Author: Dalya Cohen-Mor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: fate, modern, arabic, literature, reflected, world, concept, arab, matter
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-05
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195133986
ISBN-13: 9780195133981
Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. She contends that belief in fate has retained its vitality and continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs’ outlook on life and their social psychology. Interwoven with the chapters are 16 modern short stories that further illuminate this fascinating topic.
Author: Alison Leslie Gold
Publisher: Scholastic
Keywords: hero, holocaust, sugihara, chiune, fate, special
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0590395254
ISBN-13: 9780590395250
Award-winning author Alison Gold presents the little-know story of Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who risked everything to save the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Sugihara chose to issure visas to Jews escaping Lithuania, despite the fact that his superiors strictly forbade him to do so. For the first time ever, his unforgettable story, as well as the stories of those he saved, are made accessible to adolescent readers.
Author: Nicholas Jon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Keywords: fate
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2010-11-30
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1453560866
ISBN-13: 9781453560860
Author: Ken Davis
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: fate
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2007-04-19
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1412067995
ISBN-13: 9781412067997
Eric Miller and Erica Myers represent the whole of humanity. They will embark on a journey every man and woman must ultimately undertake. Fate prepares our destiny and like Eric and Erica, we never know to what extent "Fate" will have on our predetermined lives.
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Keywords: fate, opposite
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-10-27
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0399150749
ISBN-13: 9780399150746
In her first book of nonfiction, bestselling novelist Amy Tan shares her personal philosophy of fate. Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes-from writing stories, decorating her house with charms, learning to ski, and living with squirrels, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease, surviving natural disasters, and
Author: Liz Greene
Publisher: Red Wheel / Weiser
Keywords: fate, astrology
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1984-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0877286361
ISBN-13: 9780877286363
Why has the concept of fate become so offensive to the modern Western reader? Why does it imply for us a lack of free will, a loss of control, a sense of powerlessness, humiliation and impotence? Why has the meaning of fate become so disconnected from its sister concept, karma? In this masterwork by the author of Relating, Liz Greene confronts and questions the issue of fate head-on, and renders a broader perception of just what fate is: an unfoldment of natural processes rather than predestined or preordained events in the individual’s life. Greene argues that we have lost touch with Na
Author: Judith M. Noone
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: poor, fate
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1995-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1570750319
ISBN-13: 9781570750311
