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Amos Gitai fuses Biblical tales of exile with the legend of the Golem into a parable for our time The famous story of a patriarch whose sons are murdered and whose widow forges an enduring friendship with her daughterinlaw Ruth
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This is the fifth annual volume of the remarkably popular journal of biblical theology edited by Scott Hahn and his St Paul Center for Biblical Theology This volume features important new works by Hahn Brant Pitre Matthew Levering and Robert Barron among others The issue explores the biblical themes of Church and state idolatry and power religion and violence worship and sacrifice the Kingdom of God and the Eucharist Highlights include Hahns new essay on the prophetic historiography of 1 and 2 Chronicles and Pitres essay on Jesus the Messianic Banquet and the Kingdom of God The journal which always seeks to reprint classic texts alongside groundbreaking new works this time includes a new translation of St Thomas Aquinas Lectures on 2 Thessalonians the first time this work has been translated into English Also included are an influential work by Louis Bouyer on Satan and Christ in the New Testament and Early Tradition The volume concludes with a classic homily by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now Pope Benedict XVI on the morality of exile
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About Exiles Cornell Capa once wrote Koudelkas unsentimental stark brooding intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the night In this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1988 classic which includes ten new images and a new commentary with Robert Delpire Koudelkas work once more forms a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile The sense of private mystery that fills these photographsmostly taken during Koudelkas many years of wandering through Europe and Great Britain since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968speaks of passion and reserve of his rage to see Solitary moving deeply felt and strangely disturbing the images in Exiles suggest alienation disconnection and love Exiles evokes some of the most compelling and troubling themes of the twentieth century while resonating with equal force in this current moment of profound migrations and transience
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In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia Jean M Langford repeatedly met with spirits the wandering souls of the seriously ill dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence restless ancestors displaced from their homes For these emigrants the dead not only appear in memories safely ensconced in the past but also erupt with a physical force into the daily life and dreams of the presentInspired by these conversations Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead At their heart as Langfords work reveals emigrants stories are parables not of cultural difference but rather of life and death Langford inquires how and why spirits become implicated in remembering and responding to violence whether the bloody violence of war or the more structural violence of social marginalization and poverty What is at stake she asks when spirits break out of their usual confinement as symbolic figures for history heritage or trauma to haunt the corridors of hospitals and funeral homes Emigrants theories and stories of ghosts Langford suggests inherently question the metaphorical status of spirits in the process challenging both contemporary bioethics of dying and dominant styles of mourning Consoling Ghosts explores the possibilities opened up by a more literal existence of ghosts from the confrontation of shades of past violence through bodily ritual to rites of mourning that unfold in acts of material care for the dead instead of memorializationUltimately the book invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death conducting relationships with the dead and dying and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds
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About Exiles Cornell Capa once wrote Koudelkas unsentimental stark brooding intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the night In this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1988 classic which includes ten new images and a new commentary with Robert Delpire Koudelkas work once more forms a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile The sense of private mystery that fills these photographsmostly taken during Koudelkas many years of wandering through Europe and Great Britain since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968speaks of passion and reserve of his rage to see Solitary moving deeply felt and strangely disturbing the images in Exiles suggest alienation disconnection and love Exiles evokes some of the most compelling and troubling themes of the twentieth century while resonating with equal force in this current moment of profound migrations and transience
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Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate a wanderer living and working in Paris New York and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn But exile argues T J Demos in this innovative reading is more than a fact in Duchamps biography Exilein the artists own words a spirit of expatriationinfuses Duchamps entire artistic practice Duchamps readymade constructions his installations for surrealist exhibitions in Paris and New York and his portable museum the suggestively named La boîteenvalise Demos writes all manifest define and exploit the terms of exile in multiple ways Created while the artist was living variously in New York Buenos Aires and occupied France during the global catastrophes of war and fascism these works express the anguish of displacement and celebrate the freedom of geopolitical homelessness The portable museum a suitcase containing miniature reproductions of Duchamps works for example represented a complex meditationboth critical and joyfulon modern arts tendency toward itinerancy whereas Duchamps 1942 installation design entangling a New York gallery in a mile of string announced the dislocated status that many exiled surrealists wished to forget Duchamps exile writes Demos defines a new ethics of independent life in the modern age of nationalism and advanced capitalism offering a precursor to our own globalized world of nomadic subjects and dispersed experience
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In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia Jean M Langford repeatedly met with spirits the wandering souls of the seriously ill dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence restless ancestors displaced from their homes For these emigrants the dead not only appear in memories safely ensconced in the past but also erupt with a physical force into the daily life and dreams of the presentInspired by these conversations Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead At their heart as Langfords work reveals emigrants stories are parables not of cultural difference but rather of life and death Langford inquires how and why spirits become implicated in remembering and responding to violence whether the bloody violence of war or the more structural violence of social marginalization and poverty What is at stake she asks when spirits break out of their usual confinement as symbolic figures for history heritage or trauma to haunt the corridors of hospitals and funeral homes Emigrants theories and stories of ghosts Langford suggests inherently question the metaphorical status of spirits in the process challenging both contemporary bioethics of dying and dominant styles of mourning Consoling Ghosts explores the possibilities opened up by a more literal existence of ghosts from the confrontation of shades of past violence through bodily ritual to rites of mourning that unfold in acts of material care for the dead instead of memorializationUltimately the book invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death conducting relationships with the dead and dying and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds
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Koudelkas unsentimental stark brooding intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the nightCornell CapaIn 1988 Josef Koudelka published what was to become one of his most famous and canonical series Exiles These gorgeously austere blackandwhite images described the travels and everyday life of the peoples he encountered while roaming Europe Josef Koudelka The Making of Exiles is an exploration of the genesis and the making of this photographic journeyEnhanced by numerous photographs that have never been publishedin particular the photographers selfportraitsand captions by Koudelka it includes numerous archival documents such as reproductions of his travel journals thumbnail reproductions of the books layout an introduction by curator Clément Chéroux and an essay by photohistorian Michel Frizot who spent hours interviewing KoudelkaJosef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938 Initially an aeronautic engineer he launched full time into photography in the late sixties In 1968 he photographed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia publishing the results under the pseudonym PP Prague Photographer Koudelka left Czechoslovakia in 1970 and was briefly stateless before obtaining political asylum in England Shortly afterwards he joined Magnum Photos In 1975 he published Gypsies Koudelka has exhibited at the MoMA and at the International Centre of Photography in New York at the Hayward Gallery in London the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
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Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate a wanderer living and working in Paris New York and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn But exile argues T J Demos in this innovative reading is more than a fact in Duchamps biography Exilein the artists own words a spirit of expatriationinfuses Duchamps entire artistic practice Duchamps readymade constructions his installations for surrealist exhibitions in Paris and New York and his portable museum the suggestively named La boîteenvalise Demos writes all manifest define and exploit the terms of exile in multiple ways Created while the artist was living variously in New York Buenos Aires and occupied France during the global catastrophes of war and fascism these works express the anguish of displacement and celebrate the freedom of geopolitical homelessness The portable museum a suitcase containing miniature reproductions of Duchamps works for example represented a complex meditationboth critical and joyfulon modern arts tendency toward itinerancy whereas Duchamps 1942 installation design entangling a New York gallery in a mile of string announced the dislocated status that many exiled surrealists wished to forget Duchamps exile writes Demos defines a new ethics of independent life in the modern age of nationalism and advanced capitalism offering a precursor to our own globalized world of nomadic subjects and dispersed experience
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Koudelkas unsentimental stark brooding intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit the very essence of an exile who is at home wherever his wandering body finds haven in the nightCornell CapaIn 1988 Josef Koudelka published what was to become one of his most famous and canonical series Exiles These gorgeously austere blackandwhite images described the travels and everyday life of the peoples he encountered while roaming Europe Josef Koudelka The Making of Exiles is an exploration of the genesis and the making of this photographic journeyEnhanced by numerous photographs that have never been publishedin particular the photographers selfportraitsand captions by Koudelka it includes numerous archival documents such as reproductions of his travel journals thumbnail reproductions of the books layout an introduction by curator Clément Chéroux and an essay by photohistorian Michel Frizot who spent hours interviewing KoudelkaJosef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938 Initially an aeronautic engineer he launched full time into photography in the late sixties In 1968 he photographed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia publishing the results under the pseudonym PP Prague Photographer Koudelka left Czechoslovakia in 1970 and was briefly stateless before obtaining political asylum in England Shortly afterwards he joined Magnum Photos In 1975 he published Gypsies Koudelka has exhibited at the MoMA and at the International Centre of Photography in New York at the Hayward Gallery in London the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
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Harboring a dark secret Muriel who is hidden inside the protective walls of Dun Farriage during a fierce storm sees the face of a powerful exile fighting for his life and freedom in her water mirror leading her to believe that this mysterious visitor might be the key to her redemption Original
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R to L Japanese Style Epilogue IVHao wants Spirit of Fire to consume the Golem for its manawith young Salerm still inside Yoh will do what it takes to save her but also must fight off the Golem and the ghost of Ludsevs father With this many attackers Yoh could seriously use the help of a frienda friend like Joco and his powerful new Over Soul
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THE CRYSTAL DESERT is the third book in the Guardian Cycle a sweeping fantasy epic from one of the best new storytellers in the genreTerrels destiny is far from clear In exile from his home he journeys through a hostile world with only the spirits from an earlier life and his instincts to guide himHaving crossed two oceans Terrel finds himself in Misrah A harsh and barren desert land survival there is a daily struggle for its nomadic tribes But Misrah is also a place of many wonders where superstition is as important as the constant search for water For Terrel his magical talents may be all that can save him And lead him one step closer to discovering the truth of the mysterious prophecies in the Tindaya Code For more information on this or any other Orbit book visit the Orbit website at wwwworbitbookscouk
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One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books mostly with small presses and this publication of her selected poems is a major event Howes theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation Boston is the setting of some of the early poems and Ireland the birthplace of Howes mother is the home of OClock a spiritually piquant series of short poems included in Selected Poems The metaphysics and the physics of this world play off each other in these poems and there is a toughness to Howes unique fertile nervousness of spirit Her spare style makes a nest for the soul Zero built a nest in my navel Incurable Longing Blood too From violent actions Its a nest belonging to one But zero uses it And its pleasure is its ownfrom The Quietist
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Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize 2006Kamau Brathwaites newest work Born to Slow Horses is a series of poetic meditations on islands and exile language and ritual and the force of personal and historical passions and griefs These poems are haunted figuratively and literally by spirits of the African diaspora and drenched in the colors sounds and rhythms of the islands But they also encompass the world of the exile and return and the events of 911 in New York City Brathwaite is one of the foremost voices in postcolonial inquiry and expression and his poetry is densely rooted and expansiveUsing his unusual sycorax signature typography and spelling Brathwaite brings a cultural specificity with distinct accents sonic gestures and pronunciations into his pagesmaking them new exciting and rich in nuances
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Despite the return of the Hebrews from the Babylonian exile selfishness apathy and despair crippled their community spirit In response to this distress God raised up three prophetic voices in Jerusalem Haggai rallied the people to rebuild the Second Temple Zechariah was given visions of the return of the glory of the Lord to Zion Malachi preached repentance covenant justice and restoration of proper temple worship Andrew Hills excellent commentary on these oracles shows how they remain timely for the Christian churchs worship and mission in the world
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A new verse translation of the most famous work of a witty irreverent Roman poet captures the mischievous spirit of this man of letters who wrote candid poems about love and suffered a death in exile
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Irish music transcends all national boundaries and yet expresses intensely the spirit of the place that longing of all exiles for their home country For the story of Irish music is also the story of centurieslong emigration to especially America and England With a blend of social history interviews with musicians and analysis of technique this book attempts to chart some of those journeys to visit some of the places reached the Appalachians Chicago New York London and to provide an account of how Irish music eventually wound its way back home again enriched reinvigorated and changed Way back Irish traditional music belonged to remote rural communities the hauntingly beautiful sean nos unaccompanied songs sung in Irish the ballads the jigs reels slides and polkas taught by itinerant dancing masters But it was in America that Irish music reinvented itself to meet the musical needs of the New World and 20thcentury technology also sent it off in new directions to meld with rock country pop electric folk blues and the avantgarde This book chronicles those transformations from the Clancy Brothers and Bob Dylan Planxty and Clannad to the Pogues Van Morrison U2 Sinead OConnor and Christy Moore and to John Cages Roaratorio It aims to show too how modern music has been alchemized by the use of traditional Irish techniques and instruments like the bodhran the harp and the uilleann pipes to form that unique sound that is so unmistakably Irish The book ties in with a BBC2 television series in March and April 1991
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Lama Wangdu Rinpoche is a contemporary practitioner of the Buddhist Chöd tradition This autobiography is a delightful portrait of a great meditation master during his personal trials in feudal Tibet and his life in exile The essence of the book is the authors spirit of evergiving generosity and wisdom as a Buddhist teacher and healer A true inspiration in todays world This autobiography is supplemented by teachings on the transference of consciousness and Kusuli Chöd practice
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Hugh Masekela is a giant of jazz and a pioneer in bringing the voice and spirit of Africa to the West but his wild and moving tale transcends the world of music A South African exile he landed in New York where he was adopted by bebop heroes like Dizzy Gillespie and soon fell headfirst into the raucous swirl of 1960s America During the thirtyyear pilgrimage that followed he stumbled into adventure after adventure whether battling Don King over the Rumble in the Jungle concert finding himself on the wrong side of revolutions all over West Africa loving some of the most beautiful and volatile women in the world or battling for the destruction of apartheid When he finally returned to a free South Africa he found the strength to confront the personal demons that tracked him around the world and discovered a new measure of peace at home Unfolding against one of the most inspiring political transformations of the twentieth century this is the engrossing chronicle of a remarkable oneofakind musical life
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