Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan
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Publisher : Boxtree, Limited
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : 0752213482
ISBN-13 : 9780752213484
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Saving Private Ryan by : David James

Download or read book Saving Private Ryan written by David James and published by Boxtree, Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Movies on a Mission

Movies on a Mission
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781476685397
ISBN-13 : 1476685398
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Movies on a Mission by : Glenn Reynolds

Download or read book Movies on a Mission written by Glenn Reynolds and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation into the little-known genre of mission-oriented films uncovers how Protestant missionaries overseas sought to bring back motion picture footage from remote parts of the world. In the broader religious community, mission films aimed to educate congregants back home about efforts to evangelize communities around the world. This book, however, demonstrates the larger impact of mission films on American visual culture. The evolution and development of the genre is highlighted from an early emphasis on "foreign views" in the 1910s, to interwar films providing a more detailed look at how mission stations functioned in far-flung lands, to Cold War productions which at times functioned as veritable propaganda tools parroting anti-communist discourse emanating from the CIA.

Movie Mission

Movie Mission
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781442402676
ISBN-13 : 1442402679
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Movie Mission by : Franklin W. Dixon

Download or read book Movie Mission written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank and Joe Hardy have been posing as extras on the set of the upcoming teen movie, Deathstalker. The star, an ingenue named Anya, has already had her trailer burn down, and now someone keeps sending her threatening texts! While the Undercover Brothers manage to keep Anya safe at a comic book convention, the threats just keep coming. Can they figure out who's behind the mayhem surrounding the filming of the hit comic book? Or is this movie going to wrap before filming even begins? The second book in this next exciting trilogy!

The Book of Joy

The Book of Joy
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780399185069
ISBN-13 : 0399185062
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Book of Joy by : Dalai Lama

Download or read book The Book of Joy written by Dalai Lama and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller. Over 1 million copies sold! Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye. We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy—from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. The Archbishop has never claimed sainthood, and the Dalai Lama considers himself a simple monk. In this unique collaboration, they offer us the reflection of real lives filled with pain and turmoil in the midst of which they have been able to discover a level of peace, of courage, and of joy to which we can all aspire in our own lives.

Modern Inquisitions

Modern Inquisitions
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0822334178
ISBN-13 : 9780822334170
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Modern Inquisitions by : Irene Silverblatt

Download or read book Modern Inquisitions written by Irene Silverblatt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day./div

Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 0253113911
ISBN-13 : 9780253113917
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos by : Kay Almere Read

Download or read book Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.

The Mission Song

The Mission Song
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780759568075
ISBN-13 : 0759568073
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Mission Song by : John le Carré

Download or read book The Mission Song written by John le Carré and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that nobody in the world does better, The Mission Song turns John Le Carre's laser eye for the complexity of the modern world on turmoil and conspiracy in Africa. Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats -- and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room,"Salvo (as he's known) translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, and snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference between Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace to a bloody corner of the world. But then he hears something he should not have... By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, The Mission Song is a crowning achievement, recounting an interpreter's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness.