Mrs. FordGilgamesh, What Hav... |
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Poems Unpleasant (Hardcover) $13.69 The remarkable collection of poems that make up Poems Unpleasant is a series of reflections on the journey each of us takes to find personal meaning in a world filled with sorrow and despair. Poems Unpleasant contains intimate stories of human frailtie... |
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Mud and Poetry (Paperback) $11.46 Tyler Blanski loves the story of the Garden of Eden. After all, it is a story about us, our beginnings, a story with deep meaning and naked bodies. He likes the notion that as God breathed the breath of life into the first humans, God was intertwining ... |
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Why Have You Abandoned Me? (Paperback) $15.4 Responding to the many adults who struggle with the wounds of absent parents, bestselling author Peter M. Kalellis offers an intimate, meditative look at what it means to lose a parent—parti... |
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Retreat in the Real World (Paperback) $11.1 What if you could experience a personal retreat in the truest sense of the word personal: on your own time, in your own way, in a location of your choosing? With Retreat in the Real World by Andy Alexander, SJ, and Maureen McCa... |
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Intimate Strangers (Paperback) $34.15 "When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768 he was struck by the way in which `all these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us`. Reading the arc... |
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The Transformation of Intimacy $19.39 The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does `sexuality` come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these qu... |
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Close Enough to Hear God Breathe (Paperback) $10.87 Does the idea of intimacy with God seem farfetched and irrelevant to your real, daily life? Ever wonder if your own "little story" has any significance in the larger scheme of things, or why God`s Word doesn`t seem to speak to you?In |
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Dying Breath A Forensic Mystery (Paperback) $7.91 Seventeen year old Cameryn Mahoney is the assistant to the county coroner, so she`s no stranger to death. But when it`s possible that the next death under investigation might be your own, things take on a whole new meaning. Cameryn thought she was done... |
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An American Provence (Hardcover) $22.3 In this poetic personal narrative, Thomas P. Huber reflects on two seemingly unrelated places--the North Fork Valley in western Colorado and the Coulon River Valley in Provence, France--and finds a shared landscape and sense of place. Part intimate tra... |
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Momma and the Meaning of Life (Paperback) $8.86 In this collection of six stories, a psychotherapist explores the human psyche and the intimate bond between therapist and client. He reveals the ways in which he has encouraged himself and his patients to confront negative emotions of guilt, fear, sad... |
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John $7.9 In 13 practical lessons, this study helps readers unlock the power, beauty and personal significance of the Gospel of John. |
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Jumping Through Fires (Hardcover) $13.89 Religion has left an undeniable mark in our world. Some see it as the answer to every problem, while others see it as the problem itself. Simply put, religion is the single greatest force in history. But in a much more intimate sense, what does religio... |
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Woman to Woman (Paperback) $11.28 Intimate relationships play a central role in women`s lives. After all, experiencing a deep bond with a loved one is critical for a woman`s sense of identity and emotional well-being. Finding true love, however, has its challenges ... |
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Intimacy and Solitude (Paperback) $13.33 Intimacy and SolitudeB is the international bestseller that helps you enjoy closeness with others, while maintaining a firm sense of independence. Using stories from her psychotherapy practice and her own life, Stephanie Dowrick shows how... |
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The Meaning $10 The Meaning - 14KT |
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Meaning $29.95 What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. At the core of his theory is the idea, made famous by Wittgenstein, that the meaning of a word derives from its use; Horwich articulates this idea in a new way that will restore it to the prominence that it deserves. He surveys the diversity of valuable insights into meaning that have been gained in the twentieth century, and seeks to accommodatethem within his theory. His aim is not to correct a common-sense view of meaning, but to vindicate it: he seeks to take the mystery out of meaning. Horwich's 1990 book Truth stablished itself both as the definitive exposition and defence of a notable philosophical theory, `minimalism', and as a stimulating, straightforward introduction to philosophical debate about truth. Meaning now gives the broader context in which the theory of truth operates, and is published simultaneously with a revised edition of Truth, in which Horwich refines and develops his treatment of the subject in the light of subsequentdiscussions, while preserving the distinctive format which made the book so successful. The two books together present a compelling view of the relations between language, thought, and reality. They will be essential reading for all philosophers of language. |
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Music With Meaning $10 Music With Meaning |
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On Meaning $12.78 Saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman is one of those new breeds of contemporary musicians. As a jazzman he's played with everyone from Vijay Iyer to Dave Burell. He's studied with both Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton, and recorded a handful of records as a leader or co-leader; he is a Fulbright scholar and has taught in Paris. His album titles -- like this one -- sound like the titles of doctoral dissertations: Demian as a Posthuman, anyone? All of that said, Lehman could throw down on the horn and write some exciting music for a band that makes it spark and fire. Chris Dingman on vibes, Drew Gress on bass, drummer Tyshawn Sorey (who nails all kinds of breakbeats in this set), and trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson work with Lehman's alto in scattering post-bop notions off a wall filled with tough new vanguard tricks, but which are all kept in tight rein by the compositions themselves. While these tunes don't exactly sing, they can and do swing, in places. In others they scatter, punch, kick, and dart here and there at a moment's notice, sometimes quicker, sometimes slower. Themes like that of the title track juxtapose thematic constructions and taut melodic invention along several planes at once in a metonymic manner -- it's not a long, single line in linear horizontal fashion, but in linear fashion, period, using all the referents of what came before for what comes after. The vibes add both color and punch the rhythm section, as well as act as a melodic extension of three different themes put into play by Lehman and Finlayson. "Open Music," introduced by some stellar snare work by Sorey and Finlayson, creates a series of contrapuntal lines that Gress comes in to play between as a balancing act. The horns don't enter for almost a minute and then scalar counterpoint in call and response becomes the beginning of a linguistic exercise that actually spits fire, an uneasy tension and mild dissonance that leads into the frame of a tune that gets worked out in the spaces between the various lyric themes being stated. Quite impressive, and Sorey is all killer on the kit, keeping it not only moving, but flowing, jumping off, coming back, and then further pushing Finlayson to put more and more chime on that vibe.Other tracks, such as "Check This Out," have deep, furrowed knotty lines for the front line to play, with a kind of opaque harmonic terrain employed by Finlayson. Gress takes all this in stride and he and Sorey keep it pushing, making sure this somewhat academic music doesn't get bogged down in its sophistication and braininess. As the improvisation makes clear here, and virtually everywhere else on this fine album, the language of jazz and its tradition is the great equalizer. Lehman chooses to use it in the compositions themselves, sure, but more than this the players are all free to use and reference all parts of it; they speak to one another through history, space, and time as well as in the immediacy of dynamic and often frenetic communication. |
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Will to Meaning $11.95 Explains the fundamentals of logotherapy, describes its use as a treatment for neuroses, and discusses the feelings of emptiness found in modern existence |
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The Meaning of $19.41 (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)While in the service of India’s Nizam of Hyderabad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this clear and lovingly precise English interpretation of the H |
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The Meaning of Medicine $37.8 The Meaning of Medicine |
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The Meaning of Tradition $11.16 The Meaning of Tradition |
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The Meaning of Life $13.09 The Meaning of Life |
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The Meaning of Tea $18.63 The Meaning of Tea |
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Meaning of the Local $33.56 Meaning of the Local |
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The Hidden Meaning $7.17 The Hidden Meaning |
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Meaning of Happy $14.37 Meaning of Happy |
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On the Meaning of Life $18.63 On the Meaning of Life |
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The Meaning Of Freedom $14.09 The Meaning Of Freedom |
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The Meaning of Mecca $28.33 The Meaning of Mecca |
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Meaning in Action $67.16 Meaning in Action |
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Love Is The Meaning $10.44 Love Is The Meaning |
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A New Meaning $14.83 A New Meaning |
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Procedural Meaning $115.69 Procedural Meaning |
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Surface of Meaning $44.76 Surface of Meaning |
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Meaning of Christmas $15.11 Meaning of Christmas |
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The Meaning of Work $43.68 The Meaning of Work |
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The Meaning of Freedom $10.96 The Meaning of Freedom |
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Word Meaning $14.92 Word Meaning |
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Lost Meaning $29.43 Lost Meaning |
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The Search for Meaning $18.67 The Search for Meaning |
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Meaning In Interaction $29.41 Meaning In Interaction |
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Art and Meaning $53.93 Art and Meaning |
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Method and Meaning $52.23 Method and Meaning |
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Pregnant With Meaning $22.36 Pregnant With Meaning |
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Meaning Of Life $10 Meaning Of Life - Hawk Nelson |
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Check The Meaning $10 Check The Meaning - Richard Ashcroft |
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Worship as Meaning $34 An examination of Christian worship within the context of modern theories of meaning. |
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Meaning in Mathematics Education $149 Meaning in Mathematics Education |
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History, Time, Meaning, and Memory $144 History, Time, Meaning, and Memory |
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BLAZE,SAMMY: MEANING OF LIFE $16.43 BLAZE,SAMMY: MEANING OF LIFE |
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Myth And Meaning In Early Daoism $24.64 Myth And Meaning In Early Daoism |
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JAMESJDWILKERSON: LIFE HAS MEANING $14.68 JAMESJDWILKERSON: LIFE HAS MEANING |
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The Meaning Of The Holy Quran $14.89 The Meaning Of The Holy Quran |
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MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE $11.49 MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE |
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Food, Morals, And Meaning $35.8 Food, Morals, And Meaning |
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The Unheard Cry for Meaning $40.33 The Unheard Cry for Meaning |
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The Meaning of Video Games $97.81 The Meaning of Video Games |
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LAYZIE BONE: MEANING $13.89 LAYZIE BONE: MEANING |
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The Golfer's Guide to the Meaning of Life $7.43 The Golfer's Guide to the Meaning of Life |
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Searching for Meaning in Midrash $18.63 Searching for Meaning in Midrash |
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To Each Its Own Meaning $22.4 To Each Its Own Meaning |
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TRANSIENT: MEANING OF ONE $5.13 TRANSIENT: MEANING OF ONE |
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Liptones: Meaning of Life $14.16 Liptones: Meaning of Life |
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Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning $37.29 Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning |
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The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood $7.43 The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood |
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Birth and Death of Meaning $13.4 Birth and Death of Meaning |
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The Meaning in Makeup [Bonus DVD] $14.68 The Meaning in Makeup [Bonus DVD] |
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True Meaning of Christmas $5.6 True Meaning of Christmas |
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The Making And Meaning of Art $114 The Making And Meaning of Art |
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Truth, Meaning And Realism $18.63 Truth, Meaning And Realism |
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Kabbalah, Science And the Meaning of Life $7.43 Kabbalah, Science And the Meaning of Life |
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A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules $20.87 A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules |
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Lexical Meaning in Context $78.4 Lexical Meaning in Context |
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Biblical Words And Their Meaning $14.92 Biblical Words And Their Meaning |
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Meaning What Exactly $9.8 Meaning What Exactly |
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Spirituality and Meaning in Health Care $42.56 Spirituality and Meaning in Health Care |
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History, Time, Meaning, And Memory $107.52 History, Time, Meaning, And Memory |
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Jeremy Fink And the Meaning of Life $5.21 Jeremy Fink And the Meaning of Life |
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The Meaning of the Holy Quran $18.63 The Meaning of the Holy Quran |
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Search For The Meaning Of Life $16.39 Search For The Meaning Of Life |
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The Mystic Meaning of the Numeral Three $7.43 The Mystic Meaning of the Numeral Three |
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ITHI: PERSISTENCE OF MEANING $15.87 ITHI: PERSISTENCE OF MEANING |
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Midnight And the Meaning of Love $20.15 Midnight And the Meaning of Love |
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Construing Experience Through Meaning $72 Construing Experience Through Meaning |
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Meaning in Landscape Architecture & Gardens $29.83 Meaning in Landscape Architecture & Gardens |
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MULDOON: GIVE A MEANING $9.79 MULDOON: GIVE A MEANING |
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Meaning of Everyday Occupation $37.29 Meaning of Everyday Occupation |
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Rule-Following and Meaning $18.63 Rule-Following and Meaning |
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LADY BLUE: MEANING OF GRACE $16.43 LADY BLUE: MEANING OF GRACE |
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Meaning of Life $18.67 Originally published in Russian in 1925, The Meaning of Life is a distillation of S.L. Frank’s bitter experience during the Revolution and his post-Revolution exile. It is, quite simply, a book about the search for meaning in suffering, and it displays an |
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Meaning in the Media $76.16 Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal dispu |
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The Meaning of the Local $160 This book examines the meaning of locality in urban India through studies of social, spatial and historical associations between peoples and places. |
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A Crisis of Meaning $45 This volume explores how gay men are facing up to and finding meaning in the AIDS crisis. |
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Lexical Meaning $32 The ideal introduction for students of semantics, this book provides the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning. |
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Meaning of Sex, The $24 An ethicist provides an engaging exploration of the meaning of sex and articulates a Christian ethic for addressing a host of sexual issues facing readers today. |
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Brand Meaning $29.95 Takes a comprehensive and holistic look at how consumers find and create meaning in brands. This book explores the fundamental conscious and unconscious elements that connect people with products and brands. It questions traditional marketing concepts, and offers an understanding of how brands can both assimilate and provide meaning. |
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Making Meaning $137 Presents a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that presents art as a meaning making process. This title includes chapters that integrate theory and research with stories of how professionals from various fields have transcended disciplinary boundaries to engage the arts as a meaning-making process for young children and for themselves. |
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Meaning Inc $20.78 Meaning, Inc. is about achieving happiness, motivation and performance at work for you and your organisation. Well-motivated people who are happy with their work and where they work are more likely to deliver high performance. People who work for organisations whose purpose they believe in are more likely to go the extra mile to help achieve that purpose. Yet modern organisations too often stifle the enthusiasm and skills of those who work for them. Instead of providing meaning, they prevent it. Meaning Inc. shows the way for organisations to provide meaning to their people through a clearly understood sense of purpose, unequivocal values and day-to-day leadership. This is joined-up business thinking for 21st century leaders and organisations. |
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The Meaning of Matthew $12.99 “A courageous, eloquent, and devoted mother…gives us all a greater understanding of Matthew and the larger meaning of his life.” -Senator Edward M. Kennedy Today, Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but until 1998, he was just Judy Shepard’s son. In The Meaning of Matthew , Judy Shepard confides how she handled her crippling loss in the public eye, the vigils and protests held by strangers in her son’s name, and ultimately how she and her husband gained the courage to help prosecutors convict her son’s murderers. Heart-wrenchingly honest, The Meaning of Matthew is an unforgettable and inspiring story, chronicling one ordinary woman’s struggle to cope with the unthinkable. |
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Meaning by Shakespeare $39.95 Terence Hawkes looks at King Lear, Measure for Measure, A Midsmmer Night’s Dream and Coriolanus , as examples from this century of how Shakespeare’s plays function as a language through which we generate meaning. |
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The Meaning of Masonry $4.99 This book discloses the real purpose of modern Masonry, and clearly states the true body of teaching and practice concerning the Esoteric meaning of Masonic Ritual. Written by a great mystic to promote a deeper understanding of the Fraternity. |
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Meaning in Suffering $63.05 Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, Meaning in Suffering addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professional |
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Surprised by Meaning $12.69 “We live in an age when the growth of the Internet has made it easier than ever to gain access to information and accumulate knowledge. But information is not the same as meaning, nor is knowledge identical with wisdom. Many people feel engulfed by a tsun |
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The Meaning of Tango $14.89 From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the riveting story of the dance that captivated the world—a tale of politics and passion, immigration, and romance. The Meaning of Tango traces the development of the dance, from |
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Meaning and Analysis $66.45 In this book, linguists and philosophers combine to offer a unique insight not only into Grice’s contribution to philosophy of language, but on his theories of natural and non-natural meaning, implicatures and the semantic-pragmatic distinction. |
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Meaning and Mystery $67.16 Meaning and Mystery offers a challenge to the way Philosophy has traditionally approached the issue of belief in God as a theoretical problem, proposing instead a form of reflection more appropriate to the practical nature of the issue. Makes use of abund |
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The Meaning of Nice $10.45 Discover the hidden power of nice. The Meaning of Nice is a multi-faceted exploration of a simple word and how it has developed over time and among various disciplines. With emphasis on philosophy, positive psychology and interpersonal relationships, Jo |
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The Meaning of Trees $14.89 The tree is beloved as Mother Nature’s visible symbol of power and grace. The Meaning of Trees is a beautiful celebration of their lore and spirit, botany and history. Genera from aspen to willow are captured in 70 dramatic photographs that illustrate the |
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The Meaning of Everything $14.92 Begun in 1857, the Oxford English Dictionary (fondly known as the O.E.D.) was finished in the 1920s, and has become the definitive source for the meaning and, more importantly, the etymology of every English word. Simon Winchester’s account of its history |
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The Meaning of Difference $75.31 The Meaning of Difference focuses on the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability. The conceptual structure of this text-reader comes |
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Money and Meaning $40 The first book of its kind to introduce a model to help you create conversations about money with your clients, Money and Meaning provides a framework and tools to provide a safe environment in which to have conversations and resolve conflicts. Written by a respected expert in business, financial, and relational issues, Money and Meaning is filled with useful case studies and helps you open the door to thoughtful conversations that explore and resolve money’s multiple meanings. |
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Meaning in Context $150 Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies ‘intelligently’, in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language technology, world Englishes and language evolution. This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics. |
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Verb Meaning and the Lexicon $36 Examines the relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences. |
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Colouring Meaning $143 Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations. |
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The Meaning of History $19.99 “>The Meaning of History is a concise look at the meaning of the history of the world from the viewpoints of major historians and philosophers. By examining the individual approaches of these great thinkers, this book takes on the monumental task of analyzing the history of humanity and its prospects for the future. The book studies not just the facts of history, but the personality and purpose of the vastly influential figures who shaped it. Is history constantly repeating itself, or is civilization evolving toward a predestined utopia? Is history in God’s hands, or does it depend on the whims of man? This informative book traces the arc of civilization from the New Testament all the way through to today. It will forever change the way you look at history and your individual place in it.” |
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Crisis of Meaning $54 Investigating what he views as an inseparable link between culture and politics, Trend analyzes how notions of patriotism, citizenship, community, and family are communicated within specific public and private institutions. He extends the meaning and purpose of pedagogy as a cultural practice outside the classroom, focusing on political activism in education, the mass media, and the art world. |
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Literal Meaning $25 Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is ‘literal meaning’? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? Franois Recanati defends ‘contextualism’ and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface. |
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Dynamics of Meaning $44 In The Dynamics of Meaning , Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework. Chapter 1 introduces the notion of dynamic semantics and discusses in detail the phenomena that have been used to motivate it, such as “donkey” sentences and adverbs of quantification. The second chapter explores in greater depth the interpretation of indefinites and issues related to presuppositions of uniqueness and the “E-type strategy.” In Chapter 3, Chierchia extends the dynamic approach to the domain of syntactic theory, considering a range of empirical problems that includes backwards anaphora, reconstruction effects, and weak crossover. The final chapter develops the formal system of dynamic semantics to deal with central issues of definites and presupposition. Chierchia shows that an approach based on a principled enrichment of the mechanisms dealing with meaning is to be preferred on empirical grounds over approaches that depend on an enrichment of the syntactic apparatus. Dynamics of Meaning illustrates how seemingly abstract stances on the nature of meaning can have significant and far-reaching linguistic consequences, leading to the detection of new facts and influencing our understanding of the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface. |
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The Quest for Meaning $17.92 How different do our various religions, philosophies and traditions of thought make us? And can we see past what divides us to discover what we have in common?In The Quest for Meaning, Tariq Ramadan, philosopher and Islamic scholar, sets out on a journey |
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The Meaning of 8 $12.03 On {^The Meaning of 8}, gears are switched from the distorted {\hip-hop} {\pop} of the last {$Enon}-flavored, {^Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus} to a less scatterbrained, more glossy {\indie-rock} album. While it may be a tad disappointing to have {$Cr |
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Meaning in the Blues $31.04 When Paul Oliver’s Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues was published, it was one of the first books to focus on the country blues from the 78-rpm era (which stretched from the 1920s through the very early ’50s) as a kind of black American folk m |
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The Meaning of Marriage $28.09 There has never been a marriage book like THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE. Based on the acclaimed sermon series by New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, this book shows everyone-Christians, skeptics, singles, long-time married couples, and those abo |
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Varieties of Meaning $15.68 Many different things are said to have meaning: people mean to do various things; tools and other artifacts are meant for various things; people mean various things by using words and sentences; natural signs mean things; representations in people’s minds |
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Movies and Meaning $77.36 This comprehensive introduction to the film industry focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. Movies and Meaning examines both how filmmak |
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Maps of Meaning $48.49 Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and the structure of the world itself? Maps of Meaning offers a provocative new hypothesis t |
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Language and Meaning $173 This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and Russian. The author presents a new and different analysis of these complex topics which proceeds from the levels of form to meaning rather than the traditional and generative methodologies that follow the opposite path from meaning to form. This book will be of interest to all linguists who have ever confronted the controversial question of the interaction between lexical exceptions and grammatical rules. The scope of this volume is rather broad and it compares and contrasts text grammar versus sentence grammar in an innovative way. |
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An Introduction to Meaning and Purpose in Analytical $37.5 Examines the relationship between analytical psychology and meaning, interpreting human suffering as arising from meaning disorders. |
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Renewing Meaning $125 At the birth of analytic philosophy Frege created a paradigm that is centrally important to how meaning has been understood in the twentieth century. Frege invented the now familiar distinctions of sense and force, of sense and reference, of concept and object. He introduced the conception of sentence meaning as residing in truth-conditions and argued that semantics is a normative enterprise distinct from psychology. Most importantly, he created modern quantification theory,engendering the idea that the syntactic and semantic forms of modern logic underpin the meanings of natural-language sentences. Stephen Barker undertakes to overthrow Frege's paradigm, rejecting all the above-mentioned features. The framework he offers is a speech-act-based approach to meaning in which semantics is entirely subsumed by pragmatics. In this framework: meaning resides in syntax and pragmatics; sentence-meanings are not propositions but speech-act types; word-meanings are not objects, functions, or properties, but again speech-act types; pragmatic phenomena one would expect not to figure in semantics, such as pretence, enter into the logical form of sentences; a compositional semantics is provided byshowing how speech-act types combine together to form complex speech-act types; the syntactic structures invoked are not those of quantifiers, open sentences, variables, variable-binding, etc., rather they are structures specific to speech-act forms, which link logical form and surface grammar veryclosely.According to Barker, a natural language – a system of thought – is an emergent entity that arises from the combination of simple intentional structures, and certain non-representational cognitive states. It is embedded in, and part of, a world devoid of normative facts qua extra-linguistic entities. The world, in which the system is embedded, is a totality of particular states of affairs. There is no logical complexity in re; it contains mereological complexity only. Some truths havetruth-makers, but others, logically complex truths, lack them. Nevertheless, the truth-predicate is univocal in meaning.Renewing Meaning is a radical, ambitious work which offers to transform the semantics of natural language. |
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What Is Meaning? $29.95 The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don’t exist, and truth conditions can’t provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world’s leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. Traditionally conceived, propositions are denizens of a “third realm” beyond mind and matter, “grasped” by mysterious Platonic intuition. As conceived here, they are cognitive-event types in which agents predicate properties and relations of things–in using language, in perception, and in nonlinguistic thought. Because of this, one’s acquaintance with, and knowledge of, propositions is acquaintance with, and knowledge of, events of one’s cognitive life. This view also solves the problem of “the unity of the proposition” by explaining how propositions can be genuinely representational, and therefore bearers of truth. The problem, in the traditional conception, is that sentences, utterances, and mental states are representational because of the relations they bear to inherently representational Platonic complexes of universals and particulars. Since we have no way of understanding how such structures can be representational, independent of interpretations placed on them by agents, the problem is unsolvable when so conceived. However, when propositions are taken to be cognitive-event types, the order of explanation is reversed and a natural solution emerges. Propositions are representational because they are constitutively related to inherently representational cognitive acts. Strikingly original, What Is Meaning? is a major advance. |
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Movement as Meaning $67.2 This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein’s concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference. He then develops a hyper-simplified formula of movement as meaning to discuss, with true equivalence, the process of reference as it occurs in natural language, technical language, poetic language, painting, photography, music, and of course, cinema. Barnett then applies his analytic technique to an original perspective on cine-poetics based on Paul Valery’s concept of omnivalence, and to a projection of how this style of analysis, derived from analog cinema, can help us clarify our view of the digital mediasphere and its relation to consciousness.Informed by the philosophy of Quine, Dennett, Merleau-Ponty as well as the later work of Wittgenstein, among others, he uses the film work of Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, A.K. Dewdney, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ken Jacobs, Owen Land, Saul Levine, Gregory Markopoulos Michael Snow, and the poetry of Basho, John Cage, John Cayley and Paul Valery to illustrate the power of his unique perspective on meaning. |
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Risk and Meaning $79.95 This richly illustrated book is an exploration of how chance and risk, on the one hand, and meaning or significance on the other, compete for the limelight in art, in philosophy, and in science. In modern society, prudence and probability calculation permeate our daily lives. Yet it is clear for all to see that neither cautious bank regulations nor mathematics have prevented economic crises from occurring time and again. Nicolas Bouleau argues that it is the meaning we assign to an event that determines the perceived risk, and that we generally turn a blind eye to this important fact, because the word "meaning" is itself awkward to explain. He tackles this fundamental question through examples taken from cultural fields ranging from painting, architecture, and music, to poetry, biology, and astronomy. This enables the reader to view overwhelming risks in a different light. Bouleau clarifies that the most important thing in a time of uncertainty is to think of prudence on a higher level, one that truly addresses the various subjective interpretations of the world. |
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Meaning of Love $21.59 Michelle McManus is the UK’s Pop Idol. Whittled down from thousands of wannabes, she survived the tantrums, the tears, the laughter & the joy to defy the bookies & take the crown. Her debut single ‘All This Time’ (which she performed with breathtaking brilliance on the final show) rocketed straight into number one & has built up nail-biting expectation for her album. ‘The Meaning Of Love’ is a mix of stunning musical gems that covers the whole pop spectrum & beyond. The ace single you’ll already know but it’s joined here by equally compelling songs including the storming – ‘When The World Is Not Enough’, ‘How Can Sorry Ever Mend A Broken Heart’ & ‘Cast The First Stone’. Michelle’s album is an accomplished debut that will begin her career on the highest of notes. Stunningly produced & containing fourteen potential No.1 singles, ‘The Meaning Of Love’ is an outstanding achievement from an outstanding new artist. BMG. 2004. |
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Meaning Of The Millennium $18 “Prof Clouse has brought together four proponents of the four major millennial views:each view has had both a long history and a host of Christian adherents through the years. George Ladd presents historic premillennialism. Hoyt writes on dispenstional premillennialism. Boettner retired theologian discusses the postmillennial view. And finally Hoekema describes the amillennial position. After each essay the other three writers respond from their own perspective. This book is a debate among key Christian scholars on the meaning of the millennium.” |
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The Meaning of Housing $39.95 This book offers a fresh new approach to the study of housing. Most current approaches tend to ignore or downplay the perceptions and attitudes of individuals in the production and consumption of housing. This book explores the meaning that housing has for individuals and households by examining 'housing pathways'. Although drawing on British experiences, the methodology and theoretical framework used are applicable to the study of housing in any national context. |
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Problem of Meaning Behavioural and Cognitive Perspectives $144.95 Problem of Meaning Behavioural and Cognitive Perspectives |
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CARONNA,FRANK ANTHONY: MEANING OF HAPPIN $9.93 CARONNA,FRANK ANTHONY: MEANING OF HAPPIN |
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Gathering the Meaning Arts of Arthaviniscaya Sutra $19.41 Gathering the Meaning Arts of Arthaviniscaya Sutra |
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Jumpy the Frog Learns the Meaning of Love $26.67 Jumpy the Frog Learns the Meaning of Love |
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Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture $47 Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture |
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The Ninth Karmapa’s Ocean of Definitive Meaning $13.22 The Ninth Karmapa’s Ocean of Definitive Meaning |
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John Paul II and the Meaning of Suffering $11.16 John Paul II and the Meaning of Suffering |
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Clanging Cymbals…and the Meaning of God’s Love $18.65 Clanging Cymbals…and the Meaning of God’s Love |
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The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry And Poetics $29.83 The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry And Poetics |
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The Meaning of Tingo $10.99 A divine gift for the word-obsesseda deliciously eccentric world tour of words that have no English equivalent The countless language freaks who’ve worn out their copies of Eats, Shoots and Leaves will find inexhaustible distraction in The Meaning of Tingo . Where else will they discover that Bolivians have a word that means I was rather too drunk last night and it’s all their fault? As for tingo , on Easter Island it means to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by borrowing them. Organized by themes such as food, the human body, and sex and love, this irresistible book combs through more than 254 languages in search of those gorgeous oddities that have no direct English counterpartwords so strange and apt that if they didn’t exist, they would have to be invented. Highlights from The Meaning of Tingo : * mencomet (Indonesian): stealing things of small value such as food or drinks, partly for fun * scheissbedauern (German): the disappointment one feels when something turns out not nearly as badly as one had hoped * mono-no-aware (Japanese): appreciating the sadness of existence * mahj (Persian): looking beautiful after disease * plimpplamppletteren (Dutch): the skimming of a flat stone as many times as possible across the surface of the water * koshatnik (Russian): a dealer in stolen cats * ava (Tahitian): wife (but also means whisky) |
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Thresholds of Meaning $125 Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and récits by Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau roman and drawing upon a shared repertoire of motifs and themes, engages with the complex processes by which meaning is produced in the referential world and, in particular, with the rituals and codes that social man brings into play in order to negotiate the various stages of the human life-cycle. By the application of theoretical concepts and models derived from anthropology and from visual studies, the study situates itself at the intersection of the developing field of literature and anthropology studies and research into word and image. |
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Meaning at the Movies $16.99 This illuminating book helps Christians think biblically and critically about the art and culture of film, moving beyond simple moral judgments to an understanding of deeper worldviews and philosophical meaning. Hollywood produces, packages, and sells hundreds of movies every year. Many of these movies propagate a distorted sense of morality and ethics. Under the surface of immoral behavior and unlawfulness, however, there can be deeper problems in Hollywood's messages. What are these stories telling the viewer about life, relationships, and God? What worldviews and ideas do they espouse? If Christians are to tread carefully at the theater complex, they need resources to help them. This book is just such a resource. By exploring the relationship between Christianity and art, the theology of biblical discernment, and a brief history of filmmaking, as well as through analysis of popular films, Meaning at the Movies equips readers for careful discernment in the cinema. The book does not simply list criteria for judging film art; instead it encourages Christians to develop biblical and critical discernment in regard to not only film, but all aspects of culture. |
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The Origins of Meaning $49.99 In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds. This is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and. communication. – ;In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they construct rich cognitive. representations of the world around them, and here, he shows, are the evolutionary seeds of abstract thought – the means of referring to objects, the memory of events, even elements of the propositional thinking philosophers have hitherto reserved for humans. What then, he asks, is the evolutionary path. between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds? Why don't apes communicate the richness of their thoughts to each other? Why do humans alone have a unique disposition to reveal their thoughts in complex detail? Professor Hurford searches a wide range of evidence for the answers to these central questions, including degrees of trust, the role of hormones, the ability to read minds, and the willingness to cooperate. Expressing himself congenially in consistently colloquial language the author builds up a vivid picture of how mind, language, and meaning evolved over millions of years. His book is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and communication. "A wonderful read – lucid, informative, and entertaining, while at the same time never talking down to the reader by sacrificing argumentation for the sake of 'simplicity'. Likely to be heralded as the major publication dealing with language evolution to date. Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington – ;we are fortunate when scholars like Hurford…offer us carefully constructed proposals based on years of toil… both accessible and respectful of the reader's intelligence. – N.J.Enfiled, Times Literary Supplement;very readable and satisfying book…admirably persuasive and thought provoking… – Grover Hudson, Linguistlist;Has Hurford achieved his goal of describing the evolutionary foundations of language? Yes, elegantly and in accomplished detail. – Nature;valuable – Roy Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement;A wonderful read – lucid, informative, and entertaining, wh |
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Meaning of Wilderness $25 Despite the enduring popularity of The Singing Wilderness, Listening Point, Reflections from the North Country, and his other books, a major portion of Sigurd F. Olson’s wilderness writingmuch of it originating as speecheshas been relatively inaccessible, scattered in a number of magazines and obscure books over a period of more than fifty years, or never published at all. The Meaning of Wilderness gathers together the most important of Olson’s articles and speeches, making them available in one place for the first time. The book also contains an introduction and chapter-by-chapter commentary by Olson’s authorized biographer, David Backes, that help the reader discover the various facets of Olson’s wilderness philosophy and their development over time. |
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Roil Meaning $29.59 Roil is a collaboration between pianist chris abrahams (the necks), bassist mike majkowski (splinter orchestra), and drummer james waples (three omegas). Formed in 2007, the sydney based trio has been developing its own approach to jazz improvisation. ‘meaning’ is its first release and was recorded in one uninterrupted session on the 2nd of april 2008. There is a controlled elegance to roil’s music – not that this precludes the energetic. The music has an eddying quality that moves between group utterance and multi-stranded counterpoint, a weaving of textures that coagulate to form unified phrases before dispersing once more into the churning invention. Tracklisting: 1. Foal2. Gasdia3. Fauna of the tiles4. Food and board5. I am into6. A jade |
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Bad Meaning Good $10 Bad Meaning Good – Slakah The Beat Child ft. Drake |
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Logic, Meaning, and Conversation $109.99 This look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics – a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts. |
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The Meaning of Sunglasses $12.99 With subscriptions nearing 1.2 million, Vogue magazine proves that if there’s anything a fashionista enjoys as much as shopping, it’s reading about fashion. With both an insider’s relish and a layman’s exasperation, The Meaning of Sunglasses offers an encyclopedia of style that celebrates the joys, the silliness, and the occasional insanity of this relentlessly fascinating world. Quick-witted and blisteringly self-aware, fashion journalist Hadley Freeman conjures her inner Bridget Jones to ask and answer the field’s burning questions: just how much animal print is too much? What makes Karl Lagerfield so nail-bitingly fabulous? How does one explain skinny jeans? Anyone with a slight to obsessive interest in fashion will revel in Freeman’s gleeful, but always satirical, indulgence in all things fashion. |
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Meaning in Mathematics $34.95 Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality? Why does this seemingly abstract discipline provide the key to unlocking the deep secrets of the physical universe? How one answers these questions will significantly influence metaphysical thinking about reality. This book is intended to fill a gap between popular 'wonders of mathematics' books and the technical writings of the philosophers of mathematics. The chapters are written by some of the world's finest mathematicians, mathematical physicists and philosophers of mathematics, each giving their perspective on this fascinating debate. Every chapter is followed by a short response from another member of the author team, reinforcing the main theme and raising further questions.Accessible to anyone interested in what mathematics really means, and useful for mathematicians and philosophers of science at all levels, Meaning in Mathematics offers deep new insights into a subject many people take for granted. |
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The Meaning of Wife $9.99 “One part The Beauty Myth . . . and one part Backlash”*–a provocative exploration of who and what a wife really is. There is a wife crisis in North America, a brewing storm of conflicting forces swirling around what it means to be a wife at the beginning of the 21st Century. The word is so fraught with ambiguity that it has become a litmus test, eliciting from women emotions ranging from longing to antipathy, anxiety to derision. This crisis is at the heart of Anne Kingston’s The Meaning of Wife . Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, Kingston takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the wedding industrial complex, which elevates the bride to a potent consumer icon; through the recent romanticization of domesticity; and across the conflicted terrain of wifely sexuality. She looks at “wife backlash,” and the new wave of neo-traditionalism that urges women to marry before their “best-before” dates expire; explores the apotheosis of abused wives and the strange celebration of wives who kill; and muses on the fact that Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, two of the world’s wealthiest and most influential women, are both non-wives whose success has hinged on thier understanding of wives. The result is an entertaining mix of social, sexual, historical, and economic commentary that is bound to stir debate even as it reframes our view of both women and marriage. |
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Meaning in the Static $10.38 Seattle’s On the Last Day come from the same local scene that spawned fellow Victory Records act Aiden. Not only are the two bands good friends from those early days, they both also look pretty similar in their dark garb, heavy eyeliner usage, and morose faces. So it may come as no shock that the bands also have a relatively similar sound — emphasis on relative, though, since On the Last Day are much more rooted in post-hardcore than their goth-melodic-screamo peers. The band’s sonic assault is like an early, more uniform version of Boy Sets Fire; lead singer Geoffrey Walker at times even sounds disturbingly similar to Nathan Gray. These comparisons aside, there’s not really much to say about On the Last Day or their Victory debut, Meaning in the Static. Though the pace stays pretty quick, somehow 11 songs in about 40 minutes becomes a bit tedious. There’s nothing inherently bad about the music and the band actually comes off as way more likable than initial, superficial opinions may have suggested. The drums propel everything along fiercely as the vocals switch up from quasi-singing to grueling shrieking and requisite heavy breakdowns are thrown in when necessary; the production is also not overly slick, allowing the band’s relative grit to shine through. Overall, it’s a competent take on post-hardcore that comes in, does its thing, and leaves without really adding much along the way — there’s just something missing in Meaning in the Static that ultimately makes it a decent but frustrating record. After all, indifference is not usually what bands aspire to leave their listeners feeling, right? ~ Corey Apar, Rovi Performers: Brian Johnson – Vocals (Background); John Humphrey – Vocals (Background); Nathaniel Walker – Vocals (Background); Aaron Johnson – Bass |
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Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely $10 Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely – Backstreet Boys |
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The Meaning of I $45.89 Many heavy metal bands dabble in electronic and even dance music ingredients, but Australia’s Voyager indulge in both so thoroughly (not quite 50/50, but close) that it’s often hard to tell which one takes precedence in the songwriting process. None of this will matter to open-minded headbangers, of course, but it should be mentioned since even the heavier material found on the band’s fourth album, The Meaning of I (e.g. “Momentary Relapse of Pain,” “Fire of the Times,” “Are You Shaded?”), is invariably slathered in synthesizer parts and will frequently swap guitars for purely electronic passages. Another point of contention lies with singer Daniel “‘Nephil’” Estrin, whose lyrics range from intriguing philosophy (the title cut and others) to ham-fisted poetry or tired clichés (“Seize the Day”), while his vocals themselves are generally just good, not great (notably on “Broken”). But, on the occasions when everything finally gels, Voyager deliver some memorable stuff, including “Stare into the Night” (an obvious first single delineating the group’s vision, capped by massive hooks), “The Pensive Disarray” (a classy mid-paced number ignited by Queen’s “We Will Rock You” drumbeat but sharing nothing else in common), and “Iron Dream” (an emotional tribute to deceased Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele). And the strongest lingering impression is that, although Voyager’s hybrid style may still require some maturation for some, or totally fail to connect with a large portion of the traditional metal audience, the band is creating something rather unique nevertheless. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, Rovi |
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The Search for Meaning in Nostalgia $13.99 “The Search for Meaning in Nostalgia reflects Patricia Looker’s gift in connecting with people of all levels. I have first-hand knowledge of her work and level of dedication-The Search for Meaning in Nostalgia triumphs in representing her commitment.” |
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The Meaning of Dwelling Features $79 Relates the research areas of housing preferences and the meaning of a dwelling with each other and with aspects of the means-end approach as applied in marketing research. This study presents the model that relates preferences for the features of a dwelling to the meaning they have for people. |
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Aspects of Meaning Construction $165 Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive principles. The contributions collected in the volume focus on two types of cognitive principles guiding meaning construction: meaning construction by means of metonymy and metaphor, and meaning construction by means of mental spaces and conceptual blending. The papers in the former group survey experiential evidence of figurative meaning construction and discuss high-level metaphor and metonymy, the role of metonymy in discourse, the chaining of metonymies, metonymy as an alternative to coercion, and metaphtonymic meanings of proper names. The papers in the latter group address the issues of meaning construction prompted by personal pronouns, relative clauses, inferential constructions, sort-of expressions, questions, and the into- causative construction. |
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How to Think About Meaning $130.67 According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. Classical truth-conditional semantics is coming under increasing attack, h |
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Meaning, Discourse and Society $79.15 “This book is about meaning. Arguably no society as ever been so concerned with meaning than the one in which we live. Never have people felt such an urge to make sense of the world they live in and of the lives they are leading. They find this sense not |
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My Meaning in Scripture $9.99 My Meaning in Scripture is a dialogoue of clarity, a compilation of versers from the Bible and clarifications from A Course In Miracles. |
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Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition $173 This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the other, creates a framework for studying the interactive and social dimensions of the development of meaning in linguistic communication. Through an experientialist approach based on connectionist models, the author shows that by internalizing pragmatic meaning people become social agents who reproduce, challenge or change their social parameters during interaction. Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition is suitable as a course book in Pragmatics and Semantics and of interest to those concerned with cognitive models and dynamic and social aspects of linguistic communication. |
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The Management of Meaning in Organizations $90 Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead. |
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Meaning and Moral Order $31.95 Meaning and Moral Order goes beyond classical, neoclassical, and poststructural theories of culture in its attempt to move away from problems of meaning to a more objective concept of culture. Innovative, controversial, challenging, it will compel scholars to rethink many of the assumptions on which the study of ideology, ritual, religion, science, and culture have been based. |
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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning $58 This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, particularly the idea of absolute music. It shows how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning of instrumental music, and how instrumental music in turn permeates human discourse and helps construct meaning. |
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Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life $11.03 Winner of the 1983 Cannes Special Jury Award, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life features the English troupe’s comedic view of life from birth to death. |
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A Pocket Guide to the Meaning of Life $6.95 “The meaning of life.>You can’t buy it, steal it, borrow it.>You have to discover it.>Best-selling Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft has written a short, thoughtful guide to help you on your journey. Kreeft lays out God’s answers to your questions with a simplicity and directness that will help you find that meaning, and share that meaning with others. God’s answers are not complicated or secret. They simply need to be accepted and made your own. This pocket guide will help you do just that.” |
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The Meaning of Christmas $9.95 “Familiar nursery-rhyme characters help tell the story of God’s greatest gift to the world on that first Christmas night. Charming drawings make the Bible story of the birth of Jesus come to life and create a delightful experience for childern. Jean Phillips, author of two other books, is a retired Southern Baptist career missionary to Africa. She is the mother of four and grandmother of seven. She lives in South Carolina. Amy Harvey is an illustrator living in Texas.” |
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The Meaning of the City $21 “no description” |
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The Meaning of Revelation $12 “This reissue of a twentieth century classic by H. Richard Niebuhr emphasizes an understanding of God’s revelation that takes seriously both the Bible itself and modern ideas about the nature of history. The book argues that God’s revelation is ?confessional history.? The source and setting of basic Christian convictions lie within a historical framework. By his focus on revelation as personal experience, Niebuhr served as the igniting force for views of future theological movements that are still prevalent more than forty years after his death. First published in 1941, this masterful work is now enhanced with a new foreword by Douglas F. Ottati, which sets Niebuhr’s work in the context of his other writings and explores the significance of this book.” |
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Meaning of Faith $15.99 “Faith, as Charles Price came to describe it, is a journey into the unseen, but it leads to the heavenly vision. What does that mean? How does faith work? How do I get it? What about healingand miracles? What do I do when I face insurmountable difficulties and reason cries, “Give it up You can’t fight the inevitable”?Faith may be sometimes mysterious in its processes; it may feel like a leap into the dark; but it lands you in the light and always proves itself true. Faith opens its ear to the voice of an eternal Father as He calls upon His children to trust Him. If you want to discover an unshakable faith that knows that Jesus Christ is always for you and with you, this book is for you.” |
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The Meaning of the Revelation $36 “no description” |
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The Gospel of St. John $7.99 Used – During Whitsun 1908, seven years after he had given the world the first intimation of the consequences of his turn-of-the-century Christ-experience in Christianity as Mystical Fact, Rudolf Steiner began his great task of renewing humanity’s understanding of the true meaning of the Mystery of Golgotha. Accordingly, he turned to the deepest, most spiritual Gospel: that of the Initiate, St. John. In this lecture cycle, readers will find that the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Div |
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The great taboo $10.26 Used – Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG – - “Man overboard!” It rang in Felix Thurstan’s ears like the sound of a bell. He gazed about him in dismay, wondering what had happened. The first intimation he received of the accident was that sudden sharp cry from the bo’sun’s mate. Almost before he had fully taken it in, in all its meaning, another voice, farther aft, took up |
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The great taboo $29.21 New – Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG – - “Man overboard!” It rang in Felix Thurstan’s ears like the sound of a bell. He gazed about him in dismay, wondering what had happened. The first intimation he received of the accident was that sudden sharp cry from the bo’sun’s mate. Almost before he had fully taken it in, in all its meaning, another voice, farther aft, took up |
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The great taboo $10.26 New – Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG – - “Man overboard!” It rang in Felix Thurstan’s ears like the sound of a bell. He gazed about him in dismay, wondering what had happened. The first intimation he received of the accident was that sudden sharp cry from the bo’sun’s mate. Almost before he had fully taken it in, in all its meaning, another voice, farther aft, took up |
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The great taboo $29.21 Used – Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG – - “Man overboard!” It rang in Felix Thurstan’s ears like the sound of a bell. He gazed about him in dismay, wondering what had happened. The first intimation he received of the accident was that sudden sharp cry from the bo’sun’s mate. Almost before he had fully taken it in, in all its meaning, another voice, farther aft, took up |
