Resultados para "An Encounter" en Política y ciencias sociales

During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book, author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. A momentous work by one of Europe's most eminent historians, Unfabling the East takes listeners on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores, bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.

This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than 200 times in the text. This is a courageous memoir that wrestles with the historic stain of racism and the ongoing impact of racist language in postmodern society. The book is about Harris' flashbacks, conversations, and dilemmas spawned by use of the epithet in a classroom setting where the author was the only Black person.

But none of it works. Because only one thing will bring us the joy, peace, purpose, and significance we desire: a relationship with the God of heaven. An intimate relationship, one that is real and true. But for that kind of relationship, we must embark on a journey to encounter him personally. In his new book Odyssey, Justin Camp offers a practical, scriptural field guide for men who are ready to walk this ancient path. The book is built around six short biographies, real-life stories of great American astronauts.

This book is about evil, more specifically, one person’s chance encounter with evil, an encounter that ended up destroying the rest of his life. The dark secret involved in that encounter also resulted in a family taboo, one that lasted long after the person who had that encounter with evil had passed away.

Across the globe there are tales of lake and sea monsters stretching back in time for thousands of years. They have many names, but one in particular has captured the imagination of the world like no other - the Loch Ness Monster. From the 7th Century right up until our modern period, sightings of large lake beasts have been common at this remote Scottish Highland Loch. There have been pictures, footage, sonar evidence, and expert eyewitness accounts, and yet nothing totally explains the mystery - until now.

The Rendlesham Forest Incident is one of the most amazing incidents in UFO History. In December 1980, an unprecedented series of sightings and the actual landing of a craft (or multiple craft) of unknown origin occurred in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. The base was used by the U.S. Air Force during this period; therefore dozens of USAF personnel were eyewitnesses to these events as they occurred over a two- to three-day period.

This book tells a remarkable true story of bureaucratic assassination during the Trump presidency, revealing in vivid detail how career federal employees thwarted President Trumps efforts to drain the swamp. Mark Moyar, a senior political appointee at the US Agency for International Development, discovered evidence of corruption involving five career bureaucrats and reported it to agency officials in 2018.

From the bestselling author of Communion comes the mysterious true story of how an unknown visitor barged into Streiber's hotel room late one night--and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal development and man's fate that challenge us to rethink every assumption about the meaning of life...

Violent situations are dramatically escalating in the West. There is no assured way of preventing them, no way to avoid them, and no way to ensure success when encountering them. It is a problem for which there is only one solution. It is a solution that whispers to us in every facet of our lives: We must be confident of who we are in light of a greater vision. Here, Burns describes real readiness for the active shooter, the serial killer, or the intruder who invades your life. Perhaps even more importantly, Burns calls forth a deep understanding of who we are.

Today's policing demands excellence. It's time to replace the checkerboard for the chessboard. Excellence in Policing answers some of the toughest questions facing policing in the 21st century. You will learn simple ways to exceed citizen expectations in every encounter that will keep you and our citizens safer. We can increase mutual respect and understanding by learning and applying the concepts of procedural justice, police legitimacy, the difference between authority and power, the power of influence, and more.

But what is inspiration? When we train artists, we typically identify them by their talent and train them in technique. We talk very little about the crucial creative spark of inspiration. Where does it come from? What does it want from us? How can we get more of it? In The Discipline of Inspiration, Carey Wallace meditates on this vital spark and on the ways artists have negotiated with it across genres and throughout history.

Starkey founder and CEO Bill Austin has always had a passion for helping others. Listen to his private confessions and why....he believes himself be an angel....