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![Transient and Strange Notes on the Science of Life [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0410/50/076a78eed3ab4435177562786bba0c50.jpeg) Free Download Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CY3H2TGW | 2024 | 6 hours and 25 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 176 MB Author: Nell Greenfieldboyce Narrator: Nell Greenfieldboyce In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers, and signs of life on Venus. In this, her debut book, she delivers a wholly original collection of powerful, emotionally raw, and unforgettable personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with an almost devotional attention to the natural world, Greenfieldboyce grapples with the weighty dualities of life: birth and death, constancy and impermanence, memory and doubt, love and aging. She looks for a connection to the universe by embarking on a search for the otherworldly glint of a micrometeorite in the dust, consults meteorologists and storm chasers on the eerie power of tornadoes to soothe her children's anxieties, and processes her adolescent oblivion through the startling discovery of black holes. A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.  Free Download The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark By Mikhail Naimy 2011 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1907486402 | PDF | 1 MB Mikhail Naimy's timeless classic, an allegory often compared to the works of his friend Khalil Gibran, presents the teachings of Mirdad, abbott of a monastery that stands where Noah's Ark came to rest after the Flood. In a series of dialogues with his disciples, Mirdad offers lessons on themes such as love, obedience, borrowing and lending, repentance, old age, and the cycle of life and death. Reissued for a new generation, this prophetic work calls on humankind to prepare for another deluge, greater than Noah's, when Heaven will be revealed on Earth. Includes a new foreword by Andrew Harvey, author of the bestsellingA Journey in Ladakhand several other seminal works of spirituality!  Free Download Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization By Grace Kyungwon Hong, Roderick A. Ferguson (eds.) 2011 | 379 Pages | ISBN: 082234985X | PDF | 4 MB Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the "strange affinities," afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations. The nationalist and identity-based concepts of race underlying the mid-twentieth-century movements for decolonization and social change are not adequate to the tasks of critiquing the racial configurations generated by neocolonialism and contesting its inequities. Contemporary regimes of power produce racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence and labor exploitation, and they render subjects redundant and disposable by creating new, nominally nonracialized categories of privilege and stigma. The editors of Strange Affinities contend that the greatest potential for developing much-needed alternative comparative methods lies in women of color feminism, and the related intellectual tradition that Roderick A. Ferguson has called queer of color critique. Exemplified by the work of Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, Barbara Smith, and the Combahee River Collective, these critiques do not presume homogeneity across racial or national groups. Instead, they offer powerful relational analyses of the racialized, gendered, and sexualized valuation and devaluation of human life.
![Strange Religion How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0324/30/54d1c8bbbeb0a95170e2e87fd4c84c30.jpeg) Free Download Nijay K. Gupta (Author, Narrator), "Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling" English | ASIN: B0CWVTY32B | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:48:00 | 196 MB The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions of the ancient world. Award-winning author, blogger, speaker, and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context in this accessible and engaging book. Christianity would have been seen as radical in the Roman world, but some found this new religion attractive and compelling. The first Christians dared to be different, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable, transformed how people thought about religion, and started a movement that grew like wildfire. This book shows how the example of the earliest Christians can offer today's believers encouragement and hope.  Free Download Allan Brown, "Nileism: The Strange Course of The Blue Nile" English | 2011 | pages: 318 | ASIN: B006WB2BGC | EPUB | 0,4 mb Next year sees the 30th anniversary of The Blue Nile's first work together. Four albums - containing a total of just 33 songs - have followed since. Yet scarcity has served only to intensify love for the band's intensely romantic songs.
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