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![]() The Best Catholics in the World is the remarkable result of his three-year journey. ![]() And he has probing and revealing encounters with Vatican officials, priests and religious along the way. He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. 'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan O'Toole ![]() Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Toibin Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Martin Lings' life of Muhammad is unlike any other. Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am tempted to say that one may understand this family across cultures, language and time. Because of her masterful writing, this never becomes more confusing than it should be, which is very confusing, and that, I think, is what makes this book a universal portrait of “family”, even though her particular story is as unique as they come. And we are plunged into infinite mental states. The novel starts in the middle, goes to the end of the beginning, then the beginning of the end, and then ends with the beginning of the beginning and the end of the end.īefore meeting her brother for the first time in years, Rosemary thinks about the “theory of mind” which encompasses the number of embedded mental states one is capable of (science says five to seven, she thinks possibly infinite). Why was it hidden from us for 25 percent of the book? Because Fowler wants us to think of her as a sister like any other, and not a pet. Her sister, we soon find out is a chimpanzee. ![]() When she begins the novel, right in the middle, both her siblings have disappeared. Narrated by Rosemary Cooke, a girl who was brought up with a brother and sister, by parents who were psychologists. Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves broke my heart a thousand times over. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poverty and entitlements - Concepts of poverty - Poverty: identification and aggregation - Starvation and famines - The entitlement approach - The great Bengal famine - Ethiopian famines - Drought and famine in the Sahel - Famine in Bangladesh - Entitlements and deprivation - Appendices: exchange entitlement - Appendices: illustrative models of exchange entitlement - Appendices: measurement of poverty - Appendices: famine mortality: a case studyĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:14:09 Autocrop_version 0.0.13_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40532808 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) In the final chapter he looks at general issues of deprivation relatedto entitlement systems He then analyses the ‘entitlement approach’ in detail and applies it to four case studies of famines from different parts of the world. ![]() After introducing the ‘entitlement approach’ to starvation analysis, the author examines problems of conceptualizing and measuring poverty, and discusses the specific problem of starvation in general terms. The mehod of analysis adopted is the ‘entitlement approach’, which concentrates on ownership and exchange. ![]() It is concerned with the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. ![]() This study was undertaken for the World Employment Programme launched by the International Labour Organisation in 1969. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once Victor is released, he sets out to find Eli and take revenge. One of the experiments of Eli and Victor ends in disaster, causing Victor to be locked up in jail for ten years. The latter determines the power of an EO, which can vary from healing abilities to destructive ones. An EO is not consciously created it is a result of a near death experience, and the most prominent emotion the dying person is experiencing. They are interested in the concept of “ExtraOrdinaries” (EOs), or ‘superheroes’, and end up experimenting in the hope that they will be able to create an EO. The story starts with Victor and Eli, who are medical students at Lockland University. “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.” The duology is rightfully named ‘Villains’, as the main characters are wicked in their own right. ‘Vicious’ is an enticing book nonetheless, and it deals mostly with (toxic) masculinity.īoth books play with the question as to what morality really is, and they show that the concept of good and evil is not as black and white as we tend to believe. ![]() I have to admit that ‘Vengeful’ would suit Raffia slightly more, but this is mainly because this one can be read as feminist, however, ‘Vengeful’ is the sequel to ‘Vicious’. This time there will be two books of the month, because I am dealing with a delightful duology: ‘Vicious’ and ‘Vengeful’ by V.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Numair Atif Choudhury’s debut novel, Babu Bangladesh is a work on a scale we have not seen recently. Watch: Beyoncé was joined by her daughter Blue Ivy on stage for a dance routine during UK concert.Rush Hour podcast: No permission for Hindutva mahapanchayat in Uttarkashi.Song for the New Year: ‘Makeba’ is a celebration of the real beauty of human rights.An advisor to former PM Rajiv Gandhi recalls how a 1985 espionage scandal rocked Indian politics.Watch: Newsperson in TV studio with umbrella pretends she is being buffeted by Cyclone Biparjay.Hockey, Women’s Junior Asia Cup: Mumtaz Khan forgets the pain and sadness to savour the joy of gold.‘I’m a small man but my music is huge’: Wasifuddin Dagar on the AR Rahman plagiarism row.View from Dawn: The solution to Pakistan’s economic woes lie in trade with India.Transformation of the goddess and clay: Naveen Kishore’s photos capture hues of conflict. ![]() ‘Padmavat’ reminds us that a major casualty of the gory Rajput conflicts were Rajput women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m currently writing about a patient who was dying, she was very depressed. How does one take that leap into commitment and action when even engagement seems meaningless and arbitrary? On an existential note, you write that the problem of meaninglessness is best approached obliquely through engagement. ![]() Just this last week I made an offer to meet with the residents over at my home once a month just so they have exposure to this other form of thinking. I gave grand rounds a couple of weeks ago and I just see how students are really craving for some more teaching. But I feel at such a crossroads, even in my own department of psychiatry. Even so, the new studies on outcome showing psychodynamic therapy of 20-24 sessions is equally effective, perhaps more because it’s more long-lasting. ![]() This becomes foolish after a while because of the intricate, complex quality of things, you just can’t do that. And then the absolute maniacal need to empirically validate everything you do. All this, all the psychodynamics are just not getting to them. We’re not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() In another scene, the stag is in mortal combat with a wolf to protect Kester. ![]() A mob of humans who have captured the kids and animals tries to force Kester to kill the stag. One scene finds Kester, knife in hand, torn about whether he can kill the villain. As the story opens, Kester's imprisoned in a reform school for kids whose parents don't want them. Parents die, other parents are kidnapped. The kids and animals are constantly dodging the grotesquely sinister "cullers," who ultimately kill some characters and threaten many others. ![]() Before the story starts, government agents have massacred all the animals and are hell-bent on killing the few who've managed to survive. There's not much gore, but violence, weapons, and death are everywhere. ![]() ![]() Can Samira find her mother in time to save her? But it’s D-Day, and with the Allied forces landing just miles away, fierce battles rage all around her. Accompanied by a loyal dog named Cyrano, Samira has to rely on her courage and wits to avoid and outsmart the German forces. Resist picks up Samira’s story where Allies left off, following Samira on her journey through the French countryside on a daring rescue mission to find her captured mother. But when her mother is captured by Nazis, Samira must do the job herself. ![]() It’s their job to tell the local Maquis hiding out in the countryside that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. In Alan Gratz’s D-Day novel Allies, Samira Zidane and her mother work for the French resistance during World War II. ![]() |