eBooks „paradise“
Es wurden 243 eBooks für den Suchbegriff „paradise“ gefunden.
Didier Calme
Filmbeobachter
Stille Kinobesuche
- Essay
- Deutsch
- 21389 Wörter
- Ab 12 Jahren
- 590
Der vor seinem Ruhestand in Deutschland als Kulturjournalist tätige Filmbeobachter Didier Calme ging früher sehr gerne und häufig auch privat ins Kino. Bis etwa um 1990, als sich alles wendete, die Richtung änderte und in jeder Hinsicht nur noch grenzenlose Action angeboten wurde. Um die Jahrtausendwende machte er noch einmal einen Versuch, den er nach etwa einer halben Stunde entnervt aufgab, weil er wegen der Lautstärke einen Gehörschaden zu erleiden drohte. Er verließ das Kino, auch der grandiose Hauptdarsteller Bruno Ganz hinderte ihn nicht an seinem Abgang aus Pane e Tulipani (›Brot und Tulpen‹). Von da ging er ins Fernsehen, zu Arte. Doch seit 2014 geht er wieder ins Kino. Aber nur noch in Mannheim-Heidelberg, zum dortigen Filmfestival, für das er eigens aus dem Filmland Frankreich anreist; nun, aus Strasbourg ist es nicht allzu weit in die Rhein-Neckar-Region. Es mag unter anderem daran liegen: Dort scheint das angenehmste, konzentrierteste Publikum aufgeboten zu sein. Es applaudiert jedenfalls verhalten, wenn eine Propellermaschine bruchlos landet. Vor allem aber: Auf dem dortigen Filmfestival wird nicht so viel Theater ums Kino gemacht, es fällt leicht, nicht auf rote Teppiche treten zu müssen.
Entscheidend für den Filmbeobachter ist: Es werden Filme von weniger bekannten Regisseurinnen und Regisseuren, viele Erstlinge gezeigt, die später höchstenfalls in kleinen Programmkinos zu sehen sein werden – oder eben lange nach Mitternacht auf Arte.
Bei den hiesigen Filmbesprechungen handelt es sich um solche der zwei vergangenen Jahre. Drei weitere aus dem Festival 2016 sind nachgetragen. Das Buch ist also etwas dicker geworden.
Die Besprechungen folgender Filme sind enthalten:
Tous les chats sont gris (Savina Dellicour, Belgien 2014)
Helium (Eché Janga, Niederlande 2014)
Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder, Schweiz 2015)
Paradise Trips (Raf Reyntjens, Belgien 2015)
Domácí péče (Slávek Horák, Tschechien 2015)
Jade Shahriyar (Vahid Qazimirsaeid, Iran 2015)
Celui qu’on attendait (Serge Avedikian, Frankreich 2016)
Souffler plus fort que la mer (Marine Place, Frankreich 2016)
Reykjavík (Ásgrímur Sverrisson, Island 2016); mit einer Nachbemerkung zur Nouvelle Vague:
Alain Resnais Die Metapher von Marienbad [mehr]
Stichwörter: Film Gedanken Kino
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BS Murthy
Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife (A Critical Appraisal of Islamic faith, Indian polity)
A critical appraisal of Islamic faith, Indian polity ‘n more
- Religion
- Englisch
- 99708 Wörter
- Ab 16 Jahren
- 1672
- 3
On one hand, this ‘book of logic ‘n reasoning’ appraises the Islamic faith shaped by the sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina, which together make it Janus-faced to bedevil the minds of the Musalmans.
That apart, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “Muslim Friends–Their Faith and Feeling”, this work for the first time ever, psycho-analyses the imperatives of the Muslim upbringing that has the potential to turn a faithful and a renegade alike into a fidayēn.
On the other hand, this work, besides appraising the monumental rise and the decadent fall of Hindu intellectualism, analyses how the sanātana dharma came to survive in India, in spite of the combined onslaught of Islam and the Christianity on Hinduism for over a millennium.
Also, besides providing a panoramic view of the Indian history, this thought-provoking book appraises the way Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Azad, Ambedkar, Indira Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi et al made or unmade the post-colonial India.
Possibly in a new genre this free eBook is a book for our times.
Contents
Preface of Strife
Chapters
Advent of Dharma
God’s quid pro Quo
Pyramids of Wisdom
Ascent to Descent
The Zero People
Coming of the Christ
Legacy of Prophecy
War of Words
Czar of Medina
Angels of War
Privates of ‘the God’
Playing to the Gallery
Perils of History
Pitfalls of Faith
Blinkers of Belief
Shackles of Sharia
Anatomy of Islam
Fight for the Souls
India in Coma
Double Jeopardy
Paradise of Parasites
The Number Game
Winds of Change
Ant Grows Wings
Constitutional Amnesia
The Stymied State
The Wages of God
Delusions of Grandeur
Ways of the Bigots
The Rift Within
The Way Around
The Hindu Rebound
Italian Interregnum
Rama Rajya
Wait for the Savant [mehr]
Stichwörter: Islam, Muhammad, terrorism, Islamic extremism, radical Islam, jihad, fidayeen, Indian Muslims, Indain islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Hindu dharma, Sanatana dharma, communal strife, Pakistan, Sufism, Mohammad, Islamic terror, Islamism, Mogul empire, Indian partition, Indian politics, Hindu-Muslim riots, Independent India, Indian Independence, Indian constitution [mehr]
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Nicholas Martellacci
Glimpse: The Broken
- Fantasy
- Englisch
- 17877 Wörter
- Ab 16 Jahren
- 259
- 2
...It is said long ago that there existed a lone singularity, the Eternal Mirror.
Within this mirror existed everything that ever is and everything that ever was.
All was unified until one day an inexplicable event we have now begun to call “the big bang” caused the mirror to shatter. That such occurrence caused its contents to spew forth, splitting the very fabrics of time and space themselves. Now there are realities that run parallel to ours, “realms” they have come to be known as over time. All that you have ever seen, ever heard, ever loved or ever learned lies within one such realm.
...But there were other realms out there, lying in wait for us to discover them, and discover them we did. Mankind quickly discovered gemstones called shards, each a conduit, holding the power to siphon energy from their respective realm, drawing creatures from them to do their bidding. Some of the creatures were easily manipulated and studied, but within the realms also await beings of unfathomable power...
...Demons of eternal darkness
...Fae of unprecedented beauty
...Beasts and machinations the likes of which one could never imagine.
After terrible wars were fought over the shards killing many conjurers, mankind decided to split into the twelve conjuring factions, each with their own realm to study. They formed treaties to study their realms in private, never making themselves present to the common folk. We follow the story of the young Maxwell Amelletti, your average young man trying to get by in the world as he traverses the unstable current from adolescence to adulthood. Maxwell has never felt truly at home with his adoptive parents, and is unsure how to feel to be on his own. He feels lonely and confused in his new apartment, wanting nothing more than to learn who he truly is, and where he came from.
It is at this pivotal time in his life, he receives a strange package at his adoptive parent’s house. This box bears no return address, and is signed by the mysterious L. Within this package is a necklace, bearing one such shard that Maxwell accidentally uses against another in a way that is rather... gruesome. This shard has the potential to conjure creatures from the realm of Vallust, a realm of both volcanic wasteland, and tundral paradise.
In the book, you discover -L- is short for Lysander Vartell, Maxwell’s true father, and Sovereign to the Omegas, the most powerful of the twelve conjuring factions. ...Or at least it was. For as long as anyone can remember, there had been peace between the factions, until the Omegas were attacked, and Lysander was killed as his faction was almost completely erased. Maxwell is approached by Taya Cyndell, and Mordecai Smith, two of the three still loyal to the Omega’s way of life.
They try to convince him to help them discover who is behind the attack, offering nothing in return but protection and answers for the questions Maxwell has about his own existence. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Glimpse, Glimpsethebroken, Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Creatures, Conjuration, Summoning
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