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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:00:52 Boxid IA40062824 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier In Cascade, the second book in the River of Time Series, Gabi knows shes left her heart in the fourteenth century and she. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are few accounts of individuals in traditional Tibet and what we read here may conflict with our notions about both the country and Buddhism. ![]() ![]() She has given an unvarnished, affectionate picture of Kunsang, a traditional Tibetan woman born long before the Chinese occupation in 1950. We owe Yangzom, who in addition to her career in the theatre was once president of the European Tibetan Youth Congress, much gratitude. Yangzom is also an actress: as part of her ‘performance art’ in a Berne drama school she placed over fifty snails on her naked body so that they looked like a dress. This book presents three generations of women: Kunsang, a married Tibetan nun now in her nineties who never let anyone see her unclothed Sonam, her daughter, who was carried out of Tibet on Kunsang’s back when she was six, married a Swiss in India and now lives in New York and Yangzom, Kunsang’s half-Tibetan, half-Swiss granddaughter and the author of this book. Asia Society presents a talk by Yangzom Brauen on her new book, a harrowing yet inspirational story of her grandmother and mothers life in Tibet and their. ![]() ![]() ![]() With each step, Garnhum realizes that the way forward is to trust in the power of the ancient path. As he hikes from town to town alone, Garnhum tries to reconcile his life's contradictions-his identity as a public figure and independent artist his simultaneous need for conversation and solitude his Catholic upbringing alongside his life as a gay man. ![]() COVID -19 has arrived, the play is lost in limbo, and the theatre's doors close indefinitely.įacing a crisis of confidence and a deep despair over the loss of his creative expression, Garnhum travels to northern Spain to hike the rugged Camino de Santiago del Norte, a winding path of 830 kilometres that hugs the Atlantic Ocean. But the morning of opening night, the world suddenly shuts down. Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of RoomĪt the Grand Theatre in London, Canada, artistic director Dennis Garnhum is getting ready to debut a hotly anticipated production. A vivid, thoughtful, and openhearted pilgrim's tale of regeneration, Toward Beauty will charm and move you and make you laugh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. ![]() Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this.ĭrawing on pioneering research and years of first-hand experience, The Divide tracks the evolution of global inequality - from the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present day - offering revelatory answers to some of humanity's greatest problems. But just because it is a comforting tale doesn't make it true. Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty.įor decades we have been told a story: that development is working, that poverty is a natural phenomenon and will be eradicated through aid by 2030.Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. Drawing on pioneering research and years of first-hand experience, The Divide tracks the evolution of global inequality - from the expeditions of Christopher. ![]() The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined.In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.' - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics 'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the growing impact of the war in Vietnam, he became active in the US peace movement. He would later write an acclaimed biography of Dorothy Day, All is grace. Jim had a widespread audience through his many books and lecture tours.įollowing his reception into the Catholic Church in 1960, he worked with the Catholic Worker Movement in New York City alongside the redoubtable Dorothy Day, editing the movement's news sheet The Catholic Worker. Little did I know then that we were starting a corresponding friendship that would span nearly 30 years. ![]() ![]() Later, I e-mailed Jim via his US publisher and he responded. When I got back to the car, I found it had been signed by the author. "Will this do?"įor £2 he sold me Forest's book, A pictorial biography of Thomas Merton. ![]() His hand went to the bottom of a stack of books on a nearby table and pulled out a book. Opening the door, I called out to the owner "Have you any books about the American monk, Thomas Merton?" Running back to the car late on a Saturday afternoon in a bitter cold January dusk, I came to the bookshop. I first met Jim Forest through a second-hand bookshop in Brighton, England. Within a few days of each other two resonant voices have been lost - that of Christian writer Jim Forest, who died this past January 13, and that of the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who died on January 22. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also shows how black women can empower themselves and effectively struggle against racism, sexism and consumer capitalism. Exploring such central life issues as work, beauty, trauma, addiction, eroticism and estrangement from nature, hooks shares numerous strategies for self-recovery and healing. In Sisters of the Yam, hooks examines how the emotional health of black women is wounded by daily assaults of racism and sexism. Today, the book is considered a classic in African American and feminist circles. ![]() When Sisters of the Black Women and Self-Recovery was originally released in 1994, it won critical praise and solidified bell hooks’ reputation as one of the leading public intellectuals of her generation. ![]() |